Word: nfl
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They've considered branching out, too. The Jets play the Patriots on Monday Night Football in November, and Yankees Suck is thinking of making its NFL debut with "Jets Suck" shirts at Foxboro. But there's a problem: "the thing is, the Jets really suck," one of the Yankees Suck guys explains...
What is the sound of one agent's influence waning? In Los Angeles it sounds like a bad week for MIKE OVITZ. The onetime superagent, who co-founded Creative Artists Agency, suffered a setback last week when the NFL rejected his proposal to bring a professional-football expansion team to L.A. Ovitz had spent years on the project and secured the cooperation of stars such as Tom Cruise to spearhead the gridiron campaign, only to be outbid by organizers in Houston. This came amid reports that Ovitz, now a manager at his new firm, Artists Management Group, was having trouble...
...This week Houston, which lost its National Football League team two years ago, was awarded a new NFL franchise for 2002. This year Cleveland, Ohio, which lost the Browns in 1996, fielded its new expansion team, called the Browns. And Los Angeles, which had a team until 1995, continues to angle for a new one. Why doesn't the NFL just keep teams where they are in the first place...
...ADVANTAGE] At time of move announcement, a more winning NFL team...
...McNair that came up with $195 million in public financing for his $310 million new stadium. It?s a sign of community interest that neither of the L.A. groups could come up with in blas? La-La Land, and to NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, it?s a sign that football isn?t dead in Houston. Of course, don?t be too surprised if in a few years football is suddenly declared viable in L.A. again. Say, for an even billion...