NFL News:

• AJ Hawk signed a one-day contract so he could retire a Packer.

• Dallas jumped early and exercised the 2018 option on OL Zack Martin.
  • It’s worth $9.3 million, which is about $3 million less than he’d command on the open market after 2017.

• The Bills are going to the family well & brought in Chad Kelly for a tryout pre-draft visit.
  • He missed the combine due to a shredded knee, making him the leading candidate for the Browns’ first-overall pick.

• One final use of the Rooney Rule on Tuesday, when Ike Taylor joins 7 Rooney grandchildren as pallbearers at Grampa Dan’s funeral.

• Making the Seahawks drafting team‘s job that much harder, OT Gary Gilliam has signed with the 49ers.

• Megatron’s butthole might open August 26th.

Finally, Derek Carr – “Christian, Husband, Father and Oakland Raider #RaiderNation What they call work, I call worship!” – went and called disappointed Oakland residents “not true fans” for lamenting the move to Vegas. That should make the next two years playing out the string extra-special to the 4500 people who show up.

• Well, that must have been a scary couple of hours in the Raiders front office:

Just in case I was misunderstood…I love ALL Raider fans, wherever they are from…. We are in this together, always! #RaiderNation

— Derek Carr (@derekcarrqb) April 18, 2017

Lesser sports playoff madness update:

In case you want to know how Flames fans’ (& their server, litre_cola) night went, allow the fans of the 2013 Maple Leafs to show you:

And Ape has the fallout from the Caps-Leafs series:

https://twitter.com/xmasape/status/854357383132434433

Delicious.

Tonight’s sports:

• NHL:
  • Habs at Rangers – 7:00PM / NBCSN / CBC
  • Penguins at CBJ – 7:00PM | CNBC / Sportsnet360
  • Oilers at Sharks – 10:00PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet

• NBA:
  • Bucks at Raptors – 7:00PM | TSN
  • Bulls at Celtics – 8:00PM | TNT
  • Jazz at Clippers – 10:30PM | TNT