It's NFL Hall of Fame weekend. Today's ceremony will focus mainly on first ballot members, Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith. No argument from me on that. Emmitt was a great football player by any measure and Jerry Rice was probably the best football player I ever saw. I can't think of anyone better. He made touchdowns. I'm going to focus a little on the first Saints Hall-of-Famer, Ricky Jackson. Ricky was pretty good at everything. He was good against the run, good in pass coverage, and a good pass rusher. My favorite memory of him was a 4th and goal on the 1-yd line at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. This was during the 49ers heyday. The Saints were ahead and the 49ers were thinking about what they wanted to do. Ricky Jackson and Vaughn Johnson were taunting them to go for it. Taunting the 49ers? They did go for it. The Saints stopped them.
About today's QOTD: Rich Eisen is on the NFL Network. For lack of a better term, I suppose you'd call him an anchorman for the network. My visions of a pending lockout for next season were not as well fleshed-out as that but I find myself getting a little more anxious by the day about it. Neither side has leverage and neither side has fan support. Both sides are well-financed and have had years to prepare. If there is a lockout, there will be no particular reason for either side to come back to the table for a long time. Everyone is determined to win. The rhetoric coming from both sides and the commissioner has given no comfort at all.
I hope the injury bug that has gripped the Broncos is not contagious. There are still
33 days until football season ...
- Happy Together - The Turtles - Super Hits 1967
- Bridge Of Sighs - Robin Trower - Bridge Of Sighs
- Downtown - Petula Clark - AM Gold 1965
- Blue Sky - The Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach
- Thank God I'm A Country Boy - John Denver - Back Home Again
Quote of the Day
The thought of Rich Eisen glumly staring into the camera 14 months from now with a "DAY 39" graphic makes me want to commit an unnecessary-roughness penalty on myself.
Bill Simmons, ESPN
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "Sometimes fires start whether we want them to or not."
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