NFL Player news

[rjs246]

The fact that former players are not being taken care of by this league is really idiotic and completely unsurprising.

[QB Eagles]

Players who fail the NFL's substance abuse policy next season likely will be banned from playing in the 2008 Pro Bowl.

Sources tell ESPN's Chris Mortensen that commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Players Association executive director Gene Upshaw have agreed to ban any player who tests positive for performance-enhancing drugs from playing in the Pro Bowl that same season. The policy would take effect beginning with the 2007 regular season.

Upshaw met Monday in Miami with player reps, who supported the ban, union and league sources told Mortensen. One more discussion is planned at the winter scouting combine in late February, with a formal announcement no later than March, Mortensen reported.

A ban also would have financial implications for some players, because some have Pro Bowl bonuses and base-pay escalators tied to the Pro Bowl that would be negatively affected.

The news comes in the week leading up to San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman's appearance for the AFC in Saturday's Pro Bowl in Honolulu. Merriman was named to the AFC roster despite serving a four-game midseason suspension for steroids use.

[Diomedes]

Glad to hear it.

[QB Eagles]

Ricky Proehl is retiring after the Super Bowl.

More importantly, if he's active tonight he'll have the distinction of being the last Tecmo Super Bowl offensive player to play the game in real life, assuming Vinny Testaverde isn't back next year.

[PhillyPhreak54]

WEIRD WEEK FOR LLOYD'S SON

The child of former NFL linebacker Greg Lloyd is in for a strange few days.  On Wednesday, Greg Lloyd Jr. will sign a letter of intent to play college football at Connecticut.

On Saturday, Lloyd will become 18, and a protective order preventing his father from having any contact with him will expire.

"I can't protect him anymore," his mother, Rhonda Lloyd, told the Hartford Courant.  "That's a scary thought for me."

"I'm living great without him in my life," Greg Jr. said. "I don't have to be scared every day.  That's much better than the way I was living back when he was around."

The elder Lloyd was accused of sticking a gun in his son's mouth in 2001, apparently due to the child's school grades.  Two trials on criminal charges arising from the incident resulted in hung juries.  The issue did not go to trial a third time.

The younger Lloyd isn't interested in rekindling a relationship with his father.  "If he said he wanted to try again, I would say no," Greg Jr. said.  "It's too late for that."

Lloyd was an All-Pro for the Steelers in the 1990s.  He pleaded no contest in 2004 to pointing a gun at his wife's head.

Damn, I thought I had it bad when I got grounded for bad grades. On a side note Mrs. Lloyd needs to remove her teat from Jr.'s mouth. Time to let the dude be a man.

[SD_Eagle5]

The elder Lloyd was accused of sticking a gun in his son's mouth in 2001,

Maybe Andy should have employed this technique. Reverse psychology.

[Diomedes]

He certainly had his pick of guns to use...

[Father Demon]

David Carr will be traded, and Jake Plummer will be the Texans quarterback next season. Plummer will compete with Sage Rosenfels and a rookie Gary Kubiak wants to develop.
-- Houston Chronicle

According to sources, Jerry Jones is still leaning toward naming 49ers offensive coordinator Norv Turner as the seventh coach in Cowboys history.
-- Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Former teammates Terrell Owens and Donovan McNabb, who exchanged shots after Owens left Philadelphia, were sighted hugging at the pool party at the former Versace Mansion on Friday.
-- Miami Herald


from the Truth & Rumors section of SI

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

If that is true, burn Donovan.  What a Hoyda.

[paco]

Not really News, but apprently TO called up WIP today.  Here is the podcast:

http://podcast.610wip.com/wip/181029.mp3

[MDS]

I loved Lloyd in Madden 98. Didn't know he was farging crazy.

[BlueHeart]

Crazy is putting it gently. LOL

Holy shtein.

[Drunkmasterflex]

I remember Jim Harbaugh saying Greg Lloyd could keep peace in Bosnia with a tube sock and a Q-ball.  It sounds like he was right.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Limbaugh on Rex;

This is the reaction I'm getting in the e-mail, and before we go to the break here, folks, I gotta get something off my chest. You know, the game was the game, and the game was what it was, but I can't handle any more press criticism of Rex Grossman. They're writing his name "W-r-e-c-k-s," saying he was the worst quarterback ever to play in the Super Bowl, and it's been like this since the Green Bay game -- actually, since the Arizona game. There was a little crescendo of it in the Green Bay game, the last game of the season for the Bears, and it's just unrelenting. They're focusing on this guy like they don't focus on anybody -- and I'll tell you, I know what it is. The media, the sports media, has got social concerns that they are first and foremost interested in, and they're dumping on this guy, Rex Grossman, for one reason, folks, and that's because he is a white quarterback.

[Geowhizzer]

 

Respectfully, Mr. Limbaugh, they're not dumping on Grossman because he is white.  They're dumping on him because he was bad.  Horrifically bad, and on football's biggest stage.