I didn’t grow up watching football. My high school was too small to field a team, so I didn’t spend any Friday nights under stadium lights. My dad hates sports, and he never wanted to be that guy who ignores his family to watch a sporting event. He wa...
I started this site way back in 2009 in large part to compensate for the NFL’s inability to intellectually market to women. Women were high spending consumers - female apparel was the league’s fastest growing ancillary business – yet they were not t...
“I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description and perhaps I could never succeed intelligibly in doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved...
It felt like I was getting ready for an afternoon of sledding with my friends, instead of a football game. The forecast for the Buffalo Bills late-season matchup against the Indianapolis Colts last Sunday was ominous. The temp was low thirties, but the...
Any day now Roger Goodell is going to receive a contract extension worth nearly $50 million a year. Plus a Dostoyevsky novel-sized list of perks. Meanwhile his league is running amok and being run amok. Monday Night Football’s Steelers-Bengals slug...
At 4:30 AM on Monday morning my 6-year old son opened my bedroom room with the vigor of a superhero about the save the world and energetically declared: “Mommy, I just had a dream that Matthew Stafford threw 3 touchdown screens to Ameer Abdullah and we ...
When Colin Kaepernick was still a free agent in May it was already stunning. Brian Hoyer, Mark Sanchez, and Nick Foles among other non-Super Bowl caliber QBs had been signed, but not a guy who had actually sniffed the Lombardi Trophy. The guy that a year ...
When I was eight years old, my twin brother tried out for youth football. I was jealous. I wanted to play, too. I had tagged along with my brothers and their friends, playing tackle football in vacant yards behind schools and other office buildings. I kne...
Week 4 is still in progress but it has already been defined by injuries. Dalvin Cook Chris Carson suffered what the team is calling “a significant ankle injury” in the nightcap. Marcus Mariota left game with a hamstring injury, while Derek Carr left ...
If you put $10 on Jerry Jones kneeling before kickoff of Monday Night's Cowboys-Cardinals game, you are unquestionably rolling in cash and plenty of fancy powder blue suits. But your ticket should probably be invalidated because kneeling BEFORE the anthem...
