Zitat des Tages über NFL:
The NFL has gone a long way to Disney-fy its image, but it's not Disney. It's the MMA. It's a violent, brutal human war, with rules. The same guy who says, 'I'm going to rob everybody,' is the same guy who would be successful in the NFL.
We will always make sure player health and safety is our No. 1 priority in the NFL.
When I didn't go to church during my first two years in the NFL, I didn't know how it would impact me as a person. It was hard to go six or seven months without church.
Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'
I really get excited when we win. I get really upset when we don't, and I hope that still has a place in the NFL.
Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.
School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the medical aspects of the game, and to assess the risks to the students in their charge. Colleges have a moral right to that information for the same reasons.
I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature.
I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and 'Monday Night Football.' Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.
The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.
The NFL is one of the few sports where it's possible to tear things down and start again.
I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.
I've always thought it's a great privilege to be a part of the NFL. Every day, you just treasure it.
It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. At the same time, I realize that my success isn't just because of what I do out there.
Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.
I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.
My job is to protect the integrity of the NFL and to make sure the game is as safe as possible.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.
The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.
I would have dreams all the time about me playing in the NFL. Every day I woke up, I said to myself, you know, I'm going to work hard, you know, this day to get to that next level.
I operated a professional football team in L.A. By no means was it the NFL, but I understand what it takes on some level to build and operate a professional sports enterprise in Los Angeles.
I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books.
I don't go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL's Sunday Ticket. So I'll watch the games, take notes.
I played one year of fantasy football in high school. You really get into it. It makes more fans of the NFL, and people love talking about it. They'll come up to me and say, 'Why did you throw an interception? You ruined my fantasy team!' Or they're happy because they got you for a bargain.
I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.
Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room.
I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.
As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific - you're talking all the time.
Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.
When I was15 years old, I couldn't look at the NFL and look on TV and say, 'Boy, there's a head coach, African American. That's something I'd like to do.'
In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.
You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.
Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do that.'
I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time.
I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.
