The Dallas Cowboys starting quarterback Tony Romo recently expressed his determination to help the team win a Super Bowl title so that he will be considered to be worth the honor of a super star quarterback. The 30-year-old quarterback has been selected to Pro Bowl for three times and been the team’s starting quarterback form more than three seasons. A Super Bowl ring is just the last thing he needs to rank top among quarterbacks in the league.

“I love the tradition and the history of the game,” Romo said. “So for me, you set out to accomplish certain goals and right at the top the only way to be included in any talk of anything is to go out and win a championship.”

Anyway, Romo is now considered to be one the league’s elite quarterbacks, but his goal is to be mentioned along with big-names such as Peyton Manning and the one to wear back No.4 Minnesota Vikings jersey. Believing that the number on Brett Favre jersey may be retired after the star quarterback announces his last retirement, Romo himself also wants his number 9 to represent the same honors.

The New York Jets All-Pro center Nick Mangold does not want to sacrifice his job to get a satisfying contract extension. Even though he is still talking with the team about extending his current contract, he just has no plan to skip the team’s training camp. Even with a chance to put on New Orleans Saints jersey, his choice would still be staying with the Jets.

Mangold tells the NFL Network on Friday night that it wouldn’t do him any good to hold out, so “I’ll be there with bells on.” Entering the final year of his current contract with the Jets, Mangold will not give up his efforts to get a new contract, either. He is just want to make sure he will keep the job first. That attitude may get him a faster response from the franchise than his teammate, cornerback Darrelle Revis.

Revis was last seen in a Brett Favre jersey hanging out with a group of friends, and when asked about his contract negotiation, Revis seemed to be impatient but did not tell if he was going to report for the training camp, which is to open on Aug. 1 in Cortland, N.Y.

The Denver Broncos finally managed to retain four-year veteran linebacker Elvis Dumervil after spending most of the offseason on contract negotiation. And Dumervil finally agreed on a long-term contract extension before he was lured to put on the Minnesota Vikings jersey. To remain as a Broncos leading linebacker, Dumervil is reported to receive $61 million over six seasons.

Dumervil thrived last season in the Broncos’ new defensive alignment that turned him from a classic 4-3 defensive end into a 3-4 linebacker. He responded with an NFL-leading and team-record 17 sacks, a starting spot in the Pro Bowl and All-Pro honors. Only the Dallas Cowboys DeMarcus Ware and Minnesota Vikings Jared Allen have more sacks than Dumervil’s 43 since he entered the league as a fourth-round draft pick in 2006 out of Louisville. While Ware received $40 million contract and Allen’s was worth $31 million, it’s no surprise the Broncos are willing to give Dumervil such a great extension.

Dumervil is believed to be the Broncos’ only hope to stop the quarterback in Brett Favre jersey if they are going to play against the Vikings for the Super Bowl XLV, so the team never gave up the effort to bring Dumervil back after he became a restricted free agent early this offseason.

The Philadelphia Eagles starting quarterback Kevin Kolb knows well that he is bearing a huge pressure after being named the starter. He would be always compared to his predecessor Donovan McNabb whether he does anything well or bad. So he has no other choice but to face the challenge and prove that the Eagles made the right choice in trading McNabb away and naming himself the new starter.

It’s really a hard mission to Kolb. He should thank the team for trading McNabb to a relatively weaker team, the Washington Redskins, instead of having him put on the New Orleans Saints jersey. Otherwise, when McNabb has better career with a strong team, Kolb will be blamed for failing to be better than his predecessor.

“I think the one thing that it tells me is I have a lot of work to do and you never want to let anybody down,” Kolb told the Trenton Times. “You especially don’t want to let somebody down whenever they have put that much faith in you and they’ve made those moves to make you the guy. That’s a driven force for me and it gives me more energy and more emotion to go out there and make this thing right.”

Being promoted from a backup to a starter, Kolb indeed has much more to do than any other starters. The only good thing in him by so far is that he has enough confidence. He is even ready to beat the quarterback in No. 4 Brett Favre jersey if he has the chance.

When jobless veteran wide receiver Terrell Owens told reporters that he would get a job before the training camp, he was telling a fact instead of his wish. According to his agent Drew Rosenhaus, now there are at least five teams talking with him for a possible contract.

“It’s really picking up, and this isn’t just agent rhetoric,” Rosenhaus said. “I’m very encouraged as of late. I’m very optimistic that Terrell will have multiple options to choose from between now and the start of most training camps.”

It would be good if the unrestricted free agent gets employed. He had always been high-profile while his production decreased sharply in recent years. It is expected that the teams interested in Owens do not include elite teams like the Minnesota Vikings, Baltimore Ravens or New Orleans Saints. The picture of Owens putting on Vikings jersey is especially unlikely because the team already has enough excellent receives like Sidney Rice. And the even more high-profile quarterback in No.4 Favre jersey is just enough for the Vikings to deal with.

Former Oakland Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell could face both imprisonment and suspension for possessing controlled substance. Already being described as one of the biggest first overall draft pick bust, Russell is now even further from getting a new job with an NFL team, letting alone putting on Minnesota Vikings jersey to backup his favorite quarterback Brett Favre.

Russell is facing a July 20 court date after being arrested for possessing codeine syrup, which is commonly used to make “purple drank.” And Russell’s lawyer, Donald Briskman, has previously predicted a legal victory for the former top overall pick from LSU. The lawyer complained about Russell being the only one arrested despite the presence of several people there. It’s Russell’s residence, though.

However, Russell was still targeted because his name repeatedly came up during a two-month investigation by an undercover narcotics team. At the moment Russell is free on a $2500 bond, but if he was charged with a crime, he would have stay out of the league for at least one year, making his value even less and his chance even smaller to get a new job.

The Baltimore Ravens offensive linebacker Terrell Suggs recently made it clear that he never stopped working hard although he missed almost all the offseason team activities during his offseason. He told reporters that he had been working out on his own and believed that he would be better ready for the training camp by working out on his own.

“I’m trying to do a little bit of everything just to make sure my body is right,” Suggs told PFW. “I feel like my body has to be at a certain weight and look a certain way by the time I show back up at camp. The way I was going (in Baltimore), it’s possible that could’ve happened, but it just wasn’t going at my pace, so, like I said, I just came back to Phoenix to speed up the process a bit.”

Attending only the Ravens’ mandatory minicamp in May, Suggs has spent most time in the past few months on mixed-martial-arts training to stay in Shape. He was often seen in purple Minnesota Vikings jersey working out at a gym in Tempe, Ariz.

No doubt the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco is well known for being outspoken, so it was no surprise when he predicted that he would win two champion titles in 2010 season. Just take his words as something entertaining and laugh for hearing a good joke.

During a radio appearance on the Dan Patrick Show where he promoted his upcoming VHI reality dating show, Ochocinco sound confident saying that he would appear for the Super Bowl XLV and bring home a Super Bowl ring following this season. Besides, he would also help the Miami Heat along with LeBron James to win a NBA champion title.

“I might be the first player to get two rings in one year,” Ochocinco said, simply to reiterate that he should be a better NBA player than Terrell Owens and a better wide receiver than New Orleans Saints Marques Colston. Ochocinco said he could have helped the Saints win the team’s first Super Bowl championship a few years ago if he was the starting wide receiver in Saints jersey. Even Ochocinco himself could not help laughing when talking about the possibility.

The Cleveland Browns are now more confident with the team’s offense with the addition of 14 years veteran receiver Bobby Engram. Both sides signed on a contract on Thursday, but the detailed information of the contract has not been released.

Being drafted by the Chicago Bears in 1996 as a second-round pick, Engram spent all his first five seasons with the Bears before putting on the Minnesota Vikings jersey in 2001 offseason. Eight years later, he turned to his third team, the Kansas City Chiefs in 2009 offseason but played with the team for only five games, finishing the 2009 season with only five receptions for 61 yards. At age 37, Engram has totally started 113 career games. Even if he is not going start with the Bears for 2010 season, his experience can still be taken as a wealth the lowly ranked NFL team.

The Browns did not make it clear what role they wanted Engram to play in the upcoming season, but it’s already expected that Engram could be a good mentor of Browns’ young receivers Brian Robiskie, Mohamed Massaquoi and Calton Mitchell.

The Cincinnati Bengals rookie offensive guard Otis Hudson is among the first group of Bengals rookies to receive real contract. Three months after being drafted, the former Eastern Illinois star college football player received a four-year rookie contract that will pay him totally $1.975 million in the following four years.

“Otis is very excited about it, he couldn’t be happier,” Hudson’s agent, Vinnie Porter, told the National Football Post. “The Bengals were very good to us. They weren’t intense negotiations. Otis is looking forward to proving himself on the field.”

He does have the reason to be happy. His original plan was to put on New Orleans Saints jersey but attracted no interest from the champion team and other teams until fifth round, when the Bengals gave him a call and drafted him with 152 overall pick. With a height of 6-foot-5 and weight of 320 pounds, Hudson is well known for his big size and explosiveness and he started 21 games during his college football career at Eastern Illinois. After three months of tryout in minicamp and workouts, the Bengals now believe that the rookie will develop into what they want after polishing his technique by learning from veterans.