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The season hasn’t even started yet and the NFL is already running a 40 yard dash into trouble. Colin Kaepernick, the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, with electrified hair by Chia Pet and a body so tattooed that it resembles an East LA viaduct, sat through the National Anthem during last week’s exhibition game versus the Green Bay Packers. Kaepernick’s reasons for disrespecting his nation and the veterans who gave their lives and limbs for his freedom was your typical idiotic leftist rant, with a touch of Black Panther thrown in for bad measure. “I am not going...

Super Bowl I Super Bowl I Quarter 1 2 3 4 Tot Chiefs 0 10 0 0 10 Packers 7 7 14 7 35 Date January 15, 1967 Stadium Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum City Los Angeles MVP Bart Starr, Quarterback Favorite Packers by 14 National anthem University of Arizona and University of Michigan Bands Coin toss Norm Schachter Referee Norm Schachter Halftime show University of Arizona and University of Michigan Bands Attendance 61,946 TV in the United States Network CBS and NBC Announcers CBS: Ray Scott, Jack Whitaker and Frank Gifford NBC: Curt Gowdy and Paul Christman Nielsen Ratings CBS:...

WASHINGTON (AP) Note to presidential candidates: When in Wisconsin make sure you get your legendary sports figures' names correct. Democratic nominee John Kerry has gotten some grief, in Wisconsin and nationally, for referring to Lambeau Field as ``Lambert Field'' during a campaign appearance. Vice President Dick Cheney was quoted as saying, ``The next thing is he'll be convinced Vince Lombardi is a foreign leader.'' President Bush offered Kerry some advice during an appearance in Wisconsin this month. He said: ``If someone offers you a cheesehead, don't say you want some wine. Just put it on your head and take a...

Bring it on, Cheeseheads! We love Brett, hate the Packers By WILLIAM BUNCH bunchw@phillynews.com AP The always dangerous Brett Favre LOVE the man. Hate the town. OK, let's drop the atty-tude for about 10 seconds, and give some props to Green Bay Packers' QB Brett Favre. All of America - yes, even us - loves the spunk of this future Hall of Famer and his Hollywood-ready saga. It was Favre - in case you've been living in a spider hole outside of Mosul recently - who took the field 24 hours after learning that his mentor father had died of...