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A Very Special Week for the FRO Family of radio shows
Football Reporters Online Celebrated it’s 3rd anniversary on March 1st, and the Anniversary of the very first “FRO” show was April 18th of 2008. Since then, we have achieved over 1.5 million downloads since going to a weekly broadcast on september 4th of 2008. In August of 2010 We introduced “Pro Football NYC” to our lineup of shows, first on Wednesday...
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March 14, 2011
Discuss
Rebuilding Together Joins Choice Hotels to Support the NFL Player Care Foundation to Assist NFL Alumni In-Need
(at least someone knows Retired players need help!)
WASHINGTON, March 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Rebuilding Together Greater Dallas, an affiliate of the nation’s leading nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership, has joined Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE:CHH) to support the NFL Player Care Foundation and deliver critical home renovations...
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March 14, 2011
Some things & Other things: the Locked Out edition
By Dr. Bill Chachkes-Executive Editor-Football Reporters Online
Everyone is pointing the finger at each other since this past Friday afternoon. The owners accusing the players of not bargaining in good faith, the players accusing the owners (and by extension the league) of wanting this to happen all along. The Players filed a class action suit (Brady Vs. the NFL) after voting...
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March 14, 2011
NFL STATEMENT ON “DECERTIFICATION”-LITIGATION-LOCKOUT
NFL STATEMENT ON “DECERTIFICATION“-LITIGATION-LOCKOUT
The fastest way to a fair agreement is for both the union and the clubs to continue the mediation process. Unfortunately, the players’ union notified our office at 4pm ET on Friday that it had “decertified” and walked away from mediation and collective bargaining to initiate the antitrust litigation it has...
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March 14, 2011
SUMMARY OF NFL PROPOSAL
The below outlines the NFL’s proposal to the union.
1. We more than split the economic difference between us, increasing our proposed cap for 2011 significantly and accepting the Union’s proposed cap number for 2014 ($161 million per club).
2. An entry level compensation system based on the Union’s “rookie cap” proposal, rather than the wage scale proposed...
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March 14, 2011
Rodger Goodell’s Open Letter to fans
3/11/11
Dear NFL Fan,
When I wrote to you last on behalf of the NFL, we promised you that we would work tirelessly to find a collectively bargained solution to our differences with the players’ union. Subsequent to that letter to you, we agreed that the fastest way to a fair agreement was for everyone to work together through a mediation process. For the last three weeks...
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March 14, 2011
Verizon and Motorola Team Up to Offer Consumers the ‘Motorola Draft Day Experience’ Sweepstakes
Contestants Can Win the Chance to Attend the 2011 NFL Draft in New York City
NEW YORK, March 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon and Motorola Mobility Inc. are teaming up to offer consumers a chance of a lifetime for any football fan: a trip to the 2011 NFL Draft. The Motorola Draft Day Experience sweepstakes will reward one lucky winner with an all-expenses-paid trip to the...
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March 11, 2011
RIPPED OFF
NFL fans should not pay for new stadiums
By David Levy-Fan Experience Reporter-Football Reporters Online
The Georgia Dome in Atlanta remains a perfectly fine building for professional football. Still a teenager, it is nowhere near long in the tooth. Capacity is enough to accommodate nearly every Atlanta Falcons fan willing to buy tickets.
Arthur Blank, the team owner, craves a new stadium. That seems akin to trading in...
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March 11, 2011
The lockout and the “little” people it will affect
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By Rafael Garcia
Sr. Contributing Writer-Southeast Region-Football Reporters Online
March 10th 2011
In a perfect world many things would change. War would not exist and and we would live in peace. Politicians would always tell the truth and actually look out for the people they are supposed to serve. The national debt would be no more and everyone would work...
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March 10, 2011
Players, Owners Prolong CBA For Another Week, making fans Miserable (still)
News Brief By The FRO Staff
Those who follow the NFL betting lines at BetUs were all dreading last Thursday’s deadline for the CBA in the NFL labor battle to come and go, so we could officially kick off the beginning of a lockout that seemed inevitable. But now, the deadline has been extended and it could be a very good sign for the players, owners, and especially, the fans.
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March 10, 2011
HOW REPLACING A LEGEND IS REALLY DIFFICULT Part 2
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By Don Stokes-Senior Writer-Midwest Region-Football Reporters Online
Returning to the aforementioned Miami Dolphin dominance during the early part of the decade with 5 playoff seasons in a row and 3 straight Super Bowl appearances (1971- ’72 and ‘73). In the bright Oakland Coliseum sun the run finally concluded for the Fish. During the 1974 AFC Divisional...
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March 09, 2011
To Combine or not to Combine….?
How much weight should we really put on the numbers at the NFL Scouting Combine?
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By Rafael Garcia-Sr. Contributing Writer-Southeast Region-Football Reporters Online
March 2nd, 2011
The combine has become more than just a way to gauge the potential and future of college football players hoping to hit it big at the next level. In the old days...
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March 02, 2011
Football Players-Do you want the chance to play at the Professional level??
Beyond Sports, LLC Announces BSN PRO TIMING DAYS & COMBINES
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Beyond Sports, LLC will be conducting four Pro Timing Days and Combines for aspiring pro athletes on the following dates...
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March 02, 2011
NFL Appoints New Chair to Competition Committee
From NFLMedia.com
ATLANTA FALCONS PRESIDENT RICH MCKAY
TO CHAIR COMPETITION COMMITTEE
Atlanta Falcons President RICH MCKAY has been named the chairman of the NFL Competition Committee, the NFL announced today.
McKay, a member of the committee since 1994, has served as co-chair since 1998, including since 2001 with former Tennessee Titans head coach JEFF FISHER.
Though no longer...
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March 01, 2011
Virginia’s Defensive Player of the Year, Scott Rolin, to compete at Virginia Tech.
From our Partners at the Beyond Sports Network…
Leesburg, VA (February 28th, 2011) – Scott Rolin has accepted a preferred walk-on opportunity at Virginia Tech and will compete at wide receiver this upcoming 2011 season. This young athlete should also have the opportunity to make his mark on the coveted Hokies Special Teams according to Hokies Coach and Scout Torrian Gray...
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March 01, 2011
Local Physician Plays Vital Roll in NFL Team’s Player Roster
Coastal Orthopedics’ Physician Heads to Indy for 2011 NFL Scouting Combine
BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — From the operating room to the gridiron, Coastal Orthopedics’ Daniel S. Lamar, M.D., is providing his medical expertise during the 2011 NFL Scouting Combine – a weeklong camp where over three hundred of the best college football players will...
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March 01, 2011
Jets Decisions Impact Fans and Employees
Jets Decisions Affect Fans and Employees-By David Levy-Fan Experience Reporter-Football Reporters Online
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Over the past week, the Jets have made the news for various items. I have already talked about Bart Scott making an appearance on this Thursday’s TNA Impact, which airs at 9 PM on Spike TV. Now, the Jets have two other items that people have been...
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March 01, 2011
NFL announces new Concussion Assessment Protocol
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NFL HEAD, NECK AND SPINE COMMITTEE
ANNOUNCES NEW NFL SIDELINE CONCUSSION ASSESSMENT PROTOCOL
NFL team medical personnel will use this season a new standardized sideline concussion assessment protocol, the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee announced today. The announcement was made in Indianapolis at the NFL Combine by DR. MARGOT PUTUKIAN, member of NFL...
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March 01, 2011
FRO Presents Pro Football NYC Tonight at 8PM
Don’t miss our NFL Combine and NFL Lockout Special!
Our colorful cadre of co-hosts will join John Fennelly and Dr. Football for 90 minutes of informative, entertaining and candid NY Football talk tonite at 8pm on Blog Talk Radio
Click HERE to visit our Show Page and listen
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March 01, 2011
NY Jets Bart Scott to try wrestling
By David Levy
Bart Scott sounded like a pro wrestler during some of his playoff interviews.
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He now gets to try the real thing.
The New York Jets linebacker will have the chance to rant and rave for an actual grappling company. Bart Scott has signed for a March 3 appearance with TNA Wrestling. Scott arrived Thursday in Fayetteville, N.C., to tape interviews...
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February 25, 2011
NFL Labor Negotiations Taking a Break
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The NFL labor negotiations will be taking a break until March 1st (next Tuesday). Here is a dispatch from FMCS Director George H. Cohen on the NFL-NFLPA talks
WASHINGTON — One week ago, the National Football League and the National Football League Players Association accepted the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service’s invitation to conduct their...
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February 24, 2011
Please Join us for a Special show tonight
Well, (to me) all of our shows are special because we Broadcast them, But this one is EXTRA special!
Joining us tonight at 9:05 is Bengals OG Evan Mathis, who is producing a documentary film entitled “Locked out” He’ll tell us why he’s making this film, and why he went the alternative Media funding route with Kickstarter.com Evan is also a Legacy at Alabama...
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February 24, 2011
NFL Draft: order of first round
FOR USE AS DESIRED
2/22/11
2011 NFL DRAFT FIRST ROUND ORDER
Following is the 2011 NFL Draft first round order. The first round will start on Thursday, April 28 at 8:00 PM ET with the second and third rounds on Friday, April 29 at 6:30 PM ET followed by rounds 4-7 on Saturday, April 30 at Noon ET.
2011 FIRST ROUND DRAFT ORDER
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Team
Win
Loss
Tie
Winning Percentage...
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February 24, 2011
Titans Hire More Coaches as staff begins to take shape.
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By Rafael Garcia -Sr. Contributing Writer Southeast Region-Football Reporters Online
The weeks have passed and changes continue at Baptist Sports Park. Mike Munchak has been head coach for just a moment, but he is trying his best to make this a team in his own image. He hired his old teammate and friend Bruce Matthews as offensive line coach. Matthews comes from...
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February 20, 2011
NFL announces Youth Flag Football Championships
Winning Team to Compete Against Mexican Flag Football Squad
The NFL FLAG FOOTBALL national champions will be crowned Saturday, February 26 at the NFL FLAG National Tournament of Champions at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
More than 150,000 youngsters across the country played NFL FLAG this year. Twenty-four teams advanced...
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February 20, 2011
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