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An NFL Draft Vince Lombardi would love, but new era fans yawn

  Chris Berman and his ESPN cohorts held that the NFL hadn't seen a Draft with so many first round offensive linemen since Vince Lombardi's heyday in 1968. Lombardi famously said football is about blocking and tackling. St. Vince must have directed this Draft from the grave. Four offensive linemen, including two guards (yes, guards) […]

Top 10 tweets from Super Bowl 47 and the power meltdown

Who needs TV color commentators when your Twitter timeline has more wit and silliness. There was really nothing better to do during the game's power outage than to keep your eyes on your handheld for gems like these. How many blackouts does each team get per game? Baltimore better use one soon…

Chargers choose Mike McCoy as head coach. Is Tim Tebow far behind?

  NFL.com Greg Rosenthal and others report that Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy is all-but-signed as the next head coach of the San Diego Chargers. Let the Tebow to Chargers rumors begin. The Chargers swept away GM A.J. Smith and Head Coach Norv Turner at the end of the season and seem ready for big […]

5 more things Dicks Sporting Goods can do with Tim Tebow

  Dick's Sporting Goods is on to something. The Dicks's store in West Nyack, NY, creatively displayed the dummy bearing Tebow's jersey as benched in a display that set every other Jets and Giants player in a manly stance. You might say the display diss'd Tebow, but I think it mocked the Jets for their […]

Ray Lewis set to retire at end of Ravens playoff run

The Baltimore Ravens legendary linebacker Ray Lewis announced his retirement from the NFL hen the Ravens complete their playoff run, according to an AP story on Yahoo Sports. Knowing Ray Lewis, he intends that to mean when the Ravens win the Super Bowl. Lewis wants to spend more time with his family, especially to watch […]

Don’t look to Tim Tebow to fix the J-E-T-S Mess Mess Mess

  The Mayans predicted this. The Mayan calendar ends in the same week the Jets lost their 2012 playoff bid. The Mayans saw this coming and that makes them whole lot smarter than the New York Jets organization. A report on NFL.com says the Jets are likely to make a (long overdue) quarterback switch when […]

How Paul Tagliabue saved the NFL and players from themselves in Bountygate

  King Solomon solved a thorny legal question with a decision to split a baby in half. It was the stuff of Biblical legend. Retired NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue split the baby today by giving all sides in the New Orleans Saints Bountygate scandal a face-saving way to claim a win. Tagliabue deserves a paragraph […]

Ravens cannot bench entire offense, fires Cam Cameron instead

  The Baltimore Ravens lost to the red-hot Redskins and rookie sensation Robert Griffin III after failing to protect a late game lead against Washington's other rookie sensation, Kirk Cousins. So, what do they do? Fire offensive coordinator Cam Cameron, of course. Cameron has been under fire for years for unimaginative offenses and under-using RB […]

Browns torch Steelers on and off the field, fan suffers loss

It was a bad day all around for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more so for one Steelers fan who found both his team and his car torched in Cleveland. Steelers-Browns: As you might expect from a Browns game, there were 9 turnovers. Fortunately for Cleveland, Pittsburgh committed 8 of them. — Not Bill Walton (@NotBillWalton)

BREAKING: 49ers Coach Harbaugh treated for irregular heartbeat today

Doctors treated San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh for an irregular heartbeat today, according to an Associated Press story circulating through the media. Harbaugh visited doctors Wednesday afternoon after feeling ill. They advised that he have the "minor surgical procedure" that took place at Stanford University Hospital. Harbaugh led 49ers practice Wednesday, where players […]

Pick of the Week: Detroit (-1.5) at Minnesota

    This is one of those sneaky games where you have one team in Minnesota who is reeling after a hot start and another team that is finally starting to fire on all cylinders after a rough start to the season.    So the issue here is to figure out if the trends will […]

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