Last night’s Cardinals-Packers Divisional game was a classic, perhaps made even moreso because the teams met a few weeks ago and the game was a total rout. (The same team did win both times, though.) That happens a lot in… Continue Reading
Here’s a basic list of Super Bowl 49 related storylines, best I can tell: DeflateGate / adults making “ball” jokes in their nightly reports Tom Brady tries to tie Joe Montana The Seahawks try to establish themselves as a dynastic… Continue Reading
When the Divisional Playoffs were determined, initially I wasn’t that excited for the Broncos-Colts game. The last two times they’ve played have been decent games — the Colts won, 39-33, in 2013 and the Broncos won this year (season opener) in a… Continue Reading
You know those absurd rumors you hear sometimes from friends of friends? Once, in about 2007 — give or take before he was in the NFL — I heard that a girlfriend of mine once had sex with Joe Flacco.… Continue Reading
The last time the New England Patriots won a Super Bowl was the 2004 playoffs. Since then, they’ve been a 4-seed, a 4-seed, a 1-seed, not in the playoffs, a 3-seed, a 1-seed, a 1-seed, a 2-seed, and a 2-seed.… Continue Reading
The Seahawks lost once at home this season — to the Cardinals — but before that, they hadn’t lost at home since Christmas Eve 2011 (to the 49ers, and that was only by two points). When they beat the Saints… Continue Reading
Don’t look now, but the San Diego Chargers have won four games in a row. They enter the AFC Playoffs as the six-seed, and they need to travel to Cincinnati — where there might be snow — and Cincinnati is… Continue Reading
That video above is Carolina Panthers LB Luke Kuechly, WR Steve Smith and LB Thomas Davis in a dance-off with teachers as a result of the NFL Play 60 campaign. Kuechly is known to some teammates as Clark Kent, and… Continue Reading