Bengals are working on Coach Lewis’ contract extension

The Cincinnati Bengals do not want their head coach Marvin Lewis to coach those wearing New Orleans Saints jerseys, so they are now working on a contract extension with Lewis, who would love to stay as long as the team’s offer is alluring enough.

“Mike and I at some point hopefully come to an agreement from both sides of us and we all feel good about,” Lewis told the Cincinnati Enquirer. “We have spoken about the contract a few times since then but we don’t talk about it daily. That’s not me to worry about it or bring it up. I don’t go about it that way. I would love to continue to coach here. I think every year is a new challenge, a new start and hell we’ve got Ocho.”

Although the Bengals do not lure a quarterback like the one in No.4 Brett Favre jersey, Lewis still has a strong reason to stay with team: he is getting along very well with the Bengals owner Mike Brown, who is always supporting the coach’s decision and offers as much help as possible.

Raiders DE Richardson wants expanded role

The Oakland Raiders defensive end Jay Richardson wants to prove that he can actually do better than expected as long as he is given the chance. With two weeks left before the team’s training camp, he is now ready to face competition and impress coaching staff with improved skills.

"(Coaches) were like 'On running downs we want Jay out there because he can definitely do a good job stopping the run,'" Richardson said. "And that was cool. Don't get me wrong. But as you grow in this league, as you learn, as you progress and get better at what you do and really study the position and your craft, you want to be the total package. Every defensive end wants to be a complete defensive end."

Richardson was drafted by the Raiders in 2007 as a fifth-round pick and earned starting job in late 2007 season and remained the starter in 2008 season. However, his production decreased a lot in late 2008 season and lost the starting job to Richard Seymour and became a back up last season. Making only three sacks in the past two seasons, Richardson does not seem to have any advantage in the competition. But his chance came after another starter Greg Ellis was released in the offseason.

Now Richardson is facing competition from second-year veteran Matt Shaughnessy and rookie Lamarr Houston and seemed to get the advantage back. Receiving a Michael Irvin jersey in January on his 26th birthday, Richardson now is hoping that he would receive his favorite Brett Favre jersey next January to celebrate both birthday and post-season victories.

How to grow your rose into seven colors

According to reports, there are now rainbow roses available on market. Such roses are more attractive than most other types because they in colors of rainbow, that is to say, the petals of the roses are in seven different colors. While you may wonder how to get such amazing creatures, here I offer you an idea on how to grow rainbow roses, but I’m not sure whether you may succeed as it seems to require certain high-tech.

The description sounds simple. The principle is that petals get their nourishment through stem, so the idea is to split the stem into seven channels and each channel is inserted into a different colored water. So when the stem channels take the water to the petals, they also take the colors to the petals. The same method can be also applied to other flowers, if you dislike a rainbow-colored rose. Some companies are also considering to apply the method to cotton so that rain-bow colored fabrics can be produced. Just wonder you are wearing a rainbow-colored Brett Favre jersey to appear for a Minnesota Vikings game, you will be the single eye-catcher at present even the quarterback himself will ask you for the method to get such a uniform.

Forget the joke, and I do not actually support the idea of coloring plants in this way. The nature has everything get its own color and why should we change them? Rainbow rose is strange to me. A rose should be red, and leafs should be green, and the earth should be land and sea.