I'm not saying that the good start of the Bengals isn't at least mildly surprising, but I think a lot of writers were missing the fact that Carson Palmer hasn't been a good quarterback in three years. Getting two first-rounders for him is a real...
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I came into football awareness in the late 70s and early 80s in Sacramento, California. The choice in football lay between the Raiders and 49ers, and for reasons I can't.
Al Davis, dead. I feel like I should be able to make a funny joke here, maybe something about Davis deciding that Satan would make a really fast wide receiver.
After doing this very thing, or more specifically saying that John Boehner playing golf with Barack Obama was like Benjamin Netanyahu playing golf with Adolf Hitler, ESPN has suspended Hank Williams, Jr. from doing his hideous Monday Night Football "Are You Ready for Some Football"...
Great WSJ story on how the Cincinnati Bengals completely fleeced Hamilton County taxpayers for their stadium, creating a long-term county budget crisis that is crippling the region. My favorite part:.
It's a measure of just how indefensible the NFL lockout is that even Unfrozen Caveman Sportswriter Bill Plaschke won't defend the owners. Still, to show you what the players normally.
Since it came up in comments, this empirical data about the effect of the officiating in Super Bowl XL is useful. Overall, you can read actually the bottom line as ammunition for the "get over it" faction, in this sense: the offensive pass interference penalty...
I guess I'll take the Packers. It's true that the Steelers survived their offensive line injuries last week, but it wasn't so much that the Jets couldn't get penetration as.
Dan Snyder responds to an excellent article documenting his monumental dickishness by filing monumentally dickish lawsuit and trying to get the writer fired.
Two good games today, and a good time to reiterate that people who think that playoff football needs to be played in sterile environments in Southern suburbs are nuts. Packers (-3 1/2) over Bears. The Packers have the best QB in the conference, and a...
Pittsburgh (-3) over Baltimore: I wish it weren't so, too, but the Steelers have a major edge as well as a major asshole at QB, are home, and it's not.
Now that my beloved University of Michigan football program has been hijacked and destroyed by a meglo-maniacal erstwhile purveyor of crappy pizza, I'm looking for my pigskin thrills elsewhere. Bless.