Merlin Olsen

drafted my the Los Angeles Rams in the first round.  Olsen stayed with the Rams for 15 years only missing close to 2 games.  By 1963 along with Deacon Jones, Rosey Grier, and Lamar Lundy this defensive line became known as the “Fearsome Foursome“.  He was selected into the Pro Bowl 14 times in his career and into the Pro Football Hall Of Fame in 19

82 and is still listed as one of the top 100 players of all time.

Merlin Olsen was also known as a TV actor.  Playing roles on the hit  TV show Little House on the Prairie and Father Murphy.  Also after leaving the NFL he was a broadcaster, and spokesman for many years.

After a strong fight with cancer, mesothelioma, he died on March 11, 2010 at the age of 69.  Olsen was married and had three children, Kelly, Jill, and Nathan as well as four grandchildren.

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The Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints will represent the NFC Conference this year at 6:40 pm on Sunday.  Favre vs. Brees, as it looks like in this game.  With last weeks scores of 45 and 34 for these teams.  The balls will be flying the whole game and look for Rice the Wide Receiver for Minnesota to be catching everything that comes his way.

The pointspreads on the the games this Sunday look like this:

Indianapolis Colts giving 7 1/2 to the New York Jets.

New Orleans Saints getting 3 1/2 points from the Minnesota Vikings.

Who has the best chance to get to the big game?  Leave your comments and let us know who you think has the best game to win.

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Here is the line up for the games in the Divisional Round that you will be watching this weekend.

Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at 4:30 pm ET the Arizona Cardinals and the New Orleans Saints match up in New Orleans.

On the same day at 8:15 pm ET the Baltimore Ravens will meet the Indianapolis Colts in Indy.

Sunday, January 17th, 2010 at 1:00 pm ET the Dallas Cowboys travel to Minnesota to take on the Vikings.

On that same Sunday, at 4:30 pm ET watch the New York Jets go to see the San Diego Chargers in San Diego California.

We will try to bring you all of the scores and some highlights after the games are over and see what the next match-ups will be.

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McAllister has been out of football for just about a years time.  In a closed practice at the Saints suburban training field the start running back participated not too long ago.  “I’m speechless,” McAllister said. “I don’t know that there are words to describe this feeling. I do know that we have some unfinished business that we started a few years ago and we want to finish the deal.”  The coach of the New Orleans Saints, Sean Payton said that they first talked about making McAllister and unofficial guest captain just a few weeks ago.

Deuce McAllister has 55 total touchdowns and 49 of them are rushing TD’s.  That with a total of 6,096 career rushing yards has made for an outstanding career.  Standing 6 foot 1 inch and 230 pounds, McAllister all makes for a above average pass-blocker as well. Back in 2005, he got his first major injury, he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.  Then in 2007 he went through the same injury but in the left knee this time.  He did manage to play hurt in the 2008 season after have minor cleanup operations and fluid drained form his left knee on a regular basis.  Working on his own in Jackson, Miss. and as well with Dr. James Andrews, and orthopedic surgeon in Florida, since the Saints released him last February to get back into top shape.

We will have to see what the Saints have to offer now that they have Deuce McAllister back in the line-up.  Maybe this is just what they need to make a great team even better?

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Sunday January 10th, 2010 the Ravens and the Patriots will meet in the AFC Wild Card playoff game.  New England has a record of 10-6 in the win loss column and the Baltimore Ravens are 9-7.  With the game being played in New England the Patriots find themselves with the upper hand with an 8-0 record at home.  The Ravens have not done that well on the road this season at only 3-5 so that could be the down fall from the start.

Here are some offensive stats form both of the teams playing in the AFC Wild Card game today for you to chew on.

The defensive stats all look to be in the Patriots favor.

Tom Brady and Joe Flacco will be going at it hard today to get just one step closer to the Super Bowl.  The game starts at 1:00 pm est. so have the TV on and get ready for some football.

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The latest moch draft has the Detroit Lions taking Matthew Stafford QB from Georgia.  What do you think?  Beginning to feel heat from Mark Sanchez. Lions have to decide if Stafford is “The Guy” for them and will he help them get out of the dumps.

2009 Draft Picks

1	Detriot Lions
2	St. Louis Rams
3	Kansas City Chiefs
4	Seattle Seahawks
5	Cleveland Browns
6	Cincinnati Bengals
7	Oakland Raiders
8	Jacksonville Jaguars
9	Green Bay Packers
10	San Francisco 49ers
11	Buffalo Bills
12	Denver Broncos
13	Washington Redskins
14	New Orleans Saints
15	Houston Texans
16	San Diego Chargers
17	New York Jets
18	Chicago Bears
19	Tampa Bay Buccaneers
20	Detroit Lions (from Dallas)
21	Philadelphia Eagles
22	Minnesota Vikings
23	New England Patriots
24	Atlanta Falcons
25	Miami Dolphins
26	Baltimore Ravens
27	Indianapolis Colts
28	Philadelphia Eagles (from Carolina)
29	New York Giants
30	Tennessee Titans
31	Arizona Cardinals
32	Pittsburgh Steelers

Who goes first and who does not go at all?  Let us know, leave a comment for us.

Here is a look at the 08/09 NFL Football Playoffs

In the AFC Indianapolis gets beat by the better San Diego Chargers 23-17. Payton had a great game but his defence just keep him on the field long enough to get that one more touch down.  The Chargers had no problem running the ball over the colts even without Ladaninian Tomlinson in the back field.  Darren Sproles took control of the game to win it for the San Diego Chargers last Saturday.

Baltimore just dominated the game against the Miami Dolphins witha final score of 27-9.  With 5 turnovers for Chad Pennington the Dolphins just had no chance.  Flacco did not have such a great game but with his one rushing touchdown and another from McClain and 62 yards from McGahee they managed to stomp the Dolphins out of the playoffs.

In the NFC, Arizona pulled off a close game against Atlanta 30-24.  Kurt Warner had some nice stats for a old man in the NFL, 19 out of 32 for 271 yards.  He had 2 touchdowns and 1 int.  Fitzgerald and Boldin had the 2 receiving TD’s while Hightower ran 1 touchdown in.  Matt Ryan from the Falcons was 26 out of 40 with 199 yards, 2 TD’s and 2 Int’s but just could not get the 3rd that they needed.

Philadelphia took Minnesota out of the playoffs with a 26-14 win on Sunday.  Westbrook had a huge game with 20 rushes for 38 yards and 3 receptions for 83 yards and 1 touchdown.  Peterson took 2 TD’s in for the Vikings out of 20 runs.

So with the next set of NFL playoff games set let us know who you think will be moving on next week.  Here are the games and the time for the next round of playoff games in the NFL.

Sat, Jan. 10th at 4:30 ET on CBS you will see Baltimore at Tennessee
Sat, Jan. 10th at 8:15 ET on Fox the game is Arizona at Carolina
Sun, Jan 11th at 1:00 ET on Fox check out Philadelphia at NY Giants
Sun, Jan 11th at 4:45 ET on CBS don’t miss San Diego at Pittsburgh

Remember to leave us your comments on who will move on this week.

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Defensive back Ty Law signed a one year contract with the New York Jets on monday, and should play Thursday against the Patriots. Law played for the Cheifs the past two seasons, and the five time Pro Bowler has 52 interceptions.

Ty Law will be play against the Patrioits pending a physical this week.

J-E-T-S, JETS, JETS, JETS!

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The Miami Dolphins have a winning record for the first time this season. Miami has not been above .500 since finishing 9-7 in the 2005 season. The first half was going the way of the Dolphins, with a flea flicker play that ended up in the hands of Ted Ginn for a 39 yard TD.

The Dolphins struck for their second touchdown on a 51 yard run, from Ricky Williams. Miami seemed to be in good shape leading 14-0. Then with 8:21 reaming in the second half, Chad Pennington threw an interception that was returned by Jordan Babineaux for a 35 yard touchdown. Phins lead 14-7 at the half.

Seattle began the second half with a 37 yard field goal. Seahawks Defense was picking up their play, forcing the Dolphins to punt time after time. With another field goal by Mare the Seahawks cut the lead to 14-13. Miami began to look as if they were on the brink of losing this game. Until With just 5 minutes reaming in the fourth quarter the Dolphins answered with their own touchdown on a 16 yard run from Ronnie Brown.

The Seahawks answered with their own touchdown from Koren Robinson, but the 2 point conversion was unsuccessful. Miami’s defense held off the final drive from the Seahawks, sealing their win 21-19.

Key Notes
MIA Pennington. 22/36, 209 YDS, 1 TD, 1 INT.
MIA Williams. 12 Car. 105 YDS. 1 TD.
MIA Brown. 10 Car. 39 YDS.
1 TD

By : Jari Sanders