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truebigdog, are you sure I wasn't pressing buttons?

i like to do that sometimes with nastycar fans... o:-)

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the giants hired Larry Izzo to help coach special teams !!!

Amazing player his entire career!


Edit: Great hire!!

Coughlin to Dodge: "Kick the ball out of bounds!" Season over! LMAO

Giants to hire Larry Izzo

By Dan Graziano

Looking for ways to improve their dismal punt return game, the New York Giants plan to hire former Dolphins, Jets and Patriots special teams whiz Larry Izzo, according to The Star-Ledger's Giants beat whiz Mike Garafolo. Izzo is a 14-year veteran who went to three Pro Bowls as a special teamer. Mike says Izzo will work as an assistant to special teams coach Tom Quinn, attempting to help "improve the team's return game (last in punt returns, next-to-last in kick returns last season) and help a punt-coverage unit that allowed the second-highest average in the NFL (14.9 yards per return) and a pair of touchdowns in 2010."

Izzo was one of those cult-hero players around whom legends would spring up, mainly because he never looked the part of the big, bad NFL star but managed to make so many who did look bad. I was covering the Dolphins in 1996, which was Jimmy Johnson's first year as coach and Izzo's first year in the league. During a preseason meeting, Johnson was going through film with the team and talking about what had to be done in order to make the team. "Make plays," Johnson said, then showed a clip of Dan Marino making one of his brilliant touchdown throws. "Dan Marino makes plays," Johnson said. "Dan Marino is on the team."

The next clip was of Izzo making an insane special teams tackle in a preseason game. Remember, this was an undrafted free agent of Rice who'd been an afterthought among anyone (inside or outside that room) who was paying attention to the potential roster. "Larry Izzo makes plays," Johnson said. "Larry Izzo is on the team." The meeting ended shortly thereafter.

That story is true. It's also the way Izzo found out he made his first NFL roster. As Izzo's career blossomed over the next decade, I never forgot the day the 1996 Dolphins were told the only two players who'd made the team so far were Dan Marino and Larry Izzo. The guy built an NFL career on fierce determination. Having him around can't be a bad thing for a special teams unit that needs more intensity.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast/post...ire-larry-izzo

Nice hire.

He used to be mmaddog, if that helps. Not sure why you would've had to put him on ignore, he's a good dude.

oh ok... he's nice... i really don't have any members on ignore

but i think he hates the giants http://planetsmilies.net/not-tagged-smiley-14836.gif




NASCAR NATIONWIDE ROAD COURSE RACE IS ON ESPN

this should be one big cluster**** of a race

LAP ONE

caution is out

LMAO

Wonder boy & championship leader Stenhouse takes a spin

http://i.cdn.turner.com/nascar/dam/a...omepage-t1.jpg

Boom right into his teammate! Points leader Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Reed Sorenson got together in Turn 3 and Stenhouse got the worst of it with some front-end damage.

hard lick -- wonder if he's still breathing http://planetsmilies.net/not-tagged-smiley-3587.gif

1 Michael McDowell 47 105.190 138.54 0.000 24 --
2 Ron Fellows 47 106.003 137.48 8.021 6 --
3 Brian Scott 47 103.338 141.02 12.159 5 435
4 Max Papis 47 105.427 138.23 16.778 0 --
5 Jacques Villeneuve 47 105.715 137.85 16.958 6 --
6 Elliott Sadler 47 105.379 138.29 18.628 0 561
7 Justin Allgaier 47 104.690 139.20 21.085 0 545
8 Reed Sorenson 47 105.509 138.12 23.933 0 557
9 Jason Leffler 47 105.261 138.44 29.514 0 506
10 Michael Annett 47 102.022 142.84 32.522 0 405
11 Andrew Ranger

nASCAR riNGERS ARE fighting IT out - 3 to go


mess on the track ... hope they're not gonna drag out the curtain...

LMAO j/k

OMG wtf happened?

Villeneuve put Papis hard into the wall --

i wonder if papis is alive

Hard hit

what ****ing idiot!

OMG MAJOR CRASH

CARS ARE SCATTERED EVERYWHERE!

holy shit! who's left ? the leaders wrecked! LMAO

This is hysterical: Tiki Barker and his agent Mark Lepselter call in to talk with Mike Francesa (WFAN) to talk about his broadcasting career and his return to the NFL. Francesa was at his arrogant best as the conversation gets VERY testy. Tiki loses it. Wow, what a idiot!... LMAO

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/?podcast...es&dcid=CBS.NY

CBS Sports:

Sneaky-Tiki-Tawdry: Ex-Giants Star Battling Depression

According to a recent report from The Associated Press, which obtained some quotes from a piece aired on HBO, Barber speaks at length about his tumble down the totem pole, from iconic running back to well-paid pitchman, to a leading man on NBC’s wildly successful “Today Show,” to unemployed, unfaithful, divorced, destitute, and destroyed middle-aged man who is attempting a most daunting comeback into the NFL.

Tiki Barber, who reminds you of Nag, the fictional cobra who approaches you as a pal only to strike when you least expect. And Barber’s backbiting and resultant venom have infected a few, former pals with the old “NY” emblazoned on their helmet.

Barber has used depression as an appalling pretext for his abhorrent behavior. A depressed person will slouch on the couch for months on end (as he admitted he did.) It does not, however, lead already narcissistic stars to abandon their pregnant wife (8 months pregnant, in fact, with his twins) for a 23-year-old intern, and thus vaporizing his career with NBC, who was paying Barber $2 million per year to look pretty next to Matt Lauer.

Depression doesn’t force you to announce your retirement from football in the middle of the season, blasting a formidable fissure into a team toiling for a playoff spot. (In a sweet slice of karma, the Giants won the Super Bowl Shortly after Barber bounced.) It doesn’t move you to shove your coach – who saved your career by teaching you to properly hold a football and not literally fumble away your prime – under the team bus. It doesn’t sharpen your teeth for the instant backstabbing behind a microphone, questioning Eli Manning’s leadership qualities. (Did we mention that Eli won the Super Bowl without Barber, and actually won the Super Bowl MVP in the process?)

And where was this depression when Barber was in his prime, when he was dashing through holes and smashing team rushing records, when he was making millions of dollars? Some shrinks refer to “situational depression” which implies that, basically, we screw up and don’t feel so hot about it. Sounds and smells like the work in the Barber shop.

This is a twisted form of foxhole prayer, a way to endear himself to a fan base that abandoned him, even booing him as he was inducted into the Giants’ Ring of Honor, a highly incongruous scene for an appropriately conflicted man. Had Barber so much as flashed a good side he’d find New York a forgiving town. Just ask Doc and Darryl, who got clean, came clean, and even when they were once again devoured by their demons they found us waiting on the other side of the cell, cheering them on. It takes a special kind of jerk to lose us for good, and Barber has his doctorate in burning bridges.

Barber had the bona fides to be a star in any galaxy, from his looks to his presence to his intelligence to his oratory skills. Fumbling went from an on-field issue to societal scar tissue, a perfect metaphor for a self-absorbed creep who found time to blame everyone for his problems except himself.

“I crafted this career, right?” Barber said.

You sure did, Tiki. The bed is made and may you have a most restless sleep.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/06/...ng-depression/

The next 36-year-old running back to light the league on fire will be the first.

NASCRAP ON TNT

WE'RE IN CALI !

put the redneck shit away!

Get out the wine & cheese!

LOL

Toni turned Vickers around

ohforcryinoutloud --i think junior got swept into Stewie's aggressive mess! Son of a b.

"he just pushed me all the in there - fat bastard" /Vickers

LMAO

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