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Coming back to Wembley for the third time was a strange experience. For the first time, the weather conditions were almost perfect, not too hot, not too cold and not a rain cloud in the sky. The PA system worked perfectly, getting into the stadium was easyùif you ignore the somewhat overzealous frisking that some of the crowd were gettingùand even the food was well above the usual standard served ...
1. That the weather in London stays good
It is a known fact that, for all of the NFLÆs hype about taking the game to England, the turf at Wembley Stadium is far from being up to NFL standard. In 2007 we had the mudbath that was the Dolphins/Giants game. Last year a sustained dry spell meant that the Steelers and Saints got to play ...
1. Can We Have A Week Off From Petulant Wideouts, Please
With the week seeing the end of two utterly pointless, mind-numbingly dull mini-dramas, can we please just have seven days of respite from preening, touchline hogging, divas?
Michael Crabtree takes the prize for the most infuriating, tedious and ultimately futile holdouts in NFL history. I was really, really hoping that he would screw his entire career up by deciding to ...
1. That JaMarcus Russell responds to the biggest insult ever dealt to a quarterback
Sports Illustrated's Peter King mused this week that Russell might be the next Ryan Leaf. Has a quarterback ever been more insulted? I'll admit that Russell hasn't exactly set the world alight with his performances over the last three seasons, but the next Leaf? Come on, he's got to go a long way further down before he ...
1. Can we have proper injury reports again, please?
The outcome of the Favre/Jets injury saga seems to have been that every team is now listing every injury suffered by any of its players, no matter how minor. This means we are rapidly approaching the point where the injury report will run to 1696 players, with the odd coach, cheerleader and TV color man thrown in for good measure.
I know that ...