The NFL will try to crack down on binge drinking by fans at games during the 2009 season. Following up on the Fan Code of Conduct it implemented last season, the league office is making recommendations to teams about maximum serving sizes for beer, wine and spirits sold at games and about the number of alcoholic drinks a customer can purchase at one time.
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New NFL city, same boyish Brett Favre. His love for playing remains as persistent as the thick, gray stubble lining his chin. But Favre, who wore his ever-present, sweat-stained red baseball cap, cut-off T-shirt, board shorts and sandals for his first public appearance as a Minnesota Viking during Tuesday's news conference, had the relieved look of someone who just found what had appeared lost ...
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The NFL and NBC are extending their contract for "Sunday Night Football" by two years.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The NFL asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to let it finally suspend Minnesota Vikings Pat Williams and Kevin Williams for violating the league's policy against performance enhancing drugs last year.
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Burl Toler, the first African-American official in NFL history who went on to work one Super Bowl in a distinguished career, has died. He was 81.
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Michael Vick was back on an NFL practice field for the first time since completing his prison sentence.
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