Trick Play That Did NOT Count of the Day

The Johnny Knox TD that would have made the game only a one-score deficit was not to be; there was a holding penalty that brought the whole play back and cost the Bears a chance of a comeback. But, WHAT A FAKE by punt returner Devin Hester!

R.I.P. Orlando Brown

One of the better offensive linemen this past decade has passed away at the young age of 40 - ex-Raven and Cleveland Brown, Orlando "Zeus" Brown - according to NFL Network's Jason LaCanfora:

If the name sounds familiar to you, then you must remember the Ravens in their glory years. Once he left the Ravens for their not-so-great division rivals the Cleveland Browns, he had an incident with referee Jeff Triplett.

Triplett threw a flag that "accidentally" hit Brown in his right eye.

In frustration, he pushed the ref, and was automatically ejected.

In a 2003 article by Sports Illustrated, it was written that Brown nearly lost vision in that eye.






It's sad that such a player had to die at such a young age. Current Ravens running back Ray Rice said tweeted it best:

The 2011 Ultimate NFL Player Bracket

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL? I sure am. With the start of the NFL season just hours upon us, I thought it would be a good time to unveil the 2011 Ultimate NFL Player Bracket. If you remember during this past summer, NFL Network aired its 100 Top NFL Players in chunks of 10. In addition, various other networks/blogs/websites made their "own" Top-100: CBS Sports, Bleacher Report, Sports Illustrated's Peter King and Scouts Inc. I, too, made my own top-100 with no biases (*Note: NO rookies were used in any of the rankings, and non take in part the offseason changes over the past month*). I then compiled the rankings and sorted based on an average ranking.

Since you guys LOVE brackets, I took the top 64 of those NFL players to make a 2011 Ultimate NFL Player Bracket. Below, you will see a downloadable Excel bracket:

Once completed, please send me your Final Four AND Top NFL Player to: sameermalla@gmail.com (email); @skinsballr (Twitter) or post your comment below this post.