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Bucky32
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I think the key in this one is how Wilson plays. He's had two really subpar games in the divisional and championship rounds - yet his team still won, which I guess speaks to the talent on that team. Still, he'll need to have maybe his best game of his season to keep pace with Manning and company.
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Interesting story on the Bronco's Paris Lenon:
Last X-Man Standing
Broncos linebacker Paris Lenon, the last active NFL player from the XFL (!), has followed a tortuous route from nowhere to the middle of it all
How do you play 13 years of pro football in three leagues, bouncing among a dozen cities and two countries, with a family to feed, and maintain your sanity? You forget. A lot. You hold on to concepts, but not plays. You recall faces, but the names and places become difficult. There’s only so much emotional capital you can invest.
Here’s what Broncos middle linebacker Paris Lenon, the last XFL player remaining in the NFL, remembers about Vince McMahon’s ill-fated, off-the-wall football league: “There was no coin toss in the XFL. I think they put the ball on the 40-yard line. They had a player from each team race to the ball from the goal line. Whoever recovered the ball won the toss. At first everybody thought, We’ll just put the fastest guy on the team out there. Then somebody got blown up. Somebody figured out that if you put a bigger guy in there, he would get there late, but he would take it from the little guy. He’d crush him,” says Lenon, who was undrafted out of Richmond in 2000 and failed to make the Panthers roster after being signed by Carolina that year. “Somebody separated their shoulder … before the kickoff. You’d never see anything like that in the NFL.”
Entire article: http://mmqb.si.com/2014/01/27/paris-lenon-denver-broncos-super-bowl-48/?xid=si_topstories
The guy definitely "paid his dues".
Last X-Man Standing
Broncos linebacker Paris Lenon, the last active NFL player from the XFL (!), has followed a tortuous route from nowhere to the middle of it all
How do you play 13 years of pro football in three leagues, bouncing among a dozen cities and two countries, with a family to feed, and maintain your sanity? You forget. A lot. You hold on to concepts, but not plays. You recall faces, but the names and places become difficult. There’s only so much emotional capital you can invest.
Here’s what Broncos middle linebacker Paris Lenon, the last XFL player remaining in the NFL, remembers about Vince McMahon’s ill-fated, off-the-wall football league: “There was no coin toss in the XFL. I think they put the ball on the 40-yard line. They had a player from each team race to the ball from the goal line. Whoever recovered the ball won the toss. At first everybody thought, We’ll just put the fastest guy on the team out there. Then somebody got blown up. Somebody figured out that if you put a bigger guy in there, he would get there late, but he would take it from the little guy. He’d crush him,” says Lenon, who was undrafted out of Richmond in 2000 and failed to make the Panthers roster after being signed by Carolina that year. “Somebody separated their shoulder … before the kickoff. You’d never see anything like that in the NFL.”
Entire article: http://mmqb.si.com/2014/01/27/paris-lenon-denver-broncos-super-bowl-48/?xid=si_topstories
The guy definitely "paid his dues".
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Was the reasoning behind getting rid of the "Bud Bowl" because it was too expensive to produce?
I miss the Bud Bowl sometimes.
I miss the Bud Bowl sometimes.
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From the 30 seconds of coverage I could tolerate this morning, it's more the M&Ms Candy Bowl. Some kind of tie-in with commentary & coverage. Kind of fed up with the whole gigantic commercial aspect of "the game" -- which should probably be in the Pet Peeves, etc. thread, because it really gripes me that those bozos own the words Super Bowl and no one else is allowed to utter that phrase without terror of litigation. I seem to recall there was a time when the only un-sayable word was the Name Of God, at least in some religions. Guess we know who's god now.
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I'm just here to say Go Broncos!!
After 17 years living in Colorado, I finally got on board with the Broncos and a few weeks ago, bought my very first piece of NFL licensed merchendise - a Denver Broncos hat.
After 17 years living in Colorado, I finally got on board with the Broncos and a few weeks ago, bought my very first piece of NFL licensed merchendise - a Denver Broncos hat.
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