Out with the Cam, in with the Tyrod: “It’s just a number that I always wanted to wear, and it’s an opportunity to wear it now.”
Out with the Cam, in with the Tyrod: “It’s just a number that I always wanted to wear, and it’s an opportunity to wear it now.”
Jimmy Clausen retains 2. Say it ain’t so, Cam.
As soon as the lockout lifted, Matt Ryan was traded for the #1 overall pick in my 14-team, 5-keeper fantasy football league. Football is back! I’m not endorsing the trade (there were also seven or eight more picks involved for a borderline ridiculous transaction). I’m just excited it happened.
Reports indicate that the backs of these two gentlemen’s t-shirts were both emblazoned with 2s. Cam Newton would like to keep it. It’s Jimmy Clausen’s for the moment, but the incumbent said, “We’ll see what happens.”
I’m betting some of the No.1 pick’s bonus money finds it’s way into Jimmy Clausen’s wallet and the 2 ends up on Newton’s back (well, whenever the NFL decides to start paying players again).
David Akers has been the Eagles kicker since 1999. That tenure has included 5 Pro Bowls (including the past two seasons), 1 All-Pro team, and a Super Bowl appearance. With the fourth round pick of Alex Henery from Nebraska, Akers’s time in Philly might be up now. We hope he gets to keep wearing 2, whether for the Iggles or for wherever else he might play.
Jimmy Clausen currently occupies the 2 jersey for the Panthers, Cam Newton’s new team. Unless the No.1 pick makes a deal with Clausen (and possible Jason Baker, the Carolina punter who wears 7, Clausen’s number at Notre Dame), Newton will be wearing 1, 5, 13, 14, 17,18, or 19 next season.
C’mon, Jimmy. Don’t make me stop including Cam Newton on this blog. Either that, or step up and make that 2 jersey worth your while.
Matt Ryan made the Sweet 16 of SportsNation’s Madden 12 cover bracket. Matty Ice is currently facing Peyton Hillis.
(Source: ESPN)
To be honest, we were hoping Mason Crosby would take on the role of the early-2000s Adam Vinatieri and split the uprights as time expires to give the Pack the Super Bowl victory.
Oh, Matt Ryan. 13-3*. That gaudy home record. More winning seasons in a row than ever in Atlanta. That ridiculous nickname**. All for naught.
How cool would it have been to see a QB sporting 2 win the BCS Championship and the Lombardi Trophy in the same year? Cooler than cool (Ice cold, Matt. Ice cold).
Now we’re left rooting for Nick Folk and/or Mason Crosby to boot their way into the Super Bowl.
*That’s one more win than Ryan predicted. He won’t get any credit for that, but, hey, it’s got to be worth something.
**Via Chitwood and Hobbs, via The Sports Guy’s Twitter: “I have a new nickname for Matt Ryan: ‘Matt.’ “
And he capped his career with a return to the NFL for a second stint with the Patriots, where he is most famous for reviving a football artifact, the dropkick, if only for one PAT.
Doug Flutie earned the 6 spot on NFL Film’s list of the Top 10 Shortest Players. On the show, Mike Ditka said he believes that Flutie would have joined the list of QBs to lead the Bears to the Super Bowl if everyone else (you know, the taller players on the team) would have done their jobs in the 1986 playoff loss to the Redskins.
Nice number choice on the unis.
All of the 2010 NFL uniforms, pixel-style.
