• Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel, on the most lucrative jobs in sports: “1. Bengals’ bail bondsman; 2. Grant Hill’s surgeon; 3. Dennis Erickson’s real-estate agent.”
• Steve Schrader of the Detroit Free Press, on Lions QB Jon Kitna on pace to be sacked 63 times this season: “He gets sacked so much, they ought to ask if he’d prefer paper or plastic.”