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The Ravens and Browns would be well advised to propose a voluntary divisional realignment. As it stands, neither team will be sniffing the postseason for the foreseeable future. With no disrespect to Romeo Crennel or Brian Billick(ok, a little to Billick, wasn’t this guy once considered an offensive guru?) the AFC North will be decided by the outcome of two games for each of the next 5 seasons, with one at Heinz Field and the other at Paul Brown Stadium.
The NFL has easily the best offseason in sports. There’s the draft, free agency, cuts, trades, and this year, the argument over the collective bargaining agreement. 2006 in particular will be possibly the most chaotic in the league’s history. There’s the draft that everyone is talking about, star running backs who will be moving to a different team, and the great debate between the Union and the league.
The story you are about to read is not a fictional tale. It was not woven in the macabre mind of horror legend Stephen King. It is not some make believe conspiracy theory that has Fox Mulder traveling the globe. This event could very well happen in the next two years. Sports fans please take a seat because this could be the most horrific news you read in your entire lifetime. The 2008 NFL season is in jeopardy and there is a serious chance for a lockout (gasp!), which means no football until the conflict is resolved.
Big Vince Young will be a giant bust in the NFL.
The weeks following the end of the NFL season are some of the worst weeks of the year for football fans. Football fans like me now have to care about college basketball, the NBA, or hockey (great sports, but not exciting until their playoffs kick in). Since I don’t want to write about these sports, I’ll make 10 very early predictions for the 2006-2007 NFL season.
By David J Cohen
Now that the year is officially over with the ending of the most meaningless game in professional sports, or the Pro Bowl, the focus of millions of NFL fans around the country shifts to next season. What changes need to be made? What can my team accomplish? How far can my team go? These are the questions of the fans as they follow their favorite teams into the journey that is the off-season.
Here’s a look of what the AFC East might look like in the 2006-2007 season.
Super Bowl XL should have been Peyton Manning’s coming out party. Instead, he was watching like the rest of us. The Steelers were on a mission.
By David J Cohen
On January 31st, Seahawks TE Jerramy Stevens made this “inflammatory” remark when asked about the Jerome Bettis story: “It’s a heartwarming story and all that, but it will be a sad day when he leaves without that trophy.” This made Steelers LB Joey Porter “thirsty for blood” (apparently he’s a vampire) and became the draw that was supposed to make the Seahawks and Steelers hate each other. Then it was finally Super Bowl Sunday, the game kicked off, and it wasn’t long before everyone outside of Pittsburgh fell asleep.
Even though Stevens’s quote was blown out of proportion, he did open his mouth, and since he is a “receiving” TE I have to say it: If you’re going to run your mouth, when the time finally comes to back up your words, CATCH THE DAMN BALL! Apparently he skipped training camp.
Listen folks, I’m not saying that the refs called a great Super Bowl and that we should be praising the ground they walk on, but here’s the bottom line: Pittsburgh won the game. They did it fair and square.
That is the extent of my expert analysis, but for a Super Bowl that was XL sized those few words sum up the entire game. The Pittsburgh Steelers made a few huge plays and the Seattle Seahawks made too many tiny mistakes.