BREAKING NEWS: Ricky Williams is not smoking weed.

In other news, Ray Lewis hasn’t stabbed anybody lately.

Favre to the Jets.

There. Can I stop talking about it now on the air? I’m sick of coming up with new ways to refer to him. Brett. Favre. The Gunslinger. Number 4. Old Guy in Tight Pants.

UPDATE: Kotaku brings up a good point… how silly are those covers of Madden ‘09 going to look now? And is the Madden Curse back in full effect?

I’ll keep this short, but this needs as much pub as it can get… from the folks at SportsByBrooks… Detroit Lions’ Customer Service Policy: “F— ‘em”.

After being jerked around for years on his season ticket orders despite asking for more tickets, Kevin Furlong told the Lions’ season ticket staff that he simply could not bring himself to renew for next season. When the staff realized Furlong was serious about not spending $5000 on season tickets next season, they offered him new seats much like he was falsely promised for years.

However, Furlong stuck to his guns and made it clear he wasn’t angling for a better deal; he just didn’t want to spend his money on season tickets after a poor customer experience.

When one of the Lions employees (Matt Schul) tried to get his boss, Mark Graham (head of ticket sales), to talk to Furlong and failed, he sent out an email to the beleaguered Lions employee (Lance Powser) working with Furlong:

“Lance…he is not talking about you here. Mark was asked to speak to these people and he said no. F… ‘em until next year.”

It’s nice to see it in writing after all these years of it just being inferred.

Poor Sussman. I think the news of Dan Dakich taking over the Indiana Hoosiers may have broke him.

(And by the vy, I’m so very pissed that I couldn’t find  that sound of Dakich cussing up a storm because Dan Cummins said he “begged for his job back”. That was classic.)

Over here, Matt Sussman puts into words what I won’t even attempt. Not only does he express our deepest thoughts and sympathies to those affected by the shootings at Northern Illinois University, but he also delves into why we seem to feel this personal connection with a school community that we really only knew prior as “that team with the short guy at running back”.