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look for mitchell to be signed tonight later tonight or by tomarrow

« No Deal | Main | Hold The Phone On Leach » No Leach The Texans matched the Giants' four-year offer sheet to FB Vonta Leach today, leaving the Giants still 0-for-free agency. Jerry Reese will be with the rest of the Giants' front office in Phoenix for league meetings that run through Wednesday... I don't know what that means, but maybe getting out of the office for a while will be nice for him. I'm off to hoops.

Prime Time Openers: Saints-Colts, Giants-Cowboys Posted Mar 26th 2007 11:09AM by Michael David Smith Filed under: Colts, Cowboys, NY Giants, Saints, NFL Media Watch, Dallas, Indianapolis, New Orleans, New York ESPN will televise the unveiling of the NFL schedule next month (yes, ESPN actually paid the NFL for the rights to the announcement), but Peter King of SI.com reports today that the two opening-weekend NBC prime time games will be the New Orleans Saints vs. the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday, Sept. 6 and the New York Giants vs. the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, Sept. 9. The Thursday opener usually goes to the defending champions, so it's no surprise that the Colts are hosting. It is a bit of a surprise that the Saints are the opponent, though. Because the Saints are an NFC team, that's a game that would usually go to Fox, and Fox can't be happy that one of its two opportunities to show Peyton Manning has just been given to NBC. Cowboys-Giants is a good rivalry between two teams coming off playoff seasons, but it's not a huge game in terms of the 2007 expectations for either team. It is, however, a sign of just how marketable the NFL thinks the Manning family is: Although the NFL can't give us another Manning vs. Manning opener, it is giving us both Manning brothers in prime time to start the season.Permalink | Email this | Comments [2]

I dont know he has 88 tackles and 30 assist last year totaling 118 tackles . He was the chiefs leading tackler last year also. If we pick him up we wont lose a pick or a player either http://mvn.com/nfl-giants/2007/03/26/kawik...new-york-today/

I wounder how much nascar will fine Kyle bush for his after race comments? that go something like this . "These carse are awefull ,I hate these cars they suck .."

are you ready for a decline in nascar?

Not so fast Now I feel if the Giants say its a no deal because of his neck ,His Agent must be trying to shop his Client around hoping the rumors of the Giants still wanting him will help him to land a job. using the Giants as leverage even if the Giants are not interested . he must be trying to get a deal done before everyone catches on . Everything is "FLUID" ?...yeah right fluid flows down hill and stops at the lowest posible point.

# 87 Darius Watts Position: WR Height: 6-2 Weight: 190 Born: 12/19/1981 College: Marshall NFL Experience: 3 we got him of from the Broncos Practice squad last year WATTS STATS nothing to see here people move along

I am saying if the trade went down and wilson got seriously hurt (because his neck is in question) Shanny would still have tuck and would have ended up the better end of the bargin .

Dub brakes all his fingers in a odd carhood slamming accident and has to use his nose to peck at the keyboard like a chicken to continue communications with the world wide intraweb . But while scanning between sportswrath and granny does the farm he got to overzelous down on grannys farm and knocked him self out cold by beating he his head into the keyboard while posting pics in grannys "going down on the farm" thread

LINK to the BLUESCREEN Nems week just went from orgasmic to ohfuckit

WOW that was close we almost got screwed with damaged goods one wrong hit and he could of been leaving the field for a wheel chair while shanny would be smiling with tuck still on the field .

I can not belive Mark Martain Is not going to be there he is off to his best start in his career and he is going to let it all go to the way side to go race with his son and some Dirtbike racer my only hope is that his son talks some sence into him and tell him to go for it . This is his last chance for a shot at the cup and so far his best starting shot. it just makes me

Awesome I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison and I went to pick her up in the rain but before I could get to the station in my pick up truck She got runned over by a damned old train

YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Giants are coming to my nephews school to play basketball for a fund raiser this saturday tickets are $10.00 autograph session at the end ok ok so it's not the 2006 Giants scheduled to appear are Joe Morris :worshippy: .......... pending (but according to 420 Little Joe has other plans) Stephen Baker "the Touchdown maker " Dan O'leary (TE ) damn now I draw a blank as to the rest I think one is a Williams but cant remember I fit was Perry, Shaun or Rodney I will have to talk to my Nephew tonight and write down the rest.

8.5 million seems like a lot of money to offer when he was only getting $850,000. Makes you wonder why we offered so much . Is this our big splash A no name (no offence to leach) fullback. He has been with 3 teams in about 3 years and I never heard of him before this. His Agent Ralph Vitolo sounds like he has his lips firmly planted around the Giants ass.

ELI gets 5-year extention BY ARTHUR STAPLE AND BOB GLAUBER Email this story March 19, 2007 Giants fans have complained about the team's unwillingness to spend in the free-agent market, but the Giants have invested heavily in their own players this offseason. They not only re-signed center Shaun O'Hara to a five-year, $19-million deal hours before the free-agency signing period began March 2, but they also spent big money to make sure Eli Manning remains their quarterback for many years to come. Forget about Manning's inconsistency in his first three seasons; he's here to stay. The Giants exercised a "buy-back" of Manning's contract earlier this month, a move that keeps the fourth-year quarterback under contract through the 2012 season, Newsday has learned. Had the Giants not made the move, Manning would have become a free agent after the 2007 season. The move wasn't cheap. According to league sources familiar with Manning's contract, the Giants gave him a $5-million buy-back bonus as well as a $3-million roster bonus. His base salary for the 2007 season will be $6.45 million. It increases to $8.45 million in 2008 and $8.95 million in 2009. Manning signed a six-year, $54-million deal in July 2004, but the deal would have voided after four seasons because Manning achieved playing-time incentives in his first season. Giants sources last night confirmed that the move was made and that the team had planned it well in advance. A team source said the money allocated to Manning has not been a factor in the team's reluctance to spend big on free agents. The source indicated that there were not enough quality players available in free agency worth pursuing, and that the huge contracts earned by some players was not in line with what the Giants believed their value to be. Giants general manager Jerry Reese could not be reached for comment.

If we sign Leach do you think there is a market out there for Finn? Could we trade him for a pick or even maybe another straight up deal. Like the Carter/Droughns deal ?

I heard on Espn Radio it was like 12 million for 3 years thats not so massive we could of afforded that but it would of left us with only what 1.5 million ? or we could of gave him 1 mill this year and re structured the other 11 million later then I found this LINK oh and Fire-coughlin I was just pulling your chain .

or O.J. for that matter

Judge Calls Strahan Deadbeat for Only Paying Wife Half of $6.5M Settlement Posted Mar 17th 2007 4:08PM by Ryan Wilson Filed under: NY Giants, NFL Gossip As a professional athlete making a crapload of money, if you ever needed a reason not to get married, well, I present Exhibit A: Michael Strahan. A judge scolded Michael Strahan, defensive end for the Giants, because he has yet to pay his ex-wife $6.5 million, according to a newspaper report. In January, Judge James Convery awarded Jean Strahan $15.3 million and set child support at $18,000 a month. There are few things worse than a deadbeat who doesn't pay child support, but on what planet should a guy have to fork over $18,000 a month? Unless, maybe, he has a couple thousand kids. And that's Strahan's argument. To his credit, he's paid more than half the $6.5 million, but apparently the judge was unmoved. According to the AP, the judge said Strahan acted in "bad faith" by not paying the money, and denied a request by Strahan to avoid making the payment while his appeal of the award was still being processed. That seems fair. I mean, there's no way in hell a family can live on almost four million bucks. Just can't see it happening. Jeebus, what is it with New York Giants players and their former spouses?

Now All he has to do is learn to put this in the general football section it has not one thing to do with Giants football .

Giants Offer FB Vonta Leach a Contract? Posted Mar 17th 2007 8:38AM by Dan Benton Filed under: NY Giants, NFC East, New York, NFL Free Agency It's been a wild offseason in the NFL thus far. Not so much because of the signings, but because of the back and forth reporting. Since March first it's been all about who can get what in the papers first. A classic example was the Cato June nonsense. One paper would say he was visiting the Giants while another would say he wasn't. That trend continued yesterday when Ernie Palladino of "Giants Journal" reported that the Giants had made restricted free agent fullback Vonta Leach a contract offer. That report was later contradicted by Ralph Vacchiano of "The Blue Screen" when he claimed the Giants had not offered Leach a contract. So did they, or didn't they? I honestly have no idea but these reports do tell me one thing -- the Giants are interested in Leach. Whether or not they pry the restricted free agent away from Houston remains to be seen but it does indicate the Giants are looking to play smash mouth football next year. Leach is a monstrous run blocking fullback who would easily pave the way for Brandon Jacobs and Reuben Droughns. He would add a dominating element in what is shaping up to be a very devastating running attack. If the Giants do manage to sign Leach and the Texans do not match the offer, they would not owe any compensation because Leach entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent.

Are Bolts' uniform changes colored by few greenbacks? UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER March 17, 200 By Kevin Acee The Chargers' uniform change has some fans believing the alteration was fiscally motivated, suspicions that are off-base but not entirely without basis. “Sure, eventually we will make money,” Chargers Chief Operating Officer Jim Steeg said. “It's going to take awhile to recover what we've invested.” And as one sports marketing expert said, NFL teams' profit from merchandise sales “is not as big a deal as the retail numbers would suggest, but it is money.” The reality is that in a good year a team nets upward of $5 million on merchandise sales, according to the best estimates culled from sources and league retail sales figures. And that number does not figure to jump dramatically – in large part due to the NFL's revenue-sharing plan and partly because the Chargers are already among the league's top-selling brands. The team's new look was officially unveiled Wednesday before an invited crowd of sponsors and media at the U.S. Grant Hotel, as players modeled the game uniforms and helmets. Some merchandise is already on sale at the team's Qualcomm Stadium store and on its Web site. Replica jerseys won't be on shelves until the last week of April. Late last week, the public got its first look at the uniforms. The team will wear its new practice jersey at minicamps in May and June and in training camp beginning the end of July. Not until August will the entire team be seen in the new game jerseys. But already, amid the good and bad reviews from fans who have seen one-and/or two-dimensional pictures, there is a fairly common theme. Many believe the Chargers' change was driven simply by the desire to ignite merchandise sales and thus make more money. The team – not surprisingly – says revenue was not the reason for the change. This was the perfect time, it says, to give the current players their own style. The reality is this: “Every so often (teams) change to sell a whole new raft of stuff,” said Harvard Business School professor Stephen A. Greyser, who specializes in sports marketing. “ . . . It's not as big a deal as the retail numbers would suggest, but it is money. When a team changes uniforms, it does have economic benefits – primarily at the league level.” While NFL merchandise sales totaled $3.2 billion worldwide in 2006, according to License Global magazine, that is retail sales. In the socialist NFL economy, teams share approximately 12 percent of the wholesale price of an item. Based on that number and the approximate wholesale price of 40 to 50 percent of retail, it is a fair estimate to say that when a Terrell Owens or Michael Vick or Antonio Gates jersey is sold, each of the 32 NFL teams gets about 11 cents. “That's NFL math,” Brian McCarthy, the NFL's director of corporate communications, said of the even split. “People go ga-ga over the hundreds of millions of (sales),” Greyser said. “But I say, 'Wait a minute, they only get a percentage of wholesale.' ” The Chargers keep a higher percentage on items sold at its Qualcomm Stadium store or on the team's Web site. The team must still share those revenues with its operating partners. What the Chargers realize on sales of $4 million-plus at its stadium location and on Chargers.com is likely about $1 million, based on a sliding scale of percentages that differs between game days and the other 355 days of the year. “Maybe if we had five or six stores, that's a possibility,” Steeg said of realizing a significant profit off the change. “But not with one store.” The Chargers are also investing around $750,000 up-front to change everything from the carpet in their locker room to the letterhead on their stationery in order to reflect the new color scheme. The uniform change is expected to coincide with boosted sales of Chargers merchandise. But the team's success over the past three seasons can be credited with some of the increase. “We expect an incremental surge in Chargers merchandise,” McCarthy said. “But that's really based on the team's success. You get the feeling the team could go out there and wear the Bad News Bears' jerseys and they'd sell.” Between April 1, 2006, and Jan. 31, 2007, Chargers merchandise was the fifth-best selling among the league's teams. That's a rapid run up the rankings, in that the Chargers were in the bottom five just five years ago. Of course, in 2001 they were coming off a 1-15 season and are now building off a 14-2 season. David Carter, executive director of the USC Sports Business Institute, supported the idea that winning and marquee players (such as the Chargers have in LaDainian Tomlinson and Shawne Merriman) are paramount to merchandise sales. Carter did acknowledge style and colors can affect sales, pointing to the success of far-flung minor league teams in marketing their product. But he defended the Chargers against cynics. “I don't think a team that hasn't made material changes in two decades is guilty of shamelessly changing its mark and logo as other teams have historically been,” Carter said. “ . . . It seems to be appropriate to update the look and feel over time.” Notable The Chargers agreed to terms on a two-year deal with free-agent linebacker Carlos Polk. Polk is a reserve on the outside, though he started four games last season in place of the suspended Shawne Merriman. Polk is also a special teams standout and one of General Manager A.J. Smith's favorite players. Polk, a fourth-round pick in 2001, played last season after sitting the previous two while injured. Also yesterday, the Chargers signed linebacker Marques Harris, an exclusive-rights free agent, to a one-year contract.