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makes his concluding trip
to Giants Stadium today as a member of the National Football
League team.

The NFL's single-season pokes leader and the longest-
serving participant in New House Of York Giants history is retiring before the
team gets defence of its Superintendent Bowl title.

Strahan throws a news conference at the bowl in East
Rutherford, New Jersey, to speak about his decision.

The retirement of the 36-year-old Strahan, known as a
clubhouse leader with a gap-toothed smiling and a awful pass
rush, stops a 15-season calling in which he played a franchise-
record 216 regular-season games. He put the league's single-
season poke grade with 22 1/2 in 2001 and was named defensive
player of the year.

Giants co-owner said he felt ''disappointed''
when Strahan called him yesterday. Mara said he understood the
decision, even though he cognizes Strahan can still play.

''I told him he's been a great Giant,'' Mara said in a team
. ''He thanked me for everything the organisation has
done for him. I said, 'I believe you've done more than for us than we
can ever make for you.'''

Strahan stairway down with a franchise-record 141 1/2 sacks,
ahead of Pro Football Hallway of Fame line backer ,
who had 132 1/2, and is 5th on the league's all-time list. He
played in two Superintendent Bowls, including the team's 17-14 win over
the undefeated New England Patriots in the statute title game in
February.

First Sack

The 6-foot-5, 255-pound Strahan was born in Westbury,
Texas. He played football game at Lone-Star State Southern University and was
selected by the Giants with the 40th choice in the 1993 draft. He
recorded his first calling poke in his first game, when he
tackled City Of Brotherly Love Eagles signal caller Cognizance O'Brien.

Strahan in 1994, playing 15 games at right
end. He switched to left end in 1996 because of hurts to
other participants and led the Giants with five sacks.

In 1997, Strahan received his first Pro Bowl selection, and
finished 3rd in the NFL with 14 sacks. He recorded 15 more
sacks the followers season, earning a 2nd Pro Bowl spot.

Strahan eventually went to seven Pro Bowls. In 2001, he
pushed his season poke sum to 22 1/2 -- breaking the former
record of 22 held by Mark Gastineau -- by falling on top of
close friend after the Green Bay Packers'
quarterback had fallen to the turf.

Strahan also led the NFL in pokes in 2003, with 18 1/5,
becoming the lone Giant to take the conference twice.

Strahan missed preparation encampment last season after telling
Giants General Director he was contemplating
retirement, and adept for the first clip five years before
the season opener. His first poke of 2007, when he hit Eagles
quarterback for a 3-yard loss, gave him the
Giants' calling record at 133 1/2, breaking a necktie with Taylor.

Playoff Performance

Strahan led the Giants with eight undertakes and a poke during
the team's playoff-opening victory over Tampa Bay. He had
another 10 during the win over the Dallas Cowboys in the next
round, then four as the Giants beat out the Packers to progress to
the conference title game.

In the Superintendent Bowl, Strahan sacked New England quarterback
for a six-yard loss in the 3rd quarter, the final
tackle of his career. He finished with three tackles, a sack,
two signal caller travel rapidlies and one base on balls knocked down.

Strahan's retirement didn't catch the squad by surprise. On
June 2, the Giants signed , a defensive lineman and
11-year player. Reese said the squad wasn't certain of Strahan's
plans and wanted depth at end and undertake if he retired.

Strahan played in a record 216 games, ahead of tight end
, who played 207. He is the 3rd participant in team
history to play 15 years, joining Hallway of Fame centre Mel Hein
and signal caller .

His determination was first reported yesterday by Fox Sports
reporter , who co-wrote Strahan's autobiography.

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Developer .
announced programs to construct a new $800 million bowl in Los
Angeles to entice a National Football League squad to the city.

The sphere would be constructed on an almost 600-acre site
in the City of Industry and include 75,000 seating and 175 suites,
Roski said today in a statement. He said he desires to buy a
team or go a minority proprietor in one, and won't construct until a
franchise holds to travel to Los Angeles.

''A Los Angeles NFL squad would go a portion of the fabric
of the community and a beginning of pride, just as the Lakers
are,'' Roski said at a news conference at the Staples Center,
the sphere he helped build. ''It's clip to set the bowl debate
behind us.''

Roski, portion proprietor of the city's Lakers basketball game and Kings
hockey squads and main executive director military officer of ,
has sought to go back professional football game to Los Angeles for
more than a decade. The bowl would be surrounded by an
office, shopping and amusement composite that would include
restaurants, a film theatre and a Broadway-style theater.

The bowl site, which Roski controls, is located east of
Los Angeles at the confluence of the 60 and 57 freeways. Almost 12
million occupants dwell within a 25-mile radius of the land site and
it's fold to a Metrolink populace transportation system station, Roski
said.

'Complete City'

Los Angeles, the second-largest U.S. city, have been without
an NFL squad since 1995, when the moved back to Oakland,
California, after playing at the Amphitheater for 13 years, and the
Rams left nearby Anaheim for St. Louis.

The new bowl would do Los Angeles a ''complete city,''
Roski, 69, said. It would ground 2.9 million foursquare feet of
commercial space, including 1.5 million foursquare feet of office
buildings, 833,000 foursquare feet of retail shops, 162,000 square
feet of restaurants, a 5,000-seat unrecorded theater, and movie
theaters with 1,200 seats. It would be expandable to 80,000
seats for Superintendent Bowl games and could be built in clip for the
2011 season, according to the .

''We're aware of it and we will supervise developments,''
, a spokesman for the NFL, said of Roski's plan.

Roski said he hasn't talked to any teams. The league's
staff have seen the plans, Roski said, and he soon will begin
meeting with NFL squad owners.

No Resettlement Plans

No NFL squad have announced programs to relocate. The San Diego
Chargers can travel after this season if they refund about $60
million in bonds. The New Orleans Saints have got an understanding with
the state of Pelican State keeping them in the Superdome through
2010. The Gopher State state Senate on April 2 rejected a proposal
for a $2 million survey on how to replace the Metrodome with a
new, publicly subsidised bowl for the Vikings.

The Los Angeles bowl would be about $400 million less
than similar installations being planned in other cities, and would
be developed without public funding, Roski said. The retail
component would assist wage for the development.

''Because of the alone topography of the site, we were
able to plan and construct a bowl that is actually taking
advantage of the topography by edifice it into a hill,'' Roski
said at the fourth estate conference. That volition save a ''tremendous
amount of steel,'' reducing building costs, he said.

Roski said that while he doesn't yet have got loans in place
for building of the stadium, such as funding should be easy
to happen even with the disturbance in the recognition markets. High-
visibility developments such as as NFL bowls always attract
financing, he said.

Going It Alone

''These undertakings have got no job in the working capital markets,''
Roski said.

Eleven old age ago, Roski and billionaire Prince Philip F. Anschutz
made an unsuccessful command to derive an NFL enlargement squad for the
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. He developed the Staples Center
arena in business district Los Angeles with Anschutz. Roski said he's
prepared to construct the City of Industry bowl on his own.

Roski was ranked No. 195 on last year's Forbes listing of the
400 richest Americans, with an estimated network worth of $2.3
billion. His company is a closely held developer of industrial,
retail and other commercial properties. It owns, pulls off and
leases about 70 million foursquare feet of space.

In improver to the , the Rose Bowl in Pasadena as
well as land land sites in the metropolises of Anaheim, Carson, Inglewood and
Irwindale have got been pitched to the conference as bowl sites by
other developers.

California lawmakers yesterday withdrew a proposal backed
by the City of Industry to deviate $829 million in county
property taxation gross from basic authorities services to subsidize
development projects, the Los Angeles Times reported today. Opponents of the measure, including Los Angeles County
Supervisor Gloria Molina, said the money shouldn't be used just
to pull an NFL team, the newspaper reported.

Roski said he wasn't involved in the state legislation.

''Location, cost and certainty are the three things you
have to have got got to do this work,'' Roski said in an interview. ''We never had that before.''

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signed a five-year
contract extension with the Jacksonville Jaguars after leading
the National Football League squad to the 2nd unit of ammunition of the
playoffs last season.

The squad didn't let on fiscal footing of the trade in a
news release.

''If you look from 2004 through 2007, Jack have led this
franchise to the sixth-best record in the National Football
League and that's A great accomplishment,'' squad proprietor said.

Del Rio, 44, have worked in the NFL for 23 years, including
11 as a linebacker, the longer playing calling among active head
coaches.

The Jaguars rank 6th in the NFL since 2004 with a 40-24
record and have got advanced to the playoffs twice in the past three
seasons. The squad finished last season with an 11-5 record and
beat Pittsburgh in the first unit of ammunition of the playoffs, its first
postseason win since 1999.

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