Deadspin shows off their top Personalized Jerseys of the year

Link here.

A couple of my favorites:

Dumbest High School Player In The Country

Skip to about the 1:30 mark or click the link below



Leon Lett Is Finally Off The Hook (Deadspin)

Detroit Chicks are a real catch

With a great football team, splurging economy, and awesome girls to date; why haven't I moved to Detroit yet?

Hokies trying to do their part

RI has reported a few stories about BC Linebacker and battler of cancer, Mark Herzlich. Well VT is doing all they can this weekend against Miami to help out the ACC rival. Prior to the game Frank Beamer will send guys out from his scout team to sell "Team United" bracelets to anyone that wants one for 1$. The proceeds of course will go to Mr. Herzlich. The school has come out and stated a goal of 5,094 dollars, of course the 94 being for Mark's jersey number.

Since the majority of our readers our Hokies, I wanted to post this to hopefully make more people aware and encourage the purchase of these bracelets. I know I'll be buying a couple. This really is a great thing for a big time rival to do for someone who needs the help and the pick me up. It's times like these when you sit back and think that football really is just a sport and there are plenty of things more important out there... like breathing.

http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/4039/virginia-tech-holding-fundraiser-to-aid-bcs-herzlich

UPDATE: Henson (not Tripper) quits Twitter over comment.

Yesterday we told you about Washington Redskin linebacker Robert Henson having a couple choice words for 'Skins fans - in particular, calling them "dim wits." Henson apologized today, and has apparently since then taken down his Twitter account.

Go back to the bench and stay there.

Redskins Henson Has Unhappy Tweet

As a fan of the Redskins, watching that game yesterday was extremely uncomfortable. I must not have been the only one. Linebacker Robert Henson sounded off on his Twitter yesterday, letting his fans know his thoughts on the parade of "boos" at FedEx field he heard.

"All you fake half hearted Skins fan can .. I won't go there but I dislike you very strongly, don't come to Fed Ex to boo dim wits!! No I didn't play but I still made more than you in a year and you'd [gladly] switch spots with me in a second, I was talking to the fans [who] said the crazy stuff, I'm use [to] heckling but I've never been booed in my own stadium. . . . The question is who are you to say you know what's best for the team and you work 9 to 5 at Mcdonalds. . . ."

Henson, a sixth-round pick in the 2009 draft, later apologized. "Listen Twitter family I was really upset about being booed and things being thrown at us and I said some things that were out of line," Henson wrote. "So keep supporting us and we will keep playing hard for you all again I'm sorry."

Shut up Robert.

Redskins linebacker tees off on fans (Profootballtalk)

Thanks again Deadspin!

Chris Berman Very Sneaky

Sometimes people just can't help themselves. Well Chris Berman let off a fart in the middle of NFL Live and Trey Wingo got a wiff. Berman is trying to hide in the back but not too good of a job. Here's proof:

And if only I could play basketball like Jesus Shuttlesworth...

Either Ray Allen is trying to one-up Mike Tyson or his son's birthday party had a face painter. Allen's twitter page went on to say "If only I could golf like Tiger."

Ray Allen is officially bored this offseason (Red's Army)

I think I have a friend with a similar shirt...

It's just a bad week to be an offensive coordinator

According to John Clayton and Tim Graham of ESPN, the Buffalo Bills have fired OC Turk Schonert. The Bills have not scored in the first quarter of FIVE preseason games. This makes Schonert the 3rd offensive coordinator fired in the past week or so.

My guess? T.O. had a temper tantrum. Just a thought.

Source: Bills fire O-boss Schonert (ESPN)

LeGarrette Blount shows what Sportsmanship Weekend is all about

Mike Florio of PFT got a hot tip (read: press release) that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have fired offensive coordinator Jeff Jagodzinski.

If you recall, Jagodzinski left the head coaching position at Boston College this past offseason to pursue a career in the NFL. He was later hired by the Tampa Bay Buccos to run their offense. Yet, just like Chan Gailey last week, a team has decided that the offensive coordinator they have is the wrong one - just days before the start of the season.

Quarterbacks coach Greg Olson has been promoted to fill Jagodzinski's shoes. According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, there may have been friction between Olson and Jagodzinski as per the decision to name Leftwich the starter. For once (or maybe not), it seems the QB coach is more important than the guy calling the offensive plays.

Bucs fire Jagodzinski (PFT)

UPDATE: The Buccaneers have reported that this, in no way, stemmed from any disagreements about the starting Quarterback, but rather issues involving Jagodzinski's coaching philosophies.

"We needed more direction," Bucs coach Raheem Morris said in an early-afternoon news conference. "We needed more precision. [We weren't] getting it at the time, so you make the change."

The Bucs offered him the position of QB Coach - basically entailing a switch of positions for Olson and Jagodzinski. He declined however.

Just-hired Jagodzinski fired by Bucs (ESPN)

College Football's Hottest Fanbases - A List Of 40

Mike McD wrote an article for Bleacher Report entailing his own list of the hottest football fanbases in college football. The reason I include this list here on RI is a) it includes Virginia Tech and b) it does not include the Dookies or the Wahoos.

College Football's 40 Hottest Fanbases (Bleacher Report)

And yeah, I included a picture of Erin Andrews in this - because I can.

Blackouts could be an issue this year for NFL

The Jacksonville Jaguars have come out and said that all 8 of their regular season home games this year are in danger of not selling out. This problem is mainly explained by the severely struggling home market in the surrounding areas of the team. In the NFL the television rule is that if a game is not sold out within 72 hours of the kickoff it is subject to blackout on all local affiliates including the DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket package. Do you understand what this means? Jags fans may not be able to see any home games at all this year without forking out the dough and buying a ticket themselves!

Now i understand where the NFL is coming from. If you want to watch the game then buy a damn ticket but these are different times the nation is going through. This economy is hurting everyone, especially professional sports. But think about what happens if there aren't any games for those fans this year. The die hard fans will follow the game somehow. Maybe radio or the internet webcasts or hopefully buy tickets. The average sports fan will probably not care too much, not go buy tickets for the games, stop buying apparel that supports the team, and maybe even hop on the bandwagon of another team that they can see on TV that is in no trouble of blackouts like the Steelers, Cowgirls, or maybe even the Skins. Then there is the person who isn't a fan at all, or at least not yet. The NFL is growing, and growing fast. They depend on grasping new fans and making money off of them. So if Jags games aren't on TV no one will be exposed to them and maybe start liking them. So now you'll have a dying franchise in the Jags, and probably even more Cowgirls fans (which are for the most part band wagoners anyway).

I hope that this doesn't happen throughout the league. Maybe I am forced to look at the issue in a different way because I am obviously a Skins fan and they have sold out for about 450 years now. So, what happens now? Hopefully people dig deep in those pockets and go to the games so this is a non-issue. If these blackouts happen that would be bad for the NFL and hurt the economy even more, and i think we can all agree that that would be bad

Good Luck Charlie!

And thank you Deadspin!

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