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Green Bandwagon: Front Page Posts found this 7/17/2008 on sports.yahoo.com [flag]
NEW YORK (AP)—The NFL is stepping up its monitoring of on-field player activities to ensure that no one is flashing the hand signals of street gangs. The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that the league had hired experts to look at game tapes and identify players or team officials who might be using suspected gang signals. Violators would be warned and disciplined if the episodes recurred. ... [link]

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So Much For Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Published 7/17/2008 by Jim at Green Bandwagon: Front Page Posts
The NFL has what apparently should be called the Paul Pierce Rule to crack down on its players using gang signs in games. Here's the Pierce story, with the much talked about image below. via multimedia.heraldinteractive.com

Pierce Triggers NFL Tape Reviews for Gang Signs
Published 7/17/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (4Real) at The Beardown
Here at the Bear Down we have talked a couple of times about the state of the NFL and how there is an ever increasing number of players who are getting in trouble off the field. Well the NFL is now wondering if it has a lot to do with your background, or more specifically in this case, gang affiliation. Dom and I have had conversations about why there shouldn’t be a team in Las Vegas and about the added temptations that come with placing an 18 year old millionaire in a city that can so easily break you. With recent shootings and deaths around the league the problem has become an epidemic. Well now it looks like the NFL will be looking into the ...

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