I was looking for a parallel to all the upsets that occurred in the NFL last weekend. Seems like I didn’t have to look far — just take a gander at what happened in both League Championship Series in Major League Baseball that ended earlier this week. In the National League, which I hope ...

OK, so everyone is conceding the NFC North to the Detroit Lions and even talking of the Motor City Puddy-Tats as legitimate Super Bowl contenders. Sorry, but as a lifelong Lions fan — sometimes warmer, sometimes cooler — this makes me quite nervous. I just don’t believe it, or at least, ...

“Aaah, look ma! The Armchair Quarterback is taking the Packers this week! Time to bet on whoever they’re playing!” I think I hear that in my sleep with all the “wonderful” picking I’m doing this season. Here’s hoping that this new nip in the air gets me into the spirit of ...

I’m figuring if I’d only listen to myself, I might get a decent number of these NFL predictions correct. My big theory I tout is “reverse momentum,” as in if you won last week, you’re fat and happy and ripe for the picking — in other words, for someone to beat you. And just the ...

Normally I don’t advertise in this space. But when a business is doing us Packers and Lions fans a favor, hey, I’m happy to. So the Thomas Theatre Group of Marquette is going to show tonight’s Detroit Lions at Green Bay Packers game on one of their big screens. Like really big screens. ...

Last week, I wrote the top part for this Armchair Quarterback column about Aaron Rodgers’ injury and how that brought to the surface how I hate New York sports teams. If you saw this space, you know that isn’t what you read — instead, I went with my original plan to complain about how ...