Monthly Archives: June 2009
Whitner and Owens visit injured HS player at TX hospital
At the conclusion of Terrell Owens’ football camp in Duncanville, Texas last week, Owens and teammate Donte Whitner made a stop at the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation where they paid a visit to a 16-year old high school football player who suffered a spinal cord injury. Corey Borner was injured on May 6th while practicing for [...]
Maybin soaking up symposium knowledge
Bills top pick Aaron Maybin is taking the NFL’s rookie symposium seriously as evidenced by his twitter posts the past 12 hours. In one of his more recent tweets he was obviously influenced by the presentation he attended where NFL veterans and retired players offer perspective on the potential pitfalls that exist for them as they [...]
Rosenhaus to lower season ticket prices?
I have seen NFL agent Drew Rosenhaus do a lot of things, but if he can pull this off I’ll be very impressed. According to Rosenhaus on his twitter account, he’s been hired by the season ticket holders of the NHL’s Florida Panthers, to negotiate lower season ticket prices. He doesn’t provide much more detail [...]
Hamdan a fashion rebel
As we reported last week Bills QB Gibran Hamdan attended the NFL’s Broadcast Boot Camp for current and retired players that are interested in possibly pursuing a broadcasting career after football. Hamdan got some good pub while at the program. The Philly Daily Times had a running timeline and mentioned Hamdan in the rundown story. [...]
97 Rock T.O. camp contest winner
The local WNY winner of the 97 Rock Terrell Owens football camp contest was a 13-year old quarterback that got to travel down to suburban Dallas to spend a couple of days with T.O. and Donte Whitner among other NFL players. His name was Jacob Bow. He is an honor roll student at North Park Middle [...]
Trent taking a second crack at first pitch
Trent Edwards is going to be taking a second shot at tossing out a ceremonial first pitch tonight at Chavez Ravine. That according to dodgers.com, which says he’ll be throwing out the first pitch of tonight’s Dodgers-Rockies game. Edwards threw out a first pitch earlier this season at the Rogers Center before a Blue Jays-Yankees game that [...]
Player radio appearance
Fresh off of his run through Broadcast Boot Camp Gibran Hamdan is scheduled to appear on the Bills flagship station 97 Rock to discuss his experiences with Norton in the Morning. Hamdan will be on the air at approximately 8:45am to see if he can school the broadcasters with whom he’ll be speaking. If outside [...]
McGee autograph signing
Terrence McGee will be signing autographs at the Gus Macker tournament in Buffalo Saturday. He’ll be signing between 1 and 2pm in front of the New Era store on Delaware Ave. McGee and Marshawn Lynch are lead co-sponsors of the tournament.
Whitner to host live chat
Donte Whitner will be hosting a live chat on NFL.com at 3pm Whitner is in LA after attending Terrell Owens Dallas farewell party in Texas as well as helping Owens with his football camp down there. Just go to NFL.com to submit a question.
Fan Friday 6-26
Fan Friday 6-26 Here’s our latest installment. As always you can fire off your questions to me at AskChris@bills.nfl.net. Let’s get going here. 1. Hi Chris, I was just wondering if you thought the Bills would be going after free agent linebacker Derrick Brooks or maybe another free linebacker to plug into the starting [...]
Identifying each team’s ‘Wildcat’
The Bills play in the division where the popularity of the ‘Wildcat’ sprang last season, but one former Bills coach said it’s really nothing new. Mike Mularkey, now the offensive coordinator for the up and coming Atlanta Falcons claims to have had ‘Wildcat’ like plays in his playbook for 10 years as he was quoted [...]
Marshawn & Stevie hosting camps
After a busy weekend at the Gus Macker tournament in Buffalo Marshawn Lynch will be headed back to the left coast where he and Stevie Johnson will be part of some community efforts through their Family First organization. First, the Family First group will be holding a high school combine for juniors and seniors on Saturday [...]
Whitner making TV appearance Friday
Donte Whitner will be on national TV Friday. He’s scheduled to appear on NFL Network as an in studio guest. San Diego CB Antonio Cromartie is also scheduled to be on the NFL Network set that day. I’m sure the hosts will try to see if they can get Donte to guarantee playoffs again this [...]
Gotta love Maybin’s approach
For a rookie Aaron Maybin looks to have a pretty balanced approach to his profession. He’s committed to working hard and was tweeting back and forth with his bud Shawne Merriman Wednesday. Merriman told him – “I’m headed out the door for my workout. Sell out bro, let’s go!” Maybin responded by saying, “Effort only [...]
Owens hosting farewell Dallas bash
At the conclusion of his two day football camp for kids in the Dallas area this week, Terrell Owens will bid farewell to anyone that may want to see him off, provided they dress classy. Owens is hosting a farewell bash in Dallas Thursday night at the Empire room in downtown Dallas. NFL and NBA [...]
Good look at 18 game season
The expansion to an 18-game season has been debated a lot even though it appears the league is only in the exploratory stages of the idea. But agent Jack Bechta takes a good look at the pros and cons while getting opinions from NFL front offices, coaches and players. His National Football Post write up [...]
T.O. a victim of the net
For those of you that didn’t watch the Superstars in which Terrell Owens was a participant, surprisingly he and his teammate model Joanna Krupa had a tough go of it in the opening episode. The pair were the first team to be eliminated. In the obstacle course Owens got his foot stuck in the rope [...]
Whitner helping out T.O.
Donte Whitner is going to be helping out Terrell Owens this week. According to one of his twitter posts, starting Wednesday Whitner will be down at Owens’ football camp which runs from June 24th to June 25th. It’s the 4th Annual Terrell Owens camp and it’s in Duncanville, TX. It’s for boys ages 7-17. A lot [...]
Steelers’ Starks deal won’t help Bills’ Walker
Steelers OT Max Starks just signed a 4-year $26.3M deal according to ESPN’s John Clayton. For those that don’t remember he was franchised earlier this offseason at $8.45M, but agreed to the long term contract instead. This is a good thing as far as the Bills are concerned for this reason. I’m not saying it’s [...]
Kawika’s chat pushed back
Looks like Kawika Mitchell’s chat on NFL.com has been pushed back to 1:30pm from what I’ve been told. Just letting you folks know so you’re not wondering where the heck he is in a half hour.
