Horse Tracks 3/21/08

by mdierk on Mar 21, 2008 8:36 AM MDT in Horse Tracks

Here's a Good Friday edition of Horse Tracks. Enjoy!

Cecil Sapp re-signs with the Broncos. See here and here

Jason Elam is in talks with the Falcons. See here and here

Jeff Legwold discusses the quality of OL coming up. See here

Casey Weigmann signed yesterday. See here

Well at least we know that Shanny isn't leaving anytime soon. He's building a new home. Check out the specs here.

AFC West

Some news from Phyllis and his merry men today...

Center Nick Hardwick had surgery and could miss a game or two in the regular season. See here

ESPN reviews what Phyllis and his merry men are doing and handling this off season. See here

No news from the Chefs or the conquered fader nation.

NFL News

Well, it looks like the NFL could vote to ban hair flowing out of the helmets this year. Whatever would we do with players like Troy Polamalu or Mike McKenzie having to cut thier hair??? We may be able to see their name in the jersey. See here

Horse Tracks will return Monday. Have a Happy Easter!

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Have a good weekend

mdierk! I almost forgot this weekend was Easter...I haven't even had any cadbury eggs yet dammit!

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by Zappa on Mar 21, 2008 9:39 AM MDT 0 recs

Oh man, I don't like Shanny so much now

that ho has about 33,796 more square feet than my little shanty shack. His guest house is 1000 square feet bigger too. His garage is three times the size of my house. That ho! I want a friggin bridge! No fair!

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by Zappa on Mar 21, 2008 9:43 AM MDT 0 recs

Finally, a good NFL rule!

Okay, there are many good NFL rules, but if they approve the "Don Mattingly" rule and force the Polamalus of the world to cut their hair then I will stand up and applaud. UNLIKE baseball, or even basketball for that matter, the long hair is a big time safety concern in football. I'm surprised nobody has suffered a sprained neck yet. Anyway, I hope they pass it.

I wish Woody Paige was our coach

by bcfunderburk on Mar 21, 2008 10:00 AM MDT 0 recs

Not sure about a rule, but...

I'm not a fan of the big hair thing either. I thought it was poetic justice when Polamalou got tackled by his hair a few years back. I had to watch it again, it was so funny.

Or so I'm told.

by MN Bronco on Mar 21, 2008 10:07 AM MDT up 0 recs

I disagree...

I loathe the "nanny" society so much that I fight any small rule that forces people to live their life differently.

If a guy wants long hair, who has the freaking right to tell him to cut it??

If a guy doesn't want to wear his seat belt, who has the freaking right to make him pay the state money for not doing so?

If a guy doesn't want to wear a helmet while riding a bicycle, who has the right to make him pay the state for not doing so?

Pretty soon, everyone will need to wear the same color clothes, have the same hair cut, wear helmets while walking along the street, ect ect ect. Screw the nanny state and their undeclared war upon COMMON SENSE! :P

Back on topic here, obviously that touch a nerve with me, but I don't see how the NFL can regular length of hair. Safety concern or not, it's the kind of risk that NFL players must choose to either live with or change their hair length.

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by Zappa on Mar 21, 2008 10:25 AM MDT up 0 recs

There is a difference...

between a private enterprise and a public entity, however, and a private company has and should have the right to make policy within their own business.

While I am in 100% agreement with you on public policy, the NFL is a private business and has every right to make their own rules. They have to look at it from the standpoint of what is best for business. Now, this rule is debatable in that sense, but it's their call. I, for one, support that right. It's one reason why, even though I personally don't smoke, I support a business' right to allow smoking in their establishment. (I won't even get started on the completely unsupported and overblown BS known as the "dangers of second-hand smoke")

Or so I'm told.

by MN Bronco on Mar 21, 2008 10:37 AM MDT up 0 recs

I quite smoking 3 months ago

and have since become very anti-smoker. I grew up with parents who smoked heavily indoors and I escaped the asthma that my little brother deals with. I wholeheartedly think that prolonged second hand smoke is deadly. My wife and I never smoked indoors with our daughter around.

I do agree that exposure to second hand smoke at a bar or other public place is totally overblown. Second hand smoke is a deadly killer when it is prolonged exposure.

I am so glad I can play basketball again without being near death afterwards. :) Chantix! Take it to quit smoking, it works! I smoked a pack and a half a day and took Chantix for just three weeks and haven't needed any medication since I stopped taking Chantix. No patched, pills, gum...addiction is GONE baby!! ;)

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by Zappa on Mar 21, 2008 11:04 AM MDT up 0 recs

I need to correct a confusing sentence above..

"My wife and I never smoked indoors with our daughter around"

Change that too:

My wife and I never smoked indoors because we have a kid...regardless of wether or not our daughter was home or not. ;)

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by Zappa on Mar 21, 2008 11:06 AM MDT up 0 recs

It might be overblown for us patrons...

but not so much for the employees who have to work there day in and day out to make a living. I applaud the anti-smoking cities for becoming anti-smoking for that reason.

Well... that and so I don't have to wash my clothes after hanging out at a bar for 2 hours.

by tunga77 on Mar 21, 2008 1:11 PM MDT up 0 recs

From What I Read

in the article, they were not saying they mandate a certain hair length or style, merely that it fit UNDER the helmet. It is my belief that they would be able to keep their hair as long as they wanted if it fit under the helmet. Women in the military have to keep their hair above the neck line of our uniform. that doesn't mean it has to be cut. the pit it in buns or braids or other styles that keep it above that line. I am also sure that if Troy Polomalu had sustained a neck injury from LJ, the NFLPA would have been livid as to why the NFL didn't have a rule barring that type of injury. I think they should be allowed to keep their hair whatever length they choose but I also think it should be UNDER the helmet.

Davis to the Hall! "A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough." Ronald Reagan

by Jon Tollerud on Mar 21, 2008 12:43 PM MDT up 0 recs

If we put it under the helmet

should this be called the "Hair-Tuck" rule? How long before the fader fans blame some loss or other on it?

I wish my sig was as cool as mdierks!

by styg50 on Mar 21, 2008 2:02 PM MDT up 0 recs

Wow! Zappa is a libertarian!

So am I. :) Though I share your concerns from in the public arena, I-like MN Bronco-believe the NFL has the right to make this rule. My other argument is that I have very few hairs left on my dome and I secretly enjoy the demise of those blessed with hair! :)

I wish Woody Paige was our coach

by bcfunderburk on Mar 21, 2008 11:07 AM MDT 0 recs

yea,

my head is under attack by the classic U "pincher" manuever. I turn 30 this year and I know I am following my Dad's hairline. My forehead is growing in the U shape. :)

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by Zappa on Mar 21, 2008 2:03 PM MDT up 0 recs

Crap...

If that rule goes through: I don't want the barbarian to come to Denver anyways...

From Denmark, so i excuse my self for un-knowing-ness...

by Claaaaas on Mar 21, 2008 12:05 PM MDT 0 recs

I like the rule

Just because I don't like the hair. I never like the longhaired linemen look, with the sweaty sticky strands pasted all over their jersey, and I've never liked the dreadlocks or whatever they are because I don't like ornamentation.

To me the long hair detracts from the uniformity and aesthetics of a football player, the same way that overweight linemen's bellies and David Carr's white gloves ruin the image.

I like the look of a team that is in unity, each soldiering forth for the other, with each one's claim to individuality being made solely in their actions and accountability on the field. To compare, I watch tennis a lot, and there are lots of wild hairdos there that I never give a second thought to.

There is a reason the uniforms and helmets and socks and gloves are all the same (barring for minor things like visors and what not). I never understood why anyone would want to grow their hair out, making themselves standout among their teammates. You'd think the nature of your job was more important than your hairdo... The beauty of a teamsport lies in that many people doing that complex of an action towards a common goal, and doing it together. The uniforms are symbolic of that, and the hair seems to be symbolic of its antithesis.

I wish my sig was as cool as mdierks!

by styg50 on Mar 21, 2008 1:59 PM MDT 0 recs

for a roughneck, hydro plant building

libertarian, you sure have a strong conformity streak. Since we're all Americans, should we too also have crew cuts, have 2.3 children, and have manicured lawns in front of our nuclear household? ;) heheheh

I might just have to grow my hair out to unbelieveable lengths now. Then tie it back in a pony tail like some stoner. :)

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by Zappa on Mar 21, 2008 2:05 PM MDT up 0 recs

Individualism is numero uno!

I started a reply, but one thought led to another, led to another, and before long I was writing about why I like the NFL and what the role of teamsports are in our society.

Belongs in a diary, which I will write just as soon as I get some other things cleared off my plate. :)

I wish my sig was as cool as mdierks!

by styg50 on Mar 21, 2008 2:44 PM MDT up 0 recs

I'm with you 100%

I hated it when tennis lost the uniform all white shorts and shirts. Now people wear a bunch of colors and head gear and the sport seems to me to have lost the level of respect players once had for the game and tradition. I'm more of a conservative than a libertarian, and very old school when it comes to the importance of tradition in sports.

And you get an A+ for the hair "tuck rule" comment further upthread. Still smiling from that one!

"Greater is an army of sheep led by a lion, than an army of lions led by a sheep" Defoe

by hoosierteacher on Mar 21, 2008 5:34 PM MDT up 0 recs

Yea, I used to be a Conservative...

that is until our "Conservative" party sold out and became a big government liberal spending party. ;)

Remember, $10 Trillion doesn't seem as big until you spell it out. $10,000,000,000,000. Welcome to our national debt ladies and gentlemen. :)

I guess I am not a libertarian..more of a "small government" conservative. Not many of those kinds left in the Republican Party these days.

I still say that if some moron likes having hair coming out of his helmet then so be it. The NFL should make "hair tackling" legal and encourage other players to go after it. You'd see a lot less big hair around the league right quick. ;)

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by Zappa on Mar 21, 2008 9:20 PM MDT up 0 recs

Big hair

I hear what you are saying, but the liability would be too much to have such a rule. Just require them to stuff their hair under their helmets.

I agree that the GOP has left its roots of economic conservatism (and has again selected a half-conservative candidate for pres.) On the other side, the dems are moving away from classical American liberalism and more towards radical leftism. I have a hard time with libertarianism (beyond some strange ideological problems) because they always put someone up for national office with troubling backgrounds. (Don't even get me started on R. Paul). Even with a masters in poli sci, I have grown sick of the political silliness in our country by all sides, and find more comfort at MHR than political sites.

With football I have a team I can believe in, a team I can dislike, and much in between. With politics I find more and more hate and less and less academic exchanges of differing opinions. I've dropped all of the time I used to devote to political sites, and come back home to bluer and oranger (sic) pastures.

That's why I didn't care for the recent troll infestation (all of that blind hate), and a reason I really hope a lot of the political talk that is creeping in dies out quietly (even as I spend a paragraph on the subject myself). : )

"Greater is an army of sheep led by a lion, than an army of lions led by a sheep" Defoe

by hoosierteacher on Mar 22, 2008 1:21 AM MDT up 0 recs

Ditto...

I still rant and rave about politics, but I have resigned to the fact that America is full of idiots who vote for whoever the media tells them too. It's rather absurd. I liked R.Paul, but at the same time my wife and I were sort of embarrassed by the fact that we voted for him. The problem was, the only other candidate I would have voted for(Duncan Hunter) dropped out of the race...no other conservatives were left! lmao

I won't even talk about the Dems....I'd love to deport their asses back to the former-Soviet Union.

In any case, I'll end this side bar for now...otherwise I won't be able to stop running my, uh, mouth(fingers?) for a while.

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by Zappa on Mar 22, 2008 2:29 AM MDT up 0 recs

Does

anyone have a site where the rosters of our team as well as others are current. ESPN still has walker on ours and NFL doesn't have a big change either

Davis to the Hall! "A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough." Ronald Reagan

by Jon Tollerud on Mar 21, 2008 2:58 PM MDT 0 recs

The Sports Network

has what you want. Mostly, though Elam is still listed on the Broncos' roster.

Purple Row - Covering all your Rockies needs!

by Russ on Mar 21, 2008 3:05 PM MDT up 0 recs

Hall wears Silver and Black

TSN reported hall signed for a 2nd rounder this year and a 5th next year. Deal is reportedly worth a little more than $66 million, with $24.55 million guaranteed. The deal is believed to pay the fourth-year player $30 million over the next three seasons.

Davis to the Hall! "A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough." Ronald Reagan

by Jon Tollerud on Mar 21, 2008 3:11 PM MDT 0 recs

Elam wears Red and Black

SI reports, that Elam has signed with Atlanta. 4 years, 9 million with 3,3 guaranteed.

Even though I would have liked to see Elam stay in Denver, and Morten Andersen stay in Atlanta, I think it is OK that we didn't match the offer.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/football/nfl/03/21/falcons.elam.ap/index.html

by Jeeeeens on Mar 21, 2008 6:18 PM MDT 0 recs

ladies and gentlemen

We lost him

Baby TO My new Fav Player

by TommyTSlice on Mar 21, 2008 8:21 PM MDT up 0 recs

Welcome Aboard!

This is becoming Denmark West!

I wish my sig was as cool as mdierks!

by styg50 on Mar 21, 2008 8:23 PM MDT up 0 recs

a few things

the hair rule will ban long hair that covers up the name on the back of the jersey. Personlly I dont care. But the NFL is a private business. But, doesnt the Chiefs have bigger fish to fry than worring about the hair? If Peterson doesnt like apply it to his sorry ass team.

I am real concerned how the dems are leaning towards socialism and following the radical left. Its a bad move. I am for less government and more social freedoms, and all the pc BS in this country is bugging the crap out of me. What has made this country prosper is less govt in our daily lives.

by broncfanstuckinsd on Mar 22, 2008 12:51 PM MDT 0 recs