Everyone who is surprised by yesterday’s news that there is a deal in place to end the NFL lockout and ensure the 2011 season, raise your hand.
I thought so.
This was pretty much always just a matter of when. There is just too much money involved.
I often get in arguments with people about the wild popularity of football, in particular the NFL version.
I often joke that on the seventh day, God actually did not rest after he created the universe.
Instead, he decided to create the perfect format for gambling – football.
No one, let alone the powers that be in Las Vegas, wanted to roll the dice on throwing away that kind of money.
The standoff pitted billionaires, the NFL’s cabal of owners, against millionaire players.
Now everyone is smiling.
On Wednesday those smiles will be replaced by the normal grimaces and grunts that accompany the familiar sights and sounds of NFL training camps.
What do you think is the over/under on the number of hamstrings and groins that pop in those initial workouts?
While we have seen lots of stories about how players have been working out during the lockout, that is not the same as supervised practices.
We might be hearing a symphony of muscle pulls emanating from those fields at Lehigh.
At least the Eagles plan to continue their annual jaunt up the Northeast Extension of the Turnpike. A lot of teams are scrapping their off-site camps and instead holding practices at their team training facilities.
This will not be a normal training camp. It won’t even be a normal week.
Players will report to the Nova Care Center today. Training camp at Lehigh starts tomorrow. Trades can commence this morning. Look for Kevin Kolb to be an ex-Eagle by lunch time.
Buckle your seatbelts. It’s going to be a wild ride.
All together now (as we scream on our front page in print today:) Are you ready for some football?
I thought so.
This was pretty much always just a matter of when. There is just too much money involved.
I often get in arguments with people about the wild popularity of football, in particular the NFL version.
I often joke that on the seventh day, God actually did not rest after he created the universe.
Instead, he decided to create the perfect format for gambling – football.
No one, let alone the powers that be in Las Vegas, wanted to roll the dice on throwing away that kind of money.
The standoff pitted billionaires, the NFL’s cabal of owners, against millionaire players.
Now everyone is smiling.
On Wednesday those smiles will be replaced by the normal grimaces and grunts that accompany the familiar sights and sounds of NFL training camps.
What do you think is the over/under on the number of hamstrings and groins that pop in those initial workouts?
While we have seen lots of stories about how players have been working out during the lockout, that is not the same as supervised practices.
We might be hearing a symphony of muscle pulls emanating from those fields at Lehigh.
At least the Eagles plan to continue their annual jaunt up the Northeast Extension of the Turnpike. A lot of teams are scrapping their off-site camps and instead holding practices at their team training facilities.
This will not be a normal training camp. It won’t even be a normal week.
Players will report to the Nova Care Center today. Training camp at Lehigh starts tomorrow. Trades can commence this morning. Look for Kevin Kolb to be an ex-Eagle by lunch time.
Buckle your seatbelts. It’s going to be a wild ride.
All together now (as we scream on our front page in print today:) Are you ready for some football?
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