2019 NFL off-season thread

Gentleman, don't blow out your hamstrings.

Ginn among NFLers to race in 40 Yards of Gold

 

This was brought up on another thread, but I figured it should be here as well. You can make a good argument that Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback in NFL history, but every once in a while he gives us a reminder that he is a complete jackass.

Tom Brady trying to steal 'Tom Terrific' nickname from ex-Mets legend Tom Seaver, and people are mad

The guy should be very easy to like. He's got a great story. Sure, part of my issue with him is being sick of the team, but it is also crap like this. Having the same nickname as Tom Seaver is fine, of course. Trying to trademark a nickname that was Seaver's first is tone deaf at best, especially now that Seaver is dealing with dementia. It makes you wonder if Brady and his people waited until Seaver's failing health and mental state made it impossible for him to contest Brady's trademark. There was just no reason to do it, but Brady is to much of a smug ass to care.

So yeah, Brady is a great player and a great story, but a good guy? Not so much.

Before the Patriots fans or others go nuts, Roethlisberger is worse. So are plenty of others. It's just disappointing to see Brady pull something like this.

 

Brady lives in a bubble. It's quite possible he had no idea Seaver had a nickname. But once informed, of course he should drop the idea. Besides he's already got the TB12 handle. Who needs two nicknames?

 

And not even that original:

 

He has more than two. Sorry, but I don't buy the bubble thing for a second. He's too smart a guy not to realize that somebody else had the nickname first.

 

Cops: Bell's girlfriends, $520K of jewelry vanish

A fool and his money are soon parted.

 

Raiders preseason schedule includes a game vs the Packers in ... Winnipeg?

 

The Raiders have a brutal schedule - but it was their own doing by toying with whether to sign with the Coliseum again. Just hope season ticket holders aren't required to pony up for that.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...o-girlfriends-missing/?utm_term=.5765a76f722e

Le’ Veon, here’s a hint. If you leave two girls in your house with $520,000 in jewelry and come home to find them all missing, they are not girlfriends. They are expensive rentals. Le’ Moron

Le’Veon Bell may have a new team after famously refusing to play for Pittsburgh last season, but it would appear that he is still having issues with stealers.

The New York Jets running back returned to his Florida home from the gym last month to find over half a million dollars in jewelry missing and two unidentified female acquaintances gone. The women were described in a police report as his “girlfriends,” according to the Associated Presson Wednesday.

Bell, 27, said he discovered his closet in disarray and all his jewelry gone, per the report. That included a diamond-encrusted “Black Panther” pendant, two gold chains with diamonds and a Rolex watch.

 

So make it a real circus and play the Blue Bombers.

 

Fun idea, but I think the CFL is like four games into its regular season by the time NFL exhibitions start.