WTF: Sgt. Jerry Blash
Wouldn't You Like To Know What I Just Did?
Pittsburgh Steelers Ben Roethlisberger was accompanied by two off-duty cops and a teammate the night of his second alleged sexual assault. But a local police sergeant, Sgt. Jerry Blash, posed for pictures with the two-time Super Bowl champion is the same officer who initially investigated the sexual assault complaint.
Chad Ochocinco Reality Dating Show Coming To VH1
Did She Have Dumps Like A Truck Or Thighs Like What?
After Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco was done Twitter kissing Terrell Owens in his attempts to land the free agent receiver in the Natti comes word of his own reality show.
Ochocinco has signed a deal with VH1 to play in a new reality dating show called, “The Tournament.” Ochocinco is currently in Los Angeles learning dance moves for his upcoming appearance on ABC “Dancing With The Stars” his pursuing his happiness off the field.
The series is a mix of Ochocicno on-field charisma blended with the drama of the dating pool of 85 women played out in a bracket-style dating tournament. The 10 episode, one-hour series is set to premiere in July 2010.
“The Tournament” will start with Ochocinco finding his first 85 women by traveling all over the country meeting women that may be interested in dating him. Then, during the first episode, he will narrow the playing field down to the sweet sixteen, four women from each of the four regions of the country.
The sixteen chosen women will be invited to join him for the rest of the tournament-style dating competition. Once the competition begins, Ochocinco will follow a tournament bracket where each of the ladies will have an opportunity to spend quality time with him while also facing off against one another in double-dates. The winner of each dating face-off will receive a game ball and move on to the next round of the tournament, while the loser goes home.
The championship date between the two remaining women will result in Ochocinco awarding his chosen love the coveted Championship Ring, the same ring Owens has coveted for years now.
It’s a pretty safe bet that his show will follow the second season of Owens “The T.O. Show” on VH1.
New Orleans Saints Jeremy Shockey Sues Former Saints Teammate
Houser The New Madoff
Recently released New Orleans Saints defensive end Charles Grant and current Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against their former teammate, Kevin Houser, alleging Houser duped them and other current and former Saints players and coaches into investing more than a million dollars in a film tax credit scam.
Houser is the former special teams long-snapper who was the longest tenured Saints player when he was cut by the team before the 2009 season as news of the tax credit fiasco emerged. Grant and Shockey say Houser, who was a licensed securities broker, convinced them they were buying state tax credits for Louisiana Film Studios, but later it turned out LFS had never applied for the state tax credits.
In all, nearly two dozen former or current Saints players and coaches, including quarterback Drew Brees, Coach Sean Payton and Saints legend Archie Manning, invested $1.7 million to buy what they thought were tax credits for the film studio project in Elmwood. Grant and Shockey’s lawsuit is labeled a class action on behalf of the rest of the investors.
Grant and Shockey allege that Houser actually kept a portion of their money as a commission or finder’s fee. Also, they say that Houser kept secret the fact that the film studio owed hundreds of thousands of dollars to 47 Construction LLC, a company co-owned by Houser and his wife.
Houser’s attorney, Jimmy Castex, said his client and was a victim of the scam by the film studio’s former CEO, Wayne Read. A federal bankruptcy judge ordered the film studio’s assets liquidated last month.
Houser played for the team from 2000 to 2008, exclusively snapping the ball on punts and placekicks.
Derek Anderson Lashes Out At Cleveland Browns Fans
Stop Tripping Over Your Size 17 Feet
The Cleveland Browns released Derek Anderson on yesterday and as the quarterback was leaving town had some choice words for Browns fans. Anderson was cut one day after the Browns traded an undisclosed 2011 draft choice to the Seattle Seahawks for quarterback Seneca Wallace.
“The fans are ruthless and don’t deserve a winner,” he told the News-Herald. “I will never forget getting cheered when I was injured. I know at times I wasn’t great. I hope and pray I’m playing when my team comes to town and (we) roll them.”
Anderson refers to a November 2008 incident during which he suffered a season-ending injury to his knee ligament when former Browns tackle Kevin Shaffer gave up a sack to Indianapolis Colts Robert Mathis. Browns fans, unhappy with Anderson’s performance, cheered as he suffered laid on the ground in obvious pain.
Anderson’s high point with the Browns was his Pro Bowl season in 2007, when he was 10-5 as a starter while completing 298 of 527 passes for 3,787 yards and 29 touchdowns. He threw 19 interceptions. That success lead him to receive a three-year, $24 million contract. Anderson was due $2 million in a roster bonus a week from Friday and his 2007 contract was for $7.45 million.
Don’t you love when a career backup tries to get tough, oh wait, he’s already apologized. Andersons overall record as the Browns starter was 16-18.
Robert De Niro To Play Vince Lombari
"Lombardi"
Back on July 28th we posted that ESPN’s Films-Movies had joined forces with Andell Entertainment and NFL Films to produce “Lombardi,” a drama about the iconic Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi.
Now we find out that actor and Oscar winning Robert De Niro will star as the head coach. Additionally, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth who has written such films as Forrest Gump and The Good Shepherd has come on board the project.
The film’s former focus will be the week leading up to the 1967 “Ice Bowl” championship game played between the Packers and Dallas Cowboys in 13 below zero weather. It broadened into a long rivalry with Cowboys head coach Tom Landry, whose cool demeanor was the exact opposite of Lombardi’s fire and brimstone.
Early word is that to open the film the Friday of a down weekend between the conference championships and the Super Bowl in 2012, the 40th anniversary that the championship trophy was named after Lombardi.
Today On “The Ochocinco Tweeting Hour”: Beef With Colin Cowherd
Wheres The Beef?
The latest on “The Ochocinco Tweeting Hour” is the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver beef with ESPN’s Colin Cowherd. Early in the day the receiver seemed to take issue with some comments made by the radio host and took it to his Twitter page.
Cowherd apparently said something along the lines of that 70% of NFL and NBA players are broke within 5 years of retirement and used Ochocinco’s name as part of his point.
Colin coward talking shh?
Colin Coward with all the negative going on with athletes how do u find a way to lump me n yo show just say I don’t like this black guy!!
I guess Colin won’t be happy till I get a DUI, arrested, well hell maybe I should get accused of rape, maybe that’ll make him STFU!!!!
@espn_colin you look like an extra from the movie LORD OF THE RINGS, get your lisp fixed before you do your next show !
@Reddy_Dean why talk about somebody who does nothing wrong? Talk shows are merely for negative material I don’t fit that category
@espn__michelle tell your lil fake Ryan Seacrest never made it in life so I am gonna judge everybody who does what I couldn’t do to shutup!
@espn_colin its not my fault your girl is cheating on you, its your fault, try EXTENZE and stop worryin about me! Lmao-have a show bout that
Cowherd might have spoken some truth with the irresponsibility of some athletes but just cause Ochocinco dances in front of the camera doesn’t mean he’s done wrong especially since there are no police reports in either of his names.
And Ochocinco may not be like a majority of his peers but in Cowherds corner he does have numerous athletes that could be accurately used as an example. If guys like New York Jets Antonio Cromartie don’t smarten up the list will just continue to grow.
Can we just have a Twitter fight already.
Big Baby Almost Landed ‘Blind Side’ Role
Smile For The Camera
Back in 2007 Boston Celtics Glen “Big Baby” Davis was the leading candidate to portray Baltimore Ravens guard Michael Oher in the movie The Blind Side.
Sandra Bullock won an Oscar on Sunday night for Best Actress and her co-star could have been “Big Baby” if not for his regular job of playing in the NBA. “Big Baby” who had done some acting and improving in his days back at Louisiana State University was approached to try out for the Oher role in 2007 and sent in an audition tape.
Out of his league right? Well no, “Big Baby” s actually got a callback but never went tot he audition due to his NBA schedule. The scene “Big Baby” performed for the audition tape was of when Oher discusses selecting a college and ultimately deciding on the University of Mississippi.
“I never flew out because I didn’t have time,” he said. “I was playing, it was at the beginning of the season. That would’ve been tough. I would’ve had to shoot during the summer time, and that was a really important time.”
“Big Baby” later learned he was one of the top three candidates for the role. Crazy to think he passed on a SAG card which for sure would have outlived his NBA career.
Detroit Lion Steps In Cage With Lion
Ever wonder why Killer whales kill trainers at Sea World or when swimming to will stingrays for a TV segment and all sudden they strike and kill? Probably because wild animals are meant to be left alone but crazy people like Detroit Lions linebacker Zack Follett obviously didn’t receive that memo.
New York Jets Fron Antonio Cromartie $500,000 For Paternity Payments
Jets Fly In & Save Cromartie
Newly acquired New York Jets Antonio Cromartie, who has 7 seven children by 6 different women in 5 different states, was fronted $500,000 of his 2010 salary to help him clean up his lingering paternity payments.
Cromartie, who’s due to make $1.7 million this season is in the final year of his five-year, $12 million contract, has outstanding paternity payments needing to be made. Players don’t begin collecting on their salary until the first week of the regular season and he needed money now to make the payments.
It’s good to see that his children will be finally taken care with his responsibilities as a father but sad that on the surface it appears to be another athlete that has trouble managing millions. To paraphrase my partner Rudy J, will these NFL players really be willing to endure a lockout once they see their finances dry up?
I believe he’s onto something.
Donovan McNabb & Terrell Owens Will Be Teammates Again
Brotherly Love
That’s right Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb and free agent wide reciever Terrell Owens will once again be teammates however it won’t be back on the football field. No, this time they will be team together on the basketball court to take part in Spike TV’s game show Pros vs Joes new season.
Eagles fans can began to find a wall to punch and Dallas Cowboy fans can breathe easier now. If McNabb and Owens would have been able to smooth the hurricane out after the Super Bowl run they surely would have been back by now in their careers.
On the new season of Pros and Joes, McNabb and Owens will be joined on the basketball court will NFL superstar Antonio Gates and former NBA champions Hakeem Olajuwon, Kenny Smith and Rick Fox.
Julius Peppers Wins Over Chicago With 25 Bottles Of Champagne
Rudy J Is Smiling Too
Julius Peppers signed with the Chicago Bears for $91.5 million which 42 of it is guaranteed. To help acclimate himself with his new home, he went out to local Chicago club, Crescendo and bought 25 bottles of $360 champagne for the entire club.
Earlier in the night Peppers attended the Bulls and bought the fans 10,000 nachos. The crowd gave him a standing ovation when he was introduced during a timeout in the first quarter. Presumably he recieved one as well at club Crescendo.
It could have been a different story had the Carolina Panthers as Peppers insisted he was willing to stay with the team had they agreed last summer in a difference of $6 million difference for a four-year deal, roughly $1.5 million per year.
He emphatically denied that the team made a late effort to keep him and said the only person in the front office or coaching staff who has contacted him since the season ended was defensive line coach Brian Baker.
Former Dallas Cowboy Emmitt Smith Slams Redskins Owner Daniel Snyder
Get Down On It
The former Dallas Cowboy and the NFL’s all time leading rusher Emmitt Smith had some choice words when talking about Washington Redskins and NFC East rival owner Daniel Snyder. The Redskins owner decided to let Smith now he heard and fired back with a few comments of his own.
In a recent interview he said that he loved defeating the Redskins.
“I loved it, I loved it, I loved it with a passion. And I loved it more when Daniel Snyder got the team, for a number of reasons. I did. Because here is a guy who thought he could build a football team just because he has the money to buy players. There’s more to it than that.
And he’s not a compassionate person, not a compassionate person at all from what I understand. And that makes me just want to pummel somebody. You know, you hate to see pride, wearing itself on his forehead and his chest. And to me, arrogance sticks out like a sore thumb when you talk about him. And the lack of compassion for others is a problem. Because it’s not that hard to be compassionate; you just choose to.”
Snyder responded Saturday in a statement released through the Redskins p.r. department:
“I applaud Emmitt Smith’s induction into the NFL Hall of Fame and, from what I understand, he’s a heck of a dancer. I think we’ve only met once briefly at an NFL function in 2000. I will say, however, that I like to think of myself as being a compassionate person, except toward the Dallas Cowboys.”
So we have Smith saying that Snyder wears his pride on his forehead, that saying is new to me, and Snyder crediting Smith as a heck of a dancer, which is brand new to me.
Brian Cushing Trains With Chuck Liddell
ALL-SGE-NFL
The NFL’s Rookie Defensive Player of The Year Houston Texans Brian Cushing is breaking up the monogamy of training by spending the off-season with Mixed Martial Arts fighter Chuck Liddell.
Cushing already ALL-SGE-NFL is driven to improve on a season in which he the NFL took notice of his talents has been a regular with Liddell and FOX’s Jay Glazer in the training sessions since the regular season ended. The training last for about 90 minutes and helping him get the most out of his talents like the grappling aspect of the sport.
No word though if Cushing likes to work out naked.
Ben Roethlisberger Accused Of Sexual Assault Again
Poosie Just Falling Out Your Pocket
A Georgia woman has accused Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault according to TMZ Sports. This is the second accusation in less than 12 months.
TMZ reports that the alleged assault took place early Friday morning at a club in Milledgeville, Georgia, and that the alleged victim has been treated and released. The alleged assault took place in the bathroom at Capital City, a nightclub in Milledgeville.
Roethlisberger has been accused of sexual assault before: in 2009, a woman named Andrea McNulty accused Big Ben of a 2008 sexual assault that took place in Reno, Nevada. That case was never pursued criminally and the civial case is still pending though.
Is Big Ben just an unlucky guy or does he like to get physical once he hears the word no?
Judge Rebukes NFL Move Of StarCaps Case To Federal Court
Williamses Walk
With a state trial scheduled to start Monday, the NFL’s last attempt to avoid trial was rejected by a federal judge. The case involving Minnesota Vikings Kevin and Pat Williams got a rebuke from a federal judge who said the action “borders on the abuse of process.”
U.S. Judge Paul Magnuson issued a three-page order after the NFL asked the federal court to take the case, scheduled for trial Monday in front of Hennepin County District Judge Gary Larson. The ruling means the case will go on as scheduled.
Magnuson said the NFL’s action seemed “calculated only to avoid trial on the merits.” The NFL spent months unsuccessfully arguing the case should be heard in federal court. Magnuson and the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals already said no.
At the trial, the Williamses will try to prove the NFL is at least their partial employer so they can recover damages related to positive test results for taking a banned substance.
The league suspended the defensive tackles for four games each in late 2008 for taking bumetanide, a diuretic that can be used as a masking agent for steroids. The players went to court and won the right to continue playing while their legal case played out. The NFL has a strict liability policy that holds players responsible for what goes into their bodies. But the Williamses argued that Minnesota law gives employees an opportunity to explain the innocent use of an otherwise banned product and that the NFL didn’t allow them to explain their use of StarCaps.
If Johnny Cochran is reading this I could still use further understanding of all that is transpiring. You help would be appreciated Johnny.
Tim Tebow The Car Thief
Don't Cry lil baby Jesus
Grand Theft Tebow is the Heishman Trophy winner and former University of Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow’s new nickname. It all started Monday on Twitter thanks to NASCAR driver Darrell Waltrip who sent out tweets saying that:
“Tim Tebow took my car last night , problem is I didn’t tell him he could , he took it by mistake , its 3 o’clock and he hasn’t returned it !3:52 p.m.”
“got my car back , trying to get the rest of the story , thought about reporting it had been stolen , Tebow would have died if I had of ! 8:59 p.m.”
What exactly happened is that Tebow has been training in Nashville and flew out of a private airport to the NFL combine last week and his agent Jim Denton drove his black Mercedes SUV. Tebow returned back from the combine on Sunday evening with to find the black SUV unlocked with the push-start key inside and drove off.
Later that night, Waltrip returned to the private airport after a NASCAR race in Las Vegas to find his black Lexus SUV gone. There was however a black Mercedes SUV in the parking lot. He asked the folks at the airport what happened to his car.
“They turned to me and said, ‘Tim Tebow has your car,’” Waltrip said. in a telephone interview. “I said, ‘What is he doing with my car? I didn’t tell him he could take my car.’ The guys said, ‘We thought you told him he could drive your car.’ I know the guy, but I’ve never met the man. I didn’t tell him he could take my car.”
Waltrip was with his daughter and the two of them drove off, wondering how Tebow had his car. He then got a cell phone message from a friend who spotted his car at a local restaurant, with a tall lanky guy getting out of it. At this point, Waltrip decides he wants to call the local sheriff’s office, report the car stolen and have Tebow pulled over as a prank.
“I was going to call the police and have them say, ‘I thought you were a nice Christian boy. We didn’t know you were a car thief, too!’” Waltrip said with a laugh.
His wife apparently talked him out of the idea. It turns out, both black SUVs were parked next to each other and the Lexus which belonged to Waltrip was mistakenly taken, not the Mercedes.
NFL Logos & Trophies Gets A Makeover
During this years Super Bowl weekend in Miami, the NFL released pictures of the Lombardi trophy makeover that’s going to be used for the Super Bowl to be hosted at Jerry’s World. So why stop there?
The NFL was thinking the same thing and decided to go all Project Runway on the The Lamar Hunt and George Halas trophies in addition to every other logo they trot out.
Is it Shear Genius or does the NFL get the Heidi Klum auf Wiedersehen kiss?
Rich Eisen Is Back Running The 40 Yard Dash
It is that time of year again when NFL Network host Rich Eisen rocks a Prada suit and takes his turn at the 40 yard dash.
Just like last year the NFL Network does the simul-camera of actual pro prospects against Eisen. This year they used Tim Tebow, Jacoby Ford, and Terrence Cody.
Watch last years run here.
“Tecmo Bowl” To Be Re-Released
Who Wanna Battle?
With NBA Jam getting a makeover and returning to shelves near you, news comes that another classic video games is coming out of retirement.
Tecmo confirmed that a new Tecmo Bowl football game is coming our way. Entitled Tecmo Bowl Throwback is on target to be released in the Spring of 2010 for Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. No mention however of it coming to Nintendo, the company that first introduced the classic on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
Some of the features that Tecmo Bowl Throwback will present are:
- Online Multiplayer: Find your old buddies online and challenge them to matches just like back in the day.
- 2D + 3D Graphics: Experience all new 3D graphics with the ability to switch to the classic 2D style!
- Customizable Teams and Rosters: Play as any of the 32 teams with customizable team names and rosters in full seasons.
- Online Leaderboards: Compare your stats in a wide array of online leaderboards.
- Classic Game Modes: Battle it out with your friends and kick off a game in Preseason, Season or Pro Bowl modes.
There’s no word yet on the price.
The NFL Pro Bowl To Played Before Super Bowl Again
Est. 1920
The 2011 Pro Bowl will be played a week before Super Bowl XLV and return to Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii, the NFL announced. The game will be televised live on Sunday, January 30 on FOX at 6 p.m. CST.
FOX will televise Super Bowl XLV a week later on Sunday, Febuary 6 from Cowboys Stadium in North Texas.
The decision to play the NFL’s All-Star Game the week before the Super Bowl for the second consecutive year follows an increase in viewership for the 2010 Pro Bowl which was watched by an average of 12.3 million viewers on ESPN, the most for a Pro Bowl since 2000.
The game at Sun Life Stadium in South Florida also attracted the largest Pro Bowl attendance (70,697) in 50 years but still decided to move it back to Hawaii. It will be played in Hawaii for the next two years.
Former Seattle Seahawks Courtney Taylor Won’t Let Multiple Sclerosis Stop His NFL Dreams
Best Of Luck
Former Seattle Seahawks wide reciever Courtney Taylor is not your typical player waiting to hear from an NFL team this off season. Taylor is battling multiple sclerosis. but still trains and hopes to get a call.
He’s has heard some good news lately as the Philadelphia Eagles and the Cleveland Browns might work him out. Mike Holmgren is now the Cleveland president drafted Taylor at Seattle in the sixth round of the 2007 NFL Draft out of Auburn. He’s the Tiger’s all-time leading receiver and was one of the last players cut by the Seahawks on the eve of the 2009 season.
Taylor still lives in Seattle and travels to the University of Washington Medical Center for an intravenous infusion of a powerful medication called Tysabri in his use to fight his multiple sclerosis.
“The medication wore on my body at first, but once I got used to it, I felt like a brand-new man,” he said. “The medication has it under control.”
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society describes MS as “a chronic, often disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system, which is made up of the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves.”
Taylor was diagnosed with MS in the summer of 2008. The first sign was an eye twitch, which made it hard to track the ball, which made it hard to catch the ball.
He wants to show people that you don’t have to be sidelined by an illness and get back to the game he knows he can play at a top level.
Sean Payton Steals Jerry Jones Bottle Of Caymus Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon
I'm Thirsty
New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton had some fun with his former employer Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Both are in Indianapolis for the Scouting Combine and both attended Nap towns luxurious St. Elmo Steakhouse but on different nights.
Payton who was in attendance on Friday night gathered their in a private room with his staff and heard from a loose-lipped employee that Jones would be there the next night and had already called ahead to reserve a bottle of a pricey Caymus Special Selection cabernet sauvignon, of which the restaurant had only one remaining.
Payton made the request to have that one remaining bottle served to him that night but was told of the situation and it had Jerry’s name on it. Payton then demanded the bottle and insisted on having it, leaving the staff in an awkward position. Serve one of the most powerful owners in the NFL, or the coach who’s the toast of the NFL right now having just won the Super Bowl?
Here came the bottle of Caymus Special Selection, and the Saints party drained it.
Drinking Jones wine wasn’t enough and Payton gave the waiter some instructions, took out his pen. The next night as Jones and his party sat in the private room they found an empty bottle of Caymus Special Selection cabernet sauvignon on there middle of the table with these words hand-written on the label:
- WHO DAT!
World Champions XLIV
Sean Payton
Chad Ochocinco To Be On ‘Dancing With The Stars’
Did She Have Dumps Like A Truck Or Thighs Like What?
Chad Ochocinco does it again and suprises no one with the annoucnement that he will be part of the new cast of “Dancing With The Stars” according to TMZ.
The Cincinnati Bengal joins a list of NFL stars who have done the show including Warren Sapp, Emmitt Smith and Jerry Rice.
A rep for ABC would not comment on potential cast members but did a great job of announcing that the cast will announced tonight during the season finale of “The Bachelor.”
If the Riverdance is a chosen dance this season, he will definitely have a leg up on the competition.
Pacman Schedules Workout For NFL Scouts
It Will Not Being Raining March 19
Adam “Pacman” Jones will work out for NFL scouts March 19 and wants to assess the market.
The cornerback, whose troubled past has left him out of the NFL since the 2008 season, will hold a pro day-style workout in New Orleans following Tulane’s pro day.
Jones, a 2005 first-round draft pick by the Titans, recently worked out for the Bengals and generated little interest from a team that has resurfaced a number of trouble players. However, he wants to assess the market and show scouts what he can do.
Jones was involved in several incidents with police and was suspended for the 2007 season, but he has stayed out of trouble for several months and is trying to get back in the league.
