NFL News:

• The Bills are going to retire Thurman Thomas’ #34 jersey.
  • He joins Jim Kelly & Bruce Smith in that elite bracket.
  • To fully recall the Thurman Thomas experience, they’ll make sure to leave his helmet in the locker room.

• David Tepper’s final bid price for the Panthers was $2.275 billion.
  • Not that all-cash up-front wasn’t a huge selling point, but one of the reasons the lower-priced Tepper bid was accepted is that one of the other bidders wanted to move the team to South Carolina.
    • Jerry Richardson was not having that as his legacy.
      • Just strained race & gender relations for him!

• The full quote just says it all: “New Colts offensive coordinator Nick Sirianni is giving players written tests on the team’s offense during minicamp.”
  • As a reminder, Andrew Luck scored a 37 on the Wonderlic.

• John Fox – new ESPN analyst.
  • See if you can spot the part of the announcement that made ESPN’s spokesman choke:
    • “John has led two different franchises to the Super Bowl and he has a great football acumen, just the kind of experience and perspective we were looking to add to our NFL studio coverage.”

Tonight’s sports:

• NHL:
  • Jets at Golden Knights – 9:00PM | NBCSN / CBC / Sportsnet
• NBA:
  • Warriors at Rockets – 9:00PM | TNT / Sportsnet1
• MLB:
  • Yankees at Nationals – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN3
• MLS:
  • Whitecaps FC vs. San Jose – 10:30PM | TSN

As of today, there are 21 days left in my school year, and then it’s beer selling season.