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Taking stock …
The Green Bay Packers would offer a 1,000-to-1 stock split to current shareholders and make up to 400,000 shares available to new buyers under a proposal to raise revenue for the team.
The Post-Crescent of Appleton, Wisc., reported Sunday on details of the proposal sent to stockholders late last week.
The Packers, the NFL’s only publicly owned franchise, announced Friday they had scheduled a meeting Nov. 13 to seek shareholder approval of the plan that would raise $80 million through the first stock sale in 47 years.
He keeps right on kicking
Nine years, seven teams, 237 touchdowns. That’s how long it has been since Eddie Murray missed an extra point.
That’s an NFL record, which Murray set Sunday with three conversions, breaking Tommy Davis’ mark of 234 in a row set with the 49ers in 1959-65.
Signed by Minnesota three weeks ago after sitting out all of 1996, Murray broke the record after Cris Carter’s 6-yard touchdown catch with 10:34 left in the second quarter as the Vikings took a 7-0 lead over Carolina.
In his 17th season, Murray hasn’t missed an extra point attempt since Dec. 11, 1988, when he played for the Detroit Lions. Murray spent 12 seasons with the Lions, and in the last six years has played for Kansas City, Tampa Bay, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington and now the Vikings.
They also kick
San Francisco’s Gary Anderson had 12 points to become the fourth player in NFL history to score more than 1,600. He now has a career total of 1,610.
The opening kickoff of the Lions-Buccaneers game was delayed several minutes after the tee used by Tampa Bay’s Michael Husted was declared illegal because it was adjustable and could be raised above the league-mandated one-inch limit.
Take a memo, Mr. Favre
Ex-Seattle Seahawks star Steve Largent has a new project. He wants to help NFL players land internships in Congress.
Largent, now a Republican congressman from Oklahoma, pitched the idea in a recent letter to fellow lawmakers. He said players could work during the off-season in congressional offices in Washington or in a member’s district.
Heidi Conlin, the NFL’s governmental affairs coordinator, insists the players want to be treated like other interns, whose duties include tasks such as running the copy or fax machine.
By the numbers
Robert Smith’s 120 rushing yards made him the first Minnesota back to have four 100-yard games since Chuck Foreman in 1978… . The 49ers have beaten the Rams 15 straight times, matching Washington’s streak over Detroit for the second-longest in NFL history… . Andre Reed had four catches for Buffalo and he needs just two more to become the fourth player in NFL history with 800 for his career… . The Jets have lost 14 of their last 15 home games… . Green Bay has scored 93 of its 168 points in the second quarters… . Despite their defeat, the Saints ran their consecutive games scoring streak to 216, the fifth-longest in league history.
The final thought
“You can’t sit there and linger and lick your wounds all week and pout about it,” - Keith Byars, after New England rebounded from its loss to Denver by beating Buffalo.