“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 ...

We’re on the verge of a brand-new NFL season and the Detroit Lions — the Lions? — get to kick it off tonight with a game at the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. As they mention in a TV commercial from a few years back, “Say what?!?!” Yes, it is a whole new world ...

This is it! The final game of the season. There won’t even be a flag football game or three next weekend as the Manning brothers took care of that last Sunday afternoon. So who will it be in Sunday’s Super Bowl? The Philadelphia Eagles with up-and-coming quarterback Jalen Hurts, or the ...