The NFL Rules Committee recently passed a ban on defenders tackling a Quarterback while they're on the ground.
Word on the street is that Scott Pioli - #2 on my list of General Managers The Chiefs should hire - is now the General Manager/Head of Football Operations/what-have-you for the Kansas City Chiefs. Pioli is the Vice President of Player Personnel for the New England Patriots and is - as I stated in my article - responsible behind Bill Belichick for the New England Patriots three Super Bowl dynasty. More details as they develop.
Hey, remember when the Kansas City Chiefs were actually good? It may seem like a distant memory today, but the Chiefs weren't always a shameful disappointment. Once upon a time there lived a man named Marty Schottenheimer. Schottenheimer was the head coach of the Chiefs from 1989 to 1998 and all was well. During Schottenheimer's 9 year stint as head coach the Chiefs went 101-58, a feat which seems unbelievable in an age when Herm Edwards and Carl Peterson can barely muster two wins in their last thirty games... The last couple of years have been rough for Chiefs fans, but things could get a whole lot better very soon. Carl Peterson recently resigned (read: was shit-canned) from the Chiefs and the franchise is looking for a new General Manager. Enter Marty Schottenheimer...
Clark Hunt relinquished Carl Peterson of all three of his official titles today: General Manager/President & CEO (I don't care what anyone says: He "resigned" on paper only. He was fired, plain and simple. Carl would have stayed with that team forever if they'd let him). Already there are rumors of the Chiefs going after Marty Schottenheimer and Scott Pioli...both of whom were on my list of potential replacements I posted on this page months before today's breaking news.
I love the Chiefs...and have for almost 20 years. Ever since the 1991 season when my dad and I would don our red shirts every Sunday and watch Steve DeBerg and Christian Okoye lead the "Martyball" offense, and Derrick Thomas and Neil Smith hammer out a crushing defense, I've rarely missed a game. So, you can see why - being as I wasn't around to watch the wretched Chiefs of the 70s and 80s - it hurts to watch a team I'm so used to seeing in playoff contention (or at the very least winning 7 or 8 games) play the way they have the last few years.
Serious, swimming and volleyball? I can barely sit through an NBA game, why would I want to watch an all-star American team crush the national hopes of Lithuania, Japan and the Ivory Coast? It just seems like there isn't any competition there. How about the weightlifting competition? Yawn... Gymnastics? Nope... Uh, track and field? There is a reason they only air this crap once every four years, it's boring. I'm just glad the Olympics take place in the summer when there is better stuff to do. The Winter Olympics aren't so bad, it's like a legitimate version of the X-Games... but with figure skating. Oh well, at least the games only last a couple weeks. 
You heard it here first...
FROM NFL.COM
Brett Favre will be trading one shade of green for another as a member of the Jets.
The New York Jets have acquired quarterback Brett Favre from the Green Bay Packers, the team announced in a statement early on Thursday morning.
All in all I was very pleased with my mass MMA weekend, and the two top pound for pound fighters in the world both made a case for being number one. But the real question is, will Affliction live to see another day? Everyone knows they dropped a pretty penny making this card happen. So who won the battle in what could be a war later on down the road for lead promoter in the fast rising sport of MMA? Well that might be an overstatement seeing as Affliction has one decent show under their belt and the UFC puts on 12 or more solid shows a year...