Als blockbuster Super Bowl weekend: Packers star signs
Posted By: Rick Moffat rmoffat@cjad.astral.com · 2/4/2011 7:59:00 PM
Alouettes GM Jim Popp must be thinking Cheesehead even though his football heart is thinking Steelers.
The Alouettes have signed former Green Bay star Ahman Green, the Packers' alltime leading rusher to a tryout for 2011.
Green played in the obscurity of the UFL in 2010, hoping it would be his ticket back to the NFL. As recently as 2007 he signed a $23-million dollar deal with the Houston Texans.
The move is potentially the most dramatic at the tailback position since the Als brought Lawrence Phillips in to compete against Mike Pringle in 2002.
It comes with 2009 Grey Cup MVP Avon Cobourne a potential free agent mid-February, though Cobourne and his agent former Alouette Tim Fleiszer have told CJAD his preference is to return to Montreal.
Good, bad for Avon, I don't know....
Competition at camp bring the best out of guys...but I had a weird feeling all week that we would see shades of 2002 again....
