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Well, Pacman Jones isn't going to play in the CFL after all.

Jones, the twice-suspended NFL player, who was on the active rosters of the Cowboys and Titans, had been in the final stages of signing a contract with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL.

But after a Ustream video that aired Wednesday night (and can be viewed after the jump), the Winnipeg Sun reports the Bombers had enough.

There was much consternation around the NFL when the Vikings brought Brett Favre back. The move raised plenty of questions about Favre's ability to help Minnesota, too -- adding an old quarterback with a partially torn rotator cuff who's coming off biceps surgery was certainly a gamble.

But for the Vikings, it's worth risking the season.

NFL teams need elite quarterbacks to succeed at an elite level. Adding Favre makes Minnesota's offense one of the best in the NFC, if he's used right.

There ain't no party like a Winnipeg Blue Bombers party, because the Blue Bombers keep signing players who paved their way out of the NFL because they found more thrills off the field than on it.

One day after news of their plans to sign Pacman Jones became public knowledge, the Toronto Globe and Mail is reporting that Lions washout and noted marijuana enthusiast Charles Rogers will be heading to Manitoba to continue his football dream. Both players are represented by Jason Fletcher, who is fast becoming the biggest conduit for Americans traveling to Canada since Robert McNamara. (UPDATE, Sept. 2: The Blue Bombers released a statement saying that they would not sign Jones. "We have completed our assessment and due diligence and at this time we will not be pursuing the services of Adam Jones," coach Mike Kelly said.)

Have you missed Pacman "Please Call Me Adam and Not Pacman" Jones? (That was a rhetorical question. The answer, duh, is "absolutely," which is because Jones is a 100 percent guaranteed source of entertainment at nearly all times when he's in the public spotlight.)

Now Jones is returning to the public spotlight in the form of a gig in the CFL and a not-so-shocking one-year contract with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, according to an SI.com report.

When Dallas opens the preseason in Oakland on Thursday night, it'll do so as a team looking to prove itself.

The Cowboys are not thought of among the NFC's elite teams. These Cowboys believe they are underdogs -- which may be a good thing, because when they're the favorites, they struggle to handle it.

"They keep talking about those teams [Giants, Eagles and Cardinals]," linebacker DeMarcus Ware said of the NFC's expected powers. "That allows us to become the underdog -- I know that's not going to happen, but I hope it does."

The plan was supposed to work something like this: the Indianapolis Colts would draft a left tackle, he would sit and learn behind Tarik Glenn, and when Glenn finally moved on, Indy would have Peyton Manning's blindside protector already on the roster ready to assume the role.

With that in mind, it made sense that the Colts used a 2007 second-round pick on Arkansas tackle Tony Ugoh. Even though it was costly -- Indy sent their 2008 first-rounder to the 49ers for the right to move up in the '07 draft -- team president Bill Polian's player-personnel development record is spotless. If he thought it was a deft move, chances are, it was.

From the moment wide receiver Michael Crabtree decided to leave Texas Tech for the NFL, he's been scrutinized. Crabtree didn't want to play for the Raiders, had a posse, was a diva, rubbed his new teammates the wrong way and almost cried in front of 49ers coach Mike Singletary.

Crabtree disputes all those claims -- according to Crabtree, his adjustment to the NFL has been pain-free.

"I haven't had too many surprises," Crabtree told FanHouse on Wednesday from San Francisco. "You expect the unexpected, that's how I live. I got my backup plan ready. It's what I do."

A new video has surfaced showing then-Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones infamously making it rain in a strip club in Las Vegas in 2007.

ESPN acquired the video and previously unreleased court documents for a story that gives more detail than previously known about what, exactly, happened on February 19, 2007, at the Minxx Gentlemen's Club & Lounge. A fight took place inside the club and a shooting took place outside the club, leaving a bouncer paralyzed. Ten months after the incident, Jones pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct for his role in the fight.

The video is below, and although profanity is bleeped and nudity is blurred, viewer discretion is advised.

In his seven-year NFL career, Travis Henry rushed for more than 1,350 yards three times. After stints in Buffalo and Tennessee, his last carry came with the Broncos in 2007.

Then-coach Mike Shanahan explained that Henry was released less than a year after the Broncos signed him because the running back lacked commitment. Maybe at his day job, but that certainly wasn't the case in all aspects of Henry's life; in March we learned that he had 11 kids by 10 women, so he's clearly committed to something.

As it turns out, his astounding ability to procreate is the least of his worries, even though there was a time, after signing a five-year, $25 million deal, when he couldn't afford to make his child support payments (although, oddly, it didn't prevent him from dropping $250K on jewelry).

When talking about front-office futility, Matt Millen sets the pace. Mercifully for Lions fans, he's been relieved of his duties as the team's president and general manager, but his legacy lives on. His infatuation with using high-round draft picks on wide receivers might have been his biggest weakness, although that's certainly up for debate.

Charles Rogers and Mike Williams are on the list of first-round wide receiver busts, but a name that's often overlooked -- and one that we can't blame on Millen -- is Peter Warrick, who the Bengals selected with the fourth-overall pick in 2001.