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Tamura was targeting NFL headquarters: Investigators believe that he was trying to target the headquarters of the National Football League, but took the wrong elevator, Mayor Adams said. A rambling note found on his body suggested he had a grievance against the NFL over an unsubstantiated claim that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Desmond Watson’s quest to make the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will get a late start.

Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles said the heaviest player in NFL history is day to day after starting camp on non-football injury list due to his weight.

“It’s just about trying to get him better, to be a healthier player and getting him on the field a little more,” Bowles said Wednesday. “That’s kind of where I’m at right now. He’s working at it and we’re working with him and that’s all you can ask right now.”

Watson, who played at Florida, was signed after going undrafted in April. He weighed 464 pounds at the school’s pro day and lost 25 to 30 pounds before the draft.

Aaron Rodgers faced some criticism for how he handled his offseason, waiting until June to sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers after months of speculation and reports that he would land with the storied franchise.

One of his bigger critics just so happened to be a Steelers legend, Terry Bradshaw, who called it a "joke" that Pittsburgh was looking to sign Rodgers.

Rodgers had a chance to address Bradshaw's remarks on Saturday when speaking with NFL Network's Kyle Brandt during Back Together Weekend from training camp in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Rodgers first barked back with an amusing retort: "Well, I whisper to the gods every single day."

Then Rodgers explained that Bradshaw simply doesn't know him well enough on a personal level.

NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. may be having the last laugh against critics of his decision to take his salary in Bitcoin.

When Beckham opted to convert his 2021 base salary of $750,000 from the Los Angeles Rams to Bitcoin as part of an endorsement deal with the Block-owned (NYSE:XYZ) Cash App, critics were quick to argue that he was making a mistake. These critics only grew louder as a market crash ensued the following year, which saw Bitcoin lose nearly 80% of its value.

But now, nearly four years after the Bitcoin bet, Beckham is the one who is smiling.

Former NFL Players Association leader Lloyd Howell Jr. resigned after an outside investigator hired by the union received documents this week showing Howell charged the union for two visits to strip clubs, including a $738.82 car service that took him from the airport to one of the clubs.

After the state of Ohio gave Jimmy and Dee Haslam $600 million for the proposed move of the Cleveland Browns to Brook Park, the couple purchased a $25 million North Palm Beach, Fla. mansion three days later, according to reports.

The oceanfront home is 5,906 square feet on 1.1 acres of land. It was purchased through Dee Haslam's Knox-Main Trust.

The home, which was built in 1971, was purchased in an off-market sale. It was previously sold in 1990 for $3.2 million. It's inside the gated Lost Tree Village neighborhood.

In a situation that’s been controversial, the optics of such a move cannot be considered ideal.

CLEVELAND (WJW) — The Fox 8 I- TEAM has found a new filing in federal court by the Cleveland Browns asking to move ahead on their lawsuit against Cleveland in the hope of clearing a path to move to Brook Park.

The Browns filed the lawsuit in federal court in October seeking clarity on the Modell Law, which originally restricted sports teams from moving. The Browns want the Modell Law declared unconstitutional.

The City of Cleveland asked the federal judge on June 27 to “hold deadlines in abeyance” and issue a stay in the federal case. The city’s motion was filed a short time after state lawmakers made an amendment to the Modell Law allowing sports teams to move as long as they stay in Ohio. The federal court granted the stay, but the Browns now say, in a federal motion filed July 10, that the city is still trying to enforce the Modell Law in county court.

Former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown has apparently fled the United States as he faces an arrest warrant for attempted murder with a firearm.

Brown's latest legal issues, and most serious to date, stem from an alleged incident at a boxing match in Miami last month.

"Brown had claimed he was jumped at the event and that he was released after telling the authorities his side of the story. ... The warrant cites witnesses who claim Brown was the shooter," Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk reported on June 12. "Police detectives reportedly obtained footage of what appears to be Brown punching another man before taking the gun of a security officer and running toward the man Brown had punched. Per the warrant, cellphone video shows a pair of gunshots as Brown approached the victim."

Nine days later, on the evening of Friday, June 21, Brown took to X where authored a post admitting he had left the country.

Just curious if there are any others out there on Lemmy! Where are you based and what team do you support?

I live in the UK but I’m a Saints fan - started following the league in 2020 as a lockdown hobby and it stuck!

Not sure if it’s okay to post this here (just let me know and I’ll delete) but so thought time be fun to get a league together of just people from the Fediverse.

If interested, come join us!

Via the Kansas City Star, the Missouri House passed its version of a bill previously adopted by the Missouri Senate. The measure now goes to the desk of governor Mike Kehoe, who is expected to sign it.

The House voted to advance the bill, 90-58.

Miami authorities are reportedly seeking out former NFL player Antonio Brown to arrest him on the charge of attempted murder with a firearm, according to the Washington Post. The charge is related to an altercation at a Miami boxing event in May.

A warrant obtained by the Washington Post calls for Brown to post $10,000 bond and stay under house arrest until a trial. The warrant was signed by a judge Wednesday, but attempts to reach Brown on Thursday evening were unsuccessful, per the Washington Post.

The incident took place May 16, with police responding around midnight after receiving an alert from a gunshot detection system.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aaron Rodgers doesn’t need to keep doing this. He knows that.

The four-time NFL MVP’s decision to return for a 21st season and to do it in Pittsburgh was not about trying to prove something to himself, the New York Jets or anyone else.

The game has given a lot to him. Stardom. Wealth. A title. Relationships that will last long after he decides to stop playing. The next seven months — if they are indeed the last seven months of a career that almost certainly will end with a gold jacket and a bust in the Hall of Fame — are about trying to pay it forward while finding peace in the process.

Saints quarterback Derek Carr stunned the league last month by abruptly retiring. As explained at the time, he gave up $30 million by choosing not to have surgery to repair a shoulder injury and miss the 2025 season.

“I didn’t want to have surgery and just sit there and — it sounds crazy but — just take the Saints money,” Carr told David Rumsey of FrontOfficeSports.com.

He had to choose between having surgery and not playing or not having surgery and trying to play.

“I wouldn’t have been able to play if I had the surgery,” Carr told Rumsey. “And then if I tried to play with it, I wasn’t near 100 percent, and so that doesn’t help them, either. I just felt like it was the right thing to do for myself and for the team.”

FUUUUCK Ill miss him

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Former Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jim Marshall, one of the four members of the famed Purple People Eaters front that formed the backbone of four Super Bowl teams, died Tuesday after a long hospitalization for an undisclosed illness. He was 87.

The Vikings announced Marshall’s death on behalf of his wife, Susan. The native of Kentucky, who played at Ohio State and was drafted in 1960 by the Cleveland Browns, played 19 of his 20 seasons in the NFL with Minnesota. The two-time Pro Bowl pick set a league record for position players with 282 consecutive regular-season games played, a mark held by Marshall until quarterback Brett Favre broke it, coincidentally, with the Vikings in 2010.

The Cincinnati Bengals' perennial slow start has become a glaring issue, forcing them to burrow out of early-season holes. In the past two years, they've failed, finishing 9-8 and missing the postseason in back-to-back campaigns.

In six seasons under Zac Taylor, the Bengals have gone 1-11 in the first two weeks of the season and 4-13-1 through three weeks. The only year in which Cincy had a winning record through three weeks, 2021, they went to the Super Bowl.

"It sounds like we need to play in the preseason, huh?" receiver Ja'Marr Chase said on Tuesday, via the Associated Press.