Football is a team sport, and playoff wins and losses are on everyone; certainly it’s never just the QB, even if the QB has a horrible performance. But the way we tend to think about sports invites a narrative that a… 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
Debating which tier of NFL QBs is the “elite tier” is a fool’s errand — and the reason sports bars exist / sell lots of beer — because no one seems to ever agree on what the base qualifications are.… Continue Reading
Quick story of import here: on Sunday, Peyton Manning will go for his second Super Bowl ring. If he gets it, people think maybe he walks into the sunset (but he probably doesn’t). Regardless, it’s been an insanely productive professional… Continue Reading
Kam Chancellor is a safety for the Seattle Seahawks. Richard Sherman, a CB for the Seahawks, gets all the attention right now, but from a football sense, a very real and interesting thing happens because of the attention Sherman gets as a… Continue Reading
I have no idea what’s going to happen with these Conference Championship Games. San Francisco hasn’t been able to do anything in Seattle since about December 2011, so that game could become a rout — but SF just won two… Continue Reading
The AFC and NFC Conference Championships are set, which means a couple of different things — for one, most of America will be watching TV for a good portion of Sunday (more than 55 million people watched the 2010 and… Continue Reading