Setting this thread up for the crap load of news coming after the draft.
Setting this thread up for the crap load of news coming after the draft.
We have more evidence making it quite clear running back Brandon Jacobs wants to return to the Giants, something the New York Post reported earlier in April.
Giants running backs coach Jerald Ingram said Jacobs is “hoping and praying” to re-sign with New York, Jenny Vrentas of the Newark Star-Ledger reported Wednesday night.
Both Vrentas and Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN New York reported Ingram said the Giants might have at least pondered the prospect of Jacobs getting a second shot with the team that drafted him.
That said, Ingram also made it clear that the club wants to give David Wilson and Andre Brown chances to perform, Vrentas and Tom Rock of Newsday reported on Twitter Wednesday night.
The Giants invested a first-round pick on Wilson in 2012, and they tendered Brown at the second-round level in restricted free agency earlier in the offseason. Those commitments alone suggest Wilson and Brown will have important roles in the backfield.
The Giants could perhaps use a little more running back depth, and Jacobs and the still-unsigned Ahmad Bradshaw know the offense. However, the team previously parted ways with each veteran back. Jacobs is 31, and Bradshaw is coming off foot surgery.
Bradshaw and Jacobs have a combined 1,999 regular-season carries for the Giants. That work helped New York win two NFL titles. Both backs don’t ever have to step foot on the field again for the Giants to have legacies with the club.
It’s fitting, we suppose, that a team owned by a guy who runs a truck-stop company would employ a player who got arrested for doing something that many regard as a widespread practice at truck stops.
Browns linebacker Quentin Groves was arrested last week for solicitation of prostitution, as part of a sting operation in Cuyahoga County. The Browns, who offered the perfunctory “[w]e are aware of the situation and do not have any further comment” comment, now have to decide what they plan to do.
Apart from the fact that he hasn’t already been cut, Groves’ contract points toward the player getting a second chance. Per a source with knowledge of the deal, Groves already has received a $500,000 roster bonus, and he has a base salary of only $715,000 this year. Next season, his base salary is $1 million with a $100,000 workout bonus.
And so the Browns could be inclined to keep him around. Especially if getting a second chance makes Groves even more motivated to make a great first impression when it’s time to get down to business other than, you know, the world’s oldest profession.
After winning Super Bowl XLVI, the New York Giants were unable to return to the postseason last year after posting a 9-7 record in 2012.
Defensive end Chris Canty earned a Super Bowl ring with the Giants two season ago and saw the team fail to live up to expectations of a return trip to the playoffs last season. Canty signed this offseason with the Baltimore Ravens, a team coming off a Super Bowl victory of their own.
Canty knows what to expect for a team looking to ascend to the top of the NFL again and warns the Ravens about complacency in trying to repeat as Super Bowl champions.
“[The] Super Bowl hangover is real,” Canty said, via Jenny Vrentas of the Newark Star-Ledger. “[You] can’t just show up and win a championship.”
Despite winning the Super Bowl, the Giants entered the 2011 playoffs after sneaking into the playoffs as a wild card team. They just happened to get hot at the right time and rode that momentum to a 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots for their second Super Bowl title in five years. The Giants shouldn’t have had the mindset that they could just show up on cruise control and repeat as champions and it cost them a postseason berth.
With the players they’ve lost this offseason, the Ravens shouldn’t feel they can show up and have wins fall at their feet either. While they still have a very talented roster, Baltimore will have to work for their victories. With his experience in New York, Canty has an opportunity to prepare his teammates so the Ravens don’t suffer the same fate as the Giants this fall.
The Dolphins’ pursuit of Chiefs tackle Branden Albert has been a big storyline of late, but that may not be the only trade talk the Dolphins have engaged in recently.
Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times reports that the Browns are “seriously considering” making a trade with Miami to acquire wide receiver Davone Bess. Other teams are also reportedly interested in Bess and Jensen is hearing that mid-round draft picks are being discussed as the compensation heading back to the Dolphins.
Bess has caught 321 passes over the last five years with Miami and has spent long stretches as the team’s most reliable receiver over that period. With Mike Wallace and Brandon Gibson joining Brian Hartline at the top of the depth chart, the Dolphins could be looking to unload Bess’ $2.6 million contract now that they no longer need him to play a prominent role.
Last season was the first time that Bess averaged more than 10.5 yards per reception so he’d clearly be a possession guy for Cleveland. Josh Gordon gives them a deep threat, but Greg Little’s hands have been problematic so the consistency Bess brings to the table is likely appealing to Rob Chudzinski and the rest of the offensive staff.
If the Bengals are going to re-sign right tackle Andre Smith before the start of the draft, they’re going to have to act pretty quickly.
Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said earlier this week that he was hopeful the team would get a deal done with Smith prior to the start of the draft, perhaps banking on the possibility that the Bengals would draft a younger player spurring Smith to accept whatever was on the table. There are a few hours left for things to change, but it looks like Lewis’ hopes may be dashed.
Geoff Hobson of the team’s website reports that nothing looks imminent on the contract front, significantly raising the likelihood that the Bengals will go into the draft without an obvious choice at right tackle. The team has been adamant that Smith’s situation will not impact their selections by pointing to Anthony Collins and Dennis Roland as in-house options for the spot, but both men have had enough starting experience to know that there’s plenty of space to upgrade over what’s already on hand.
The market for Smith never developed despite his strong 2012 season, something that has seemed to be pushing him back to Cincinnati for a while now. The last step back into a Bengals uniform has proven to be a difficult one to take, though, and it doesn’t look like the coming draft has done anything to make it easier.
With a draft class of quarterbacks that has been deemed uneven at best, the Patriots appear ready to add a name to the pool that might attract more interest.
According to Greg Bedard of the Boston Globe, the Patriots have fielded multiple calls for backup Ryan Mallett.
The Patriots drafted the damaged-goods Mallett in the third round of the 2011 Draft, but seem willing to move him.
With long-time proponent Mike Lombardi in Cleveland, the Browns will always be on the list of usual suspects, though there’s apparently interest from other teams as well.
The Patriots would have to add one to replace him, as Mike Kafka is the only other quarterback on the roster behind Tom Brady.
Chiefs General Manager John Dorsey said Wednesday that compensation coming back from the Dolphins is the sticking point in the Branden Albert trade talks and a report from Ben Volin of the Palm Beach Post may explain the hangup.
Volin heard from a source Thursday that the Dolphins don’t believe trading a second-round pick is worth what they’d be getting in return. There’s no word on what the Dolphins would prefer to pony up to acquire Albert as the clock ticks on their chance to swing a deal before the moment passes both teams by.
Any trade for the tackle would include a long-term deal with Albert believed to be looking for something in the neighborhood of $9 million a year to put his name on the dotted line, a neighborhood the Dolphins weren’t willing to travel to when Jake Long wound up signing with the Rams. Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald reports that the Dolphins are on board with the financial compensation for Albert, which meshes with Dorsey’s comments about the trade compensation being the snag.
Signing Long wouldn’t have cost them any picks, obviously, so it’s reasonable to believe that the Dolphins think Albert is the better player for their offensive scheme. Whether that’s enough to push them to give up what the Chiefs are looking for in an Albert trade looks like one of the biggest questions we’ll have answered in the next few days.
Word has it locally that Dolphins GM will be out on his ass, no matter how things go at season's end. He's managed to foul up every draft during his entire "career" here, and owner Steve Ross doesn't seem to be offering much in the way of admiration, let alone support.Originally Posted by TFM_Dale
Coincidentally, Ireland's contract is up at the end of the year. Good riddance.
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Albert is decent but he is NOT worth the bucks he is asking for, Fins will be better off if they just draft line help in my opinion.
Now that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has given quarterback Tony Romo a six-year, $108 million contract, Jones wants to see Romo make his entire life revolve around football.
“Peyton Manning-type time on the job,” Jones said he wants Romo to work, via the Dallas Morning News.
Jones said he and Cowboys coach Jason Garrett would love to see Romo spend the majority of his waking hours at the team facility.
“If Tony, for instance, would be here Monday through Saturday . . . from seven in the morning to six o’clock at night all over this place then that’s better than the way it’s been,” Jones said. “We’ll have more success, and Jason believes that. It’s certainly at quarterback but he believes it at the other positions. Tony is going to have more time, more presence, not only in the offseason but when the season starts, beginning Monday, assuming we played Sundays. He’s going to have more time on the job. A part of what we agreed with was extra time on the job, beyond the norm.”
Fair or not, Romo has taken criticism at times in his career for a perception that he doesn’t always have all his focus on football: Whether it’s working on his golf game, dating celebrities or going on vacations during bye weeks, Romo has heard talk that he has too many outside distractions.
Jones recently called that criticism “ridiculous,” but Jones also says he admires the way Manning doesn’t just do what is required of an NFL quarterback, and he hopes Romo will use Manning as his role model.
“Anybody will tell you that Peyton Manning’s involvement in what they do is a bonus as opposed to what the general commitment is of top quarterbacks in the NFL,” Jones said. “That’s a bonus. Again, because I haven’t been in meetings with Peyton for a long time, but we’re committed and [Romo's] committed to that type of in-season and off-season approach for these years under his contract.”
Romo is certainly being paid enough to work overtime.
So give a guy 108 million when you don't think he shows enough commitment to the team and his job. Smart move Jerry.
A day after the Jets organization said everything it needs to say regarding the future of Mark Sanchez by using a high second-round pick on quarterback Geno Smith, offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg said some more things about the fifth overall pick in the 2009 draft.
“Mark knows what I think about him, I was excited to get here and, about two weeks ago we started the process,” Mornhinweg said, via Conor Orr of the Newark Star-Ledger. “I have spoken to him, we speak quite often but he understands, this is competition now, let’s rock and roll. Here we have four, or even more quarterbacks, who say hey, I’ve got an opportunity to win a job here. That thing’s going to filter out with competition.”
It’s funny that Mornhinweg doesn’t know how many quarterbacks the Jets have. Jets fans may use a different word to describe it.
The correct number is six. And Mornhinweg previously said Sanchez would have a “leg up” on the job. Now that the team has put a “leg up” in a different way on Sanchez, the powers-that-be will continue to say “competition” when it comes to Sanchez because they know it’s a competition he’ll ultimately lose.
Either way, the fun starts Monday, when Phase Two of the offseason program begins.
The NFL announced Tuesday that Jaguars wide receiver Justin Blackmon has been suspended for the first four games of the 2013 season for violating the NFL Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse and Blackmon has issued a statement in response to the league’s decision.
“I’ve made a mistake and I have no excuse. I am truly sorry and disappointed in myself for putting the Jaguars in this situation, and I look forward to putting this behind me and maturing and growing as a person. I will have a productive training camp and pre-season with my team, and during the suspension I will work hard to stay in top football shape and be ready to help the Jaguars when I return. I have chosen to be accountable for my poor decision, and I sincerely apologize to my teammates, coaches, the front office and Jaguars fans for the impact of my mistake on the team.”
General Manager David Caldwell also issued a statement that says the team is “disappointed” in Blackmon and “confident he understands the obligations ahead of him” while adding that the team will not allow this news to slow down the progress they’ve made over the last three months. Thanks to two DUIs before he signed with Jacksonville, there are significant protections written into Blackmon’s contract that wipe out his remaining guarantees in the event of a suspension. The Jags could, therefore, cut him without owing another dime.
Caldwell’s statement offered no indication that the team plans to do that, but we saw the Bucs rework their contract with cornerback Eric Wright under similar circumstances this offseason.
This time last year, Jets coach Rex Ryan had a lot to say about all the different ways the Jets would use Tim Tebow.
It was a prelude to ESPN cameras on site during training camp, secret practices to keep the world guessing about Tebow’s role and a season filled with shots of Tebow on the sideline watching the Jets go 6-10. Ryan had a lot to say about how little Tebow played during the season, but it never added up to much of an explanation for why the Jets traded for Tebow and never played him.
Ryan said that Tebow had a chance to compete for playing time and that a rib injury robbed him of a chance to play during an appearance on 98.7 ESPN in New York with Stephen A. Smith and Ryan Ruocco Tuesday before getting around to the way the team used him.
“When you look at it with the advantage of hindsight, obviously it wasn’t a good situation for Tim. It wasn’t a good situation for the Jets or anything else,” Ryan said. “I looked at it like he would have had success and we were going to use him in a multiple of ways. Unfortunately that didn’t happen … We really didn’t take advantage, in my opinion, of his skill set. That’s nobody’s fault, ultimately it’s my fault.”
There’s more than a little something off with hearing a head coach say that it was unfortunate that a player was used in a particular way given the ability a head coach has to change the way a player can be used, but it’s not like Tony Sparano’s around anymore to raise an objection to being thrown under the bus. Ryan said that his interfering in the offense “probably isn’t the smartest thing” when asked about how involved he’d be on that side of the ball this year. That’s likely true, although Ryan probably won’t get the chance to point the finger at another offensive coordinator if the Jets have another losing season.
Michael Vick had a disappointing season in 2012, but new Eagles coach Chip Kelly doesn’t think that’s Vick’s fault.
Kelly told WIP in Philadelphia that injuries along the Eagles’ offensive line were the biggest problem Vick had in 2012, and there’s every reason to think that Vick can play as well in 2013 as he did in 2010, if the Eagles can protect him.
“The one thing I think with a quarterback is they get too much blame when things don’t go well and they get too much praise when things do go well,” Kelly said, via SportsRadioInterviews.com. “But which Michael Vick do you have? The guy in 2010 who is the comeback player of the year and is running all over the field making great decisions? A lot of that because he’s clean in protection, he’s not getting hit immediately after he’s getting the snap. The one thing, when I watched the film and I saw Michael last year, you just kind of almost felt bad for him, is you lost four lineman to season ending injuries.”
The return of tackle Jason Peters, who missed all of 2012 with an Achilles injury, and the arrival of first-round draft pick Lane Johnson, should make a big difference for Vick.
“There is a comfort level when you are playing quarterback when Jason Peters is your left tackle,” Kelly said. “There is not as much of a comfort level if I’m playing left tackle. So when you’re worried about a guy coming off the edge before you can get to the top of your drop and make a throw, then that’s a tough thing to do. The one thing I’ll give Michael, when you watch Michael Vick on film and no one, there’s absolutely no one that can question his toughness. As he stands in there with people bearing down at him and still is trying to throw the ball and deliver the ball. He can throw the ball, it comes off his hands, he can make people miss, but no one, there’s no quarterback in the NFL, there’s no quarterback in any level of football that can function when you are missing four of your offensive lineman. So a lot of things that happened when you watch the film last year, it isn’t all Michael’s fault.”
The Eagles’ offensive line will almost certainly be better in 2013 than it was in 2012. And a better line should lead to a better quarterback.
The Lions lost last year’s starting left tackle Jeff Backus to retirement and lost last year’s starting right tackle Gosder Cherilus to free agency. So it was surprising that they didn’t draft an offensive tackle.
But Lions coach Jim Schwartz says last year’s first-round draft pick, Riley Reiff, is ready to step in and protect Matthew Stafford’s blind side.
“We drafted him as a left tackle,” Schwartz said of Reiff, via the Detroit Free Press. “Probably with the way things ended up here, we’ll probably start him off there. We have a lot of confidence in him. I mean, that’s why we drafted him last year.”
Reiff started one game at left tackle last year when Backus was hurt. Jason Fox and Corey Hilliard (who have each started five NFL games) will compete to start at right tackle. Throw in rookie Larry Warford as a starting guard, and the Lions will have three very inexperienced starters on the offensive line.
And so as the Lions prepare to give Stafford a nine-figure contract, they’re not investing a lot in the linemen who will protect him.
We did draft him to play LT so I do agree with that part of it. I wasn't the biggest Cherilus fan but I would like to see a veteran RT with starting experience replace him. The O-Line will make or break our season, wouldn't mind a few more signings to drum up some competition for the starting lineup and without a doubt to improve depth.
Prior to the draft, there was talk that the Eagles liked Geno Smith so much that they could take him with the No. 4 overall pick. As it turned out, not only did the Eagles pass on Smith at No. 4, but they passed on him with their second-round pick, No. 35 overall, too.
But Eagles coach Chip Kelly, who worked Smith out in West Virginia and then brought Smith to Philadelphia for a visit, says the interest was legitimate.
“First off, it wasn’t a smoke screen,” Kelly said on WIP-FM, via Philly.com. “We were as thorough with Geno as anyone else with our evaluation.”
Kelly said he wouldn’t take his time to visit with a player just to give other teams a false impression of his opinion of that player.
“Is it a smoke screen to other people? I think that intrigue and that part of it, I kind of get a kick out of,” Kelly said. “We don’t have enough time to go out there and say, ‘Hey, let’s bluff the other 31 teams in the league by going to do this.’ If we are, we’re wasting our time.”
So the Eagles really did take the time to evaluate Smith. And their evaluation was that not only was he not worth their first-round pick, but he wasn’t even worth their second-round pick.
Tuesday saw quarterback Tim Tebow become a free agent, after no team claimed his contract on waivers. It also saw the parade of teams not interested in Tebow grow by at least two.
Appearing on XTRA 1360 in San Diego, G.M. Tom Telesco faced the Tebow question.
“Tim Tebow is out there,” one host said. “Would you guys ever?”
“Ever what?” Telesco said with trepidation in his voice, sparking laughter from the two hosts.
The host then explained himself. “Would you guys think about it, possibly bring him in for a visit?”
“We’re really happy with the two quarterbacks we have, and we drafted one in the seventh round that we think has developmental upside, so we’re happy with our three quarterbacks right now,” Telesco said.
In other words, “No.”
Vikings G.M. Rick Spielman addressed the Tebow topic during a visit to PFT Live.
“Other teams are saying they’re not interested,” I explained to Spielman. “This is your chance to say you’ve got no interest in Tim Tebow.”
“He is a great individual,” Spielman said. “I spent some time with him when we came out in the draft but we’re very satisfied where we’re at with our roster right now.”
In other words, “No.”
Still, 31 teams can say, “No.” They can shout, “No!” followed by “way” and perhaps a profane word in the middle.
All it takes is one team to whisper, “Yes.” Now that Tebow is a free agent, any team can.
Jets General Manager John Idzik and coach Rex Ryan were busy men on Tuesday, giving interviews to just about everyone this side of Jerry Springer.
As you’d probably imagine, the majority of the questions were about the menagerie of quarterbacks the team has accumulated over the years. Somewhere amid the goodbyes to Tim Tebow and promises of a competition between the remaining players, there was some discussion of other spots on the team as well. One of them was wide receiver, a spot the Jets did not address during the draft even though they are currently relying heavily on a full recovery from Santonio Holmes and rapid improvement from Stephen Hill.
Idzik was specifically asked about the possibility of a return from Braylon Edwards, who played the final three games of the season with the Jets after getting waived by the Seahawks. Idzik was in Seattle last year, knows Edwards and said that the veteran was on the radar for a third spin with the Jets.
“I know [Edwards] very well. Guys like that would be under consideration as we go forward, for sure,” Idzik said, via Rich Cimini of ESPNNewYork.com.
Edwards, who had 10 catches after arriving back with the Jets, isn’t the only option. Mike Garafolo of USA Today reports that the team has had conversations with former Giant Ramses Barden about coming on board as a free agent. Barden had 29 catches in four years with the Giants — nine of them in one 2012 game — and hasn’t seen much interest in his services so far this offseason.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell repeatedly has explained that the league must constantly try to find ways to improve.
Here’s something for the suggestion box: Get rid of rules that are regularly broken but rarely enforced.
There are several rules like this. The paperwork says one thing, the teams routinely do something else, and the league office never does anything about it.
When it comes to negotiating with potentially undrafted players before the draft has ended, the rule is clear: Teams can’t do it. But they regularly do, and the NFL does nothing about it.
The Chargers did it last year, according to quarterback Chandler Harnish, whose verbal deal with San Diego was interrupted by the Colts making Harnish the last pick in the draft.
This year, receiver Russell Shepard has boasted that he “took [himself] off the draft board during the draft” after striking a deal with the Eagles in round six.
Shepard has since reiterated that the Eagles negotiated with him before the draft ended by pointing out via an unverified (but apparently legitimate) Twitter account that “[i]t was just a agreement calm down people didn’t become official till the next day actually.”
Under the rules, it doesn’t matter that it wasn’t “official” during the draft. The land rush for free agents can’t begin until the draft ends. In Shepard’s case, a verbal deal was in place with Philly during the sixth round. At some point (and that point could already be now), teams will have agreements with undrafted players in place before the draft even begins.
While any team could have disrupted the agreement between the Eagles and Shepard by drafting the player, the violation comes from the fact that the Eagles got a head start on the process. The reality is that most teams do.
It will continue until the NFL enforces the rule. And if the NFL isn’t going to enforce the rule, then the NFL should just get rid of it.
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Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!
chuck muncie passed away at 60
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RIP CHUCK
Fucking loved those CHARGERS!!!
Brian Urlacher is deciding between the Broncos and Vikings. The latest report says that he is leaning toward the Vikings.
Growing up in San Diego, I remember going to a couple games as a kid during the Air Coryell years baby! Dan Fouts, Charlie Joiner, Kellen Winslow, Wes Chandler, and Muncie baby!!!!RIP CHUCK
Fucking loved those CHARGERS!!!
At least the current regime is keeping Teo hidden from the press, unlike the circus around Tebow in NYC... I think the Maxim list will help Teo, who has a Top 100 hot girlfriend... you know, if she weren't dead and imaginary. But a posthumous award is an award by any definition...
GO CHARGERS!
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MELVIN INGRAM TEARS LEFT ACL - SAN DIEGO
Linebacker Melvin Ingram suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament, the San Diego Chargers announced in a statement. The left knee injury was suffered during the Chargers' organized team activities Tuesday morning. Ingram was San Diego's first-round pick in the 2012 draft. He had 41 tackles (21 solo), one forced fumble and one sack for a young, developing linebacking corps.
The Chargers saw veteran edge rushers Shaun Phillips and Antwan Barnes leave in free agency and had been expecting Ingram, who came on strong toward the end of last season, to provide a strong rush. With Ingram presumably lost for the season, San Diego is bringing in free agent Dwight Freeney on Wednesday for a visit, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.
San Diego's new general manager, Tom Telesco, spent the past 15 seasons in Indianapolis, where the Colts drafted Freeney.
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Buddy Nix quit in Buffalo paving the way for Doug Whaley, highly touted by those in the Steelers' organization IIRC, to become GM....
You follow the Bills much closer then anybody else I know, why didn't Nix step down alot sooner? The usual reason I see is due to draft preparation but if you are wanting to go a different direction why waste another draft before switching? Anybody a team would hire must have done their own draft preparation. Just wondering if you had the inside scoop for us.
Super Bowl L will be held in San Francisco.
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Technically, Santa Clara is getting the Super Bowl, which is in shittier Silicon Valley, basically SAN JOSE... That's about 45 minutes south of San Francisco on a good traffic day. I lived in Cupertino just down the street for Apple, ever so briefly, and it's right next door to Santa Clara... one big boring concrete sprawl. Too bad SF didn't step up and build a proper stadium for the 49ers.
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I think he was sort of gradually marginalized and pushed out. The Bills' recent draft, thought by most to be a good one, was believed to have been run mainly by Whaley. Whaley has been "groomed" to replace Nix and the writing was on the wall for him. I'm pretty happy and so are many of their harshest critics with Ralph Wilson finally ceding control of the team to CEO and President Russ Brandon. They've gone from a 60+ head coach and 70+ GM to guys in their early 40's at both. Nix has been apart of the Bills for a while so I think they offered him a courtesy consulting position...
I think they're going to suck this year though. But at least they'll actually be getting better now for the long run...
Incidentally, Nix stated he wanted to draft the next Bills' QB before he left, it's arguable as to whether that actually happened...
The No Fun League is making strides in its quest to disenfranchise more fans in its quest to achieve supreme arrogance...
NFL’s new bag policy will definitely ruffle some feathers, especially among female fans
By Doug Farrar | Shutdown Corner – Fri, Jun 14, 2013 9:43 AM EDT
In its quest to improve security at all stadiums (and perhaps to pick up a few merchandising bucks in the process), the NFL has revised its policies for what fans -- mostly female fans -- can bring into stadiums. Here are the new parameters:
The NFL strongly encourages fans to not bring any type of bags, but outlined what is permissible. Beginning with preseason games, fans will be able to carry the following style and size bag, package, or container at stadium plaza areas, stadium gates, or when approaching queue lines of fans awaiting entry into the stadium:
Bags that are clear plastic, vinyl or PVC and do not exceed 12” x 6” x 12.” (Official NFL team logo clear plastic tote bags are available through club merchandise outlets or at nflshop.com), or
One-gallon clear plastic freezer bag (Ziploc bag or similar).
Small clutch bags, approximately the size of a hand, with or without a handle or strap can be taken into the stadium with one of the clear plastic bag options.
An exception will be made for medically necessary items after proper inspection at a gate designated for this purpose.
Prohibited items include, but are not limited to: purses larger than a clutch bag, coolers, briefcases, backpacks, fanny packs, cinch bags, seat cushions, luggage of any kind, computer bags and camera bags or any bag larger than the permissible size.
This fan will have 100 problems if her purse is too big. (Getty Images)
Among those bags now not allowed are the ones sold on official team websites.
“Our fans deserve to be in a safe and secure environment,” said Jeffrey Miller, NFL vice president and chief security officer, on the league's new "All Clear" site. “Public safety is our top priority. This will make the job of checking items much more efficient and effective. We will be able to deliver a better and quicker experience at the gates and also provide a safer environment. We appreciate our fans’ cooperation.”
This will not go over well with anyone who likes to carry a purse, to be sure. Of course, we're on board with the banning of man-purses, but that's more an overall style point. Female football fans, of which there are many, aren't happy at all.
From longtime Houston Texans blogger (and friend of Shutdown Corner) Steph Stradley:
The functional purse ban an inconvenience. @NFL doesn't care b/c run by men, & they know it won't stop fans from going to games
— Stephanie Stradley (@StephStradley) June 14, 2013
Melissa Jacobs of TheFootballGirl.com emailed a league spokesman after one of her readers brought up the issue of parents of very young children bringing diaper bags to stadiums, and she got this response:
"This is something that we contemplated. We are sports fans and attend events throughout the year, too, and took a long look at possible concerns people would have. Simply put the contents of the diaper bag into an approved bag. If there are necessary medical items for the child there would be an exception made after proper inspection at a gate designated for this purpose. The 12x6x12 bag is a decent size and can fit diapers, bottles, wipes, etc. I had a to go bag that size for my kids that worked well on day trips. And it's one bag per person so other family members would be able to help."
We certainly understand the need to establish effective security parameters, but at a time when the NFL is looking for more ways to keep fans going to stadiums as opposed to staying home and watching RedZone or watching games on their phones and tablets, the new policies seem a bit short-sighted -- especially in the ways they seem to inconvenience and exclude female fans.
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