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...defensive back," said Kern. One potential weakness in 2013 is the kicking position as Josia Powell moved on to the arena league. "Hummell will handle the kickoffs and punting, and we will most likely go for the 2-point conversation a lot...
...is the greater half,'' said Beuerlein, 34, selected for the first time in a 13-year career. Warner, a former Arena League and NFL Europe star, was left unprotected on the expansion list from which the Cleveland Browns assembled their roster...
...have come from nowhere. The Rams, 4-12 a year ago, are 13-2, in part because Kurt Warner, a refugee from the Arena League and NFL Europe, is having an MVP-type season at quarterback after being exposed to the expansion draft last spring...
...believable with a Super Bowl-record 414 passing yards, earning him the game's MVP honors. Warner had lost a pair of Arena League championship games while playing for the Iowa Barnstormers and the Rams had lost their only previous Super Bowl appearance...
...on his way. This one was for super market clerks and Arena League players, guys on the outside looking in, dreaming...shelves in Cedar Falls, Iowa, when he was playing in the Arena League for the Iowa Barnstormers, when he was in NFL Europe...
...received one of the loudest ovations from the crowd. By now, this town knows all to well the tale of the former Arena League standout who went from grocery stocker to Super Bowl hero. ''I'd like to say that we forget about the grocery stores...
...to be The Man in St. Louis. Then, a knee injury in preseason knocked Green out for the year, and allowed former Arena League quarterback and grocery store stock boy Kurt Warner to emerge and lead the Rams to a Super Bowl title. Now it's Green...
...spice to otherwise meaningless exercises. For the most part, the officials, most from college, NFL Europe or the Arena League, were anonymous and were told by the NFL to remain so. The league listed only names, numbers and colleges attended...
...off the field at any time. Last week's final exhibitions were worked with replacements, most from college or the Arena League, and there were no major game-turning gaffes. But the league clearly was concerned that once the games counted...
...But there will be blunders, just as there are with the regulars, Dotson said. "This game is a lot faster" than arena leagues or college games, he said. "And it will be a growing process, I'm sure." Several Steelers didn't see much...