Archive for February, 2010
Posted: Sunday, February 7th, 2010 | NFL.com Staff Tags: Super Bowl XLIV
If Super Bowl XLIV is anywhere near as memorable as the last two, we’re in for quite a game today. It’s been a great decade for the big game. Here, Steve Sabol looks back at some of the more memorable Super Bowl moments from the past decade.
Posted: Sunday, February 7th, 2010 | Frank Tadych Tags: Sun Life Stadium, Super Bowl XLIV
With just more than six hours to go before the gaze of millions around the world are focused on Super Bowl XLIV, the scene at Sun Life Stadium is relatively calm as workers throughout the venue prepare for kickoff.
Posted: Sunday, February 7th, 2010 | NFL.com Staff Tags: Super Bowl XLIV
It’s a good job most of my journalistic colleagues back in the UK don’t really know what the Super Bowl is all about. Otherwise there would be a queue of bandwagon-jumping scribes all the way back to London’s Heathrow Airport.
Posted: Sunday, February 7th, 2010 | NFL.com Staff Tags: Joey Porter, Miami Dolphins
Linebacker Joey Porter, appearing on NFL GameDay Morning on Sunday at Sun Life Stadium, said he has played his final days in a Dolphins uniform and plans to play elsewhere next season.
Posted: Sunday, February 7th, 2010 | NFL.com Staff Tags: Sun Life Stadium
The final prep work around Sun Life Stadium is well under way. Here’s what it looked like (very) early this morning.
Posted: Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | Aron Angel Tags: Dallas Cowboys, Emmitt Smith, Hall of Fame, Jerry Rice, San Francisco 49ers
Jerry Rice is well known for catching bricks while training to become a professional football player. The soon to be Hall of Famer stopped by the Sirius XM set and Gil Brandt asked him about the genesis of that habit.
Posted: Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | Aron Angel Tags: Floyd Little, Hall of Fame
Former Broncos running back and new Hall of Fame inductee Floyd Little stopped by the Sirius XM set to sit down with Gil Brandt and Howard Balzer and spoke about his reaction to hearing his name called today.
Posted: Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | Aron Angel Tags: Bill Belichick, Emmitt Smith, Gil Brandt, Hall of Fame, Jerry Rice
Watching the tears fall down Emmitt Smith‘s face, Gil Brandt was reminded of a conversation he had with good friend Bill Belichick, a frequent visitor to the Walter Camp All-America in New Haven, Conn., where Smith was playing one summer.
Posted: Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | Frank Tadych Tags: Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Emmitt Smith, Hall of Fame class of 2010, Jerry Jones, Jerry Rice, Michael Irvin, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Troy Aikman
The events unfolding at Saturday’s Hall of Fame news conference are heartwarming.
Posted: Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | Frank Tadych Tags: Hall of Fame class of 2010, Jerry Rice, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Rich Eisen, Steve Young
While his selection to the Pro Football Class of 2010 was a formality Saturday, the enormity of the situation and the emotion involved was still felt by Jerry Rice.
Posted: Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | Aron Angel Tags: Gil Brandt, Hall of Fame, Jerry Rice
Watching Jerry Rice up on the stage at the Hall of Fame selection show is a bittersweet moment for Gil Brandt. Working in the front office for the Dallas Cowboys in 1985, Brandt and one of his scouts had their eye on the skinny receiver from little-known Mississippi Valley State, and they were confident they were going to get him.
Posted: Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | Frank Tadych Tags: Hall of Fame class of 2010, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Super Bowl XLIV
The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced its seven-member Class of 2010
Posted: Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | Aron Angel Tags: Hall of Fame, John Randle
As we wait for the official announcement of who will be voted into the Hall of Fame today, I’m sitting here on the Sirius XM set alongside Gil Brandt, pulling little bits of knowledge as only Gil can provide.
Posted: Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | NFL.com Staff Tags: Emmitt Smith, Hall of Fame class of 2010, Jerry Rice, John Randle, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Rickey Jackson, Russ Grimm
Russ Grimm, Rickey Jackson, John Randle, Jerry Rice, and Emmitt Smith are the five modern-era finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2010.
Posted: Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | NFL.com Staff Tags: Cleveland Browns, Donte' Stallworth, Roger Goodell
According to a report, Donte’ Stallworth won’t be a Cleveland Brown for much longer after his reinstatement into the NFL.