Hello all of you loyal Football ^FAN^atics,

    The NFL regular season games are going to begin the first Sunday of August 8/6/06. This league has had the biggest shakeup in head coaches (10 out of 32 teams) since 1992. The NFC North division is entrenched is this battle by replacing 3 out of 4 head coaches. That team’s fabulous QB said that he would retire when Mike leaves. To keep him tremendously throwing to his gifted receivers, they decided to hire another head coach whose first name is Mike.

    With Mike McCarthy be their new head coach, will he be helpful in resurrecting the “Pack” to a winning year in the 2006 NFC’s North division? He has to teach the players on their squad that all of them need to have a “Winning Mentality!”

    While watching ESPN’s “NFL LIVE,” their analysis's reported that Los Angeles possibly might be the home of a NFL team in the near future. They also discussed the selecting of a new commissioner to replace the stepping down Paul Tagliabue, who is in his 14th year of guiding the league, so it now can be firmly called “America’s Game!”

    This also was reported on ESPN’s “NFL LIVE” after the incident pertaining to some Carolina Panthers team players. Dr. James Short pleads guilty to illegally prescribing anabolic steroids, plus human growth hormones to current and former members of that team. That doctor was sentenced to 1 year, plus 1 day’s time for prescribing those illegal drugs!

    That is all for now, I will close. Until my next article, keep staying alert as football season is upon us, Louie

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