Dan Daly: Reunited and it feels a bit weak

So I’m reading about Dolphins boss Bill Parcells reuniting with Jets castoff Chad Pennington, and I’m thinking, I’ll bet Parcells offered the job to his old buddy Vinny Testaverde first, but Vinny’s gerontologist wouldn’t sign off on it.

Trent Green last year, Chad Pennington this year. The Dolphins must be trying to cut down on their stadium insurance costs. Neither one of those guys, after all, can break a pane of glass.

The Eagles’ Brian Westbrook, who led the NFL with 2,104 yards from scrimmage last season, is a shoo-in to lead the league in another category this season: addendums. There are 52 pages of them in his recently renegotiated contract, according to [JUMP]#team president Joe Banner, who thinks it’s “the most complicated contract I’ve ever seen, not just that I’ve ever done.” Fifty-two pages of escalators, voidable years and so forth? Yikes. There should be a rule in pro football that says: No contract is allowed to be longer than the offensive playbook.

The reason the contract is for six years, I’m told, is that it’s going to take that long for the two sides to read it.

Les Bowen of the Philadelphia Daily News on Westbrook’s voluminous deal: “It’s unclear how that much tree killing fits in with the Eagles’ “Go Green” initiative.”

Topps is issuing two Brett Favre trading cards in its 2008 set [-] one of Brett poised to receive a shotgun snap (with Vince Lombardi’s face over his left shoulder), the other of him wearing a Packers helmet while riding a lawnmower (a “retirement” card).

Now that he’s a reluctant New York Jet, though, Topps should come out with a third card [EnLeader] of Favre running the lawnmower over Green Bay GM Ted Thompson.

The first NFL player to get the two-card treatment from Topps was Raiders quarterback George Blanda in 1975. But in Blanda’s case, the company didn’t have much choice. He was in his 26th year as a pro, you see, and all his statistics couldn’t fit on one card.

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