Column: Boorish behavior hits NFL hard
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Extended properly, the middle finger usually works every time. So it was probably overkill when Michael Vick used both of his to let the fans in Atlanta know just how he felt.
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In the NFL, it used to be the object of the game was to get into the end zone. Now, the object of the game is to get into the end zone and act like a fool.
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You say you're starting to OD on Belichick lore? You think the media has been nipping at the Kool-Aid a wee bit too much? You think the Patriots really can't be run that differently than anyone else?
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N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell should have come down harder on the Patriots, given how he has leveled players like Pacman Jones, Tank Williams and Michael Vick.
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One wondered if the events of last week had penetrated the normally iron-clad concentration of the New England Patriots.
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Not unlike their baseball and basketball brethren, NFL players are conditioned to have short memories. Easier said than done, of course, considering how there&#39;s typically an interval of a full week between games.
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ITâS indicative of the pleasing depravity of football that the more bad blood that hangs around a fixture the more enticing it becomes.
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Football players aren&#39;t into moral victories. It goes against the grain of their rough exteriors and win at all cost mentality.
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Things aren&#39;t supposed to be this easy in the NFL. Not for the Pittsburgh Steelers, not for anyone. Every game is supposed to be a brutal battle to the end
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As Super Bowl XLII draws near, reporters and players struggle to find new ground to cover. But occasional insight, humor and hyperbole surface during more interviews.
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As a trash talker, Bill Belichick is undefeated. One trash-talking game, one win. Put that loudmouth with the Mr. T haircut, Chad Johnson, in his place last week. Good going, Coach Double-B. You told the world that Johnson was a fraud, that he pushed off, that he probably was paying off the officials. You intimated that the Patriots would teach ...
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Finally, a lot of us have something in common with Bill Parcells. The Dallas Cowboys coach has said that bad losses make him want to throw up in his mouth.
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Maurice Clarett sup posedly wanted to &quot;clear his name&quot; with NFL owners and general managers. Lobbing hand grenades at Jim Tressel and Ohio State is a funny way to go about doing it.
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The players hear it and so do the coaches. The perception is out there that Syracuse football is in a downward spiral.
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It is an accepted axiom in the NFL: Every team has problems. Coaches and team executives commiserate about them like old folks complaining about aches and pains.
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Buffalo Bills owner Ralph C. Wilson Jr. was mad as hell last week, but he's getting used to it.
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The Big Game has a new name and a fat contract to go with it. And corporate America has tarnished another great college football tradition.