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Wintry Weather a Warning Sign for NFL

It's too bad the first Super Bowl to be played outdoors in a northern city isn't scheduled next year, but in 2014, at Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey. For if it were in 2012, there would be a chance that potential NFL work stoppage due to labor negotiations could wipe out next season and, with it, the folly of...

Woody Johnson Expresses Support for Rex Ryan

Even though the authenticity of the foot-fetish videos thought to be of Rex Ryan's wife has not been discussed -- besides a "no comment" -- from anyone in the organization, team owner Woody Johnson thought it was important enough to express his support for the Jets' charismatic coach. "I have a lot of respect for Rex and...

FanHouse Roundtable: Can the Cowboys Ever Win Again Under Jerry Jones?

Despite his insistence that Wade Phillips would finish out the season as Cowboys coach, last Sunday night's 45-7 embarrassment at the hands of the Packers was simply too much for Jerry Jones to bear. On Monday, the Cowboys owner finally pulled the string on Phillips, firing the beleaguered coach after the telling...

Dirty Dozen: First Impressions Seldom Last in NFL

For the bottom line on the 2010 NFL season thus far, let's turn to the coach of the United Football League's Sacramento Mountain Lions. "They are who we thought they were,'' Dennis Green said on Oct. 26, 2006 to describe the Chicago Bears after Green's Arizona Cardinals blew a 20-point lead despite holding the Bears, a...

Braylon Edwards' Punishment Didn't Come Close to Fitting Crime

The Jets won a big game Sunday night, but you have to wonder how owner Woody Johnson felt on the flight home from Miami. Was there even a slight tinge of embarrassment over how they did it? Did Johnson think of his late daughter and wonder if she'd approve of the way he disciplines his work force? The Employee of the...

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05/29/12 Planning applications lodged with the LDNPA Source: The Westmorland Gazette - Cumbria - UK Planning applications submitted to Lakeland District National Park Authority for period up to and including May 18, 2012.
05/22/12 Romney's $10 million New York trip Source: Politico Ahead of Romney's arrival, Spencer Zwick came on stage and talked up the Romney campaign's fundraising numbers.
05/21/12 Romney camp: We expected Obama to outraise us... Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC Mitt Romney's camp got a bit of bad news Sunday when it was reported that President Obama's campaign had raised $25.7 million in April â more than double the $11.7 million the presumptive GOP nominee raised during the same period.
05/03/12 Mabel Evelyn Johnson Source: The Foxboro Reporter - Foxboro MA Mabel Evelyn (McKeown) Johnson died Sunday, April 29, 2012 at the Cedar Hill Health Care Center in Randolph.
04/11/12 Report: Rex Ryan Doesn't Want Jets on 'Hard Knocks,'... Source: NESN The Jets were made for HBO's Hard Knocks , and that was before they went and traded for Tim Tebow.

Background on Woody Johnson

Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV (born April 12, 1947) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is a great-grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I (co-founder of Johnson & Johnson), and the owner of the New York Jets of the National Football League.

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