Fisher fuels Pacman trade talk

Posted: Friday March 28, 2008 06:32AM ET

While Titans Coach Jeff Fisher said the team recently had given Pacman Jones permission to explore options with other teams, one of the suspended cornerback's agents deemed such permission "irrelevant" in terms of getting the sides closer to any sort of resolution. Asked if the Titans were officially finished with Jones, Fisher said no. The Titans and Cowboys have reportedly discussed a trade involving Jones and may be willing to offer a fifth-round draft pick. Sports Illustrated reported on its Web site Thursday that the Cowboys have offered the Titans a player and a late-round pick.

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The Dallas Cowboys still need another CB in the first round. If they are smart that's what they would do...........

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This story line just honked it's horn as it crossed the "excessive" border line!

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Soon, I anticipate that the media will conspire to have the players wear makeup and cultivate nicknames like "Stone Cold," or "The Undertaker." The media does what it can to issue white and black cowboy hats, and to create a few villains each year. This season we'll have a few villains, a few Cinderellas, a few Heroes, and a heartwarming Comeback story. Could you imagine today's media and editorialship transplanted to the late 60's? The Jets-Colts game? Daaaaaamn.

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when is his suspension officially over? Or was it an indefinite one?

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So, if the trade is made and settled and all parties are pleased, will Goodell be forced to reinstate pacman whether he wants to or not? What is the resolution to this ongoing saga? Who's in charge here? Let's hear from you, Mr. Goodell.

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the suspension was for 2007 but according to the stipulation he has to apply for reinstatement..

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he's a loser, a waste of life & talent!

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Why would they want this man. He should never be allowed to play in the league again.

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If the Cowboys got Pacman, I think Jerry Jones has enough "power" to talk Goodell into reinstating Pacman. All he has to do is show the support system(Calvin Hill for example) that they have down in Dallas and prove that they can help Pacman stay out of trouble.

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Agreed jj730!

A fact not known to many regarding the retention of Calvin Hill's services as "guidance counselor"!

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Never mind "a player and late round pick" what will Dallas offer Roger Goodell to re-instate PacMan ???

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Of course the Titans have to say for now they aren't finished with him, even if they are, otherwise the Cowboys or anyone else, could wait until they cut him and the Titans get nothing.

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Get this over with!!!! Either way, I'm sick of this story!!!!

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Get this over with!!!! Either way, I'm sick of this story!!!!

Theartistformerlyknownas_ HA! | 03/28/08, 10:12 AM
Your option - if you don't like it, don't comment on it.

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If the Cowboys got Pacman, I think Jerry Jones has enough "power" to talk Goodell into reinstating Pacman. All he has to do is show the support system(Calvin Hill for example) that they have down in Dallas and prove that they can help Pacman stay out of trouble.

jj730

What a joke. You hammer on Steeler fans about a couple domestic violence incidents during the off season....yet champion the Cowboy way as an example of helping the misguided soul to clean living. I hear he will appear on Micheal irvin's radio show. What will they do, trade drug and stripper stories?

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What a joke. You hammer on Steeler fans about a couple domestic violence incidents during the off season....yet champion the Cowboy way as an example of helping the misguided soul to clean living. I hear he will appear on Micheal irvin's radio show. What will they do, trade drug and stripper stories?

Last Call | 03/28/08, 10:41 AM

A couple of "domestic violence incidents"? You make it sound ok. And please, your owner cuts a WR who doesn't due to much, but keeps the Pro Bowl LB who slaps his girlfriend's glasses off her face and breaks her cell phone in half? Other than Tank Johnson, what Cowboy on the current roster has been involved in legal troubles? And Tank's problems didn't even happen in Dallas.

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Athletes who take performance-improving drugs make all the headlines. But the culture of personal physical enhancement has pushed the use of steroids and HGH everywhere -- from Hollywood to the music industry to your next-door neighbor who doesn't want to grow old. Don't blame only the jocks.

We are a juiced nation.

We are a nation on dope.

We are a nation looking for enhancement, a way to age gracefully, perform better and longer, and, at the outer edge, vanquish what was once considered that alltime undefeated opponent known as aging.


We do that by Botoxing our wrinkles, lifting our faces, reconstructing our noses, despidering our veins, tucking our tummies, augmenting our breasts and taking a little pill to make sure we're ready when, you know, the right time presents itself.

We also do it by injecting human growth hormone (HGH) and testosterone, America's new golden pharmaceutical couple.

Numbers are hard to come by because much of the flow of these drugs is illegal, but Dr. Mark Gordon, one of 20,000 members of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, cites a 2004 study that found that more than $1 billion was spent annually on legal HGH. "And it's safe to assume it's gone up in the last four years," Gordon says. The Mayo Clinic reports that 2.4 million testosterone prescriptions were filled by U.S. pharmacies in 2004, more than twice the number filled in 2000. Mayo also estimates that three million people in the U.S. use anabolic steroids, the synthetic versions of testosterone that are illegal when they are used for nonmedical reasons such as building an impressive physique and increasing endurance for training. John Romano, senior editor at Muscular Development, the top seller among the dozens of magazines that cover powerlifting and bodybuilding, estimates that 15 million Americans use performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs).

Yet to judge by the blanket coverage given the bizarre Roger Clemens--Brian McNamee pas de deux; Congress's incessant (and in many cases politically motivated) effort to ferret out drug cheats among athletes; the table-pounding vows of various politicians to get drugs out of sports!; and the never-ending BALCO-Barry saga, one might conclude that PEDs are the exclusive province of professional athletes.


When George Bush mentioned steroids in his January 2004 State of the Union speech, he set the societal agenda. "The use of performance-enhancing drugs like steroids in baseball, football and other sports is dangerous," thundered the President. "It sends the wrong message that there are shortcuts to accomplishment and that performance is more important than character. So tonight I call on team owners, union representatives, coaches and players to take the lead, to send the right signal, to get tough and to get rid of steroids now." Massive applause followed.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/magazine/03/11/steroids1/index

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"What Jimmy Harrison was doing and how the incident occurred, what he was trying to do was really well worth it," he said of Mr. Harrison's initial intent with his son. "He was doing something that was good, wanted to take his son to get baptized where he lived and things like that. She said she didn't want to do it."

And the Steerlers owner justifies slapping a woman around? Please, I don't want to hear from Steelers fans at all...

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He doesn't deserve to be in the NFL.

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And the Steerlers owner justifies slapping a woman around? Please, I don't want to hear from Steelers fans at all...

jj730

I never come on here claiming the Steelers are the pristine pillars of society. They have had a couple inexcusable incidents...much like most of the league. However, the Steelers would NEVER,EVER entertain bringing a player of Pac man Jones into their organization...let alone pretend that he will be the better man for the experience.

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