New Orleans Underwater!

After the Saints won a Super Bowl, and have had a handful of Pro-Bowlers and numerous other awards, a new hurricane hit the New Orleans, hurricane Goodell.

The commisherner of the NFL Roger Goodell has finally penalized the Saints organization after the Saints had numerous players over multiple seasons receive “bounties” for injuring other teams player. One such bounty was on Bret Farve’s head in the NFC Championship, for $10,000.

The team was fined $500,000, stripped of two second round draft picks, one in the 2012 draft and one in the 2013 draft, the teams head coach Sean Payton has been suspended for the 2012 season. The Saints GM also will be suspended for half of the 2012 season. The suspensions are to follow, including the Saints former defensive coach.

The Saints will struggle over the next season due to the penalties of their actions. 

The Madness Begins

I do not need to go into detail about march madness,  since selection Sunday tens of millions of sports fans have filled out their brackets. The top ranked schools are Michigan State, North Carolina, the Kentucky, and Syracuse. In my own bracket i have three of the four schools in the final four. GO ORANGE.

THE END OF AN ERA

Since 1998 the Indianapolis Colts will have a new Quarterback. March 7th 2012 marks the end of Peyton Manning's career with the colts, during which time he lead them to 18 playoff games, 2 Super bowls, and one NFL Superbowl championship. 

The journey with the Colts was a long and successful one for Manning, he managed to bring the team from the worst in the NFL to a premier team for many years. Many sports fans tribute the location of the 2011 season's Superbowl to Peyton because of everything he did to put Indianapolis on the football map. 

The journey to his release started early in the year of 2011, he had his first of four surgeries on his neck, which would cause him to miss the entire 2011 season. The loss of Manning for a year became a catalyst for the future of the Colts franchise. A young quarterback at Stanford University has been the favorite for the overall draft pick of the 2012 draft since before the 2011 draft. Andrew Luck will be the first draft pick for the Colts and is the reason that Manning is currently searching for a new team. 

The Destination for Manning is unclear, however one thing is for sure, Peyton Manning will continue to make headlines over the next year. Manning Mania has officially started. 

RG3 #2?

After a stunning NFL combine in Indianapolis the top two draft picks have most likely all ready been chosen. With no shock to anyone Andrew Luck has already been told that the Indianapolis Colts will draft him first overall. Luck has been compared to Payton Manning by his style of play in college; however Robert Griffin III shocked and awed at the combine.

RG3's combine results are only comparable to those of Micheal Vick's results from 2001. Vick ran a 4.33 40-yard dash,  and a 38" vertical jump, RG3 ran a 4.41 and a 39" vertical jump. While it is difficult to draft a quarterback based on his measurable without his watching him throw at the combine; however RG3 has shown unbelievable accuracy over the last year at Baylor University, where he won the Heisman Award.

The Rams have the second overall pick, Jeff Fisher the head coach of the Rams has publicly stated they are willing to trade their second pick. Of all the teams who do not have an a QB the Browns are most likely to trade up and in order to draft RG3. Other possible teams who may trade up are the Redskins, Dolphins, Seahawks, or even the Bills.

 While the destination my not yet be curtain yet it appears RG3 is indeed #2.