NFL Notes:

• Looking to prevent him developing an itch to scratch, Alabama put academics to the fore and gave Nick Saban an extension through 2024, raising the amount they’re paying him to $65 million over the life of the deal.
  • That includes a $4 million signing bonus for 2017, taking his salary to $11.25 million this year.
  • Reminder: he has a 10-year record of 119-19 at Alabama with four national championships.

• Wade Phillips got a ring, but is still mad about how he left Dallas.
  • Deadspin has an excerpt for you. Shockingly, it portrays ol’ Double J as a compassionate megalomaniac.
• Apparently, Raiders draft pick Gareon Conley took the polygraph test at the behest of the Baltimore Ravens, who no doubt are familiar with both the process and the request making therein.
  • his lawyer is calling it a “consensual sexual event”. The lawyer said Conley didn’t have intercourse with his accuser, but he didn’t outright say nothing sexual happened between the two.
    • Mr. President?
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  • Oh – and he won’t face NFL discipline, because it occurred prior to his employ in the League.
    • somewhere quiet, Terrelle Pryor is having a mad.
• Lock up your daughters – Greg Hardy spoke to a glory hole Bleacher Report about trying to get back in the League.
  • Feel free to read the delusions at his personal webpage, which he will eventually get up and running to chart his progress and, no doubt, offer relationship advice.
  • “I have to show that Greg Hardy is not a f–king psychopath.”

Finally, if you – like most DFO readers – have a spare $50-60,000 lying around, feel free to bid on “Lawrence Taylor’s 1990 New York Giants Super Bowl XXV Vince Lombardi Super Bowl Trophy”. It’s a mini Lombardi Trophy, which weighs about 6 pounds and is 16 inches tall. The last one which came to auction was Ottis Anderson‘s, which fetched $60,000.

Plus, it comes with this awesome, totally valid letter of authenticity.

• Maybe give it to Scott Norwood, or the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce.

Well lookie here – our own Low Commander’s photoshop skills have been plagiarized for a good cause:

I’ll let the page describe its intent:

My plan is to rent a few billboards in LA that will be anti-NFL and anti-Dean Spanos. All of this just in time for the first ever “LA Chargers” home opener vs the Miami Dolphins on September 17th, 2017. The Chargers have three home games in a row and the billboards will be up not just for the first game but all three.

He also wants to represent Oakland & St. Louis as well, by hashtagging them onto the signs. But his main goal is to tweak the NFL during the glamorous opening day for the Chargers at LA’s third-best soccer stadium.

If you are so-inclined, the link to the page is here. It seems a very worthwhile endeavour which should get some local media play, maybe some page views for us, and probably some snark from Deadspin.

^{h/t Low Commander}

Tonight’s sports:

• NHL:
  • Senators at Rangers – 7:00PM | NBCSN / CBC
  • Blues at Predators – 9:30PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
• NBA:
  • Wizards at Celtics – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN
  • Jazz at Warriors – 10:30PM | TNT / TSN
• MLB:
  • Blue Jays at Yankees – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1
• WWE:
  • SmackDown – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
    • from Fresno!

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