NFL Week 13: Ken Riley for the Hall of Fame

Texans sign Jake Delhomme:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7293772/agent-says-houston-texans-sign-jake-delhomme-contract-workout

 

First rule about the button...don't talk about the button!

 

The part they left out is that Delhomme had to borrow a pen from Gary Kubiak to sign the contract. He tried to give it back, but Antrel Rolle intercepted it.

 

Peter King was on PTI and said that a) London will get an NFL team in his lifetime and b) he wouldn't be shocked if the Jaguars were the team that moved there at some point down the road. Which makes some sense - KHAAAAANNNN!!! comes in and buys the team with backdoor assurances from the league that he'll be able to move the franchise to London when the market is "ready" for a team (I would guess the NFL believes this will be in 7-10 years).

In the meantime, he'll stick it out in Jacksonville and make the best of the bad situation, knowing that a potential goldmine is waiting down the road if a London franchise actually works.

 

An NFL team in London will never win shit. Those eight road trips a year will kill it.

 

That, plus how would they ever compete for free agents? They would have to pay at least a 50 percent premium and even then would only lure the guys who didn't have a whole lot of options. I could see plenty of draft holdouts or threats too.

 

True, I'm just saying Gabbert hasn't played very well, which might have doomed Del Rio's job.

 

Freeman reports there is a written agreement between Wayne Weaver and Shahid Kahn that the Jaguars remain in Jacksonville:

http://eye-on-football.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22475988/33583625

 

Second rule: To declare you're not reading someone's posts b/c you have him or her on ignore is the height of stupidity and unawareness. But then again, we're talking the redneck racist here.

And redneck racist, we all know you're racist b/c it's in the subtleties. A nearly decade=long pattern of racist behavior is impossible to ignore. Ever wonder why no one except your little friend pancamo steps to your defense? Hick.

 

They could always bunch them up so they would play two games on a road trip and just stay in the states for a week. Then it'd be only four trips.

They could even use the stadium in Jacksonville to practice in during the road trips, and maybe even have one game there, like the Bills do in Toronto to make it a little easier on the travel. It might not be the same for Jags fans, but they'd get one game a year.

 

I would suspect that any London team would be paired with at least one other European-based NFL team (maybe in Germany?). Allow teams to do the road trip back to back weeks to avoid travel nightmares.

 

The Los Angeles Rams and the 49ers were NFL teams in the early '50s when the trip from the East to West Coast was much longer and more arduous than a trip to London is today. The different tax rates (not to mention being subject to EU labor laws, which would shred the NFL Basic Agreement), are the real problems.