Referee Tackles NFL Player (Great Quality)

An NFL Referee throws a cheap shot on Rams halfback Kenneth Darby. For the record, this is from Week 16 of the 2008 season, I've just had it sitting on my DVR and haven't gotten around to putting it on youtube until just now.

Put Pride Aside for Player Safety: Fitting 3 of 3 -- How to Remove the Helmet

Helmets can sometimes be difficult to remove, especially for young players. Watch this video to teach your players how to remove the helmet so as to not change the initial proper fit, and to minimize discomfort.

Scott Peters - Former NFL Player Talks Brain Injuries

PHOENIX - Former football star Dave Duerson finished his football career in Arizona. Sadly, Duerson was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest just days ago. He may have shot himself in the chest to protect his brain, which he asked to be given to scientists for research. Comments from Duerson's family suggest he may have been suffering from memory loss and early signs of cognitive decline. To further understand the depth of concern about brain injuries, Jude La Cava spoke with former NFL player Scott Peters. Peters played nearly a decade as an offensive lineman and spent some of his time with the Arizona Cardinals. Now, he's speaking out on the injuries brought on by helmet-to-helmet contact and concussions. He says brain trauma and cognitive decline are huge concerns for retired players, and the NFL needs to address it. "You're demolishing your body for cash... the NFL has been denying the significance of head injuries since day one," he says.

Football Game Planning: Football Player Pre-Game Preparation

Every football player should have a pre-game routine. When a player consistently gets nervous in front of a crowd or gets psyched out after making a mistake, a solid pre-game routine might be the start of getting their head space right prior to the game.

Pre-game preparation should be a routine that the player chooses that helps them focus and calm themselves before a game. For some players, this could be listening to music or meditating. For some, it involves warm-up drills or mental visualization. For some just chilling out or just plain quiet time. Whatever it is, encourage your players to get into a pre-game routine that gets them prepared, focused, and confident and most importantly relaxed.

Mistakes are going to happen during any football game. The players that have a plan for getting back on track are more likely to bounce back and succeed. The players that don't will dwell on their mistake lose confidence and play poorly. It's important that as a football coach preparing your football team to compete that they know that mistakes will happen through-out the football game, that it just the nature of any sport. The point you want to make as a youth football coach is to limit their mistakes as much as possible. You want them to play aggressive, not passive, as if they are afraid to make a mistake. You want them to compete hard at a high level at all times and sometimes during the heat of battle, a mistake will be made. So be it! Personally, I'd want my team competing hard making a few mistakes than not competing and making no mistakes!

Finally, help players avoid the stress of competition by taking steps to eliminate the unknown. Explain what players should expect during every game. Talk about it leading into the game and how they should handle it. Nerves are a natural part of competition, but those players who learn to control those butterflies in the stomach are the ones who come out as winners. When players tell you that they are nervous, turn it around and tell them they're not nervous they're just excited about playing the game of football!

Cheers!

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Fresno State University Quarterback David Carr - First Houston Texans NFL Player Drafted

Fresno State University quarterback David Carr was the first player to ever become a member of the Houston Texans NFL team. The Houston Texans were an expansion team in the early twentieth century with their first season coming in 2002. It just so happened that prolific Fresno State quarterback David Carr entered the NFL draft in the same year that the Houston Texans franchise made their first draft pick. Because the Texans were an expansion team entering their first year of play in the NFL the team was awarded the first overall draft pick in the April 2002 NFL Draft. With the first pick of the first round of the draft the new team selected David Carr out of Fresno State in the hopes that he would be a franchise quarterback that would lead the team to a number of victories and playoff success.

The Houston franchise invested a great deal into David Carr who came highly touted as a mature QB with good size at six feet and three inches with a weight of roughly 215 pounds. It is unusual for a football player from Fresno State University to be selected near the top of the NFL Draft. The Fresno State Bulldogs have a moderately successful football program in which they consistently compete in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). However, despite success in the middle tier WAC the school is not normally associated with having football players drafted by the NFL, let alone be selected as the number one overall pick. David Carr was an exception in terms of football notoriety for the Bulldogs program that otherwise is not normally discussed on the national scale.

David Carr ended up being the quarterback for the Fresno squad in part because he was a local central coast of California native who was able to stay close to home with his college selection. Carr was born in Bakersfield, CA which is about 100 miles south of Fresno in the central coast area of California. In addition to being born in Bakersfield, California David played quarterback at a local Bakersfield high school named Stockdale High School before eventually going on to be the signal caller for the Fresno State University Bulldogs and later the University of Houston Texans.

After putting up impressive passing statistics at Fresno State University David Carr was drafted by the Houston Texans on April 20, 2002. Over the first five years of the existence of the Houston Texans David Carr started 95% percent of the team's games (76 out of 80).

Sam is a David Carr fan and a Houston Texans fan so seeing the two come together was a great thrill for him. Sam asks visitors of this article to check out his website right now to see Fresno State University wallpaper pictures suitable for displaying on a computer screen.

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How to Become an NFL Player Part 1

Becoming an NFL player was my dream since I was in junior high school, and I was one of the lucky few who actually made it all the way to the NFL. I have played for the New York Giants, the New Orleans Saints, the Washington Redskins, the Baltimore Ravens, and the Jacksonville Jaguars.

My life in the NFL was a remarkable experience. However, getting to the NFL was very difficult. In this article I want to discuss a few of the mental hurdles a young athlete will go through if they want to make it all the way to the NFL.

My preparation for the NFL began in high school when I realized that I had a chance to play Division One football. I attended an outstanding high school program at Eisenhower High School in Lawton, OK where I played against a rival school (Lawton High School) that has produced NFL talent including Michael Minter of the Carolina Panthers, Will Shields of the Kansas City Chiefs, Daly Gardner of the Miami Dolphins, James Trapp of the Oakland Raiders, and Jamal Brown of the New Orleans Saints.

Playing against the top athletes in high school really helped to raise my game to be the best it could be. As an athlete, your preparation for the pros starts when you decide you want to be the best athlete you can be for you--not for your parents, not for your girlfriend, and not for your friends. To be an NFL player you must have a burning desire to play with the best and you must do everything you can physically and mentally to make yourself able to compete with the best.

But being a great athlete is only half of what it takes to make it to the pros. Developing your mental skills is just as important as developing your physical skills.

First, you cannot play football if you have bad grades. The real work for becoming an NFL player starts in the classroom. For me, the class room was difficult and I had to work very hard to keep my grades up. But I understood that if my grades were bad, I would be kicked off the high school team. And, if I was kicked off the high school team, I would not be able to play college football, and college football is a requirement for becoming a pro player. Because of that, I worked very hard to keep my grades up.

If you want to become an NFL player, you must take your class work seriously to give yourself an opportunity to play college football. Here is a secret most student athletes don't know. Colleges love smart athletes. By being both a great student and a great athlete, you greatly increase your chances of being recruited by a scout for a major college football team. Why you ask? Smart players make smart decisions on the football field and help win games. If you look at many of the greatest NFL players, many of them are not the best athletes. What they are, are the smartest athletes. When you play in the pros, the plays are very complex and you need to think very quickly. That is why it is so important to build your brain power just as much as your athletic skills. Accomplishing this is one of the first big steps towards becoming a pro player.

Another important part of being a pro player is how you present yourself as a person. Do you get along well with your fellow athletes and coaches? Are you a good member of your community? College and pro teams want cooperative team members, not spoiled athletes that cause problems, get into trouble, and are an embarrassment to the organization. An athlete that causes problems with his team members and gets into trouble with the law hurts a team. Problem players are quickly removed from competitive sports teams. Therefore, if you want to make it to the NFL, keep yourself out of trouble and be a model person.

In conclusion, being a great athlete is not enough to make it to the pros. You must work hard both on and off the field. Be a person that your team can count on and be proud of. If you do this, you will increase your chances of being recruited by a college scout and making it to the pros.

Martin Chase is a retired NFL player who has played with the Giants, the Saints, the Redskins, the Ravens, and the Jaguars. Martin now owns and manages a popular sports memorabilia website - http://www.mcsportsfan.com

NFL Jersey - How to Be Your Own Football Player

How difficult is it to get into the National Football League? Very. Not everyone is given a chance to compete professionally. Of course, not everyone can wear an NFL jersey - unless, of course, you're going to buy one.

Get Your Own

Today, you can find all sorts of NFL jerseys for a lot of reasons. First, it's a marketing technique. Teams can get more exposure and support by selling merchandise items such as jerseys in the market. Second, it's definitely way cooler and better to be on the bench and be "one with the team" by simply wearing a jersey bearing their logo or name.

Third, its popularity may have been brought about by the mere fact that jerseys are considered to be in style, funky, or hip. If you don't have a jersey in your closet, you don't have a complete wardrobe. Hey, even women wear jerseys these days.

The question now then is how you can get your own jersey. There are two simple ways. You can buy them in your local or online shop, or you can customize one.

Of course, it's a lot easier if you're just going to directly buy your NFL jersey. Most of the online shops, for example, have already classified these jerseys according to team. You have Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions, and Jacksonville Jaguars, to name a few.

You can just click on the link of your favorite team, and the page will give you a catalogue of different jersey designs that you can choose from.

Another option is to scour for jerseys from popular sports apparel brand. These include Nike and Reebok. Go check out their catalogue if they're offering any jerseys that would capture your fancy. A great example would be Reebok's Houston Texans jerseys for men.

Before you give up on finding the jersey that you want, it would be best if you can place a call or look into all places first. It could be that a certain online shop is still in the process of designing a jersey that you really want. It could be worth the wait.

Now, just in case you don't have patience to do so, you can't find any style you like, or simply like to personalize the apparel, you proceed to customization.

There are several ways on how you can customize your own jersey. However, the most preferred one is to add the name of your favorite player at the back of the shirt. Better yet, you use your name instead. It's as if you're really playing together with your favorite team.

You may also change the numbers on your jersey shirt. Perhaps you have a lucky number to speak of. It could also be the jersey number of your football player inspiration.

Another method is changing the size of the jersey. Charts can vary from one store to another, so you definitely need to see it first before you place an order. Common sizes for jersey shirts include small, medium, large, and extra large.

Women have the option of getting non-boxy jerseys or those that follow the contours of their bodies. Moreover, the measurements are based on garment, not body, size.

Jennifer Reyes is an expert author. She has written many articles in various interesting stories about NFL Jerseys. For more information about NFL jersey discount, please contact us.

New Orleans Saints Player Rankings Week 7

Now that the heat of battle has died down and we've all caught our breath after the heart attack inducing tension of the Saints Dolphins clash I want to take a look at what we've learned about the team this week.

New Orleans Saints helmet cam analysis

1 - Sean Peyton is a gutsy leader. This we have known for a long time but it's worth reflecting on one game changer in particular from this past week.

What I love about Coach Peyton is that even when the chips are down, and without the luxury of being in the driving seat with points on the board, he still went with his gut and took his Quarterbacks word as gospel at the close of the 1st half. A lot of coaches would have taken the 3 points and come off the field as quickly as possible to speak with his team en masse. Peyton decided to put all his trust in his main field lieutenant and was rewarded when Drew Brees converted with a Quarterback sneak.

2 - Drew Brees is a practitioner of perfection. Watching Brees beat himself up on the sidelines in the first half was tough to see. Here is a man who studies the game like no other. He puts in the hours at the training facility, in the film room and probably at home too. He works toward and expects perfection from himself and those around him so when the game plan was collapsing you knew damn well he was going to work the situation harder than anyone.

And sure enough when the camera panned to him time and again in that first half he was studying those aerial shots intently looking for the dinks in the Dolphin defense that he could exploit. This is a man that never says die, is born to win and will stay cool when all around him are loosing their heads. The second half revival was testament to the fortitude of his character and leadership qualities.

3 - The Saints Defense is for real. They genuinely make us title contenders. The early points put up by the Dolphins and the speed with which the Saints Offense kept returning possession placed a massive strain on this unit. They were under pressure to keep the game within reach and give the Saint Offense time to regroup and work a fix. This they did and then some.

Key to the unit was the play of both Jonathan Vilma and Darren Sharper. At times in the first half they looked like the only two who had turned up with their game heads on. Vilma in particular pursued the ball with conviction and plugged up the holes on a number of 3rd downs to stop promising Dolphin drives. He led the defense by example and was key to the end result.

Meanwhile, in the Saints secondary, Darren Sharper was patrolling with intent and when his moment came he made a decisive interception which he returned for a touchdown to shift the games momentum early in the second half. The confidence number 42 instills in the secondary unit is clear to see and against the Dolphins they added another 14 points to their season tally.

For these reasons I hereby name Darren Sharper and Jonathan Vilma my Super Saints of the Week.

Peter Falconer is the author of the New Orleans Saints NFL blog, dedicated to all things that come football New Orleans Saints style. He sounds off about Saints players, the roster, schedule and stories all from the inside of my New Orleans Saints helmet.