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Famous People Who Died Too Soon, Derrick Thomas

March 9, 2012 by · Comments Off on Famous People Who Died Too Soon, Derrick Thomas 

Famous People Who Died Too Soon, Derrick Thomas, Derrick Vincent Thomas (January 1, 1967 – February 8, 2000), nicknamed D.T., was an American football linebacker and defensive end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played his entire 11-year career for the Chiefs after being drafted fourth overall in the 1989 NFL Draft.

Thomas, part of the class of 2009 entering the Pro Football Hall of Fame, was a premier football player throughout the 1990s and is considered one of the best pass rushers of all-time. In 1990 against the Seattle Seahawks, he set an NFL record with seven sacks in a single game.

On February 8, 2000, Thomas died from a massive blood clot that developed in his paralyzed lower extremities and traveled to his lungs. His paralysis was the result of severe injuries sustained in a car accident weeks earlier.

Oakland Raiders

September 19, 2010 by · Comments Off on Oakland Raiders 

Oakland Raiders, Oakland Raiders coach Tom Cable waited only six quarters to turn to Bruce Gradkowski for a spark this season.

Gradkowski replaced an ineffective Jason Campbell after halftime and led the Raiders to three scoring drives and a 16-14 victory over the St. Louis Rams in the home opener on Sunday.

Gradkowski threw a four-yard touchdown pass to Louis Murphy, Darren McFadden ran for 145 yards and Sebastian Janikowski kicked three field goals to give Oakland (1-1) its first win in a home opener since 2004.

Sam Bradford threw two touchdown passes to Mark Clayton but was unable to get the offence moving for much of the second half as the Rams (0-2) lost for the 27th time in 28 games.

Cable turned to Gradkowski midway through last season to take over from draft bust JaMarcus Russell. Gradkowski breathed life into Oakland’s inept offence, leading the team to victories over Cincinnati and Pittsburgh before being sidelined by a knee injury.

Gradkowski never got the chance to win the job this season as Oakland traded for Campbell and made him the starter. Gradkowski tore a pectoral muscle in the off-season and injured his groin early in training camp.

He played well in two exhibition games but Campbell opened the season as starter, even drawing comparisons to two-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Jim Plunkett from owner Al Davis.

Campbell struggled in a 38-13 season-opening loss at Tennessee and was pulled at halftime of this game. He was 8-for-15 for 87 yards and an interception on his final pass as Oakland trailed 7-3.

The fans started chanting for Gradkowski late in the first half and the calls of “Bruuuuce!” continued each time he took the field in the second half.

Gradkowski completed his first three passes, building even more crowd support with each throw. His 26-yard completion to Murphy set up a 41-yard field goal by Janikowski that made it 7-6.

After the Raiders stopped the Rams on a three-and-out the next possession, Gradkowski drove Oakland 83 yards to a score on the floater to Murphy.

The offensive success appeared to give a boost to a defence that struggled to slow down Steven Jackson in the first half. St. Louis gained only 17 yards and one first down — on a personal foul by Tommy Kelly — in the first 26 minutes of the second half.

Bradford finally got the Rams moving after Jerome Murphy intercepted a pass from Gradkowski with just over four minutes remaining and the Rams trailing 16-7. It took just 47 seconds for Bradford to drive the Rams 59 yards, making it 16-14 with a 17-yard TD pass to Clayton with 3:18 remaining.

A personal foul on Fred Robbins and a 13-yard pass from Gradkowski to Murphy on third-and-seven helped Oakland run out the clock.

The play in the first half was reflective of two teams that have struggled to win any games in recent years. Both teams missed makable field goal attempts in the first quarter, with Josh Brown missing wide right from 36 yards for St. Louis and Janikowski missing wide left from 46 yards.

Bradford played conservatively in the first half, throwing only four passes to wide receivers. He converted one of those into a touchdown when he connected from seven yards with Clayton to give St. Louis a 7-0 lead.

The Raiders got their only points of the half on a 38-yard field goal by Janikowski on a drive that stalled when rookie Jared Veldheer was beat by James Hall for a sack.

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Kc Chiefs

September 14, 2010 by · Comments Off on Kc Chiefs 

Kc Chiefs, The match between two teams entered the game in the furious New Arrowhead Stadium for the opening of the preseason National Football League. This preseason National Football League began Monday night after the match was played between these two teams. KC Chiefs defeated the San Diego Chargers with a clear goal. The main protagonists of Charles Dexter McCluster Jamaal Kansas and got some goals for his team and led it to victory with the skills. The talented players of the team were able to counter the attack of the Chargers, too. Dexter McCluster annotations and Jamaal Charles were great which led to victory with 21 goals in the final Heads of KC and 14 for the Chargers.

Players from both teams had the great clashes between them and many of them fought hard to win the game, but the Chargers were unfortunate in this case and lost the match. The KC Chiefs were very happy with his victory, having beaten his four time winners of the AFC championships. Together with the fact that Heads of KC has been broken four times in a row winning streak San Diego Chargers against the Kansas City Chiefs. The Chargers made their last efforts in the last minutes of the game when Philip Rivers moved the football. Unfortunately, the Chargers could not even tie the game with equal scores. The fans were happy to see a new and different winner of this match after a long time.

Monday Night Football

September 13, 2010 by · Comments Off on Monday Night Football 

Monday Night Football, The second of two Monday Night Football games of the opening week faces two rivals in the AFC West each other as family members of San Diego Chargers (0-0) travel to Kansas City to face the Chiefs (0-0). Despite being on the road, is that the Chargers are favored 5.5 points on the spread according to the NFL Sports Betting SportsInteraction up. The over / under total bet for the Chiefs vs Chargers game is set in the 45 and the betting public is backing San Diego through the front door (almost 75% according to consensus betting web sites tracking).

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Despite all the support for the Chargers on Monday night football odds have not really changed since he left months ago. San Diego has won five recent meetings, but Kansas City has two covers of the difference of points in that span. The Chiefs vs Chargers games are not competitive in all of last season with San Diego took home wins 43-14 and 37-7 while covering the NFL odds on both.

The Chargers enter the NFL Week 1 of the calendar without wide receiver Vincent Jackson and linebacker Shawne Merriman with Jackson in suspension and stretching while Merriman is nursing an Achilles injury. The Chiefs are much healthier, but it is unlikely that their rookie speedster Dexter McCluster in the starting lineup due to illness.

Monday Night Football takes bets on the game between the Chiefs and the Chargers should be in Kansas City at 5.5. Recent history has been hard on them against San Diego, but they are the home team and the Chargers are without some key players on both sides of the ball. The Charger defense struggled at times last season and Kansas City’s offense should be stronger with more experience with Matt Cassell at quarterback healthy and Dwayne Bowe at wide receiver. Not sure if they’re good enough on defense to get the outright upset, but I expect a game much closer than last year’s clashes.

Start time of Monday Night Football game between the Chiefs and Chargers are scheduled for 22:15 ET and can take all the NFL action on channel ESPN.

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