Thursday, March 15, 2012

Some Off Season Football Thoughts

Wow, the cost of doing business in the NFL wide receivers sure went up yesterday, didn't it? $132 million over eight years for Calvin Johnson??? OK, so only $60 is guaranteed, but still. Plus the mega-contracts handed out to Vincent Jackson, Reggie Wayne, Pierre Garcon, Marques Colston, and even an ancient Randy Moss? It all spells out one thing for all us Steelers fans: Mike Wallace may play here in 2012 thanks to the arcane NFL salary/free agent/tender machinations, but don't expect to see him here beyond that. Same goes for Antonio Brown two seasons down the pike. In my wildest imagination, I can never see Rooney U. dishing out that kind of dough for a wide receiver.

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Did you catch the TV commercials for Pitt Football that began airing this past weekend? It features Pitt players talking about "my school, my city" in promoting the 2012 football season. No extravagant promises and claims from a blowhard head coach. A hard Lesson Learned in the Pitt Sports Information office, I'd say.

Still, Pitt is going to need a lot more than nice commercials to get people out to a home schedule that has to be one of the least attractive in anyone's recent or even not-so-recent memory.

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I never read stories about hotshot, can't-miss high school recruits, but a glance at recent headlines seem to indicate that Bill O'Brien is hooking some attractive prospects for Penn State, particularly quarterbacks. Penn State has an awful lot to overcome, including a late start by O'Brien, but I hope that he, O'Brien, is able to overcome all that and get the Lions into the elite soon. I also hope that the fanatics in Happy Valley give him a fair chance.

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Anybody got any extra tickets for the Power's home opener? Anybody know when it is? Do the Power have any players, or have they all been fired again?

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