Former Super Bowl Champion Head coach Brian Billick breaks down the reasons the team he took to the promised land in 2000 has as good a chance to win the NFL title and anyone.
No. 1 on his list is Ravens Pro Bowl quarterback and South Jersey native Joe Flacco
NFL fans throughout the nation are tired of the preseason and eager to see the 2015 season start next week. All the NFL teams are playing their final preseason games and deciding which 22 players to release, so they can get their roster down to the 53-man limit.
It’s every college football players dream to be drafted by an NFL team; in the most recent draft 256 players had that dream fulfilled.
For the rest, if they still have the desire, they can go the free- agent route and sign with a team where their particular skills might match well. That is the case with former Villanova offensive tackle Vince Kowalski.
Ron Johnson Jr. and Brad Hawkins Jr. know the history. The two stellar Camden football players are fully aware Camden’s last—and only—state football championship came in 1976, when the Panthers captured the Group 4 South Jersey championship. Now with both committed to Michigan, they can set their full focus on winning the Group II title. The Panthers will start the season as the No. 1 ranked team in the Footballstories Top 25 High School Football Teams in South Jersey.
It is believed that when you see a successful organization, the reason for that prosperity starts at the top.
If that’s true, Thomas A. Dwyer, President/CEO of Premier Orthopaedic Associates is a major reason why this medical group has become so respected over the last two decades.
It didn’t take Patrick Banning to get over the mourning process that all athletes endure when their season prematurely ends. The Neumann-Goretti 6-foot-2, 287-pound two-way lineman took a day off, after the Saints lost to Dunmore, 30-18, in the PIAA Class AA state quarterfinals. The following day, he was back in the weight room working on this coming 2015 season.
Last week the Eagles took USC wide receiver Nelson Agholor with the No. 20 pick in the 2015 NFL draft.
It was a solid pick. Agholor’s body of work at Southern Cal was outstanding, finishing his career with 179 catches for 2,571 yards and 20 touchdowns in 30 games, becoming just the 12th Trojan to notch 2,000 receiving yards in a career.
It’s tough enough to come from the rustic community of Weyburn, Saskatchewan (pop. 10,484), Canada and start the final chapter of your football career, an opportunity to play in the NFL.
But to make that start in the biggest stage in America, the New York City area, it must be overwhelming, right?
Apparently not for Giants free agent center Brett Jones.
By Brian Lange
If you haven’t heard by now, Tim Tebow is an Eagle.
I am sure that we all have our opinions on him and his playing ability, but sounds like Coach Kelly felt he is a good addition to the team at this point. I would agree.
The Philadelphia Soul (7-1) announce changes to their roster as the team begins to prepare for the upcoming game against the Tampa Bay Storm (3-4) on Saturday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Amaile Arena. These modifications come after an upsetting loss to the Jacksonville Sharks (3-5) on May 16, resulting in some injuries of key players.
