Around The NFL - 2015

[BigEd76]

The owner of the Super Bowl I tapes finally revealed himself
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/sports/football/super-bowl-i-recording-broadcast-nfl-troy-haupt.html

[PhillyPhreak54]

NFL doing zesty NFL things...no shock

[PhillyPhreak54]

NFL is instituting a rule that says women must be interviewed for executive positions ala the Rooney Rule for coaches.

In other news SD is on his way to New York to picket the NFL offices.

[Rome]

Oh goodie... More condescending Affirmative Action interviews to muck up the process.

Yay progress!

[Sgt PSN]

I would say that this is a good thing and necessary if there are a bunch of women clamoring for executive positions in the NFL, but I don't see that being the reality at the moment. I could see women holding executive positions on the administrative side, and I'm sure there's already a few throughout the league, but I don't see there being many legit female candidates on the football side of things.

[ice grillin you]

depends on how they are defining "executive"

don smolenski is an executive but so is ozzie newsome

[SD]

NFL is instituting a rule that says women must be interviewed for executive positions ala the Rooney Rule for coaches.

In other news SD is on his way to New York to picket the NFL offices.

[Rome]

Haaaa!

[QB Eagles]

For now it's just all executives at the league office.

So the Eagles won't need to interview a woman for head of player personnel. (Assuming they actually intend to hire *anyone* to that position.)

[Diomedes]

Clumsy.  Bespeaks lack of leadership.  More interesting to me is the NFL admits there is a problem. 

[Sgt PSN]

Johnny Foosball has gone full retard. After the most recent domestic violence accusation, his agent quit and now his dad says he'll be dead by 24 if he doesn't get his shtein together.

[QB Eagles]

Johnny Foosball has gone full retard Ryan Leaf.

He's also refused to go to rehab twice in the last week, and the Cowboys have leaked that they aren't interested in him anymore.

[BigEd76]

MNF on 11/21 will be Texans/Raiders in Mexico City

[SD]

:IGY batsignal:

In The '85 Bears, the new 30 for 30 documentary about the team that won Super Bowl XX, one man above all others emerges as the heart and soul of that great team. And it's not Walter Payton, Mike Ditka, Jim McMahon or Refrigerator Perry.

The real star of The '85 Bears, which premieres on ESPN on February 4, is Buddy Ryan, the team's defensive coordinator and mastermind of the 46 defense. The film opens with recent footage of the 81-year-old Ryan undergoing physical therapy and looking frail and weak, but those scenes are contrasted with footage of the energetic Ryan on the practice field, and with interviews from his former players, who can't stop gushing about how much they loved to play for him.

Had to get up early for Wing bowl this morning. Wound up getting up around 3, this was on. Couple things I never realized...or maybe I did but it didn't impact me the way it did till I watched this. Most of the Bears despised Ditka. For the most part they still do listening to their interviews. Buddy Ryan was pretty much the head coach. If you watch their superbowl Buddy is the first to go up on the players shoulders, Mcmichael talked to Fridge and said "we have to put Ditka up on our shoulders cause he's our guy".

And this letter, the players were tearing up reading it:

To my guys,

In 1981, many of you signed a letter to George Halas that saved my job. Now I'm writing a letter to all of you to say thanks. I wish I could be there to say it in person, but this will have to do.

Thank you to the Super Bowl champion 1985 Chicago Bears, the greatest team in NFL history. You gave me the best memories of my coaching life.

I'll love every one of you until the day I die. I told you this a long time ago, and it's still true.

You guys will always be my heroes.

Coach Buddy Ryan, 46

Legend


"But Buddy never won a playoff game"

Nope, but he won a Superbowl

[MDS]

playoff wins

richie k 1
buddy 0
chip 0