NFL Media Day Weird & Wacky Stories

• January 30, 2013 • 20 Comments

D.J. Eberle steps in for an Ailing Angry Ward today. You can find D.J. on our partner site, RugbyWrapUp.com, every Sunday.

super-bowl-49ers-vs-ravensNEW ORLEANS, LA – Yesterday was NFL Media Day for this year’s Super Bowl, but the Weird & Wacky Stories started two days ago with the rumor that the New York Jets are interested in bringing in former #1 overall pick JaMarcus Russell. This comes on top of a veritable forest of NFL story trees to chop down, but we’ve got limited space here,  so we’ll focus on just three.

Could JaMarcus Russell really pull a NFL comeback off?

Can Jumbo JaMarcus pull off NFL comeback?!

JaMarcus Russell to the New York Jets: Russell is currently in the midst of making an NFL comeback. Yet, the former Oakland Raiders quarterback still weighs over 300 pounds. Either way, Russell has surrounded himself around the right people; Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk, former NFL quarterback Jeff Garcia and wide receiver Michael Clayton. After sitting out for a few years, Russell now misses the NFLand is working harder than ever to prove all of his naysayers wrong. Enter the New York Jets, who have reportedly started “exploratory discussions” about bringing in the overweight bust. Now, if I’m a Jets fan (which I’m not – Go Bills!) I’m scratching my head – to say the least. Jets ownership’s publicity stunt with Tim Tebow failed miserably. Now they are considering a QB who has won seven of the 25 NFL games he has started. If the Jets were smart, they would bring in an established quarterback like Alex Smith if they still don’t trust Mark Sanchez. Meanwhile, if I’m Russell I try coming back because America is a country of second chances; ask Tiger Woods, Michael Vick, and Alex Rodriguez. And as crazy as this sounds, if Russell can drop the weight, he does have the intangibles to be successful.

Joe Flacco is Dull: No that is not a misprint. According to Steve Flacco, Joe’s father, the Raven’s quarterback is a dull as a person can get:
Joe Flacco is Doug“Joe is dull. As dull as he is portrayed in the media, he’s that dull. He is dull,” Father Flacco told the New York Times.
Now this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. What’s bad about this story is that Joe Flacco’s father publicly insulted him less than a week before the biggest game of his life.  Either way you don’t want your team’s quarterback to be the one that is the diva, you’d rather that be your wide receiver or running back. The QB should be the leader of the offense, the guy who arrives at the stadium first and leave last. This is something QB’s like Carolina’s Cam Newton and Chicago’s Jay Cutler have had trouble with. I just find this funny that it breaks to the media just hours before Media Day began for the Ravens yesterday. If I was John Harbaugh, this is something I don’t want to distract Flacco right before the Super Bowl.

These are some of the side effects Ray Lewis is experiencing after using the deer-antler spray.

Ray’s side effects of using deer-antler spray.

Ray Lewis & Deer Antlers: Need a way to suspend Ray for the last game of his professional career? Well, it leaked through Sports Illustrated yesterday that Baltimore’s Ray Lewis has been linked to performance enhancing drugs and was given deer-antler spray in order to help him recover faster from the torn triceps he injured in Week 6. The spray contains IGF-1, which is considered a PED. Lewis has denied using the spray and has never failed a drug test during his NFL career. I believe Lewis. I’ve always been a fan and consider him one of the best defensive players of his generation. And I guarantee that Lewis uses this as bulletin board material, just like he used the Boston billboards two weeks ago for the AFC Championship. My prediction is that the Ravens linebacker will win MVP of Super Bowl XLVII… a great way to end a great career.

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D.J. Eberle: The youngest of our team, D.J. is also the largest. Offensive Tackle Large. In fact, this Albany native is playing OT for Western New England University - right now. Like Junoir Blaber, he's a regular on Rugby Wrap Up - his dad played rugby with The Matts. His cross to bear, however, is his love for the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres. As for baseball and basketball, it's the Yanks and Atlanta Hawks. Follow him on Twitter: @Ebstide52
  • Big Fat Toad

    What’s so wrong with an overweight bust? The bigger the fun bags the better!

    • DannyBax

      You always take them down a notch and maybe inject A-Roid or Roid Lewis with the leftovers.

      • http://meetthematts.com/ Meet The Matts

        Will that stuff cure baldness? A friend of ours wants to know.

  • http://twitter.com/Cookies_Corner Cookies Corner

    Screw Ray Lewis.. and I’ve got my fingers crossed A-Rod can get tossed out on his ass with a voided contract. If you’re cheating.. you shouldn’t be choking.

  • buffalobilly84

    Does Ray Lewis have naked pictures of you? Come on! You can’t think the guy never used PEDs. They ALL use something. Go Bills!

    • Cam_James

      In the words of Bill Romanowski, “I used everything i could to stay in the game until i found out they could test for it, but if they couldn’t test for it i was using it.”

      • oblique outlook

        I drink/take beer to make ugly chicks look better.

  • http://meetthematts.com/ Meet The Matts

    Because there is now a shroud of doubt on every player in every sport, we have to ask:

    Is Joe Flacco “boring” because he’s doped up?!
    If he’s just boring, and that’s what the belief is here, then God bless him! We got a pretty boring QB here in the person of Eli Manning. Two Super Bowls worth of boring.

  • Tall Matt

    It’s Doug! Far more interesting than Flacco

    • Cam James

      QUAILMAN!

  • http://ThePublicProfessor.com The Public Professor

    Living down here in Balto, I can tell you that what you see is what you get with Flacco. The most interesting thing about him the five years he’s been here is the fu manchu mustache he grew earlier this season.

    • DJ Eberle

      Yeah the only thing that Flacco has ever done to bring attention to himself was when he called himself an Elite QB and the best one in the NFL. Now of course you want your QB to say that and if he wins the Super Bowl he definitely deserves to be in the discussion.

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  • AngryWard

    I used some deer antler spray last night and feel 100% better. Not sure what to do about this erection that’s been lasting over fours hours now though.

    • Cam James

      thats what craigslist is for

      • AngryWard

        Thanks, Doc!

  • WestCoastCraig

    after they ground up the antlers, it looks like they fed the rest of the deer to Jamarcus Russell.

  • AngryWard

    Bringing in JaMarcus Russell as a possible solution to your hopeless quarterback problem sounds like as good an idea as two 13-year-old kids thinking it might be cool to throw a cinder block off an overpass.

    • DJ Eberle

      I could not think of a better comparison for JaMarky-Marky to the Jets haha

  • http://twitter.com/JunoirBlaber Junoir Blaber

    Ray is gonna kill someone out there, with people taking the piss out him like that it is not cool.

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