ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Looking drained and sounding tired, Peyton Manning stood outside the Denver Broncos team meeting room Tuesday afternoon -- the room where he'd just been introduced as the Broncos quarterback by an elated John Elway --and Manning tried to explain why he picked Denver to play the rest of his career with, however long that may be.
After weeks of uncertainty and speculation, the end of the Vince Young era in Tennessee started coming into view for the first time on Tuesday, after Titans general manager Mike Reinfeldt and the team's executive VP/general counsel Steve Underwood returned from their end-of-the-season organizational meeting with owner Bud Adams in Houston.
Just when you think Vince Young has matured to the point where he is ready to be a consistent starting quarterback in the NFL and the face of the Titans franchise, something like last weekend happens.
A few seconds of exuberant finger-flipping cost Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams a quarter of a million dollars Monday.
Throughout the 2009 season, SI.com's Adam Duerson will work with Jerome Bettis to get the six-time Pro Bowl running back's observations about the previous week's games. Bettis retired from the NFL in 2006 after a 13-year career.
The general consensus among fans in our nation's capital is that Jim Zorn is not the problem. It's not that they think he's a good head coach, because they don't. It's more that firing Zorn is like putting a band-aid over a gunshot wound. It may cover up the hole momentarily, but the problem is still there. Namely in team owner Daniel Snyder.
Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair was shot multiple times, including once in the head, at a Nashville, Tennessee, condominium, authorities said Saturday.
The Deuce is on the loose again, but not in that rumbling-into-secondary sort of way we've come to know it over the course of Deuce McAllister's eight-year stay in New Orleans. The Saints all-time leading rusher and touchdown-maker woke up Wednesday an ex-Saint for the first time in his NFL career, after being released Tuesday in a salary cap move that wasn't as surprising as it was saddening.
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