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Losing Another Great Player
Thursday on the NFL Network LaDainian Tomlinson’s agent announced he will not be playing for the San Diego Chargers in the next season. Tomlinson is the franchise’s all-time leading rusher, but he just finished the least productive season of his nine-year NFL career (730 yards on 223 carries). Last offseason, the 2006 NFL MVP agreed to restructure the final three years of his contract and take a pay cut, but now he says that he won’t do that again.
“It would be sad to see the Hall of Famer depart and play for another team at the end of his career. Certainly he is still a high-quality football player and He keeps himself in tremendous condition. I expect him to be playing in the National Football League this year, and I think he will be a major part of somebody’s offense.
Nevertheless I will be donning my San Diego Chargers jerseys to show him I will be supporting him in whatever decision he makes, and I hope he will decide to continue in the NFL.
Saints Win Super Bowl 44
The New Orleans Saints are victorious over the Indianapolis Colts in their first ever Super Bowl appearance 31-17. Jeremy Shockey was a big part of the New Orleans Saints’ sweetest victory. In 2008 Jeremy Shockey was with the New York Giants when they defeated the New England Patriots but he watched the game from the suite above the field with a broken left leg. That essentially set up his trade to New Orleans. There are a lot of people out there that think negative thoughts about Shockey, but now he feels redeemed as a player.
Jeremy Shockey came to the NFL from the Miami Hurricanes, where he blossomed into a star. As a rookie with the New York Giants in 2002 he caught 74 passes for 894 yards. Each of those numbers still represents career highs. He may have only had three catches for 13 yards in the title game, but I say that Shockey did so much more than that on the way to this championship. The Saints were thought of by some as a finesse team until Shockey came along, with his rough-and-tumble ways. Now you have a very good reason to wear your New Orleans Saints jerseys and I will be wearing mine during the summer to support them well into the next season.
Here Come The New York Jets
The New York Jets are the only team to win on the road in the second round of the NFL Divisional Playoffs beating the San Diego Chargers 17-14 and advance to the AFC championship versus the Colts for the title. Mark Sanchez is the hottest rookie quarterback in the NFL today and Shonn Green is a weapon the colts have to suppress in order to pull off a win in the AFC Divisional Championship game.
The teams met once this season, on Dec. 27, when New York won 29-15 in Indianapolis to allow the New York Jets to advance to the playoffs as a wildcard team. I believe the Jets won only because the colts pulled their starters in the middle of the 3rd quarter. The Jets were 3-point underdogs, and the score went over the total of 40.5. Never the less I will be wearing one of my New York Jets jerseys to cheer on the underdogs in their quest for the Championship Trophy.
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