- Pro Football Talk and Yahoo! on this one: The Cleveland Browns got their preseason game airing on NFL Network (more truly, a re-airing) cancelled by the league and network. Why? As it the desire of a lot of people, the Browns and their local stations used "virtual signage" (superimposed graphical ads) on the field -- you've seen it from time to time. It's roughly the same technology which allows the first down line, etc. Well, the league bans that for preseason games, so no rebroadcast.
- After a performance in which Michael Sam recorded his second quarterback sack of the preseason (both against backups, let's be honest), Peter King of SI now believes Sam will actually make the team.
Will now be surprised if Sam does not make St. Louis' final 53.
— Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) August 24, 2014
Here's some more penalty stuff from the rest of the games yesterday:- Dallas had 10 vs. Miami (9). Total points: 45.
- Tennessee and Atlanta had 10 each. Total points: 41.
- St. Louis had 12 vs. Cleveland. Total points: 47.
- Minnesota and Kansas City only had 5 penalties between them.
- New Orleans had 10 against Indianapolis.
- Houston-Denver and Washington-Baltimore were the other two of only three games in Week 3 preseason by Saturday that neither team had 10 penalties.
- San Francisco-San Diego looks like it will join that trend this afternoon -- only seven penalties between the teams by early fourth quarter.
Other stuff:
- There is substantial trouble in Buffalo right now. Earlier this week, two Bills practices were marred by in-team fighting, leading the coach to discipline the players and cut at least one of the practices short. During this process, defensive end Jerry Hughes created an incident when he gave the coach some smack back, causing the coach to question Hughes' place on the team (Hughes is a 5th-year veteran, 2nd on the Bills after 3 years in Indianapolis, and is projected the starter.
- But today, even MORE trouble, as the Bills have cut second-string defensive tackle Alan Branch after he was stopped for DUI. Branch was on his third team in eight years.
- On consecutive plays, Peter King notes last night, the Bills were 1st and 30, 2nd and 35, and 3rd and 40.
- The Jets don't seem to be in much better shape: Dimitri Patterson went AWOL for the Week 3 preseason game and practices yesterday. He is slated to return today, but no one knows why he left.
- Denver Broncos: Matt Prater, the kicker, suspended four games (and must technically reapply for reinstatement with the Commissioner's Office) for an alcohol-related penalty (for which he could've been suspended a year after a 2011 DUI/leaving the scene situation forced him into the league program).
- Prater is at least the 23rd player the NFL has suspended (not counting the appeal I spoke of yesterday, nor the two Steelers) in the offseason.
- Wes Welker has just received his third recent concussion -- a late-first-half hit by D.J. Swearinger of the Texans (who has been part of a couple incidents with the Broncos this season, according to Deadspin) apparently has caused the concussion. It also caused something very odd which might make next week's Fine Blotter: Peyton Manning got 15 yards for taunting Swearinger (more correctly, for telling him exactly what he thought of the hit!).
- In another reason why there can be no tolerance for people chucking shit on the field, a Cameroonian soccer player has been killed when Albert Ebosse was hit in the head by one of a number of rocks thrown on the field by the spectators after a match. The act has been condemned as hooliganism by the African confederation.
- Significant DDoS (Directed Denial of Service) attacks have impacted World of Warcraft (and other Blizzard games), the #1 strategy game League of Legends, Playstation Network, and Sony Online Entertainment.
- You can add XBox live to the list.
- This group of shithead hackers has also filed a false bomb threat against a flight that Sony Online President John Smedley was on today, forcing the flight to be diverted. The FBI is investigating.
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