Because milking on hurricanes to establish a fan base has gone long enough.

The New Orleans Saints, like any other year in the NFL, is entering the 2009 NFL football season with a lot of promise. After all, they still have one of the best quarterbacks in the league in Drew Brees and one of the most promising running backs in the game in Reggie Bush.

But when will the New Orleans Saints finally come out of their shell and live up to the hype for a change? They are an exciting bunch to watch on that football field, we all know that, the problem is, they just can’t generate enough momentum to win enough games for a post season run.

As always, Drew Brees is the preseason front runner to be MVP of the NFL. This guy is just a freak behind center and if it wasn’t for him, the Saints would be playing somewhere in Canada for all we know.

The receivers are young and talented. If Marques Colston can stay healthy for a change, Brees would be celebrating more touchdowns instead of wasting his time arguing with Jeremey Shockey.

The they also have Pierre Thomas, an undrafted player two years ago who is on the verge of becoming a top ten halfback in the NFL. He’s a nice guy to have if this Reggie Bush…

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The wide receiver formerly known as Chad Johnson is now OFFICIALLY known as Chad Ochocinco.

But his ridiculous name change ain’t the story here. The story is on Ochocinco’s claim that the Cincinnati Bengals, a team that hasn’t made the postseason for quite some time, will finally be playoff-bound. He’s talking now before the 2009 NFL football season gets underway and the losses start piling up to prove him wrong again.

It’s ironic too that Chad Ochocinco is making such a claim this year. It was only last year when a disgruntled Ochocinco, (still referred to as Chad Johnson then…) was asking the Cincinnati Bengals for a trade.

If you missed it, Ochocinco was sick and tired of losing last year that he was ready to move on and leave the Cincinnati Bengals at the bottom of the AFC North. After another disappointing season in 2008, No.85 is still with the Bengals and for some reason, he now thinks that this team has a shot of finally making the playoffs.

‘’It’s going to be a great year; we’re going to the playoffs,'’ Chad Ochocinco guaranteed. ‘’We’re going, we’re making progress. I mean, I see it, and I can come out on a limb and say what we’re going to do.'’

The last time the Bengals made the playoffs was…

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Chad Pennington failed and even Brett Favre couldn’t save the godforsaken franchise.

Now that they have this young quarterback from USC, Mark Sanchez, looking forward to finally make his pro debut in the coming 2009 NFL football season, Jets fans have every reason to be hopeful.

But can this guy really save the New York Jets from obscurity? That is still yet to be determined. But as far as the Jets are concerned, they sure are paying a lot of money for this young stud to be the franchise’s savior.

A 22-year-old quarterback, still months away from his first NFL pass, Mark Sanchez already owns the distinction of being the highest-paid player in New York Jets history. The former USC Trojans quarterback hit the jackpot with a five-year contract that includes $28 million in guarantees, a team record.

The bare-bones amount of the deal is $44.5 million, although the true value, based on easily attainable incentives, is $50.5 million, according to sources.

The Jets made a bold move for Sanchez, trading up 12 spots and selecting him with…

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Yes, these guys want you to bet on some of the best football games scheduled for the coming season.

It may only be spring practice time in the NFL but training camp and preseason will creep up on unsuspecting bettors. In fact, at the local bookstore, we even noticed some 2009 NFL football season preview guides for sale already.

NFL regular season Week 1 betting lines have already been released by online sportsbooks, but what SPORTSBETTING.COM is hoping to get your attention is their prop betting options they are calling as the ‘’NFL Games Of The Year.'’

Predicting what will be ‘’Games of the Year'’ is tough, just ask the Monday Night Football crew. A game featuring two teams that might’ve been a marquee matchup last year could be completely meaningless a year later. For all we know, the Detroit Lions could be the 2009 NFC Central regular season champions a year removed from going 0-16.

OK, that’s crazy talk but you get the point.

Nevertheless, let’s pull out the crystal ball look at a pair of Games of the Year offered on the betting board right now.

The Sunday Nighter in Week 2 (September 20) features a good old NFC East rivalry as the New York Giants head to the…

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Apparently, they are now imposing some sort of a deadline for exactly that.

With still more than a few months left before the brand new 2009 NFL football season kicks off, the Minnesota Vikings want to determine whether they’ll be having the 39-year-old Brett Favre for this campaign or not.

You read it, the Minnesota Vikings are tired of waiting and so are we. (Unless you’re a Bears fan and could care less what Favre or the Vikings do with their time…) It turns out that Vikings head coach Brad Childress has imposed a deadline this week for Brett Favre to decide whether he’ll be the team’s quarterback or not.

You read it, Brad Childress is actually imposing some sort of a deadline on Brett Favre. The Vikings want Favre so bad that they want to sign him now before he decides to retire again (prematurely…) and return with some other team next season.

The problem is, Favre is reluctant to commit playing a 19th NFL season without first being more confident that the arthroscopic surgery done on his throwing shoulder recently has succeeded in eliminating all that shit related to the torn biceps tendon.

Favre wants to make sure that his shoulder is healthy before jumping into…

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Yes, he’s back on the field.

And while it’s still quite early to say that Tom Brady is back to his usual form just in time for the coming 2009 NFL football season, you have to admit that seeing the guy back in uniform throwing footballs again on the field is a sign of better days ahead, especially if you’re a Pats fan.

It seems it was only yesterday when Tom Brady was nailed down to the ground by Kansas City Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard. That sack ended Brady’s season since they later found out that he had to undergo surgery.

Of course, the New England Patriots faltered without the quarterback. Although then Patriots backup quarterback Matt Cassel did a fine job filling in for their fallen leader, the Patriots just were not the same, missing the playoffs with Brady sidelined.

After almost nine months since Brady was last seen limping off the field, he’s back with a few more pounds, a wife and a huge knee brace. Of course, he had time to talk to some reporters. After all, this was his first news conference since torn knee ligaments finished his 2008 season.

‘’The reality is, in this sport, you really never know. Any…'’

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This’ll probably make any Jets center think twice before bending over in front of the former USC quarterback.

While we continue to count the days until the brand new 2009 NFL football season gets here, we got some reports that claim that the former USC quarterback the Jets drafted a few weeks ago loves it doggy style. Yep, THAT and a tattoo that reads ‘’SANCHEZ'’ on, get this, at the back of his lower lip.

Yes, you read it, New York Jets rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez felt that the back of his lower lip was the best spot to have a tattoo where ABSOLUTELY no one would be able to see it. Unless of course, Sanchez is hammering you from behind and he lets you inspect his mouth just for curiosity’s sake.

As it turns out, that’s exactly what happened. A couple of years ago, when Mark Sanchez was still gunning footballs in USC, an anonymous female fan was allegedly dog-styled in the shower by the USC standout. During what probably was a vigorous sex marathon, the woman managed to inspect the inside of his lower lip, and, lo and behold, she found the now infamous ‘’SANCHEZ'’ tattoo.

Now, I don’t know why Mark Sanchez decided to have a tattoo in there but here’s to hoping that the guy will improve his decision making when he takes the field this season with the New York Jets.

After all, he is filling in the shoes of…

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Well, sort of.

In case you didn’t know, Michael Vick’s 23-month sentence at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., is about to come to an end. He will be eligible for release in July, giving him ample time to salvage what’s left of his career in the coming 2009-10 NFL football season.

That is, of course, if there are still teams out there willing to sign Michael Vick. Sure, he was one of the most explosive quarterbacks in the NFL a few years ago but after missing two full seasons in the league, teams are uncertain if they’ll have the same quarterback who’s both a threat in the passing and the running game or a guy who’s just trying to milk from what’s left of his pro career.

But while his July release is still a good two months away, the former Atlanta Falcons star will be having his freedom already on or after May 21. You see, since there is no room at a halfway house for him, Vick will be allowed to serve the last two months of his sentence under home confinement in a house Vick owns in Hampton.

Vick’s new ‘’prison'’ will be his five-bedroom, 3,538-square-foot brick mansion with an in-ground pool. The Hampton house is one of the four mansions Vick still owns. Vick’s lawyers have said that they expected their client to be moved any day into a halfway house in Newport News but since it can’t accommodate the former NFL star, they chose one of Vick’s mansions as his next prison of sorts. Wow, isn’t that nice.

‘’We are aware of reports regarding…'’

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This is just getting ridiculous now.

After postponing retirement back in 2007 to play one more season with the Packers, then finally retiring only to come back to the NFL to play one more season for the Packers again, retiring again then coming back to the NFL to play for the Jets before finally retiring for the third time three months ago, (whew!) it looks like Brett Favre is once again considering a return to the league for the coming 2009 NFL football season.

Yep, Brett Favre is at it again. And THIS TIME, it looks like he no longer has plans trying to win his spot back in the last city he played for. (He tried to win his starting spot back from Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay during the 2008 offseason…)

This time, Favre has his eyes set on a new environment. And since you may have already heard about it by now, I will no longer prolong the anticipation. Favre is contemplating on playing for the Minnesota Vikings in the coming season and in case you have no idea the significance of Favre playing in Minnesota, the Vikings and the Packers have one of the most heated rivalries in football.

Watching Favre play for the Vikings is like watching Ron Artest play for the Pistons. And while Packer fans let Favre slide when he decided to play for the New York Jets last season, I don’t think they’ll be that easy on Favre when they see him in a…

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Ah, the Madden Curse.

Never has a video game franchise create this much of an impact on its real counterpart than what the Madden NFL franchise had on the NFL. And since we already have the next installment of the Madden NFL video game coming, let’s see how, or WHO, will they be fucking with in the coming 2009 NFL football season.

In case you don’t know it yet, Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu and Arizona Cardinals wideout Larry Fitzgerald were tapped by software giant Electronic Arts to be their new Madden NFL 2010 cover boys.

Yep, the two NFL stars that faced-off in last year’s ho-hum Super Bowl XLIII will be sharing the new Madden cover, marking the first time the video game franchise had two athletes on tap for the dreaded Madden curse.

EA’s choice for an NFL All-Star to grace this year’s edition of the game seems as easy a decision as throwing the football towards Randy Moss in single coverage. But having two of them this time is unprecedented. Imagine that, they managed to get TWO GUYS agree on putting their careers on the line just for some stupid video game.

And just in case you have no idea how serious this…

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