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Carl Eller and the Retired Players Association will address the state of the NFL from retired player’s unique perspectives on a vintage rail car as a symbolic gesture. The event will be located at the Union Pacific Railroad, 2112 E. Randol Mill Road, Arlington, Texas. This event will be open to the public and will be telecast worldwide via USteam.
The title of the press conference will be “The Future of the NFL”. Eller will passionately address young NFL players and the public. Eller’s address promises to fully educate non-players and player alike about the ramifications of Collective Bargaining Agreements. “Super Bowl XLV will be the last game played under the current Collective Bargaining Agreement,” explains Eller. “I want to address the public to educate and inform. We chose to host this address on The Union Pacific which is a highly symbolic venue because it reminds us of the significance of the past, and the role it plays in this year’s Super Bowl.”
According to Eller and the RPA, this analogy can be applied directly to the plight of the retired players and their messages of reform the NFL and the NFLPA. Eller, a former Minnesota Viking Defensive End and Pro Football Hall of Famer, is a staunch advocate for players, aspiring, current and retired.
“Current players, including rookies in this years’ draft have no idea of what is at stake in the negotiations. They risk losing billions of dollars at the bargaining table. This of course will affect the current players, who will soon be, retired players,” explains Eller.
The highlight of the presentation will be the announcement of the Retired Players Association’s heath care program SecuriCare, a national network of clinics and hospitals in pending partnerships with the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Scripps Clinics. This network has collective assets that will bring billions of dollars of medical care and technology to the retired players to help with health issues that retired players continue to suffer from.
The Retired Players Association has already helped hundreds of retired players with severe and debilitating medical problems and is now rolling the program out to retired players nationally. SecuriCare will provide the retired NFL players a cohesive, easy-to-use, network of thousands of expertly trained and skilled medical professionals. This will create a prestigious health care network which is quite possibly the world’s best health care plan and is far superior to anything provided thus far by the NFL or the NFLPA.
The Black Eyed Peas are this year’s headline performers at the Super Bowl halftime show, the NFL announced Thursday.
The group releases a new album, “The Beginning,” on Tuesday, and fans who buy the CD will have a chance to see the band perform live at the game,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Black Eyed Peas performed “The Time (Dirty Bit,)” the first single off “The Beginning,” at the “American Music Awards Sunday.” The track borrows its chorus from the 1987 hit ballad “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,” from the film “Dirty Dancing.’
The Super Bowl spot is considered a major coup for performers because of the enormous reach of the broadcast: more than 153 million viewers turned in for the Who’s halftime performance last year, according to the NFL.
Previous halftime performers include the Rolling Stones, Prince, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Paul McCartney.
Super Bowl XLV takes place Sunday, Feb. 6 at Cowboys Stadium in North Texas, and will be broadcast on Fox.
Newly hired Southern California athletic director Pat Haden says Reggie Bush apologized to him and expressed regret in a phone call last week about the NCAA’s sanctions that resulted from findings that he received improper benefits while playing for USC.
“He’s really contrite,” Haden told USA Today of Bush. “He knows he made a series of mistakes. It wasn’t just one mistake. It was a series of mistakes.”
Bush, a running back for the New Orleans Saints, has not been stripped of the Heisman Trophy he won in 2005, though USC has returned Bush’s Heisman given to the school. Two trophies are awarded for each recipient.
“He told me, ‘If I could turn the clock back, I would. If I could give the Heisman Trophy back, I would,’ ” Haden told the newspaper.
In Louisiana for the start of the Saints’ training camp, Bush said he was focusing on football but admitted he is bothered by the way the university has distanced itself from him.
“I think I’d be lying if I said it didn’t,” Bush has said publicly. “Obviously, it does, but at the end of the day it is what it is. All I can really do now is focus on the New Orleans Saints and just try to move on. It bothers me and it sucks. The whole situation is terrible and nobody feels worse about it than I do.
“But, at the same time, I can’t dwell on the negatives because I do have a job to do and I have a whole organization and a city riding on my back, not necessarily my back, but the team’s back.”
Haden said Bush was barred from visiting the Los Angeles school.
“I wish I could ask Reggie to come talk to our football team. I can’t,” said Haden, who replaced ousted AD Mike Garrett on Aug. 3. “He’s not allowed on the campus. But I think he would tell them what a big mistake he made and how sorry he is.”
Bush said he hopes his relationship with USC doesn’t remain fractured forever.
“I hope someday at some point it can be repaired,” Bush said when training camp started. “We’ll see what happens. That’s all I can do.”
They Ain’t The Ain’ts Anymore: Saints Beat Vikings; Meet Colts in Super Bowl. In an exciting overtime win on a 40 yard field goal by Garrett Hartley, the New Orleans Saints defeated the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 to advance to the Super Bowl. The now National Football Conference (NFC) champion Saints will meet the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Indianapolis Colts in the NFL title game on February 7 in Miami. It took the Saints over 40 years to finally get to play in professional football’s ultimate game. Carrying the weight of a beleaguered city and on their shoulders, the Saints, once nicknamed “The Aint’s,” withstood punch after punch and still held on to win the biggest game in franchise history. The Saints can also thank Brent Farve for his bone-headed interception throw in the 4th quarter that lead to overtime and the subsequent New Orleans victory. Earlier, The Indianapolis Colts overcame an early scare from the New York Jets, led by rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez, who jumped out to a 17-6 lead in the 2nd quarter. However, that was all they would manage to get. Peyton Manning and the Colts came back with 24 unanswered points to win the game, 30-17.
CNN commentator Roland Martin says he will meet with GLAAD following his suspension Wednesday for tweets during the Super Bowl that the group deemed homophobic.
Calling Martin’s tweets “regrettable and offensive,” CNN said Martin would “not be appearing on our air for the time being.” Martin later said on Twitter that he would meet with GLAAD, as the group had requested, after he apologized Tuesday for the Super Bowl tweets.
“I look forward to meeting with GLAAD in the near future and having a productive dialogue,” he tweeted.
The group tweeted back, “We look forward to a productive dialogue and to working together as well.”
The hubbub began Sunday with two of Martin’s tweets that GLAAD said seemed to advocate violence against gays.
“If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him!” he said in one tweet. In the other, he said, “Who the hell was that New England Patriot they just showed in a head to toe pink suit? Oh, he needs a visit from #teamwhipdatass.”
Martin later apologized, saying he did not advocate violence against gays or bullying. He also said he himself had been bullied.
To signal that he took the issue seriously, Martin also reported on Wednesday about Brandon White, a 20-year-old gay man who was viciously beaten by a gang of men shouting anti-gay slurs in Atlanta.
Details of Martin’s meeting with GLAAD are still being determined, the group said.
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