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Favre to Talk With Vikings
 Favre to Talk With Vikings 
May 5, 2009 7:18 PM CDT

Favre to Talk With Vikings

(Newser) - He just can't stay away: Brett Favre will talk to Vikings coach Brad Childress this week about renouncing his NFL retirement—again—and suiting up for Minnesota, reports ESPN. A decision would have to come quickly: The Vikes would want Favre to participate in training camp, something he missed last...

Ex-Congressman, QB Jack Kemp Dead at 73

(Newser) - Jack Kemp, the former football star, congressman, one-time vice-presidential nominee, and self-described "bleeding-heart conservative" died today of cancer at age 73. Kemp, a former quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, represented western New York for nine terms in Congress, leaving the House for an unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988. Eight...

Arena Football Team Rescinds Offer to Vick

Owner disapproves of publicity stunt

(Newser) - The owner of an arena football team has rescinded an offer to Michael Vick, the Albany Times Union reports. "Can you imagine him playing for $200 a week?” asked the owner of the Albany Firebirds. The Af2 team generated plenty of buzz when it announced the offer, but owner...

Broncos Trade Cutler to Bears
 Broncos Trade Cutler to Bears 
Apr 2, 2009 5:50 PM CDT

Broncos Trade Cutler to Bears

(Newser) - The Jay Cutler soap opera is over. The Broncos have agreed to trade the disgruntled quarterback to the Chicago Bears. Denver will reportedly get two first-round draft picks, a third-rounder, and quarterback Kyle Orton in return for Cutler and a fifth-round draft pick. Cutler asked for a trade last month...

Falcons Move to Trade Vick
 Falcons Move to Trade Vick 
Feb 13, 2009 3:13 PM CST

Falcons Move to Trade Vick

Imprisoned QB's contract extends until 2013

(Newser) - The Falcons are looking to trade Michael Vick, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. His contract runs through 2013 and includes a base salary of $9 million, sweetened with a $6.43 million 2009 bonus. But with Vick in prison on dogfighting charges and rookie Matt Ryan having led the team to...

Cards' Warner Should Be Lock for Hall of Fame
Cards' Warner Should Be Lock for Hall of Fame
OPINION
Jan 28, 2009 4:20 PM CST

Cards' Warner Should Be Lock for Hall of Fame

QB has been misused throughout his career: Pompei

(Newser) - Kurt Warner belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and it’s only because NFL teams have dreadfully misused his talents that anyone would dispute that, Dan Pompei writes for the Chicago Tribune. Green Bay signed Warner but failed to develop him. He later took the Rams to two...

Jack Kemp Treated for Cancer
 Jack Kemp Treated for Cancer 
Jan 7, 2009 1:34 PM CST

Jack Kemp Treated for Cancer

Docs can't say what afflicts former NFL star, GOP lawmaker, 73

(Newser) - Jack Kemp, the former NFL star and Republican congressman, is in treatment for cancer, the Buffalo News reports. A spokeswoman said the type of cancer is “undetermined,” but that tests are under way to identify it. Kemp, 73, served 18 years as a representative from New York before...

Brady, Gisele Get Engaged
 Brady, Gisele Get Engaged 
Dec 26, 2008 11:11 AM CST

Brady, Gisele Get Engaged

NFL star nervous in proposing to supermodel aboard private jet

(Newser) - Tom Brady popped the question to girlfriend Gisele Bündchen on Christmas Eve, and the Brazilian model accepted, TMZ reports. The sidelined New England Patriots quarterback reportedly proposed aboard a private jet from New Jersey to Boston. Also on board were Bündchen’s parents and four dozen white roses....

NFL's Sammy Baugh Is Dead
 NFL's Sammy Baugh Is Dead 
Dec 17, 2008 9:46 PM CST

NFL's Sammy Baugh Is Dead

(Newser) - Sammy Baugh, who helped revolutionize the NFL's passing attack at a time when teams ran almost every down, died today at age 94. Baugh joined the Washington Redskins in 1937 in the leather-helmet era when passing was reserved for desperate situations. Baugh passed whenever he liked and led the 'Skins...

Manning Brothers Pair Up to Make Pro Bowl History

Quarterback siblings will join forces among this year's Pro Bowl players

(Newser) - The Pro Bowl picks have been announced and they include a pair of record-busting firsts, AP reports. Eli Manning of the New York Giants and Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts will become the first quarterback-playing brothers to compete in the all-star game. Peyton's Giants teammate, 44-year-old kicker John Carney,...

To Groom Good Teachers, Look to Quarterbacks
To Groom Good Teachers, Look to Quarterbacks
glossies
Dec 8, 2008 3:31 PM CST

To Groom Good Teachers, Look to Quarterbacks

Schools, NFL face surprisingly similar recruiting hurdles

(Newser) - Underperforming public schools can take a lesson from the NFL, but it's not an easy one, writes Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker. In much the same way that accurately evaluating a college quarterback is impossible, predicting a teacher's classroom success depends on countless intangibles. "No one knows what...

Cops: Young Mentioned Suicide

(Newser) - Nashville police reports shed a little more light on the Vince Young saga of earlier this week. The Titans asked police to look for him because he had mentioned suicide to his therapist after Sunday's loss and left his house with a gun, City Paper reports. The QB was tracked...

'Pollard Fan Club' Mocks Brady
 'Pollard Fan Club' Mocks Brady 
Sep 10, 2008 12:36 PM CDT

'Pollard Fan Club' Mocks Brady

Merchandise celebrates season-ending injury

(Newser) - Some people just can’t play nice. Believe Merch, a website run by a Steelers fan, is selling a shirt to commemorate Tom Brady’s season-ending injury, WFXT reports. The shirt reads “Bernard Pollard Fan Club” and shows Brady’s number 12 with a red line through it. Meanwhile,...

Young QBs Fall Through Cracks
 Young QBs Fall 
 Through Cracks 
Aug 31, 2008 12:12 PM CDT

Young QBs Fall Through Cracks

So much promise is lost to a haphazard training system, bad luck

(Newser) - All too common are the hopeful young quarterbacks who found themselves not taking snaps, the New York Times reports, but instead drifting around the NFL as human debris. Blame insufficient coaching, the win-now mantra of teams these days, or plain bad luck —for whatever reason, there are big problems...

Trade Short of Super for Favre
 Trade Short of Super for Favre
OPINION
Aug 7, 2008 1:10 PM CDT

Trade Short of Super for Favre

Just making playoffs will be tough for Jets, stuck behind Pats juggernaut

(Newser) - Brett Favre's trade to the New York Jets "is a thumbs down for the surefire Hall of Fame quarterback," John Clayton writes on ESPN.com. Favre might’ve had a shot at returning to the Super Bowl by staying with Green Bay or going to Minnesota or Tampa...

From Green Bay to Tampa Bay?
 From Green Bay
 to Tampa Bay?
Aug 6, 2008 3:01 AM CDT

From Green Bay to Tampa Bay?

Sources say un-retired QB is close to deal with Bucs

(Newser) - With negotiations with Green Bay at an impasse, it looks as if Brett Favre is headed out of town—and his destination might well be Florida, according ot the Tampa Tribune. The quarterback claimed last week not to be interested in talking to teams outside his old division, but a...

Favre Huddles With Packers Coach
Favre
Huddles With
Packers Coach
Aug 5, 2008 2:52 AM CDT

Favre Huddles With Packers Coach

Meeting with McCarthy lasts 5 hours—QB's fate still uncertain

(Newser) - Packers coach Mike McCarthy talked with once (and future?) quarterback Brett Favre last night in a meeting that stretched five hours. The marathon chat pre-empted scheduled sessions with other players and the media, but close to midnight Favre's future with Green Bay was still unclear, reports the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Drafting a QB #1 Is Pricey Gamble

Peyton Manning was only sure-thing No. 1, coaches say

(Newser) - In less than two weeks, the Miami Dolphins will make the first overall pick of the 2008 NFL draft—and Boston College quarterback Matt Ryan is the likely candidate, the Houston Chronicle reports. Seven of the past nine No. 1s have been QBs, but for every Carson Palmer there's a...

Manning Scrambles Into History
Manning Scrambles Into History
Feb 4, 2008 11:46 AM CST

Manning Scrambles Into History

Beating the Patriots took a healthy dose of improv

(Newser) - Facing a team and coach renowned for their preparation, Eli Manning did the smart thing: He improvised. Some of Manning’s most astounding plays in Super Bowl XLII didn’t appear in the playbook, and that includes the miraculous game-saving pass to David Tyree that saw Manning scramble as never...

Sex Appeal and the Single Quarterback
Sex Appeal
and the Single Quarterback
Jan 27, 2008 12:09 PM CST

Sex Appeal and the Single Quarterback

How do Brady, Manning compare as loverboys?

(Newser) - As the Super Bowl nears, pundits are comparing rival quarterbacks Tom Brady and Eli Manning—right down to who they date and for how long, the New York Times reports. Brady, who escorts leggy Gisele Bundchen to chi chi clubs, descends from the Joe Namath tradition of playboy QB. Manning...

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