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The New York Post reported recently that the resale of New York Jets tickets on the Internet have taken off since the blockbuster trade for superstar quarterback Brett Favre took place.

The Post reports that fans are flocking to the Web because 2008 Jet tickets have long been sold out to season-ticket holders. Yet the trade has prompted more than 2,000 fans to download applications for placement on their season-ticket waiting list - already held about 10,000 names before the deal.

New York’s Action 2 News also reported seeing an increased requests for football tickets for New York Jets games after checking with several ticket brokers. Prices are also ballooning for Jets tickets as they have increased up 50 percent.

 It seems that the news about Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson getting married were just rumors. At least that’s what the Dallas Cowboys quarterback himself told to People Magazine recently.

“I mean, it’s just rumors. That’s what people say,” Romo, 27, told PEOPLE at Monday’s Cosmopolitan Fun Fearless Male of the Year Awards.

 The star quarterback however did say that he does want to get married -eventually- but his not sure about the timing.

“I’m sure I’ll get married one day. I don’t know when,” he said.

Curiously, in that phrase one can’t help but notice he didn’t say “I’m sure I’ll get married to Jessica one day,” so I guess Romo’s marriage to Jessica isn’t as sure a thing as many had initially believed. 

Furthermore according to OK! Magazine, Romo recently hurt Simpson’s feelings when he told her to her face that Underwood is a better singer than her and that he thought Jess would have trouble winning over audiences with her upcoming country CD.

Probably the happiest people in all of this are the Dallas Cowboys fans who for a long time now have been waiting for this couple to break up because many are convinced that the hot actress and singer jinxes Romo’s performances on the field.

So what will hapen to the future of this couple? Right now all the bets are off, so you’d better stay tuned for any emerging details.

Brett Favre has finally retired. After months of speculation Green Bay Packers ‘ number four has apparently decided to hang up his cleats for good and let the team start preparing for a future without him.

 As he promised the Packers once their season ended, Favre  decided whether he’d return to the NFL for one more year well before the drat (about two months away) something that will allow them to make the proper preparations for that key date and the free agency period.

After balancing all his options one of Green Bay’s greatest quarterbacks decided that coming back was not worth it. He was simply too tired mentally, physically and emotionally. He realized that contrary to what most people would think winning made it all tougher, and that the only way to go out on top, if he did play one more season, would be to come back and win the Super Bowl.

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The Associated Press reported that the Chicago Bears and quarterback Kyle Orton agreed Monday on a one-year contract extension that runs through the 2009 season, setting up a competition between him and quarterback Rex Grossman.

The deal comes two days after Chicago re-signed Grossman to a one-year contract and said he would compete for the starting quarterback job with Orton.

In three seasons, Orton is 12-6 as a starter and has the fourth-highest winning percentage among Bears quarterbacks with at least 16 starts since 1961. He spent most of last season as the third-stringer behind Grossman and QB Brian Griese, and had mixed results while starting the final three football games.

Apparently Dallas Cowboys‘ quarterback Tony Romo will be headed to the altar soon to marry singer and actress Jessica Simpson.

Simpson and Romo started dating In Novemer of 2007. This would be the second wedding for Simpson as she was married for four years to singer Nick Lachey, whom she divorced in 2006.

Many Cowboys fans are probably not to happy to hear the news as many still resent the poor performance that Romo had on a December 16, 2007 game against the Philadelphia Eagles, when Simpson was in attendance. Many fans consider that Simpson jinxes Romo and affects his on-field performance negatively.

This argument may seem ridiculous and I don’t take it seriously. In fact, I think that Cowboys fan are just venting their frustration on her and seeing Simpson as a scapegoat, but unfortunately their notion was further reinforced when the Cowboys lost to the New York Giants in the divisional playoffs, after Romo & Simpson went on a trip to Mexico during the NFL Wild Card game bye-week.

Now that the star quarterback seems decided to marry Simpson you can’t help but wonder how this will affect the Cowboys tickets sales. One things for sure, Simpson will undoubtedly not be a welcome sight at Dallas Stadium any time soon. If next season she wants to attend any of her sweetheart’s games she’d better wear a disguise to enter the stadium undercover and take some bodyguards with her.

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Wow what a game!

 As an impartial fan (I don’t root for neither the New England Patriots nor the New York Giants) I have to say that Super Bowl XLII could easily be ranked among the Top 3 Super Bowls of all time and makes a strong case for the best Super Bowl ever.

 Probably the only Super Bowl that I can recall that may be better than this one could be Super Bowl XXIII between the San Francisco 49ers and the Cincinati Bengals.

That game is remembered for the 49ers’ fourth-quarter game-winning drive. That day San Francisco was down 16-13 and the ball on their own eight yard line with 3:10 on the clock. The 49ers marched 92 yards down the field in under three minutes. They then scored the winning touchdown on a Joe Montana pass to John Taylor with just 34 seconds left in the game.

The difference is that the 49ers were actually the favorites by seven points  in that Super Bowl so having them winning wasn’t as shocking as seeing the Giants defeat a record-breaking Patriots team looking to make history.

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 The Associated Press reported today that tickets for Super Bowl XLII between the New York Giants and New England Patriots cost as much as $19446, and that the average price so far is $4300. The incredible part is that football fans so far seem to be willing to pay those prices even when the NFL originally priced those tickets at $700 or $900NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, who seems resigned to the fact that the league is mostly powerless to stop the profitable turnover of tickets, said to the Associated Press that the face value of their tickets was underpriced based on demand and what people are willing to pay.

Furthermore the Associated Press reported that  the average price of Super Bowl tickets has been going up every year, so probably we should not be surprised about this. Tickets for last year’s game between the Chicago Bears and the Indianapolist Colts averaged $4,004. That was sharply higher than the Pittsburgh Steelers-Seattle Seahawks in 2006 at $3,009, the Philadelphia Eagles-Patriots in 2005 at $2,659, the Patriots-Carolina Panthers in 2004 at $2,290, and the Oakland Raiders-Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2003 at $2,767.

 So if you do want to go to the Super Bowl but you don’t want to pay as much, there still is time and there are many tickets left. Check out the price of these Super Bowl tickets here. And if you’re looking for corporate packages you may want to check out this site. Good luck!

I’ll be live blogging today about what I’m doing and things I think about sports. Enjoy! Remember to keep checking in throughout the day as I update the blog with more tidbits.

11:02 a.m. - Willie Parker broke his leg. I’d say the Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl hopes are now ruined, but they were ruined a long time ago when Tomlin decided to make Pittsburgh a pass-first, run-second team. Sidenote: Pettey and I picked Willie Parker with the 6th pick in our fantasy draft and got mocked for passing on Frank Gore. As always, we were right.

11:12 a.m. - They just showed a hockey highlight on Sportscenter in the first 15 minutes. That’s ridiculous. Hockey belongs at the end with off-season golf, European basketball, and a rant from Sean Salisbury.

11:23 a.m. - So Jonathan Papelbon claims that the ball he had from the final out in the World Series got “eaten by his dog”. I find it shocking that anyone actually believes this. If anyone in that house ate the ball, it was probably Papelbon himself.

11:31 a.m. - 31 minutes into Sportscenter until Jessica Simpson got mentioned. God I hate this story. She has nothing to do with the Dallas Cowboys and Tony Romo’s performance on the field. However, there is a gambling website where you can bet on how long the Simpson/Romo relationship will last. 6 to 1 odds that it’s over within the next 3 months. Pettey put his Christmas bonus on it.

12:20 p.m. - On ESPN 2’s “First and 10″, the two debaters were asked a question: “Which injury hurt’s his team more - Jeremy Shockey’s or Willie Parker’s?”  Skip Bayless gave a truly insightful answer with one word, “Neither.”  What???  That doesn’t even make sense.

The Pro Bowl rosters were announced yesterday and despite the fact that ultimately they are meaningless, it serves as a bit of an early Christmas for me. See, young Drob and I are of different schools of thought concerning the NFL’s all-star extravaganza. He seems to think that every all-star game is a waste of his time, while I enjoy seeing players in different helmets playing on the same field. For some reason it looks so damn chaotic out there, and I love every minute of it. Also, being on the lookout for your someone on the field with your teams favorite helmet when you’re 10 years old might be one of the highlights of my youth. Which explains why Drob, a Bears fan, doesn’t like the Pro Bowl since they probably didn’t have a single entry from 1986 until 2004.

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This Thursday the NFL Network will be blacked out in a few of the cities whose teams will be playing, leading even the most casual fan at home to think, “Uh, you’re kidding right”. Oh, they’re not kidding, but at least they have a solution to your problem. And no, it does not involve you watching the game in your house. The Network (if you want to call it that) is going to fly a rather large blimp over the blacked out cities with a large television screen attached to it. And I guess a giant megaphone speaker. And what if it’s cloudy?

Basically, this is going to be just like when you’re at the beach and those planes fly by with advertisements that you could barely read. Except these planes (blimps) will be flying 1,000 feet higher and the advertisements (the football game) will need to be viewed with binoculars, which is all a waste of time. And again, what if it’s cloudy?

Luckily for us, our old Presidential candidate, John Kerry is on the case. His beloved Patriots play the last game of their potential undefeated season on the NFL Network, and Kerry is fired up that some of his Boston pals will have to listen to the radio, go to a friends house, or walk to a neighborhood bar. At least now there’s a chance you’ll see the Pats/Giants game. Good work American Government, and keep getting those bad steroid baseball guys that are worse than al-Qaeda.

“Here Senator Kerry is eating the blimp. He obviously hates the idea.”

It’s times like these when you have to sit back and say, “You know what, maybe Bush isn’t all that bad, and we made the right decision four years ago.” And trust me people, I bought NFL Network in the beginning of the season and you are better off watching Bionic Woman than listening to these ’sports talents’ try and call a game.

I was joking about the Bush thing by the way…