“The teams will begin playing in their new 82,500-seat, $1.6 billion stadium this season, and both have campaigned to the NFL to play the opening game there. The Jets posted on their Web site Saturday night that league will make heads or tails of it by having a coin toss in the near future.” [Link]

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“The Entertainment Software Rating Board has a listing for Tecmo Bowl Throwback for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Here is the listing: This is a top-down arcade-style football game in which players compete against teams around the country to become the “Tecmo Bowl Champion.” Some of the football highlights are depicted in animated cutscenes (with better graphics); a few non-football highlights depict cheerleaders wearing low-cut tops while dancing. And a jumbotron screen displays a 2D swimsuit model with some exposed cleavage.” Link

“NFL Network will air games from Arena League 1 (which is expected to adopt the old Arena Football League name once all the deals with all the teams are in place) on Friday nights beginning in April, Sports Business Journal is reporting. ‘We embrace football at all levels,’ said Charles Coplin, vice president of programming for the NFL. ‘This spring schedule gives us a weekly live game featuring some players who may eventually play in the NFL.’ ” [Link]

Drew Brees has won Super Bowl 44 MVP with the New Orleans Saints. The Saints beat the Colts 31-17.

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“David Sills, all of 13 years old, has verbally committed to USC, according to an ESPN report. Sills is a quarterback out of Bear, Del., who has drawn raves for his talent at such a young age. ‘His skill set is off the chart,’ his personal coach Steve Clarkson told ESPN. ‘I’ve never seen anyone at his age do what he’s been able to do.’ Clarkson has mentored other top quarterbacks in the past, including current USC starter Matt Barkley.” [Link]

“A woman who says she was raped by football star Michael Irvin at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino filed a civil lawsuit against him Thursday in Broward Circuit Court.” [Link]

“Small, 32, a Fort Myers resident, is a member of the Tampa Bay Breeze of the Lingerie Football League, an outfit that unabashedly traffics in sex appeal. To Small, the emphasis should be on football instead of lingerie. ‘People first think that this is just powder puff football with a bunch of models running around in lingerie,’ Small said, sitting by the fountain at the Bell Tower Shops on a recent morning. ‘That’s not what it’s about. The girls on my team and all across the league are athletes. We take it seriously. We work really, really hard and everybody has real jobs and real careers.” Link