NFL Week 7: John Elway's not horsing around

Polamalu fined $10,000 for using a cell phone on the sideline during a game ... to call his wife and say he was OK after getting a knee to the head.

 

He should have flipped her off... It would have been the same fine, that was how much they fined Rocky Dennis, I mean AJ Hawk, for flipping off his sideline.

 

What is with these string of crappy MNF games? How are the Jaguars sneaking onto MNF every season? The Lions/Bears game has been the best of the last four or five, easily. Unfortunate.

 

This isn't new -- MNF has been getting the leftovers ever since NBC paid enough to make the Sunday night game the NFL's showcase.

 

I think the MNF game is the fifth or sixth choice of the week's games. When ABC had it, it got the second choice. If they do it the way they used to, they rotate weeks where Fox or CBS gets to protect a game and then NBC chooses the Sunday night game, then Fox and CBS pick the other three games and then ESPN chooses.

 

And it's just a crapshoot sometimes anyway. NBC's getting the shaft with Saints-Colts this week because no one saw Peyton Manning's extended absence coming.

 

The NFL's rule is understandable, though, because once you start letting people slide, no matter how good the reason, then every moron with a cell phone jones will make up every excuse they can think of to make phone calls. Plus, any player could say his call is for something legitimate. The league's not going to take the time to investigate every claim. Thus, the rule.

 

What's weird is that NBC pays a fraction to the NFL what ESPN does - of course most of that money is to fuel ESPN's NFL related programming. You would think though that they could at least get a few decent match ups.

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/21/matt-forte-even-better-than-his-stats-look/

But he's not worth an extension, right? GIHTFT.

 

He can take what they offer or he can be franchised.

Football players have no negotiating power, and I don't see why the Bears should be generous about it.

 

Shut up.

 

The Bears always, as a young tight end named Mike Ditka said about George Halas, thrown nickels around like manhole covers.