This week has been as miserable a week as you could imagine for the Washington Redskins. The next seven days figure to test their wills even further. They play Buffalo on Sunday, bury their fallen teammate Sean Taylor on Monday and then play the Bears on Thursday, a game that will be played as scheduled despite calls for it to be moved to the weekend. None of those calls were actually made by the Redskins, though, and even though they expressed a willingness to postpone the game, the Bears didn't contact the NFL either. Greg Aiello, the NFL's senior VP of communications, spoke with Jason LaCanfora of the Washington Post and said no change was forthcoming.
"I have not heard any discussion of any of it. We haven't been contacted about it, not that I am aware of. There's nothing to it. No one here has heard about it. It's just some rumor that won't go away, but there is nothing to it."LaCanfora also spoke to the 'Skins and they said they won't be making the request to the league. The game, like last night's Packers-Cowboys thriller, will be on the NFL network and, thus, unavailable to millions of football fans who would be eager to follow what has become, sadly, the biggest story in the NFL right now.
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11-30-2007 @ 3:27PM
nickstoli said...
God, I hope the media goes easy on the "courage" of these players. Soldiers have to fight minutes after losing one or several of their own, these NFL players can a friggin' football game after the, yes, tragic death of one of their own.
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11-30-2007 @ 4:23PM
Sharon said...
The comparison pf the NFL players and the soldiers makes a point, but soldiers go to war with the mindset that they or their partner may not make it out alive. That is not normally the case in sports in which you don't expect your teammate to miss practice because he was gunned down.
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12-05-2007 @ 12:04AM
Cindy Whitby said...
I` am a little upset that the game in on the NFL Network, and I won`t be able to watch it. I` am 45 years old, and been a Bears fan since the age of 10. I watch all the games on TV , but this one. It pisses me off!!!!! Win or loose, I love the Bears. I don`t think it is right for this to be on a pay network, it isn`t fair! If I watched all the football games, I`d pay for this channel. I only follow one team, so it isn`t worth the money! Thanks a lot, I now see footbal is for the money (not for the fans)!
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