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NFL News Round-up Tuesday 15th Sep

Andrew — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:22:37 +0000

Chicago Bears
Brian Urlacher is probably out for the season. The linebacker was placed on injured reserve after surgery on his dislocated wrist. After suffering the injury whilst tackling Ryan Grant, Urlacher played on for a while before the injury was checked out and its severity became clear.
Hunter Hillenmeyer will probably get the start at middle linebacker.

Philadelphia Eagles
With the injury to Donovan McNabb, and with Michael Vick not cleared to play yet, the Eagles have signed Jeff Garcia to a one year contract to give backup if required.
If McNabb isn’t good to go, then Kevin Kolb will start. Garcia will be there for depth, rejoining the team he left three years ago.

Gamepass Refunds
Emails have gone out overnight offering refunds for week one’s Gamepass. This is a good, and also necessary gesture, from the NFL and the GamePass provider Neulion.

If you’ve not had the email, you can start the refund process here: http://nflrefund.neulion.com/

The Best US Adverts I Saw This Week

Andrew — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:24:31 +0000

One advantage (and some would mistakenly call it a disadvantage!) of NFL Gamepass - when it’s working – is that you get to see the great adverts the Americans get that we, in the rest of the world, don’t get to see.

Now while most of these are for trucks that are the size of small English towns or for food at a price of a 5 year old’s pocket money, there are some real gems.

Three, in particular, made me chuckle this week…

Firstly, Troy Polamalu sells me some Head and Shoulders:

Then Brett Favre makes me dislike him just a little bit less at Sears:

Then Erik Estrada just cracks me up. Sure, it’s a Tony Stewart advert, but a) I’ve barely heard of him, and b) Erik Estrada steals the show like this was Scrubs or something. I can’t link this one to the NFL… but it’s ERIK ESTRADA, PEOPLE!

NFL Gamepass Problems

Graham — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:26:01 +0000

I am sure there are quite a few of you who are experiencing problems with NFL Game Pass. Such a shame that this has happened as there was so much promise this year.

Lets hope that they fix it soon and we can all get back to the games we were watching. The replays are fine, but there is nothing as good as watching live.