Three former Vikings taken in UFL draft

Former Vikings Jermaine Wiggins and Brooks Bollinger were among the 96 players selected in Thursday night’s inaugural UFL draft.  Both were taken by the Orlando team, which will be led by former Saints and Rams head coach Jim Haslett.  One-time Vikings coach Dennis Green is set to lead the San Francisco franchise when the four-team league begins play some time later this...

Since I am currently a free agent I have to keep the same mindset to be ready when a team calls. Man what I'm about to tell you YB, you may not believe, but it's very true!!!... Since I'm still considered a Newlywed and because of the toe surgery a year ago, I decided to incorporate my wife into my offseason conditioning, so much so that I decided to purchase road bikes...

Former NY Jets QB Brooks Bollinger was the first (and only) QB drafted by the UFL yesterday. Bollinger completed an amazing 72.2% of his passes in 2006 for the Minnesota Vikings - he also threw only... Full story: http://www.bobsblitz.com

Yardbarkers here's the deal, OTA's in a players mind – excuse me in a veteran player's mind, are a big waste of time!!! We feel like the season is so, so demanding, time wise, that we have no free time for our families from August through February. So time away from football is family time, daddy time, husband time, son, brother and uncle time... the people who sometimes...

Alot of people ask me do we players see any tangible benefit or value in designating 8 players from a 53 man roster as inactive on any guven Sunday. I always answer, I kind of see the reasoning behind it but for those eight players its torture. You practice all week not knowing if you are going to play, with the coaches screaming and hollering at you as if you are. Then moments before...

Hey! Doesn’t that policeman look familiar? Rhodes is appearing in the new Lady Gaga video as one of Videoland’s Finest. According to Kerry Rhodes, a safety for the New York Jets, who plays a policeman in the video, life pretty much imitates art. While he describes Gaga as “reserved,” “focused” and “cool,” he admits that the scene [...]

Here’s an interesting article I found while searching the internet.   K.C. Joyner is a stat-head who covers the National Football League. We have seen plenty of stat-heads covering baseball, but it’s a growing number for people interested in the N.F.L.   In his article Joyner compares and contrasts which New Jersey team has a better offensive [...]

There are rumors flying that the Jets brass are considering bringing Plaxico Burress on board. They are waiting to see what happens with his legal situation before making a decision. This is a BAD MOVE!!! If the New York Jets want to stop the “second class citizen” stigma that surrounds the organization in New York, then they have [...]

Leon Washington’s return from the Thursday night Patriots game last season.

A very interesting read on how a man in power battled a potentially career-crippling obstacle. -Tas

ProFootballCentral.com’s Greg DePalma has a great interview with two Jets-related folks, Jets Confidential’s Dan Leberfeld and Jets DE-OLB, Calvin Pace. For those of you who love interviews, it’s really, really good stuff and you’d be remiss to not check it out.. The poddie runs through some other topics, so if you want to jump to the [...]

Move over Kerry “Hollywood” Rhodes, it looks like he’s not the only one with movie deals in the works. Two former New Line Cinema execs have started a new venture with many projects in the pipes and one they have optioned is about new Jet linebacker Bart Scott. Shaye and Lynne have joined forces with journalist [...]

With the news that Plaxico Burress' trial has been postponed to September, there is great speculation that he may get a chance to play in the NFL this year. There is a need for the Jets to improve the talent and depth at the wideout position. I will examine what this latest development means in this article. There are two main factors that will affect the outcome of whether...

The UFL had its first-ever draft and here are some of the “names” that have been drafted. Adam Archuleta, former Bear CJ Bacher, former Northwestern QB Cecil Sapp, RB Labrandon Toefield, former LSU RB Brooks Bollinger, former Viking QB Chris Perry, former Michigan RB And that’s about it, as far as I can tell. Here is the rundown of the draft.

So the United Football League held a draft yesterday and I'm sure you've been hanging on the edge of your seat to see the results. According to Chris Mortensen (so who knows if it's really true) each team had already signed 20 players and this draft was to fill out the rosters with remaining players available who had worked out in Orlando and Las Vegas. Notable players...