Tribune Co. To Broadcast Six NFL Network Games for Free
bizoffootball.com 9/3/2008 — Tribune Company today announced that it has obtained the local market over-the-air broadcast rights for six National Football League games carried by the NFL Network during the regular season. The agreement allows Tribune's stations in New York, Dallas, San Diego, New Orleans, Denver, and ...

Power Rankings: Dark horses on hold, Colts, Pats chalk picks - NFL - CBSSports.com Live Scores, Standings and Stats
sportsline.com 9/3/2008 — Updated Sept. 2 That team is in there somewhere, buried among the dregs of the NFL. There might even be two of them. I call them "The Shockers," those teams that come from nowhere to make the playoffs in the NFL when nobody sees it coming. As I ...

Super Bowl Buzz Kill: Chargers
thehaternation.blogspot.com 9/3/2008 — Not often you get a Dead Kennedy's reference in a football preview.

Saints Packing Up & Marching To Indianapolis?
passitdeep.com 9/4/2008 — My freshman Geology professor at the University of Connecticut, Robert Thorson, once wrote a piece in the Hartford Courant proclaiming that rebuilding New Orleans after Katrina was useless and that no matter what improvements they planned to make there was no way to fully protect the city. ...

Week 1 Running Back Rankings
ustailgate.com 9/4/2008 — 1. LaDanian Tomlinson (San Diego Chargers) vs. Carolina LT opens up the season against the Panthers. Tomlinson always gets his yardage on the ground and in the air. Hopefully Carolina can keep it close so the Bolts don't rest LT towards the end of the game. 125 total yds, 2 TD Ranks 1-15 ...

NFL rankings — L.A. Times - Pro Football 9/4/2008
Los Angeles Times' pro football writer Sam Farmer ranks the league's teams 1-32: > 1. New England -- If Tom Brady is healthy, Patriots are the team to beat.

No surprise: LT 1 of 5 Chargers captains — Latest Sporting News Articles for NFL 9/4/2008
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- After the San Diego Chargers lost at Jacksonville in mid-November to fall to 5-5, ...

NFL Season Preview: Patriots, Saints To Meet in Super Bowl XLIII — Bleacher Report - NFL 9/4/2008
There’s no need to ask—we are more than ready for some football. As a matter of fact, I’ve had the Monday Night Football theme song stuck in my head for seventy-two straight hours. It’s impossible to accurately describe ...

NFL Week One Predictions: New York Jets Among Upset Victims — Bleacher Report - NFL 9/4/2008
Week One of the NFL is finally upon us. The Super Bowl champion Giants open the NFL season at home against Washington Redskins on Sept. 4. Brett Favre makes his debut for the Jets on Sunday, and Aaron Rodgers takes over the controls in Green Bay, on ...

Why You Should Bet on the Raiders This Season — Bleacher Report - NFL 9/4/2008
There are many reasons that cause many of us to bet. We either think the odds are in our favor, or the game can't really be that hard. But it is no laughing matter, some people such as myself, love to gamble, and sometimes push our luck to far. ...