Article For The Week of 8/27/07 - 9/2/07

To all you Naysayers that said Vick is innocent, its time for you to shut your trap.


I will call it doggie justice, if there is such a thing but on Monday the 20th about 2 pm Eastern Standard Time there was, form there on Michael (Okie/Ron Mexico) Vick will forever be known as a convicted felon, because that is when word had gotten out that Michael Vick accepted a plea deal, to stay out of trail.

When Michael Vick does goes into court later this morning at 10 am, it will be his last fresh taste of freedom for awhile as he will finally be convicted on felony dong fighting charges. He will be giving a good amount of federal prison time.

But what does that mean for Michael Vick, in the future when does get out prison:

Vick will Lose his voting rights in the up coming elections or any other future elections for that matter.Have to mark that little box on a job application that says “have you ever been convicted of a felony yes or no”Will lose his right to buy firearms and to possess them, if he gets caught with a firearm he will be sent back to prison for a certain amount of time.

Michael Vick could not only be punish by federal laws, but he could also be charge the same charges by Virginia state laws, because federal and state laws are separate which mean he could be facing 40 years in prison for dog fighting charges in Virginia.


The reality is that Vick's NFL career is done. Maybe his life isn’t, but his career is done for sure no team in there right mind, is going to want a dog killer/con under center and taken the snaps unless it’s a sequel to the movie “the longest yard”


His legs made him famous and sent him to heights he probably never imagined. But those swift and fast legs still can't save him from Justice he deserves and will get. When all is done, their will be justice for all of the eight dogs and hope for the many more to come.

RJ
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FOR THE WEEK OF 8/20/07 - 8/26/07

No more, American Football for the content of Europe. But it could be getting a new NFL Franchise, instead in the coming years, ahead.


The league, in which we will all forever remember as NFL Europe, was founded in 1991; however that name was not the original name. In fact the first name was the World League of American Football; (WLAF) the hope was that it could serve as a type of minor league for the NFL.


Truth is told 16 years later, the league did not live up to the first expectation that the owners of NFL teams first had in mind.


That first expectation was that it would one day turn into be like a minor league baseball type of league for the National Football League.


So that each team could give its unproven players another shot to better there skill, so that they would one day turn into NFL ready caliber players.


The only noticeable player that has ever come out of NFL Europe as a whole and who has made it well in the NFL. Is guy who goes by the of name Kurt Warner, you might of heard him.


But other then Kurt Warner, seriously overall the league could not develop underperformed players into NFL ready like ability.


The league had failed at its first experience with this league. Once when the NFL took it note of it, they change there main objective and for the rest of the league existence, it would use there players as walking billboards, to see how well the European people would embrace a different brand of football.



In this year, coming season of the National Football League, for the first time there will be a regular season football game; across the pond and it will be play at Wembley Stadium, which is located in London, England.



Wimbley, will host this historic game, between the New York Giants and The Miami (home team) Dolphins on October 28th. The game completely sold out with in hours, of it being made official.


Wimbley stadium which has a Capacity of 90,000, could be an indication of how the content of Europe may be would welcome the idea of an NFL team of there own one day and that is what the NFL is hoping for this time around.

RJ
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FOR THE WEEK OF 8/13/07 - 8/19/07

A concussion is no laughing matter, so why then is the NFL Laughing?



Let me reword that a bit, how come it has taken so long for the national football league, which is sometimes referred to as one of the world best professional sporting leagues, to do something about concussions.


Instead of trying to do something about this serious medical condition, they have tried to push this shovel this under the rug, all of this time they have succeeded with just that.


I have come up with some conclusions, on why it has taken the NFL so long to finally do something about concussions.


But I hope none of my conclusions are in fact true, but remember the NFL is just like any other business. If nobody takes notes of it, they will continue on doing just that “nothing.”


So without further due, here are my Conclusions:


Number one, the NFL is only looking at the money from the big hit factor, instead of the player safety, number two, The NFL knows that if it were to really try to limit the big hit factor it would ruin the brand and meaning of the level of play in the NFL, my third and last conclusion the NFL just does not care about concussions and how they can try to prevent them from happing.


Like I said, I hope none of my conclusions are indeed true but it does make you wonder on why it has taken so long for the NFL do to something and it would even be harsher for the league to just try to play it likes its nothing and cherry coat until the issue is out of the spotlight.



Concussions are difficult to diagnose because of the lack of physical evidence is limited. You can't see a guy's brain being knocked around the skull, which is exactly what happen when a concussion occurs.

But when a concussion has been confirm to have happen. The NFL should place that player on injured reserve for the remainder of that season.


This is just me talking, but I would be scared to know that the NFL is just letting this happen and in return over that player life has nothing to remember of his playing because of that one concussion that has left him with memory loss at the age of 35.


RJ
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For The Week of 8/6/07 – 8/12/07

Can Joey Harrington, save the dirty birds?



Joey Harrington, could not have wrote a script like this, suddenly he has frond himself in a better situation, which in return Joey will be seeing more playing time come this NFL season and he owes it all to his fellow co- worker (Michael Vick dog fighting incident) due to his moron thinking .



Joey Harrington is use to playing the savor role. Harrington did it last year; when he was with the Miami dolphins, as he would win five of the six games the dolphins would go on to win last season.



The Detroit Lions organization and fans, thought Harrington would bring the franchise back up to glory; the Lions drafted him in the first round, with the third pick in the 2002 draft. Harrington who played his college ball at the University of Oregon, had a record of 25-3 as the starter for the ducks, but so far in his fives years as a starter in the National Football League he has posted a record of 18 -37.



The falcons, are now wishing they could get their hands on a time machine, to get back Matt Schaub and to just insert him into their roster, they traded Matt to the Houston Texans,


But I think they are fully satisfied with Joey Harrington as there new leader for their team until the legal process is done and then they try to way find away to get some value for Michael Vick.


But in the mean time, Atlanta has a former top five draft choice in Harrington and if you have some offensive a line in which the falcons do have who knows you could see this team in the playoffs, come this postseason.


RJ
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