Well, Dan Campbell, thank you for giving me an easy topic for this week’s column. Otherwise, I might’ve had to sermonize about John Gruden and all the murky depths that might entail with his offensive email trail. Instead, I get to talk about — for at least the fourth time in this ...
Injuries seem to be rearing their ugly head in the NFL now that we’re a month into the season. I kinda think they’re not any worse than usual, but in the heightened sense of well-being in this day and age — the league has come up with a number of rules in the name of safety — I do ...
So there was a weird coincidence in the two record-setting field goals the Detroit Lions have been involved in, the one on Sunday and the other going back to Nov. 8, 1970. Of course, the Lions were victimized in each of those games. But the coincidence is that both final scores were ...
Excuse my use of a quite mild curse in today’s headline, but Mark Twain made that phrase quite popular a century or so past. Yes, of course, statistics can be made to bolster nearly any argument. For instance, just two scores from the start of this season show how the Carolina Panthers ...
Sunday’s debacle by the Green Bay Packers against New Orleans got me thinking of a famous quote by the team’s beyond-legendary coach, Vince Lombardi. No, not “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing” nor “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get ...
So there’s a bit of a chill in the night air and the kids have returned to school. But you really only know its fall again when the NFL season is upon us. The Dallas Cowboys and defending champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers are ready to play at 8:20 tonight. Why such an odd time? Oh yeah, ...
