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Joe Montana and his four Super Bowl rings watched his son Nick (#5) toss the pigskin around at his high school football game on Friday night.

Oft-troubled WWE star Jeff Hardy was kicked off an airplane flight earlier this week, but now the WWE says it won't be his third strike.

Hardy was pegged by Southwest Airlines officials Tuesday at the Nashville International Airport as too intoxicated to board the plane. We're told he found a different way out of town.

The once-fired and two-time suspended WWE star has had his share of drug problems and can't afford a third strike -- which would win him a pink slip.

But the whole thing Tuesday was precautionary -- there was no incident and the WWE will turn a blind eye. And there's this -- Hardy is starring in the next WWE pay-per-view event next month, and that will line the org's pockets nicely.

But Lou Ann Pieper is doing just that. She alleges in a lawsuit she was watching a game at the RCA Dome last January when she got torched by a hot firework that didn't explode but landed on the back of her neck. Pieper says she suffered first- and second-degree burns, and missed work too.

TMZ has confirmed Oakland Raiders superstar Tommy Kelly -- one of the NFL's highest paid defensive players -- was busted Sunday night in Oakland on suspicion of driving under the influence.

The arrest came after the Raiders beat the Chiefs in Kansas City earlier in the day.

To celebrate Mexican Independence Day, ESPN replayed one of the game's highlights with audio from the Spanish-language broadcast. After the clip, "MNF" announcer Tony Kornheiser commented, "I took high school Spanish and that either means that nobody is going to touch him or 'Could you pick up my dry cleaning in the morning?'"

Two hours later, Kornheiser vehemently apologized for the comment, saying, "It wasn't my first mistake, it undoubtedly won't be my last ... but a 100% apology."

At least volleyball silver medalist Kim Glass still has her game. She left with an obviously pleased Maurice Greene.

Brendan Hansen -- you are now free to move about the country ... with your Olympic gold medal.

A passenger who was on the relay swimmer's Southwest Airlines flight last night from Philadelphia to Austin has solved the medal mystery...a mystery that started when Hansen got off the plane and reported the medal missing.

Hansen says he put the medal in a bag under the seat in front of him and fell asleep. Then ... it disappeared. The FBI reportedly got involved in the investigation. No clue why this was an FBI case.

TMZ has obtained extremely disturbing footage of the former WWF superstar -- and former substance abuse rehab patient -- self-destructing during a live benefit event in Ohio over the weekend.

The footage shows a stumbling, overweight, rambling Roberts struggling to form a coherent sentence, while addressing the crowd moments before his match in the Firestorm Pro Wrestling league.

But the story behind the scenes is even more tragic. According to several sources, the 53-year-old legend was found passed out backstage moments before he was scheduled to perform. We're told when Snake was woken up, he was aggressive, violent and asking for "an 8-ball."

We're also told nearly two dozen empty airplane bottles of vodka were found by his gear.

It's just that hard to play for the Atlanta Falcons these days...

NFL superstar and former Super Bowl champion Lawyer Milloy was popped early this morning in Georgia for DUI and speeding, according to the Gwinnett County Sheriff. The 34-year-old was booked in the county jail at 4:30 AM and his bond was set at $1,601.

But when it comes to the parts where they actually let him speak ...

Former New England Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis now lives the same life as his former protege Tom Brady -- except for the whole supermodel girlfriend thing and various dieting challenges.

A nasty sideline collision on Saturday left the current Notre Dame head coach with a torn ACL and MCL in his left knee -- a la Tommy Boy.

But unlike Brady, Weis got right back up and finished the game.