NFL Notes:

• the Titans are kicking Eric Decker’s tires.
• Brent Griffith, who spent one year with the Bills in 1990, is being charged with insurance fraud over said AFC Championship ring.
  • he had claimed it stolen, but was ratted out by his ex-wife who believes didn’t get her share.
• Number of fucks Mike Tomlin gives about Le’Veon Bell missing practice = 0.
• Michael Bennett wishes people would stop asking him about Richard Sherman & Russell Wilson.

Peter King, in an attempt to either contribute to, or sully, the word “journalist” has begun a column series called “Exit Interview“, where he interviews long-time beat reporters of, or team employees for, various football teams in the NFL. His first column is with & about Bob McGinn, who covered the Packers for 38 years. It reads like someone who wants to remember what it was like before becoming a shill.

I’m not sure if this McGinn quote about team media is a veiled shot at the Nugget Baron. I choose to believe so:

All these team websites are just a pox on our business. All the coverage is slanted. It’s all pro-team and the people who cover, who work for a network one way or another that is paying the league billions of dollars to broadcast games and be partners, everything they say I take with a grain of salt.

Finally, ESPN announced today that Saints superfan Jarrius Robertson will be the winner of the Jimmy V award at the ESPYs on July 12.

• “Robertson battles biliary atresia — a chronic liver disease that affects his physical growth. He has been in and out of hospitals since receiving a liver transplant when he was 1. At one point, he was in a coma for an entire year. He received a second liver transplant on April 30.”
• Hopefully Brett Favre can muster more enthusiasm in his applause.

Tonight’s sports:

• 30 for 30
  • Celtics/Lakers: Best of Enemies (Part 3) – 8:00PM | ESPN
•  MLB:
  • Rays at Jays – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
  • Yankees at Angels – 10:00PM | ESPN / TSN

Canadians get final pre-season CFL games this coming weekend. A two-game pre-season followed by an 18-game regular season? That’d never work in the NFL. FOUR PRE-SEASON GAMES ARE PRECIOUS FLOWERS!