The hope is for the formation of a six-team league to start up in October 2014. Maybe they can throw some padding over the iconic Great Wall.
There has been talk of the Soul playing an exhibition game against an AFL team in China next fall.
Bringing football to China has been a longtime vision for Marty Judge, co-owner of the Soul who has developed numerous Asian contacts through his West Conshohocken consulting firm. Judge is of the opinion that NFL Europe failed because the native talent went undeveloped.
As Jaworski told the website, "I watched the Olympics, and watched those [Chinese] weight lifters and I think, 'I'd like to have some of those guys on my offensive line.' "
Random observation
The Paralympics start Wednesday and Britain's defense ministry said it will have 3,500 military types available for security.
Even if it is about 25 percent of the force required for the regular Games, there's just something wrong with needing all of those people to provide security for the Paralympics.
Correction
There was a screwup in that really swell Jimmy Rollins graphic that was in Tuesday's Daily News.
We (I, actually) mistakenly remembered Rollins leading off the 2007 season finale with a triple. Rollins actually singled, stole second, stole third and scored on Chase Utley's sac fly. He hit his 20th triple later in the game as the Phils secured their first playoff spot since 1993.
