5:37 PM During the Alabama-Auburn game, they showed this Coke Zero ad with Troy Polamalu doing his best Mean Joe Greene, albeit with some slightly different results. Well, the original did recently win a CLIO award.

5:15 PM What finally drove long-time Giants receiver Amani Toomer to call it quits? Spending time on the Chiefs' preseason roster. As he tells Alex Marvez of Fox Sports: "It felt like it wasn't pro football to me."

4:58 PM Jenni Carlson of The Oklahoman has a profile on Chester Pittman, who 50 years ago became the first African-American to play football for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.

4:33 PM Pro wrestler Alexis Pillman, stepdaughter of the late Brian Pillman, who played briefly with the Bengals and Buffalo Bills and went on to a pro wrestling career, died yesterday in a car accident. Horrible, sad stuff.