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The National Football league called NFL.
Buffalo Bills vs New England Patriots
Match scheduled:
Date: 26-09-2010
Time: 17:00 until 20:30
Week 3 - NFL Regular Season 2010/2011
he league also is developing a workplace conduct program in the wake of a locker room incident in which the New York Jets acted unprofessionally toward a female television reporter from Mexico. Did the tabloids — and tabloid television — have a field day with that.
"It is getting harder to deflect attention," said Syracuse University professor of pop culture Robert Thompson. "Hollywood in the 1930s and '40s could completely make stories go away. The NFL has been known for being to able to control its message, but with stories like these ... it is very difficult to control those kinds of messages and even the information coming.
"A perfect example of that" is the Jets-TV Azteca reporter incident, he added.
The Jets don't have the only locker room issues. Their co-owner of the New Meadowlands Stadium, the Giants, had safety Antrel Rolle — in his first season with the team, by the way — complained about, well, just about everything, including a lack of player leadership. That followed running back Brandon Jacobs griping about losing his starting job earlier in the season, then unintentionally tossing his helmet into the Indianapolis crowd on Sunday night, for which Jacobs was fined $10,000 by the league.
Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall believes he also should be Washington's defensive coordinator; anybody wonder if he has designs on other jobs in DC, too, with the elections coming up in six weeks?
For all the tumult away from the field, there has been plenty of upheaval on it. Quarterback, the position coaches insist must be the most stable, is a mess in many cities, from Philadelphia to Charlotte to Oakland and back to Buffalo.
Already, eight teams have used backup quarterbacks in some manner, and the Bills are switching from Trent Edwards to Ryan Fitzpatrick on Sunday. Pittsburgh already has gone through its third-stringer and fourth-stringer and will start Charlie Batch at Tampa Bay. Leftwich was waived by the Steelers for Week 2, reclaimed on Monday.
But even if fans are paying attention to everything else, they also continue to tune into NFL telecasts, the most popular thing on the tube this time of year. Of course, anyone who prefers to focus on the negative will point out there already have been three TV blackouts (Tampa, San Diego, Oakland) when there were 20 all of last season.
There also have been 19 games decided by seven or fewer points, the most at this point in NFL history. Of the eight teams at 2-0, six did not make the playoffs last year: Chicago, Houston, Kansas City, Miami, Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay
