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Why bring this topic up again, this has been discussed before. Let it go man, let it go.

OLD NEWS, why rehash old topics.....time to move on.

Look in almost every thread you'll find Teddy!

If you don't learn your mistakes, you are doomed to repeat them!

If you don't learn (from) your mistakes, you are doomed to repeat them!

If you keep looking back while trying to move forward, youre likely to fall flat of your face.

are we really arguing this again?

that poor dead horse. i'd say he's had enough, guys.

You cant look to the future when your eyes are on the past.

Let your history be a part of your destiny not a dictator of it.

You don't drown because you fall into a puddle, but rather because you stay there.

Time to let it go.

are we really arguing this again?

that poor dead horse. i'd say he's had enough, guys.

Yep. This is deceased equine assault and battery at its finest, using an article from over a year ago as its basis.

The Teddy vs JF was in every other thread so why not just have one thread where it could be talked about and not taking over other threads?

The Teddy vs JF was in every other thread so why not just have one thread where it could be talked about and not taking over other threads?

There are lessons to be learned from the past so you can go forward hopefully in a more successful way.

JMHO

Mike Lynn, the general manager of the Minnesota Vikings who traded two draft picks Tuesday for the opportunity to sign Bernie Kosar, yesterday questioned the National Football League's right to hold a supplemental draft that would give another team the chance to sign him.

As a result, Commissioner Pete Rozelle has put off a final decision as to whether a supplemental draft will be held, until the Vikings and three other teams involved can submit their views on the matter.

Until now, the league has taken the position that if Kosar, the highly regarded junior quarterback at the University of Miami, had not requested by Monday that he be included in the regular draft, he would be eligible in a supplemental draft.

Rozelle, acknowledging that Kosar was a ''unique case,'' said that he had asked for opinions from the Vikings, the Houston Oilers, the Buffalo Bills and the Cleveland Browns.

''Then,'' he said, ''after all the facts are in, we'll make a determination.''

The Oilers, who had the second pick in the first round of the regular draft, traded it to Minnesota Tuesday for the Vikings' first pick, the third over all, and their second-round pick, the 30th over all. The Bills, who had the first pick, used it for Bruce Smith, a defensive lineman from Virginia Tech who has already signed a contract.

Lynn's concern over getting Kosar developed after another trade Tuesday, one in which the Browns promised the Bills ''future considerations'' - the Browns' first pick in the 1986 draft and a starting linebacker - for the opening pick in a supplemental draft. Art Modell, the Browns' president who has made no secret of his regard for Kosar, described the trade with Buffalo as a ''backstop.'' Kosar, whose hometown is Boardman, Ohio, has said often that he would like to play for the Browns.

But Lynn, in a telephone conversation with Rozelle, asked him why such a draft should be held, when the league's constitution and bylaws make no provision for a supplemental draft for a college player who has no remaining eligibility.

Kosar, who has been represented by a family friend, Dr. John Geletka of Canfield, Ohio, would appear to have relinquished any remaining eligibility when Dr. Geletka held discussions with the Oilers and at least one other club, the Detroit Lions, before the Oilers traded their pick.

''It seems to me,'' Lynn said, ''Kosar is either eligible for the regular draft or he's not eligible to play football in the N.F.L. in 1985. But it is obvious that that is not the position taken by the league, which has allowed Cleveland to negotiate a trade with Buffalo.''

Lynn said that he was satisfied with Rozelle's reaction on the matter but that ''it would be absurd'' if the league were to rule that Kosar would be made available in a supplemental draft.

The critical question was: Has Kosar forfeited his college eligibility by retaining Dr. Geletka?

The National Collegiate Athletic Association would determine whether a player has forfeited his eligibility. Before making a decision in Kosar's case, it must have ''first-hand knowledge'' that Kosar either intends to offer himself to a draft or has contracted an agent to represent him.

''We can't do anything until we get all the facts,'' said Kathleen Hatke, a legislative assistant at the N.C.A.A. ''And we cannot get all the facts until we have heard from the athlete or his parents. We will not be put in the position of making a determination just because some professional team wants to find out if a player has satisfied its draft legislation.''

So far, Miss Hatke said, neither Kosar nor a member of his family had informed the N.C.A.A. of their intentions, which raised the possibility, however remote, that Kosar might want to remain at Miami.

Ladd Herzeg, the Oilers' general manager, said yesterday that ''there was no question in my mind'' Dr. Geletka was representing Kosar. Herzeg said he and Dr. Geletka had had ''five or six conversations'' and that he ''wanted to know what we were doing with regard to Bernie, which teams he would prefer to play for and where he didn't want to be.''

George Heddleston, a spokesman for the Detroit Lions, confirmed that Russ Thomas, the Lions general manager, had had ''several conversations'' with Dr. Geletka about Kosar. ''And it was our impression,'' Heddleston said, ''that he represented the kid.''

A message left yesterday for Dr. Geletka on his answering machine was not returned.

Meanwhile, Kosar's father, Bernie, said that as of yesterday afternoon he had not yet heard from the Vikings and that he was ''very, very anxious to hear Minnesota's story.''

Lynn said that Rozelle had told him not to negotiate with Kosar until a decision has been made on the supplemental draft.

Can all of you please stop telling people what they can talk about, please.

If you don't want to talk about the topic then move on. Its not required that you participate in each and every thread and generally speaking if it has no relevance then it dies of its own causes. But telling folks what they can post too, come on really that seems something akin to censoring.

There are lessons to be learned from the past so you can go forward hopefully in a more successful way.

JMHO

but Teddy is a good qb and Johnny isn't.

Stop telling me that I can't tell people what to do.

Y'all can be as ____________ as you want, but Teddy is a good qb and Johnny isn't.

It ain't going away no matter how ridiculous y'all get.

We should put up a Statue of Teddy in cleveland the way you guys complain about it.

The greatest Draft prospect to never play for the browns.

Can you please stop trying to limit the places I can talk about TB?

What's this, tex?



And you know exactly why Vambo started this thread. He did the same crap on the Brown's board.

Whatever.........y'all just going to make me stronger.

What's this, tex?



And you know exactly why Vambo started this thread. He did the same crap on the Brown's board.

Whatever.........y'all just going to make me stronger.

what? What is this dragon ball z? you Goku now?