Andy Reid wins 4 games and everybody wants him Lovie smith wins 10 games and can't get a job. — Chris Rock (@chrisrock) January 19, 2013 All eight NFL head coaching vacancies have been filled; and all eight positions opted not to go with a minority candidate. While […]
It’s time to sift through what we’ve learned about the first half of the 2012 NFL season. Alas, I’ve called on 20 NFL personalities to pose questions to me in an effort to help dissect what we’ve seen so far and in turn, offer a look at what […]
Week 6 is rapidly drawing to a close and it is becoming pretty clear that the American Football Conference is riding the struggle train. At the moment, Matt Schaub and the 5-0 Houston Texans are riding high and appear to be the cream of the AFC’s exceptionally mediocre […]
Well, that escalated quickly…
The NFL season is four weeks old. Here are some quick hitters about what we’ve seen so far.
Ed Hochuli and his pythons have found their way to the cover of the latest Sports Illustrated. This is a proud moment for officials in every major sport because it actually depicts our sports on-field/court law enforcers in a way that doesn’t show them being incompetent.
Everyone is thrilled the NFL officials are back but perhaps none have received the adulation of referee Ed Hochuli. Not sense the days of the mid-1980s and Hulk Hogan has sports come across such a humble figure that works out regularly.
When Monday night’s atrocity in Seattle caused a Wisconsin state senator to post NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s phone number on Twitter and for the embattled boss to receive 70,000 voice mail messages, it was only a matter of time before Eddie Gunz and company returned to duty.
Plenty of news trickled out of Park Avenue today including the possible return of the real referees to action in time for Week 4 work on Sunday and Monday; and Bill Belichick receiving a $50,000 fine for touching an official last Sunday night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5fMBkLTM48 The NFL family lost one of its true pioneers on Tuesday when Steve Sabol of NFL Films passed away at age 69 due to brain cancer. I’ll always be indebted to Mr. Sabol.