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“We wanted something a little more modest,” New York Giants captain Zak DeOssie said of the team’s Tiffany diamond and sapphire encrusted Super Bowl XLVI rings , which players received in a private ceremony in Manhattan on Wednesday night. Justin Tuck wasn’t into humility. “Stray [former Giant Michael Strahan] talked about the 10 table ring,” Tuck said in a statement released by the team. “He wanted a ring you could see from 10 tables away

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New York Giants receive Super Bowl XLVI rings (Shutdown Corner)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Players and coaches with the New York Giants football team gathered at Tiffany & Co.’s flagship store in New York City on Wednesday evening to receive newly designed rings commemorating their Super Bowl victory earlier this year. The white-gold rings feature the Giants’ logo in diamonds set in blue enamel and encircled by 37 blue sapphires, and is engraved with the years of the Giants’ four Super Bowl victories, the first in 1986. “It’s every boy’s dream to come to Tiffany’s and get a ring.

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Super Bowl winners New York Giants get "Big Blue" rings (Reuters)

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A crowd of 15,000 fans celebrated the life of former football star Junior Seau in a memorial on Friday at a San Diego stadium, as they cheered on his grieving family and listened to speakers describe his generosity and sense of humor. Seau, regarded as one of the best defensive NFL players of his generation, died on May 2 at his home in Oceanside, just north of San Diego, from a self-inflicted gunshot to the chest, according to police. He left no suicide note.

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NFL star Junior Seau celebrated at stadium memorial (Reuters)

Before it became clear that Peyton Manning was going to miss the 2011 NFL season, one of the biggest points of contention swirling around the Indianapolis Colts was what to do with running back Joseph Addai. Addai had the unenviable task of following Marshall Faulk and Edgerrin James as Manning’s featured back, and we all noticed that he wasn’t quite up to their standard as a runner.

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Former Indianapolis Colts Running Back Joseph Addai Signs with New England Patriots: Fan’s Take (Yahoo! Contributor Network)

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University of Iowa retired wrestling coach and Olympic gold medalist Dan Gable once said, “Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.” Perhaps the Tennessee Titans have that quote hanging in their war room, as they have targeted football players with grappling experience. Their second and third-round draft picks both have wrestled.

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Tennessee Titans look to wrestling mats for draft picks (Shutdown Corner)

2001 began as the second year of Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots rebuild. Few people ever expected them to take Super Bowl XXXVI from the St. Louis Rams at the end of the season, but the Pats got a major head start in the draft that season when they selected the team’s best linemen on each side of the ball for the next decade

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Patriots tackle Matt Light retires from the game (Shutdown Corner)

Offensive tackle Thomas Welch was claimed by the Eagles off waivers from the Rams. Welch, 24, played in three games for the Patriots last season while bouncing between the practice squad and the active roster several times. He was originally a seventh-round pick by New England in 2010, and spent most of his rookie season on Minnesota’s practice squad.

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Eagles claim OT Welch (The SportsXchange)

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Medical authorities conducted an autopsy on Thursday on the body of Junior Seau, a day after the former star San Diego Chargers linebacker died of an apparent suicide in his beach front California home, a coroner’s official said. Results from the autopsy, which will include a routine examination of his brain, were expected to be released later in the day, San Diego County Medical Examiner’s office spokeswoman Sarah Gordon said. Seau’s girlfriend found him on Wednesday unconscious in a bedroom of his home with a gunshot wound to the chest. …

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Autopsy conducted on body of NFL star Junior Seau (Reuters)

The Tennessee Titans have reportedly signed former Houston Texans and Indianapolis Colts linebacker Zac Diles. The Titans needed a backup middle linebacker once Barrett Ruud officially signed with the Seattle Seahawks this offseason.

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Tennessee Titans Reportedly Sign Former Houston Texans LB Zac Diles: Local Fan’s Take (Yahoo! Contributor Network)