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The UFL had considered using a chip inside the football for its inaugural season last year, but eventually scrapped those plans. hot NFL hats commissioner Roger Goodell has consistently said he will embrace new ways that technology can improve the game.

Hanus told Reuters that soccer officials are considering a similar product. He said one of the ways it would work in soccer would be if the ball crosses the goal line, the chip would send a message to a mobile device carried by the referee.

LATROBE, Pa. — The Pittsburgh new Steelers hats are giving pass rusher LaMarr Woodley every opportunity to match or surpass the 13 1/2 sacks he had a year ago, nearly all of them during the second half of the season.

Woodley's pay is far below value for a player who had 25 sacks the last two seasons, plus six more in the playoffs, but the Steelers have few options.

The NFL's labor contract contains a provision that went into effect this year that no new contract can pay a player more than 30% of what he made in base salary the previous season. Thus, Woodley couldn't make more than $598,000 this season even if he signed a new deal.

"It's part of the game, part of the business, and you just have to understand it," Woodley said.

Woodley must now wait to see how he is affected by a new NFL labor agreement, whenever it is reached.

"When I'm out on the field, I don't think about it. When I'm in my room, I don't think about it," Woodley said. "The only time it comes up is when the players joke around.

But I don't keep up with other people's salaries. I don't go online looking at other people's salaries."

The league announced Wednesday it had honoured the former Seahawk guard, who played five seasons before retiring in 2000, with its annual award recognizing a former player who is now a professional teacher.

Beede told The Associated Press in a phone interview minutes after he received the award inside the cafeteria at Freedom High School in Oakley, Calif., that he had no idea he was even nominated.

His principal called him to the school for a meeting Wednesday, then told the 10th-grade world history instructor "by the way, you are the cheap NFL hats's teacher of the year."