Now that the season is over it’s time for teams around the league to cut the dead weight from their roster. So far the casualties have been minor, but before long every team out there will be handing out pink slips for a wide variety of reasons. While the act of releasing a player may seem easy to you, it can be quite the terrifying ordeal for your average general manager and/or personnel directors. That’s why we’ve devised this handy letter for front office stooges who want to part ways with a large professional football player who is simply too intimidating to be confronted directly.

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Well tanks fer nuttchin’. USAToday’s Jeff Zillgitt has a profile of bawdy Steelers kicker Jeff Reed today, complete with this little nugget:

Pictures of Reed with women at a Tampa bar this week surfaced. “I was with my teammates, and we had a good time,” Reed says. “Taking pictures with somebody is not necessarily a bad thing. I don’t care if it’s random fans who are guys or hot girls. You just have to be smart.”

No link, no name-check, nothing. Get bent, USA Today. I’m glad Gannett is folding like Superman on laundry day.

 
[ USAToday, how hard is that, jerky? ]