sports.yahoo.com - 7/17/2008
—
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. ...
Comments
Blog Reactions
So Much For Blood, Sweat, and Tears
CelticsBlog —
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
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 ...
Related Content
NFL Division Previews: NFC West
endzonebuzz.com 7/16/2008 — The NFL season is approaching quickly, and with that, EZB will be providing previews of each division in the league. Up today: the NFC West.
What To Expect: Carlton Powell
mvn.com 7/16/2008 — High on my want list for the 2008 draft was a defensive tackle. The biggest trainwreck that the Jim Bates experiment produced was at this position, from Dan Wilkinson to Jimmy Kennedy to Sam Adams. The aftermath was razor thin depth with the ...
NFL Is Looking For Gang Signs; Players Beware
milehighreport.com 7/16/2008 — The NFL has hired "gang experts" to review tape of touchdown celebrations to see if players are flashing any type of gang signs. Longtime NFL columnist Sam Farmer of the LA Times first reported the NFL is reviewing tape to see if players are ...
Democrats Eye A Cold One Outside Invesco
predominantlyorange.com 7/17/2008 — With one week until the beginning of training camp, it’s been a slow news week in Broncos Country . Don’t worry, folks. Things will pick up. Before you know it, training camp will wrap up, preseaon will begin, and then we’ll jump ...
The Story of Peyton Hillis
milehighreport.com 7/17/2008 — With yesterday's signing of Peyton Hillis to a rumoured 4 year contract, I looked over my notes from draft week and considered what we saw of him through the early camps. For some reason, I have the impression that Hillis may turn out to be one of ...
