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It is a love hate affair in Philadelphia as they restructure Donovan McNabb’s contract for the next two years.

McNabb and the Eagles agreed late Thursday to restructure the final two years of his contract instead of extending his current deal. McNabb will collect $24.5 million over the next two seasons, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. That’s a $5.3 million raise over two years.

“Both sides wanted to get something done,” coach Andy Reid said. “We thought it needed to be done. Donovan warranted this. There are very few players or situations where a player is far enough along in his career, and then his contract, where he warrants something like this. We felt Donovan was in that situation.”

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The Philadelphia Eagles have a chance to win it all. Their team is that good and so is Donovan, but he just never seems to last through the season. Twice this guy has been my Fantasy Football quarterback and twice he was ripping up the league only to fall to season ending injuries.

Donovan McNabb is all smiles with more money

Donovan has so much talent that you just keep thinking he will put it all together, stay healthy, and deliver the title to the Eagles. That is why Philly was willing to ante up the extra money and pay him.

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As if the 70 bazillion dollars that he signed for, as the first pick in the 2009 NFL draft were not enough, the word has leaked out the Matt Stafford has found it a little tough to get endorsements.

And he needs the money! Matt is down to his last 40 some million of guaranteed money. What is a rich young good looking NFL quarterback to do? It is not like he can go out and win the NFL Championship, better known these days as the Super Bowl, not with his team being the Lions. The Lions are the super losers of all time and current toilet bowl champs (to steal a Gus Macker term) of the NFL.

Matt hurting for his next million bucks

So Matt needs endorsements and the times are hard.

Because of the catastrophic economy, the Lions’ winless 2008 season and the specter of the failed Joey Harrington still looming over the team, advertisers locally and nationally may be leery of inking Stafford as a megadollar pitchman.

“I think he’s going to be one of the most challenged No. 1 draft picks,” said Jan Katzoff, executive vice president for sports and entertainment of San Francisco-based branding and marketing firm Radiate Group. “When you factor that in with not only the global economy but what Detroit is dealing with, you’ve got factors nobody else is dealing with.”

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In Contrast, Brady Quinn arrived last year with all kinds of endorsements like Subway and Xbox.

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Ben faded back into the pocket and Barack Obama rushed him from the right defensive end position.

Obama, referring to Pittsburgh as Six-Burgh in honor of the Steelers’ sixth Super bowl victory in February, conducted what he called the most unique visit by a championship team to the White House.

The Steelers players and coaches joined the President and others, including Pennsylvania Sens. Arlen Specter and Bob Casey, in assembling 3,000 USO care packages that will be sent to the troops overseas.

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Obama also joked about being a Bears fan, and come to think of it, he is from Illinois.

Meanwhile in this wacky world we live in Big Ben had to deny having skin cancer.

Ben Roethlisberger does not have cancer, and neither does he have a Facebook page.

“There’s no truth to it. I don’t have any of that stuff,” the Steelers quarterback proclaimed yesterday.

“That stuff” are accounts on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and any other social networking Web sites. Roethlisberger said he does not use them, including the one under his name that proclaimed he had skin cancer.

“I had a bunch of people ask me about it. Obviously it’s not true,” Roethlisberger said after yesterday’s spring practice. “We had to go on our Web site to let them know I don’t have an account. There’s nothing going on.”

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No Cancer for Big Ben Roethlisberger

The Steelers have to be happy that there are no motorcycle accidents in Big Ben’s life right now and especially no cancer. Take it from a cancer survivor (me, the Squibster), you do not want to have any kind of cancer.

This is the kind of off season the Steelers hoped for.

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Now settle down there and think it through. Are you going to be in the stadium where they hold the Super Bowl? Probably not, face facts.

So why not have the Super Bowl in London. It would be cool and if you did get tickets, then you could make a trip out of it as well.

Kurt Warner asks 'You want me to play where?'

The NFL needs to think of its future expansion anyway.

The league is as popular as ever, as evidenced by the 39 million people who watched the draft last month. Yes, that’s right, more people watched the annual selection meeting of college players than they did playoff action or marquee matchups in the other big American professional sports. How much more popular can the NFL get in the United States?

The room for growth and expansion is across the pond, and Commissioner Roger Goodell and company realize that. Baseball and basketball have grown exponentially internationally over the last 20 years, with the increase in competitions like the World Baseball Classic and the Olympics as proof of that. If those sports can catch on elsewhere, why not attempt to spread the word about our most popular and exciting diversion? And with the real product, not the old NFL Europe model.

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Oh, and if you get tickets to the London Super Bowl and you have an extra one, there is this guy that writes blogs and goes by the moniker Squibster and loves football and is forced to root for the Lions and would just love to go.

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