More great news for that Vikings

Since Favre Fined(notes) has kinda/sorta introduced that he's still considering playing (unless of course obviously, he does not), and that he may be motivated by an NFC Championship rematch from the Saints (unless of course, obviously, he is not), there's still more great news for that Minnesota Vikings. The Minnesota Court of Appeals has declined the NFL's petition to expedite the StarCaps situation of defensive takes up Kevin and Pat Williams(notes), which virtually guarantees the Williams Wall come in uniform for that 2010 season.

The National football league was told it hasn't shown the four-game headgear for alleged utilisation of the banned StarCaps diuretic ought to be given special priority, and also the league really does not possess a situation here. Remember, this is actually the same National football league that understood the outcomes of John Cushing's drug test in September, and allow him to play all season with the appeals process. When the Williamses may need a precedent (although it does not seem like they'll be), they might start immediately.

--Saints coach Sean Payton has some quite interesting memories of publish-Super Bowl festivities (a minimum of, what he is able to remember of these) in the new book.

    Essentially, i was up through the night. Why is this so? There is no next game to bother with. And God knows, we'd anxiously waited lengthy enough with this. 4 years since I'd reached New Orleans - 42 years, five several weeks and 18 days since John Gilliam's opening run. Once we toasted they, the town and ourselves, we understood we still had some honoring before us. Nobody appeared wanting to refer to it as an earlier evening ...

    ... "Maybe you have seen the film, "The Hangover," in which the guy is asking, "How did this lion (really tiger) arrive here? Where did my tooth go? Is not that Mike Tyson? Which was (the Monday following the Super Bowl) for me personally.Inch

I believe, Payton's the NFL's best coach, also it sounds as though he's quite a captivating storyteller, too.

--Props to Professional Football Talk's Mike Florio for smashing the story that Panthers receiver Steve Cruz was really playing within an adult flag football tournament as he broke his arm, and never within the camping-for-kids story which was sailed by other sources for some time. As a direct consequence, Cruz described that his passion for the overall game was at the bottom of his taking a chance that won't keep him from the picture through training camping.

"When you get from your little shallow box, you'd understand it's not only money for me personally within this game," Cruz told radio station WFNZ-AM. "This is exactly what I was raised playing, also it was my offseason. Until freaking Father's Day, nothing had happened."

To any extent further, the 31-year-old Cruz could be more restrained. "I am likely to sit during my bubble. That is what I am likely to do for that relaxation of my career. That might be better for everyone."