0 comments by Anthony Brown on 11/5/2013
The Bottom Line: The NFL forgives anything if you can play. Guard Richie Incognito is finished in Miami. We have the Dolphin's word on that. Despite what you may think, Incognito will find a home in the NFL after time in the penalty box. Pro Bowl linemen are too hard to come by. Incognito isn't […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 11/4/2013
The Bottom Line: Stop listening to players sports writers in the Jonathan Martin case. The Dolphins could be in deep poo. Fans see sports as an escape from the frustrations of everyday life. So they hold sports teams immune from society's problem. They couldn't be more wrong. Pro sports teams are work places. They are […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 10/30/2013
Bottom Line: The Oneida Nation is meeting with the wrong people about the Washington football team. Name changers have few levers to push to force a change of the Washington Redskins team name. That reality is bound to hit them when representatives of the Oneida Indian Nation meet senior NFL executives today. That meeting took […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 10/23/2013
What a clever idea. Buy a stock tied to the lifetime football earnings of Houston Texans star running back Arian Foster. San Francisco-based Fantex Holdings is issuing a million shares of stock in Fantex Series Arian Foster at the bargain price of $10.00 each. I feel one of those late night, 30-minute infomercials coming. Stockholders […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 10/16/2013
The Winter Carnival Ice Palace in St. Paul, Minnesota, was a popular attraction for the 1992 Super Bowl. At these prices, can the NFL sell a cold weather Super Bowl to rich corporate sponsors? Two of the next four Super Bowls are in in temperate climates, New Jersey in 2013 and Santa Clara, California, in […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 10/9/2013
NFL owners will provide financial support to the Cleveland Browns and to the Washington Redskins to upgrade their stadiums. Will it be enough to compete with fan experience in their own home? Calling a time out for that one. The Browns will receive $62.5 million in funding for at $120 million, two-year renovation project for […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 10/2/2013
You've got to hand it to the NFL. Fifteen years of financial loss suffered by NFL Europa hasn't stopped the league from teasing the hearts of Her Majesty's subjects with thoughts of an NFL franchise. Yup. An American football team will make London a big league city. How far would the NFL go to make […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 9/26/2013
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Politics makes strange bedfellows, but to really flip the political script, throw a football under the sheets. Senator Tom Coburn's effort to remove the tax-exempt status of the NFL is such a nit of an issue that we wonder what he is really after. Coburn, a fiscal conservative from Oklahoma is […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 9/12/2013
Maybe Deion Sanders was right. A Los Angeles Times story lambasts Sanders for filing a California worker's compensation claim in 2010 and then criticizing ex-NFL players before the last Super Bowl for filing concussion lawsuits against the league. I never pass up a chance to mock Sanders, who I consider a paid loudmouth. Condemn Sanders for […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 8/20/2013
With the NFL season starting up and everyone is into power ranking teams. A pair of cold-eye business professors have power ranked NFL fans. If you are thin-skinned and live outside Dallas, stop here. Emery University professors Mike Lewis and Manish Tripathi say the Dallas Cowboys have the NFL's most loyal and supportive fan base. […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 8/6/2013
Vince Young must wake up every morning and ask himself, "How did it come to this?" Young signed a one-year deal yesterday to back-up Aaron Rodgers for the Green Bay Packers. That the Packers did not sign him during OTAs confirms the NFL's judgment of Young since his messy divorce from Tennessee. For all the […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 8/5/2013
The most recognizable name on the Philadelphia Eagles' roster right now is receiver Riley Cooper. Cooper might have the hateful heart of a bigot ‒ that's the way he is being portrayed ‒ or, he may be guilty of nothing more than dumb jock behavior while his brain was high on something other than life. […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 6/24/2013
Who would have thought that mass media would swarm the New England Patriots for a story that does not focus on Tim Tebow? Broadcasters smell O.J. Simpson’s blood in the water with the investigation of the death of Odin Lloyd and the possible connection to Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. Hernandez is doing everything he […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 6/12/2013
Well, that was good for a laugh. Adding Tim Tebow the New England Patriots roster opened a new round of (well-deserved) derision at the Jets front office. The sports media trolls for sound bites of Tebow bitterness, or hints of Patriots strategy – good luck with that one. They are missing the […]
0 comments by Anthony Brown on 4/29/2013
So it begins. ESPN and other media outlets report that the New York Jets released little-used quarterback Tim Tebow this morning, leaving the team with five quarterbacks on the roster. New York's little brother team might have cut less heralded Greg McElroy, Matt Simms, or, um. Mark Sanchez. Instead they excised the most useless outsider […]
