Around The NFL - 2008

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Q: How am I supposed to feel about this? On the one hand, I don't like to see anyone get hurt and Brady seems like a good guy. On the other hand, Belichick, you and Randy Moss are all a-------. Talk about mixed emotions.
-- Steve N., New York

SG: You know what shocked me? I thought for sure my mailbox would be littered with "HA HA! SUCK IT" e-mails, but people were actually pretty respectful -- even the meaner e-mails were presented like the one above. In a weird way, the Brady injury renewed my faith in society a little. Maybe we're more dignified than I thought.

Q: HA HA! SUCK IT!
-- C. Roberts, Indianapolis

SG: Or ... maybe not.

Chuckle!

Q: Brady's injury gave me an idea for your mailbag: "If you had the power, would you take so-and-so's injury yourself so that he could play? In this case, would you allow your knee to be blown out, have surgery and go through rehab if it meant Brady's knee never got injured and he played the whole season? Or if you're a Vikings fan, would you give yourself a sprained knee so Adrian Peterson could have played all 16 games? How severe would an injury have to be before you said, "No way I'm taking on that so that (insert star player's name here) could play."
-- John B., Valley Stream, N.Y.

SG: Excellent idea. I think it depends on your mindset as a sports fan in that specific time, as well as your age. For instance, I wouldn't absorb Brady's injury because I wouldn't want to be on crutches for a few months when I have two young kids, and besides, they won three Super Bowls this decade. But let's say you're my friend Mike Tollin, a die-hard Philly fan who's a little older than me and has older kids. If the Mets and Phillies were tied with a week to go and Ryan Howard's wrist was broken by a pitch, would Mike do the switcheroo and take the broken wrist? Well, I called him and here was his first response:

"The left one or the right one?"

We talked it out for a few minutes and Mike ultimately decided he would sacrifice the left wrist in any scenario, but he'd sacrifice the right wrist only if he was guaranteed a World Series trip because, "That's my writing hand, my BlackBerry hand and my shaving hand ... and I wouldn't be able to play basketball for six weeks ... although I guess I could run ..." For all I know, he's still debating it. I'm going out on a limb and saying Philly needs to win a title soon. For everyone's sake.

I laughed, I cried, I vomited.

[Geowhizzer]

At this point, how many of us wouldn't give our left nut (or breast, as the case may be) to get a title for the Eagles?  And many of us for the Phils/Flyers/Sixers as well.

Not the Soul, though.  They don't count.

[paco]

I'd give FF's left nut in a heart beat.  Not mine though.


I await your "witty" retort friend.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

The contents of my left nut should do fine.  Just wipe off your eye next time, stud.


How's that?

[Seabiscuit36]

i'd take on terminal cancer if I got to see an Eagles parade in good health

[rjs246]

There's a damn good chance that you (or anyone else) will end up getting terminal cancer anyway, so yeah sure, sign me up.

[MDS]

a new low?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I don't even see how that's possible.

[hunt]

A league source tells us that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are trying to trade quarterback Jeff Garcia.  Per the source, the Bucs are willing to take anything they can get for Garcia, who's in the final season of a two-year contract.

The problem is the relationship between Garcia and coach Jon Gruden.  They're "ready to kill each other," the source said.

It's so bad that there's a possibility (albeit slim at this point) that the Bucs will ultimately cut Garcia.

On Wednesday, Gruden declared that Brian Griese will start for the Bucs on Sunday against the Falcons.  Garcia reportedly has an ankle injury.

If Garcia is cut, he'll be entitled to receive the balance of his $2 million salary as termination pay.

chick fight!

[General_Failure]

Gruden having a hissy with a player yet again? I'm shocked!

[reese125]

PFT with another "per a league source" is awesome truth

that site blows

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Still, I would trade them Feeley straight up to bring back Jeffy.

[hunt]

that bald bastich childress should get jeffy and put that high school qb he's been starting back on the bench where he belongs.

[rjs246]

that bald bastich childress should get jeffy and put that high school qb he's been starting back on the bench where he belongs.

The Vikes would instantly be one of the favorites to win the NFC if that happened.

[Diomedes]

PFT with another "per a league source" is awesome truth

that site blows

Everyone who follows the NFL reads it every day, including you.  Shut up.