Loading ...For a 20 year stretch, the Super Bowl was anything but super. From 1984-2003, the average margin of victory was 19 points, with just five close games. But in the last decade the Super Bowl has lived up to its name. Seven games have been decided by less than a touchdown, four by a mere three points, [...]
OK, so I was a Debbie Downer last week when discussing the Super Bowl, but the big week has arrived and I’m determined to get excited for the San Francisco 49ers vs the Baltimore Ravens. To help me do it, I enlisted Ravens S Bernard Pollard, who fired off the following comments about the NFL when speaking [...]
It’s been a week since the Deadspin article blew up the myth of Manti Te’o’s dead girlfriend and I still can’t decide if he’s the world’s greatest liar or the most clueless person ever. What I do know is when they make this story into a movie, I want Anthony Michael Hall to play Te’o. I know, [...]
Move over Monday Morning Quarterbacks, OPRAH’S ON! That’s right, the NFL Divisional Playoffs went bonkers with one top seed totally choking, the other top seed nearly choking, a legend causing history repeat to itself, a legend who won’t go away, etc, etc, etc. But clearly the biggest news today is Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah. OK, so that’s a slight huge exaggeration, [...]
Turns out I didn’t need to wait for the BCS Title Game to be played, I could’ve just congratulated Alabama for thrashing Notre Dame and been done with it Monday. The only bad part of the Fighting Irish being exposed as the luckiest team to ever go undefeated in a regular season was it resulted [...]
The NFL regular season has just a single week left, but plenty is still to be decided. All six playoff slots in the AFC are accounted for, but how they will be seeded and who will play who remains a mystery. In the NFC, it’s complete chaos, with two divisions up for grabs and five [...]
What an ugly week in the NFL. Just a single game was decided by less than a touchdown, the Dallas Cowboys 27-24 win against the Pittsburgh Steelers in overtime. The only other “competitive” contests were the Green Bay Packers beating the Chicago Bears, 21-13, in a game that wasn’t as close as the final score indicates, [...]
I didn’t get a chance to watch the Heisman Trophy presentation on Saturday night, but of course knew that Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel had won the award. I figured I didn’t miss much, but my friend Scott said I needed to see Manziel’s acceptance speech. So I found it online and Scott was right. And if you [...]
It was with shock and sadness I read the news about Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killing his girlfriend and then committing suicide Saturday morning. It was with less shock but plenty of anger I read the NFL saying the Chiefs game against the Carolina Panthers would be played anyway. I was not shocked [...]
It was a great four days of football that included some ridiculous moments. Without fear of being convicted of hyperbole, I witnessed: -Enforcement of the most ridiculous rule ever -Three of the most ridiculous coaching decisions in the same game -One of the most ridiculously stupid plays ever (and you have to know the J-E-T-S JETS [...]