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Madden years run ahead 1 year of the actual NFL season. What madden is calling "Madden 2004" is actually for the 2003 season. The person who wrote this article has the years mixed up.

Madden 2001 which was released at the start of the 2000 season a season in which the Titans went to the playoffs and lost the ravens. Eddie George who was on the cover that year had an impressive season...He rushed for 1509 yards and 14 TD's and had an additional 453 yards recieving and 2 TDs.

So overall he had 1962 yards and 16 tds. Very Impressive. He got injured the season AFTER that.

Madden 2002 which was released at the start of the 2001 season had Daunte Culpepper on the cover. In 2001 Culpepper was injured for a short while, but still managed to pass for 2612 yards and 14 TD's. He also rushed for 416 yards and 5 TD's. So overall he had 3028 yards and 19 TD's. While those aren't pro bowl numbers they aren't too shabby. What is impressive is, he had those numbers in playing only 11 games instead of 16.

Madden 2003 which was released at the start of the 2002 season had Marshall Faulk on the cover. In 2002, like Daunte Faulk was injured, although not badly enough to slow his productivity in the games he started. In only 10 Starts Marshall had 1490 all purpose yards and 10 TD's. While that is a down year for Marshall that is impressive for any other RB.

Now, Madden 2004 has Mike Vick on the cover who got hurt in preseason and will miss 4 regular season games. The games he will miss are at Dallas, Washington, Tampa bay, and at Carolina. The Falcons will likely go 3-1 without him, 2-2 if they blow the game to Carolina.

All in all, The Madden Curse didn't apply to Eddie George (he had a good year that year) and Culpepper and Faulk had off years due to minor injuries but their off years were as good as some players who weren't injured. We can't Judge Vick yet.

I wouldn't call it a curse just yet, now the guys who were on the covers of those old Sega Gensis sports games were cursed.

Madden years run ahead 1 year of the actual NFL season. What madden is calling "Madden 2004" is actually for the 2003 season. The person who wrote this article has the years mixed up.

Madden 2001 which was released at the start of the 2000 season a season in which the Titans went to the playoffs and lost the ravens. Eddie George who was on the cover that year had an impressive season...He rushed for 1509 yards and 14 TD's and had an additional 453 yards recieving and 2 TDs.

So overall he had 1962 yards and 16 tds. Very Impressive. He got injured the season AFTER that.

Madden 2002 which was released at the start of the 2001 season had Daunte Culpepper on the cover. In 2001 Culpepper was injured for a short while, but still managed to pass for 2612 yards and 14 TD's. He also rushed for 416 yards and 5 TD's. So overall he had 3028 yards and 19 TD's. While those aren't pro bowl numbers they aren't too shabby. What is impressive is, he had those numbers in playing only 11 games instead of 16.

Madden 2003 which was released at the start of the 2002 season had Marshall Faulk on the cover. In 2002, like Daunte Faulk was injured, although not badly enough to slow his productivity in the games he started. In only 10 Starts Marshall had 1490 all purpose yards and 10 TD's. While that is a down year for Marshall that is impressive for any other RB.

Now, Madden 2004 has Mike Vick on the cover who got hurt in preseason and will miss 4 regular season games. The games he will miss are at Dallas, Washington, Tampa bay, and at Carolina. The Falcons will likely go 3-1 without him, 2-2 if they blow the game to Carolina.

All in all, The Madden Curse didn't apply to Eddie George (he had a good year that year) and Culpepper and Faulk had off years due to minor injuries but their off years were as good as some players who weren't injured. We can't Judge Vick yet.

I wouldn't call it a curse just yet, now the guys who were on the covers of those old Sega Gensis sports games were cursed.

Madden years run ahead 1 year of the actual NFL season. What madden is calling "Madden 2004" is actually for the 2003 season. The person who wrote this article has the years mixed up.

Madden 2001 which was released at the start of the 2000 season a season in which the Titans went to the playoffs and lost the ravens. Eddie George who was on the cover that year had an impressive season...He rushed for 1509 yards and 14 TD's and had an additional 453 yards recieving and 2 TDs.

So overall he had 1962 yards and 16 tds. Very Impressive. He got injured the season AFTER that.

Madden 2002 which was released at the start of the 2001 season had Daunte Culpepper on the cover. In 2001 Culpepper was injured for a short while, but still managed to pass for 2612 yards and 14 TD's. He also rushed for 416 yards and 5 TD's. So overall he had 3028 yards and 19 TD's. While those aren't pro bowl numbers they aren't too shabby. What is impressive is, he had those numbers in playing only 11 games instead of 16.

Madden 2003 which was released at the start of the 2002 season had Marshall Faulk on the cover. In 2002, like Daunte Faulk was injured, although not badly enough to slow his productivity in the games he started. In only 10 Starts Marshall had 1490 all purpose yards and 10 TD's. While that is a down year for Marshall that is impressive for any other RB.

Now, Madden 2004 has Mike Vick on the cover who got hurt in preseason and will miss 4 regular season games. The games he will miss are at Dallas, Washington, Tampa bay, and at Carolina. The Falcons will likely go 3-1 without him, 2-2 if they blow the game to Carolina.

All in all, The Madden Curse didn't apply to Eddie George (he had a good year that year) and Culpepper and Faulk had off years due to minor injuries but their off years were as good as some players who weren't injured. We can't Judge Vick yet.

I wouldn't call it a curse just yet, now the guys who were on the covers of those old Sega Gensis sports games were cursed.

Gannon wasn't a good QB in the early 90s when he was with the Vikings and Redskins. Letting him go then was the right decision. He matured as a QB only recently. Either team should have kept Brad Johnson, though. At least the Vikings got something when they traded him away. It's the Redskins organization that looks terrible in light of this Super Bowl.

"Super Bowl" is a trademark of the National Football League. This is why most radio and TV ads you hear and see relating to the Super Bowl don't use the official name, but instead call it something like the "Big Game."

Its the championship game for the NFL, the National (american) Football (not the football where you kick a ball into a goal to score) League.

...do commercials featuring ALF and Emmitt Smith?

Never mind... that's 10-10-220.

Wow. you're with the Raiders now. I thought you were still with the Broncos.

Did Ray Rhodes register that domain?

ITV Digital going bust had more to do with the fact that its parent companies, Carlton and Granada (the two largest regional terrestrial TV broadcasters) decided to renege on their £315 million (~US$475 million) football (the type that's played with the foot rather than the type that's played with the hand ) rights contract than any technical issue.

Basically, they overspent on the live rights of domestic football's lower divisions (minor rather than major league baseball is a rough analogy) and were somehow amazed when the viewers didn't sign up in droves. After the footballing authorities refused ITV Digital's greatly reduced "take-it-or-leave-it" offer, Carlton and Granada took the easy out and let ITV Digital go into liquidation rather than bite the bullet and honour their contracts.

Currently, the Football League and its clubs are fighting a legal battle to get the money they are owed from these parent companies.

Bottom line: ITV Digital collapsed because some suits wanted to rid themselves of a less than profitable contract that they and clubs both signed in good faith.

If you intent to baptize/christen your child, you should use the name of a Saint.

Top of the food chain! Go figure, a lousey football post brings out all the whackos. Remember, no matter what country you live in and no matter what you call football, you're still sitting on your fat ass watching it. May your bunghole seal up and cause you to explode.

Oh yeah, mad propz to my homies on Fresh Pond chillin with the CLIT.

Football? WTF?

Football doesn't start until September!



(Didn't you read the transcript of President Carter's speech to Cuba where he asserted that Cuba will have to adopt Football over "Soccer" if they want to be accepted into the NWO?)

That's the great thing about the Constitution - it's always evolving, based on the decisions and judgements handed down by the Supreme Court.

"two guys are running a race. you notice that they make the same number of strides per second -- that is, their left feet both hit the ground at the same time, and then their right feet both hit at the same time, and then their left feet both hit at the same time.... however, one guy is 6'3" and the other guy is only 5'4". Obviously the taller guy wins because his stride is longer. even though both guys have the same stride rate, one guy's body gets more mileage out of each stride than the other's".

"In the 2000 season, the New Orleans Saints' La'Roi Glover had 53 tackles and 17 sacks [the highest # of sacks for 2000]. Mr. Glover is 6'2" and weighs in at 285 pounds. Now, imagine you, at 5'9" and 176 pounds, are on the Texas side and Mr. Glover is on the Louisiana side of the TX-LA border, both of you are running towards each other at the same speed of 15 mph. If you and Mr. Glover collide right on the TX-LA borderline, where will they bury your body?"

The few things that stuck out with me were:

Yes, the camera work is a great idea - I can't say it was done well because, well, it wasn't, but, we are talking about the first weekend of this. Having a couple of camermen (read: targets) ON the field during play was a great idea, I liked being able to "be in the tackle" and I also liked the view from the camera suspended above the field behind the Quarterback (while a columnist from The Chicago Tribune said that "there's a reason why people want tickets on the fifty yard line").

As for play, well, the opener wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. The televized game was (this is also a segue into a con) The New York / New Jersey Hitmen vs. The Las Vegas Outlaws, it was a trouncing!!! The game ended up being 19-0 LV. In the 4th quarter they switched games over to The Orlando Rage vs. The Chicago Enforcers. This was what seemed to be a very decent game. But, the question that was running through my mind the whole night was - "I'm from Chicago. I live in Chicago. Why the hell am i watching NY/NJ play LV when my home team is playing?!?!?!"

Granted there are pure hard-core football fans but those fans are more of a fan for their home team so one of the many things that will have to be looked over is the regionalizing of games. I watched the first games because I wanted to see if the XFL was going to be football, not a show of tits and ass and wrestling hoaxes. I'm going to stay a fan NOT because of the XFL but because of the teams and The Enforcers in particular. Yes, there was a huge showing of tits and ass and in most cases, thats a good thing. But, if i want to see half-naked women on a saturday night or sunday afternoon, I'd give my girlfriend a kiss on the cheek and see a fully-naked woman infront of me (and her breasts aren't fake)

The trips into the locker room (which were heavily hyped) were less than spectacular. The miking up of more than 20 people made for quintessential four-star-five-second-delay-goofs (maybe they need seven). They also have to get betterannouncers. There was virtually no insight into the game or who the players were. But I did have the opprotunity to have Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura scream at me for over 2 hours.

If you were/are a fan of old-school football when guys actually got popped this may be for you 'cause the rules made the game. I'm not trying to say this is some hard-core rough-nose football that is sure as hell going to impress everyone (I've seen Lawrence Taylor play live) but these guys are out to win. The starting salary for Quarterbacks is $50,000, Kickers get $35,000 and everyone else gets $45,000. The incentive is that with every regular season game, the winning team splits a pot of $100,000. The championship pays a pot of $1,000,000. So in fact, they arent paid all that much to play - but they do get paid more to win.

Other noteworthy rules are:

No fair catches. Recievers are given a 5 yard "halo" that can't be breached until he catches the ball. I can tell you now, as long as its only a five yard penalty for breaching it, the kicking team is going to do all they can to kill the poor-lame-duck-reciever.

One man-in-motion towards the line of scrimmage before the snap.

Bump-and-run all the way down the field. If the Defensive End can, they can have their hands on the wide reciever throughout the entire play with a few exceptions. 1) Until the ball is in the air 2) The Reciever passes him (no hitting from the side or from the back). This can maked timed plays (eg. 12 and In) very difficult.

No coin toss. The ball is set in the middle of the field and one player from each team run 20 yds and fight for posession of the ball. Kinda cool but, a player from Orlando (I believe) seperated his shoulder during this and was out of the game before it even began.

The four games (eight teams) are played on seperate nights, two on saturday and two on sunday.

The ratings showed that people were definitely interested but that was the first weekend, let's see what happens in the weeks to come and if they can keep their fan-base. All in all *I* thought it was an enjoyable weekend of football and seeing how it is in its infancy - I'm sure it'll only get better.

I was shown some page about protecting the panda bears. So of course I submitted www.nfl.com/bears/

I need some help purchasing a NFL franchise. I think I can win the Superbowl.

What are rules with the NFL that would prohibit these things from participating? I would love to see this blitz some 5 million dollar/year QB .