Football

[Tubby]

Tonights football game was postponed because of weather. Is this a first? I can't remember a football game ever postponed because of weather.

[d-o-b]

Tonights football game was postponed because of weather. Is this a first? I can't remember a football game ever postponed because of weather.
Lighting!!!!!!! ...... you bet they will cancel

[Tubby]

Niners Lineman Herrion Dies After Game

By EDDIE PELLS
AP Sports Writer

August 21, 2005, 6:18 AM EDT

DENVER -- San Francisco offensive lineman Thomas Herrion collapsed in the locker room and died Sunday morning, shortly after the 49ers played the Denver Broncos in a preseason game. He was 23.

Herrion, a 6-foot-3, 310-pound guard, was on the field for San Francisco's 14-play, 91-yard drive that ended with a touchdown with 2 seconds left.

Players had finished listening to coach Mike Nolan address them in a postgame meeting when Herrion collapsed. Medics administered CPR on him and took him to an ambulance that rushed him to a nearby hospital.

About three hours later, 49ers spokesman Aaron Salkin confirmed that Herrion had been pronounced dead. The cause of death was not immediately known.

"This is a colossal tragedy for the 49ers and the entire NFL community," Salkin said. "We still do not know all the details. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Herrion family."

The death comes a little more than four years after offensive lineman Korey Stringer of the Minnesota Vikings died of heatstroke during a training camp practice on a day during which the heat index soared to 110.

Since Stringer's death, NFL teams have increased their efforts to teach players about hydration and how to manage the heat. They have been experimenting with sensors to measure players' core body temperatures, although those by themselves wouldn't be able to prevent a heat-related death.

Temperatures were in the mid-60s with 50 percent humidity Saturday night in Denver, although experts say heatstroke can occur even in cool conditions.

After the game, Nolan said he had no comments about San Francisco's 26-21 loss to the Broncos.

"There are more important things on our mind than the game," he said. "Right now, our thoughts and prayers are with Thomas Herrion."

Shortly after that statement, the Niners got dressed and boarded buses that took them to the Denver airport for their flight back to California. Salkin said coaches notified players of the tragedy at the airport.

"We didn't see anything happen," Niners defensive lineman Marques Douglas said. "I sat by my locker and prayed for him."

Herrion, a first-year player with the 49ers, played college ball at Utah and spent part of last season on the San Francisco and Dallas practice squads. He also played this season with the Hamburg Sea Dogs of NFL Europe.

Stringer's death was thought to be the first of its kind in the NFL. In 1979, St. Louis Cardinals tight end J.V. Cain died of a heart attack during training camp. Chuck Hughes, a wide receiver for the Detroit Lions, died of a heart attack Oct. 24, 1972, during a game in Detroit against the Chicago Bears.

In April, Arena Football League player Al Lucas of the Los Angeles Avengers died of a spinal-cord injury he endured while making a tackle.

[Tubby]

Miami awarded 2010 Super Bowl

By Harvey Fialkov, sun-sentinel.com

DAVIE - South Florida came up with a victory Thursday morning when the NFL announced that Super Bowl XLIV would be staged at Dolphins Stadium in 2010.

The announcement was made at the owners meeting near Detroit.

South Florida is already hosting Super Bowl XLI in 2007. This will be the ninth Super Bowl held in South Florida, the fifth at Dolphins Stadium. Only New Orleans has served as the host city as many as nine times.

Dolphins owner H. Wayne Huizenga, CEOs Joe Bailey and Bryan Wiedmeier are expected to be available for comment later today.

Atlanta, Houston and Miami made a final pitch for the marquee event at an NFL owners meeting in Romulus, Mich., a Detroit suburb about 25 miles from Ford Field, where the next Super Bowl will be played.

Atlanta and Houston entered the vote as favorites because Miami already had been picked for the 2007 game. After 2010, Miami will top New Orleans' record of nine for hosting the most Super Bowl games.

The 2010 Super Bowl originally was awarded to New York on the condition that a new stadium be built for the Jets. Those plans, however, fell through.

[Toad]

Chiefs Lineman Hospitalized in New Jersey After Collapsing

Oct 7, 2:10 AM (ET)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Kansas City offensive tackle Kevin Sampson was admitted to a New Jersey hospital Thursday morning after apparently suffering a seizure, Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil has confirmed.
"I'm very, very concerned," Vermeil told The Kansas City Star on Thursday. "I've been trying all afternoon to get information. I haven't heard from anybody."

The Jersey Journal in Jersey City reported in Friday's editions that Sampson, 24, called 911 at about 10 a.m. Thursday complaining about not feeling well. When an ambulance arrived at an apartment building in Hoboken, Sampson asked to be taken to a hospital, but collapsed.

The Journal reported that the 6-foot-4, 312-pound Sampson, in his second year with the Chiefs, was taken to the emergency room of St. Mary Hospital in Hoboken, and was passing in and out of consciousness.

"I'm shocked, I'm praying, and I'm frantically trying to get hold of someone," Joe Linta, Sampson's agent, said. He said he had tried to get information from the hospital but was denied.


A hospital spokesman told The Associated Press on Thursday night that no information about Sampson was available.

Vermeil had given the Chiefs the week off going into their bye weekend following their 37-31 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Sampson's first start.

A native of Westwood, N.J., Sampson played college football at Syracuse, and Linta had been planning to meet him Friday night at the Syracuse-Connecticut football game.

[Tubby]

I just checked the scoreboard and the Dolphins won. I left the house just before the half and they were down 21-3, did the Bills forget to return for the second half?

[d-o-b]

I just checked the scoreboard and the Dolphins won. I left the house just before the half and they were down 21-3, did the Bills forget to return for the second half?
don't ask how, but believe it or not the Dolphins scored 21 points in the last quarter!!

[JungleJim]

don't ask how, but believe it or not the Dolphins scored 21 points in the last quarter!!

easy Ferotte got KO'd:rolleyes:

[rogelah]

One of my grandsons is into football cards now. I don't know if he collects them in the true sense of collecting but he likes to read the stats and gets a lot of joy when someone asks him about the stats of a particular player.

I have looked up football cards on the internet and have no idea of what would be the best set of cards to give him as a gift for Hannukah.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Jim

[d-o-b]

One of my grandsons is into football cards now. I don't know if he collects them in the true sense of collecting but he likes to read the stats and gets a lot of joy when someone asks him about the stats of a particular player.

I have looked up football cards on the internet and have no idea of what would be the best set of cards to give him as a gift for Hannukah.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Jim
PSA (http://www.psacard.com/) is for collectors but it can give you some ideas.