Here's a new NFL team...

With all the thugs, punks and malcontents that seem to be cropping up in the NFL, maybe the good Senator Byrd from West Virginia should leave the senate and start a pro football team. He doesn't seem to add much to senate or to the protection of lives in the mining industry. A couple of recruits that should make it on his team would be those wonders Pacman Jones and Marcus Vick. You could add T.O. and Clarett from Ohio State who was just arrested for burglary. Maybe they could entice Romanoski to get back on drugs and add his presence to the line. There's also a dozen or more NFL players who have been arrested for domestic violence...now they would be a good addition!

Although I'm not naive enough to think there weren't bad apples in the NFL in the past, it just seems so much more apparent now. We are just holding our breath until Pacman participates in another outrageous incident. We know it's coming; the only question is what will Reese and/or Fisher do this time. Another tap on the hand?

I grew up in Chicago when there were TWO football teams: Bears and Cardinals. Because we were from the south suburbs, we were Cardinal and White Sox fans. My Dad began taking me to old Comiskey Park when I was about five to see both of the those teams play. It was tremendously entertaining and made me a life long team fan/supporter, but today all that these NFL players make me is cynical. The TITANS, particularly, have lost their identity as a Team. When they went to the Superbowl, they were a Team. They have become, as many NFL teams have become, a group of individuals where each are demanding some kind of elusive "respect!" What's this all about? Aren't a player's character and his performance on the field, the two ingredients that allow respect to be given?

I suppose this all distills down to what we think is a "game" has become a billion dollar business...never let it be said that the mighty dollar won't take precedence over integrity.

Right, Bud Adams?