Archive for July, 2010


It doesn’t get much better than being able to watch the big football games on Saturday and Sunday during the fall season. Football is a great sport to plan an event around regardless if it is an NFL or NCAA game. The 3 items below will give you an idea as to why football parties can help you have a great weekend and have a more than memorable weekend with friends and family members.

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Despite losing to the New Orleans Saints in their NFL preseason opener 17-7, the Cincinnati Bengals had a lot to be happy about. Most significantly, they were elated over the return of QB Carson Palmer after he’d missed most of the last NFL season. His solid performance gave them even more to be happy about despite being on the wrong end of the final score. When you live in Cincinnati, however, you’re used to having to take what you get so Palmer’s serviceable performance led to mass celebration in the streets of ‘The Queen City’.

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After a local resident tipped the police off to suspicious activity, Cumbria Police stopped and searched Stephen McRoy, he was carrying a drawstring bag which contained a pair of football boots, this is not unusual for a man of his age, but inside them was a hoard of class A drugs including heroin, cannabis and ecstasy.

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After a long and fantastic year on football manager 2010 we are now looking forward to the launch of football manager 2011. The greatest job on earth is back and is set for release on the 8th of October 2010. This is the earliest yet release date of football manager; recent years have seen release dates of:

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In a NFL preseason game characterized by rainy weather, sloppy field conditions and a quick exit for both teams starters, the Miami Dolphins outlasted their in-state rivals the Jacksonville Jaguars by a 12-9 score. Miamis game winning score came on a 33 yard touchdown strike from Chad Henne to tight end Ernest Wilford.

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American football has grown an enormous worldwide fan base because the American Professional Football Association was formed in 1920, using the first game being played on October 3rd of that year. From that day on the sport has grown to be what it is today with a bigger fan base in America than Baseball, and a fan base that follows every season of American Football avidly from every corner from the globe. The NFL was born out of the APFL two years later in 1922 and eventually became the Major League of American Football.

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Did you see this coming? I do not suppose anyone did but what you have been reading across the internet as well as press outlets are true. Tim Tebow’s jersey is certainly the number one seller in the entire NFL. Yes, your entire national football league. No professional football player is selling more jerseys than Tim Tebow right now.

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Following the events that took place the night of August 9, 2009 in Canton, Ohio it has come to light that an epidemic is spreading across the United States at an alarming rate. There is no known cure for this disease that has been described as a fever. Top health officials are in meetings but feel the outlook is bleak.

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Referee decisions have long caused controversy on and off the pitch and many argue that the introduction of technology to the decision making process would completely rule out any human error. In the recent world cup in South Africa there were numerous examples, particularly when England scored against Germany a goal that what was witnessed by millions but unfortunately not the ref. Many fans claim that had this goal been counted the unfortunate outcome would have been much different.

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With the four year gaps, the advancements in technology between one world cup and the next really show, this year almost every household has a supersize HD TV available, at that last world cup these were priced out of the range of most consumers. This year many pubs showed the games in 3D and this market is emerging as the next big trend with televisions, undoubtedly this will be the norm by the next world cup. This raises the question of what the future holds for the beautiful game, how will we enjoy it, how will they play it? There are a variety of theories that are perfectly plausible; the only question is how soon it will come. Here is a selection of theories of what football will be like in 2020.

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