导出博客文章Long gone but never forgotten, Friday is the 20th anniversary of perhaps the best non-NFL game in American football history.
http://www.broncosrookiestore.com/Broncos-Billy-Turner-Jersey/ . Arena Bowl X pitted a pair of quarterbacks who would move on to bigger things, trading scores throughout the night in a tiny auditorium filled with 11,411 fans dressed as farm animals in Des Moines, Iowa.What was it like to play Arena League football, and that game in particular? ESPN.com has the video and spoke with the quarterbacks -- Jay Gruden of the Tampa Bay Storm and Kurt Warner of the Iowa Barnstormers -- for details. (Theyre now known as Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden and surefire Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner, but youve probably made the connection already.)On this particular day, Grudens Storm held off Warners Barnstormers with a late goal-line stand to win 42-38.Warner: Jay was the best Arena quarterback up until that time. Im not sure what has happened since then, but I consider him the best Arena quarterback ever. He was a smart guy that maybe wasnt the most talented physically, but he had that intelligence and the ability to put the ball where he needed to. He threw a very catchable ball, and, at that point in his career, he was like a coach on the field. People make such a big deal about arm strength, but that doesnt matter as much if you can throw the ball with anticipation and accuracy and make it catchable, and he had those skills and he did them so well. He was the model quarterback of the Arena League. He really was. We all wanted to be like Jay.Gruden: At the time, we were pretty damn good and we had a strong reputation. Had we known what Kurt was going to turn into, it might have been a different story. But we were the intimidators.Warner: It was a great back-and-forth game, very much like what Arena football was in those days.Gruden: I remember Steve [Houghton] hit me about six times, and one time he hit me in the end zone and I fell into the security guard back behind the wall. It was fun. Those were my favorite kinds of games.Warner: Ive always said, if everything was equal, from money to retirement to endorsement opportunities -- all that stuff -- if everything was equal, Id play Arena football over the NFL. It was built for quarterbacks. It was just backyard football. You ran the ball 4 or 5 yards per game. It was always a two-minute drill. There was always pressure on the quarterback to score. If you didnt score on one possession, you might lose. Those scenarios to me were so much fun.?(Note: Warner and Gruden combined for nine touchdown passes in the game.)Gruden: I loved the crowd. It was like 9,000 [actually, 11,411] people packed in this little barn dressed like farm animals screaming. I can remember Johnnie [Harris] fighting a fan who had grabbed him. It was so loud you couldnt hear from me to you. It was a blast. It was a lot of fun.Warner: It was a typical, last-team-with-the-ball-wins type of game, and thats exactly what we had the chance to do. We drove inside the 5-yard line.Gruden: [T]hey complained about their guy getting called out of bounds at the 3. They thought he got in. Oh, boohoo. But they had a first-and-goal at the 3 and we stopped them four plays in a row.Warner: We werent able to finish inside. We had the chance to win and I didnt make the plays to finish the deal. It was a classic Arena game where you were just going back and forth with guys making plays all over the place.Gruden: We had to get one first down, and I threw a pass out to Stevie Thomas on the left. Game time.Warner: I dont think theres any question that the Arena League allowed me to flourish. I played three years in a league where the quarterback wasnt supposed to be stopped. We never wanted to kick. When I went into the NFL, I had that same mentality. We were very good on top of that. But we had that mentality [with the St. Louis Rams]. We were not going to punt. We were going to score every time.Gruden: We were all young guys trying to get the chance Kurt got. I tell you what, he had a quick release and he was accurate. He showed no fear in the pocket. For quarterbacks, say what you want, you learn a lot about the position playing Arena ball as far as anticipation, timing and getting the ball out of your hand. That was a different era. We had defensive linemen playing offensive line, so the pressure was a lot different as far as the pass rush was concerned. It was a great experience making the tight window throws on the goal line, anticipation throws, fades, touch. It was good.Warner: When you think back to Jay in those days, you think about a coach on the field, how he handled things and managed things. The way he led his teams, to championships and just on the field, its absolutely no surprise the kind of offensive mind hes become and the success hes had as a head coach. He was a very fiery competitor, but a great leader and a very smart player -- you see all of that now in his current job.
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http://www.broncosrookiestore.com/Broncos-Adam-Gotsis-Jersey/ . The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Lions have not announced the hiring, which was first reported by ESPN. Lombardi, the grandson of former Green Bay Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi, has been an offensive assistant on Sean Paytons New Orleans staff since 2007.
http://www.broncosrookiestore.com/ . -- Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson asked his players a simple question during Fridays morning shootaround: How many of them had ever been on a team 14 games over . MOSCOW -- For the second year in a row, Mo Farah did the double. The British runner became only the second man to hold both the 5,000 and 10,000-meter titles from both the Olympics and the world championships at the same time. "Its amazing. Theres not many athletes who have done that. Only the great Kenenisa Bekele, who has achieved so many things," said Farah, who defended his 5,000 title Friday at Luzhniki Stadium. "And to be able to achieve what he has achieved is just an honour." Farah barely lost the 10,000 at the last worlds two years ago in South Korea, but rebounded to win the 5,000. Then, running at home at the London Olympics, Farah won both distance events. Bekele is the only other man to have ever held both the Olympic and world 5,000 and 10,000 titles at the same time. The Ethiopian great won his Olympic titles at the 2008 Beijing Games and then repeated that feat at the 2009 worlds in Berlin. On Friday, Farah broke away from the pack with about 600 metres to go and fended off challenges from Isaiah Koech of Kenya and Hagos Gebrhiwet of Ethiopiia in the home straight.
http://www.broncosrookiestore.com/Broncos-Jeff-Heuerman-Jersey/. He won in 13 minutes, 26.98 seconds. Going in to the last lap, Gebrhiwet and Koech were gaining on Farah. But the Briton stayed ahead and down the stretch produced the trademark kick that has made him the man to beat. "I had a stitch from about eight laps to go and I was kind of pushing my stomach in, but then the pace slowed down and I tried to forget about it and come through," Farah said. "I enjoyed tonight and now Im looking forward to a bit of time off and spending it with the family." Gebrhiwet ended up with the silver in 13:27.26, one-thousandth of a second ahead of Koech, who was credited with the same time for bronze. Two years ago, Farah was only seconds away from his first long-distance double, but Ibrahim Jeilan of Ethiopia nipped him at the line, leaving him with silver. "I never thought in my career that Id be able to achieve something like this," said Farah, who became Britains most decorated track athlete ever with his fifth major title. "Anything is possible I guess."
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