NFL

The Raymond James scoreboard, in safer and some-more staid times. (Getty Images)

– After an intensely unsatisfactory deteriorate in that they went 4-12 and ranked 27th in points scored, a Tampa Bay Buccaneers finally illuminated adult their possess scoreboard. Sadly, they did so in a offseason, and it was literally instead of figuratively. According to internal reports, several motorists alerted 911 about 4:30 a.m. Saturday morning when they saw that a scoreboard during Raymond James Stadium had held fire. Apparently, a orator complement above a north scoreboard was removing a bit hot. We now know that fun announcers will overuse by a 2012 deteriorate whenever a Bucs indeed go into double digits. [CBS Tampa]

– According to some tiny sportswear retailers, Nike is already shutting them out of a jersey sales process. The association will take over a central make of central and reproduction jerseys this year, and from a sound of it, smaller stores would have a improved possibility of creation an NFL group and removing their jerseys that way. Some stores in New York and New Jersey, who would unequivocally like to sell Giants replicas right about now, are removing this message, instead of a one observant their comment will automatically switch over from Reebok: “Thank we for your new seductiveness in opening a Nike account. … We dynamic your business does not fit in Nike’s altogether growth plans.” [NJ.com]

– The doubt is being asked some-more and some-more mostly — could increases in concussions, and a miss of anything to truly fight a arise in such injuries from high propagandize by a NFL, eventually take football down as America’s number-one sport? Add one some-more name to a list of guys who played football during a top level, though wouldn’t inspire their kids to do so during this indicate — Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman.

While Aikman says that a NFL is “very endangered about concussions,” he also believes that “the long-term viability, to me anyway, is rather in doubt as distant as what this diversion is going to demeanour like 20 years from now.” [L.A. Times]

– Arizona Cardinals conduct manager Ken Whisenhunt believes that Kevin Kolb and John Skelton, both of his intensity starting quarterbacks, can be “knuckleheads during times.” In truth, a “knucklehead” was a man who suspicion Kolb was value a $60 million understanding in a initial place. [CSN Philly]

– Would Seattle be a many appealing end for a healthy Peyton Manning? In 2011, a Seahawks might have been a many apparent instance that a NFL is now a quarterback-driven league. Pete Carroll and John Schneider have finished an extraordinary pursuit in rebuilding a group that was decimated by former group boss Tim Ruskell, though a miss of an chosen quarterback was flattering vivid on a field. The Seahawks would have to trade half their breeze to get adult high adequate to bravery one of a dual chosen quarterbacks in this year’s preference process, and a giveaway representative marketplace doesn’t yield any apparent answers. [National Football Post]

– Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Asante Samuel recently asked his Twitter supporters where they’d like to see him go if his stream group traded him (Note to Asante: Pretty most everybody who covers a joining thinks you’re going to get cut in a income purge.) In any case, seeking a garland of Philly sports fans to tell we where to go isn’t unequivocally a correct move. [Twitter]