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To watch in HQ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFw1PgZfOg4&fmt=18 With the NFL season in full swing, football becomes all-consuming on Sunday’s. Which for many fans means watching the pregame show. One of the Pre-Game events is the fly over, hopefully in sync with the ending of the National Anthem. This film is an inside look at how the fly over works and how it’s planned far in advance by many personnel.

During halftime of an NFL pre-season game between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Ravens, Tiki Barber heavily criticized Eli Manning’s leadership skills. The former Giant stated, “He didn’t feel like his voice was going to be strong enough and it showed. Sometimes it was almost comical the way that he would say things.” Eli Manning did not take to those words kindly and retaliated by saying, “I guess I could have questioned his leadership skills last year with calling out the coach and having articles about him retiring in the middle of the season. As a quarterback you’re reading that your running back has lost the heart to play the game and it’s about the 10th week, I can see that a little bit at times.” The current NFL analyst on NBC responded to that by commenting on his Sirius satellite radio show, “I have never, ever, ever not left 100% of myself on the football field.” Eli’s comments regarding Tiki Barber make perfect sense. Following a playoff loss in the 2005 NFL season, Tiki mentioned that Coughlin was “out coached” by Carolina Panthers coach John Fox. In 2006, Barber was frustrated due to coach Coughlin’s ineptitude at calling plays. This feud between Eli Manning and Tiki Barber is certainly not a Shaquille O’Neal vs Kobe Bryant situation, and it is not a Donovan McNabb vs. Terrell Owens situation. I doubt it will ever escalate to that level, but eyebrows have to be raised when you hear Manning say that. Eli is usually not the most demonstrative NFL player in the league. He is calm and reserved, so it was astonishing for him to make an audacious comment like that.

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The New York Giants, officially known as the New York Football Giants - so as not to confuse it with the professional baseball team by the same name – was instrumental in bringing professional football to New York City. Those days, circa 1925, was the time when professional football was played in places, such as Dayton, Rochester, and Columbus. It was the time when only professional baseball, boxing, and college football was played.

That particular afternoon in October 1925, the New York Giants brought professional football to New York City, and though they lost their inaugural game at home, 14-0 to the Frankford Yellow Jackets, professional football had come to stay at New York.

The New York Giants, as a professional football team, plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football league (NFL). Founded by a businessman, a bookie, and a promoter all rolled into one – Tim Mara – the New York Giants were one of the very first teams of the National Football League (NFL). Of the five professional football teams to join the NFL that year in 1925, the Giants are the only surviving team.

The Giants have a number of nicknames. They are variously known as Big Blue Wrecking Crew, Big Blue, G-Men, The Jints, The New York Football Giants, and Jersey Giants.

The Homes Of The Giants

The New York Giants, today, are based at the Giants Stadium, in the massive Meadowlands Sports Complex in suburban East Rutherford, New Jersey.

From the time they first started playing, the Giants had four different bases, before they finally settled down in their own Stadium. To begin with, they shared the Polo Grounds with their baseball namesake – the New York Baseball Giants. Before the start of the 1956 season, they moved into the Yankee Stadium. With the Yankee Stadium closing down for massive renovations, the Giants, after playing the first two games of the 1973 season, shifted base temporarily to the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut for the rest of the season, as well as the 1974 season. After the 1974 season, they shifted to their fourth home – the Shea Stadium and stayed there until the opening of their own Giants Stadium in 1976.

The New York Giants have six NFL titles under their belt. Four are the pre-merger NFL Championships, which they won in 1927, 1934, 1938, and in 1956. The other two are the Super Bowls they won in 1986 and in 1990.

The Tickets

As is with most of the sports tickets in New York City, the New York Giants tickets are also not easy to come by. If you are unable to procure them from the venues itself, you can arrange to have your New York Giants tickets bought from the licensed ticket brokers of New York City.

The licensed brokers have the sources at their command to arrange the New York Giants tickets for the games you wish to attend. You will have to pay a little over the face value of the tickets to help cover the costs incurred by the brokers.

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The quarterback for the Chicago Bears, Kyle Orton was sidelined with an injury on Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions at the end of the second quarter. Even though the team won the game 27-23, they are a little concerned about the injury that Orton is experiencing, which is an ankle sprain but they don’t know yet how bad it is yet. He was examined by doctors after the game but they said that he should be submitted to a MRI on Monday.

The game was going pretty well for the Bears, even though they also lost their emotion leader, Mike Brown, due to a calf injury in the same quarter. Orton was replaced by Rex Grossman, who was not well received by the fans, however, he made the winning pass for Rashied Davis to score the touchdown, but there where a lot of mistakes on his performance as well.

The team is expecting Orton to be back possibly in four weeks; they have to run more tests to be sure that there is no fracture since this type of injury is kind of serious. They also need to know how wide the roof is in the ankle sprain because depending on this, he could be treated with a boot or he may have to be submitted to surgery.

It doesn’t look that serious for Orton, but the Bears are taking all the necessary precautions so that he could be out the less time possible. It is for sure that he is going to miss this Sunday’s game against the Tennessee Titans and probably the next week game against the Green Bay Packers. It is not going to be easy to replace Orton in this two coming games but at least the Bears are not even considering bringing a new quarterback. The injury is not supposed to be season ending.

“To do that (bring a new quarter back), you would say that Kyle will be out for a long period of time,” Coach Lovie Smith said. “We’re not there. We’re evaluating an ankle injury. That’s about all we’re doing right now.”

Kyle Orton started his football career at the University of Purdue and is one of the only three Purdue quarterbacks that have started in three or more consecutive bowl games; he was the starter in the 2001 and 2002 Sun Bowls, the 2003 Capital One Bowl and the 2004 Sun Bowl. He started his professional career in 2005 right into the Bears starting lineup since former starter Rex Grossman was sidelined with an injury. During his first season with the team, the Bears won 10 of the fifteen games Orton started, but his rating as quarterback was not good. For the 2006 season Grossman was recovered and took the starter position again while Orton was sidelined for the whole season as third quarterback.

Nevertheless, his improvements and good performances during the 2007 preseason earned him the spot as starter once again at the end of the season.

In 2008 he signed a 1 year contract extension with the Bears and he was named as the starting quarter back of the season. As of last Sunday’s game, Kyle Orton has 10 touchdown passes, four interceptions and leads the Bears with a 4-3 record.

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