Football (American) - July 2007

Seems like twenty thousand dollars from a dog fight would be a drop in the bucket compared to the multiple millions he receives from Atlanta, Nike, Upper Deck, etc.

So why would he bother with dog fighting to make just a few minor bucks? And by the way, I think hes guilty. I'm just curious about this situation because I live here in Virginia.

2007-07-31 00:49:54 · 16 answers · asked by vinny_says_relax 7

I own a football signed by him It almost 18 years old. how much would it go for?

2007-07-30 23:55:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

give me a star if you agree with me.

2007-07-30 23:20:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-30 23:09:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Have you seen Vick say a peep? If you were completely innocent and were astonished by the charges, wouldn't you say something? Even if it were just "just wait until you see I'm innocent." He has nothing to say, not because lawyers tell him not to talk, but because he is guilty. He hopes for the smallest chance that he will get by the accusations, but know he won't. Can't you people read body language? Just look at his guilt all over his face. Once you are indicted you are basically super ******. Mark my words that when a real trial comes and the evidence has to be put on the table, they will have him colder than they do now. Probably some pics from a camera phone or something. The inside man from the FBI said he saw him and you think the FBI can just bullshit their way through it all. Do you know what is on the line for all the people accusing him falsely? Just want everyone to know there is no need to post anymore questions like these. Is Vick innocent? What do you tnink about Vick?

2007-07-30 22:57:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Even if he is not found guilty do you think the NFL/NIKE etc will still want to have any connections with Vick? I mean wouldthat still make them look bad in any way (s)? I think they ought to lock him up for awhile..he sucks now sorry! (if he is guilty)

2007-07-30 22:51:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

He can still run that kind of business while in prison. Do you think its better to have him out restricted at home but make him pay more with $ ( I am talking like 1 million) and then make him do some kind of charity work for animals? What do you think?

2007-07-30 21:57:40 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am a fan so automatically my opinion (11-5) is overated
id like some opinions (seriosly i will report abuse)
consider we have Moss,Cooley,Awtwaan one of the best OL's
added Loundon Flecter to lb's and smoot,macklin, and landry to are
2ndery
NFL.com predictions had the whole NFC east 7-9 with the redskins first with a playoff birth.

2007-07-30 20:31:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Culpepper has said he wants to START. I assumed he wasn't considering teams that may be at the bottom of the league. However, he worked out with the Oakland Raiders, so that must not be the case. I still believe that he might fit best with either the Buffalo Bills or the Detroit Lions. Any thoughts? Are there circumstances with these teams I'm not aware of? Or are Jon Kitna and J.P. Losman actually better than Culpepper?

2007-07-30 19:47:53 · 18 answers · asked by RS 4

2007-07-30 19:41:54 · 17 answers · asked by rob j 1

i think its don shula but some ******* saying bill walsh

2007-07-30 18:54:12 · 13 answers · asked by bryan h 1

Jackie Chan, Barry Bonds, Shaq, and Ray Lewis

vs.

Hagrid (w/o wand), and Maximus(gladiator)


I say Hagrid and Maximus. Hagrid could beast on Shaq, Barry and Ray. And Maximus is too beastly for Jackie Chan's kung foo.

2007-07-30 18:15:42 · 3 answers · asked by Sammyboy 2

i say don shula but some ****** moron says bill walsh

2007-07-30 18:15:26 · 7 answers · asked by bryan h 1

2007-07-30 18:06:06 · 16 answers · asked by sunshine, rainbows, peace 1

is he turning heel

2007-07-30 18:01:00 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'll always remember watching 49er games as a young kid. They brought a lot of excitement and joy to me when I was younger. Watching the 49ers as a kid was a huge part of my childhood much like cartoons and playing sports with friends were.

Sundays were always a lot of fun when the the family would get together and watch the 49ers play. Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Dwight Clark, Ronnie Lott, Roger Craig, John Taylor....The list goes on and on. Those were the good old days.

It was a lot of fun watching the 49ers win Superbowls. Don't get me wrong I loved that, but I guess the best part about it was how the city and the community would rally around the team. Being a born San Franciscan I can honestly say that Bill Walsh and the 49ers made me proud to be not only a fan but a native of a great city and community.

What are your favorite memories of Bill Walsh and the 49ers?

2007-07-30 16:46:43 · 6 answers · asked by g-money 1

2007-07-30 16:44:49 · 10 answers · asked by Who Run It 2

Harrison, Moss, Smith, etc... take your pick.

2007-07-30 16:41:56 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Goodell is trying to clean up the image of the NFL. I give him that as a good thing. He is going to destroy the NFL with his habits inwhich he handles players that have had problems. Odell Thurman of the Bengals was suspended as we all know and applied to be reinstated. He did his time, paid for his mistakes and accomplished all requirements to be reinstated. Everyone makes mistakes and deserves a 2nd or 3rd chance depending on the violation. Odell is still a very young man and has had to learn things the hard way just like most other people. Goodell denied him reinstatement into the NFL. He wants Odell to mess up again. Goodell is taking this young mans life away without a chance to prove himself. Odell should be around the bengals players and staff in a positive atmosphere instead of on the streets where he would be down on himself and life and more than likely go down the wrong road. Goodell , give the young man a chance. If it happens again, you know its the end!!!

2007-07-30 16:06:24 · 12 answers · asked by Brad F 2

I heard Nike is cancelling his contract should they

2007-07-30 15:53:19 · 22 answers · asked by MARCO B 2

why cant credit be given to a team when its a team effort----

fact is, walsh stunk at stanford after he left the 49ers. carmen policy and dwight clark have done little in cleveland in the past ten years. lott, montana, rice all finished their careers elsewhere being quite productive for their respective teams.

to credit walsh as the person responsible for the 49ers success is quite inaccurate.

2007-07-30 15:40:18 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

yea us rats are into this kind of stuff to. =P

2007-07-30 15:36:49 · 10 answers · asked by chocochipdonut 1

2007-07-30 14:20:02 · 15 answers · asked by Twig81 1

2007-07-30 14:15:10 · 20 answers · asked by knowhim3am 2

Thanks for your help. Quantity of teams in your answer and noting the years those teams were a top passing team are key for a best answer.

2007-07-30 13:49:33 · 9 answers · asked by Zloar 4

2007-07-30 13:35:16 · 18 answers · asked by Affy 2

2007-07-30 13:30:50 · 18 answers · asked by hadesson12295 1

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Bill Walsh, the groundbreaking football coach who won three Super Bowls and perfected the ingenious schemes that became known as the West Coast offense during a Hall of Fame career with the San Francisco 49ers, has died. He was 75.

Walsh died at his Woodside home Monday morning following a long battle with leukemia.

"This is just a tremendous loss for all of us, especially to the Bay Area because of what he meant to the 49ers," said Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana, the player most closely linked to Walsh's tenure with the team. "For me personally, outside of my dad he was probably the most influential person in my life. I am going to miss him."

Walsh didn't become an NFL head coach until 47, and he spent just 10 seasons on the San Francisco sideline. But he left an indelible mark on the United States' most popular sport, building the once-woebegone 49ers into the most successful team of the 1980s with his innovative offensive strategies and teaching techniques.

The soft-spoken native Californian also produced a legion of coaching disciples that's still growing today. Many of his former assistants went on to lead their own teams, handing down Walsh's methods and schemes to dozens more coaches in a tree with innumerable branches.

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"The essence of Bill Walsh was that he was an extraordinary teacher," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. "If you gave him a blackboard and a piece of chalk, he would become a whirlwind of wisdom. He taught all of us not only about football but also about life and how it takes teamwork for any of us to succeed as individuals."

Walsh went 102-63-1 with the 49ers, winning 10 of his 14 postseason games along with six division titles. He was named the NFL's coach of the year in 1981 and 1984.

Few men did more to shape the look of football into the 21st century. His cerebral nature and often-brilliant stratagems earned him the nickname "The Genius" well before his election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993.

Walsh twice served as the 49ers' general manager, and George Seifert led San Francisco to two more Super Bowl titles after Walsh left the sideline. Walsh also coached Stanford during two terms over five seasons.

Even a short list of Walsh's adherents is stunning. Seifert, Mike Holmgren, Dennis Green, Sam Wyche, Ray Rhodes and Bruce Coslet all became NFL head coaches after serving on Walsh's San Francisco staffs, and Tony Dungy played for him. Most of his former assistants passed on Walsh's structures and strategies to a new generation of coaches, including Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden, Brian Billick, Andy Reid, Pete Carroll, Gary Kubiak, Steve Mariucci and Jeff Fisher.

Walsh created the Minority Coaching Fellowship program in 1987, helping minority coaches to get a foothold in a previously lily-white profession. Marvin Lewis and Tyrone Willingham are among the coaches who went through the program, later adopted as a league-wide initiative.

Walsh was diagnosed with leukemia in 2004 and underwent months of treatment and blood transfusions. He publicly disclosed his illness in November 2006.

Fellow Hall of Fame coach Marv Levy, who hired Walsh to his first college coaching job, last spoke to him about six weeks ago on the telephone.

"I asked him how he was doing, and he said he had come off a certain type of a treatment and he felt much more energy," Levy said. "But he told me then, he said, 'Marv, I don't have long.' He said it honestly. He was vibrant. Understood it. And yet, I was sad to hear it."


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Born William Ernest Walsh on Nov. 30, 1931 in Los Angeles, he was a self-described "average" end and a sometime boxer at San Jose State in 1952-53.

Walsh, whose family moved to the Bay Area when he was a teenager, married his college sweetheart, Geri Nardini, in 1954 and started his coaching career at Washington High School in Fremont, leading the football and swim teams.

Walsh was coaching in Fremont when he interviewed for an assistant coaching position with Levy, who had just been hired as the head coach at California.

"I was very impressed, individually, by his knowledge, by his intelligence, by his personality and hired him," Levy said.

After Cal, he did a stint at Stanford before beginning his pro coaching career as an assistant with the AFL's Oakland Raiders in 1966, forging a friendship with Al Davis that endured through decades of rivalry. Walsh joined the Cincinnati Bengals in 1968 to work for legendary coach Paul Brown, who gradually gave complete control of the Bengals' offense to his assistant.

Walsh built a scheme based on the teachings of Davis, Brown and Sid Gillman -- and Walsh's own innovations, which included everything from short dropbacks and novel receiving routes to constant repetition of every play in practice.

Though it originated in Cincinnati, it became known many years later as the West Coast offense -- a name Walsh never liked or repeated, but which eventually grew to encompass his offensive philosophy and the many tweaks added by Holmgren, Shanahan and other coaches.

Much of the NFL eventually ran a version of the West Coast in the 1990s, with its fundamental belief that the passing game can set up an effective running attack, rather than the opposite conventional wisdom.

Walsh also is widely credited with inventing or popularizing many of the modern basics of coaching, from the laminated sheets of plays held by coaches on almost every sideline, to the practice of scripting the first 15 offensive plays of a game.

After a bitter falling-out with Brown in 1976, Walsh left for stints with the San Diego Chargers and Stanford before the 49ers chose him to rebuild the franchise in 1979.

The long-suffering 49ers went 2-14 before Walsh's arrival. They repeated the record in his first season. Walsh doubted his abilities to turn around such a miserable situation -- but earlier in 1979, the 49ers drafted quarterback Joe Montana from Notre Dame.

Walsh turned over the starting job to Montana in 1980, when the 49ers improved to 6-10 -- and improbably, San Francisco won its first championship in 1981, just two years after winning two games.

Championships followed in the postseasons of 1984 and 1988 as Walsh built a consistent winner and became an icon with his inventive offense and thinking-man's approach to the game. He also showed considerable acumen in personnel, adding Ronnie Lott, Charles Haley, Roger Craig and Rice to his rosters after he was named the 49ers' general manager in 1982 and the president in 1985.

Walsh left the 49ers with a profound case of burnout after his third Super Bowl victory in January 1989, though he later regretted not coaching longer.

He spent three years as a broadcaster with NBC before returning to Stanford for three seasons. He then took charge of the 49ers' front office in 1999, helping to rebuild the roster over three seasons. But Walsh gradually cut ties with the 49ers after his hand-picked successor as GM, Terry Donahue, took over in 2001.

He is survived by his wife, Geri, and two children, Craig and Elizabeth.

Walsh's son, Steve, an ABC News reporter, died of leukemia at age 46 in 2002.

2007-07-30 13:07:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can anyone settle a disagreement between my husband and I...obviously we aren't really sports buffs. Who did Joe Montana quarterback and who did John Elway play for? What team did Bill walsh coach?

2007-07-30 12:26:47 · 19 answers · asked by loved one 2

I am 5'9", 220, very good hands(catching), very good throwing power and okay accuracy,very good awareness, love trucking people(LOL), and have no fears of being tackled, or trucked(as if anybody really does), uhhhh, oh, I have a strong upper body with good lower body strength, and have a very, very good reaction time. This will be my first time playing football on a "real" team since like '03, but play a lot at the local park.I'm thinkin' 'bout fullback or defensive lineman. What do you think?

All answers are greatly appreciated!

2007-07-30 12:17:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous