NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Titans owner Bud Adams, who helped found the American Football League and whose battles for players helped lead to the merger with the NFL, has died. He was 90.

The son of a prominent oil executive, Adams built his own energy fortune and founded the Houston Oilers. He moved the team to Tennessee in 1997 when he couldn't get the new stadium he wanted in Houston. The franchise, renamed the Titans, in 2000 reached the Super Bowl that Adams had spent more than three decades pursuing.

ST. LOUIS — Sam Bradford is done for the season, and the burden for the St. Louis Rams has just become a whole lot bigger.The quarterback will have will have season-ending surgery for a torn ligament in his left knee, a major blow to a team seeking its first winning record in a decade. He was hurt in the fourth quarter of Sunday's 30-15 loss at Carolina that dropped the Rams to 3-4.

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — The Chicago Bears were already losing games. Now they're going to be without their most important players on both sides of the ball.Injured quarterback Jay Cutler will miss at least the next four weeks of the season and Pro Bowl linebacker Lance Briggs will be out for around six weeks, staggering blows for a struggling team.Cutler suffered a muscle tear in his groin during a 45-41 loss to the Washington Redskins. Briggs left the game with a small fracture in his left shoulder. Neither player will need surgery.

INDIANAPOLIS —The Indianapolis Colts lost one of their most revered leaders when Reggie Wayne was diagnosed with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee that will cost him the rest of the season.