It IS Possible to Get Cut from the Cincinnati Bengals!

Lo and behold, Chris Henry actually managed to get cut by the Bungles this last week, after once again getting arrested for allegedly punching a dude in the face and breaking his car window with a beer bottle:
Municipal Court Judge Bernie Bouchard set bond at $51,000 on charges of misdemeanor assault and criminal damaging. Noting […]

Fresh Meat For Snyder: Jim Zorn

After holding Redskins fans hostage in suspense for over a month, Dan Snyder’s private plane made one last trip and finally delivered a new head coach: Jim Zorn.
Oh, well obviously Jim Zorn would get the job, I mean heck he was at the top of everyone’s short list, right? Or to put it another way, […]

Nine Things To Do While Not Watching The Pro Bowl

Tomorrow is the last official game of the NFL season, your last opportunity to watch professional football players on the field of competition. Unfortunately it is the Pro Bowl and who the hell wants to watch that? You won’t see anyone like Tom Brady, Randy Moss, or Brett Favre, just a bunch of alternates jogging […]

Perfect Response To An Imperfect Season

The most insufferable sports fans in world are of course Boston sports fans which is a big reason the rest of the country was rooting for the Giants in the Super Bowl last Sunday. But this video from Pats super fan Fitzy (tip of the hat to CSTB) is so good it almost makes me […]

Going To Play Some Football In Toronto, Eh?

Those sneaky damn Canadians, they’re trying to steal out football teams. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson confirmed this week that the Bills will play one regular season game each year in Toronto for five years starting this season.
What’s worse is Wilson’s partners in this little venture, Ted Rogers and Larry […]

If Mike Holmgren Is The Walrus, Does That Make Jim Mora The Eggman?

The Seattle Seahawks plan to announce today their succession plan for when coach Mike Holmgren leave after the 2008 season, and those plans involve former Atlanta Falcons coach Jim Mora.
Mora, if you’ll remember, coached the Falcons for four seasons, taking the team to the NFC Championship game against Philadelphia in 2004. It was all downhill […]

$16 Million Will Buy A Lot Of Dog Food

A judge ruled this week that incarcerated quarterback Mike Vick can keep the lion’s share of his $20 million in bonus money, awarding just $3.75 million to the Atlanta Falcons in an arbitration hearing. Chalk up a victory for the little guy.
I mean just because Vick is spending the next 23 months in federal prison […]

Super Bowl Ads: A Super Bore

Whoever gave the green light to the ads during the Super Bowl should be fired immediately in the morning. Clean out their desk and escort them from the building because there was nothing to justify $2.7 million for any of those 30 second spots.
In the pantheon of Super Bowl advertising, 2008 will go down as […]

Perfection Denied

Somewhere Mercury Morris is dancing a jig because the New York Giants managed to put an end to the New England Patriots perfect season with a 17-14 upset in the Super Bowl. Looks like racing turtles strapped to rockets is a pretty good way to predict championship football games.

(Awesome Tecmo Bowl graphic stolen from Joystiq)

Turtles On Rockets Say Giants Will Beat Patriots

Just a few more days until the Super Bowl and all the experts have made their picks for which team will win on Sunday. And they will tell us those picks again tomorrow. And then on gameday they will repeat those picks over and over during FOX’s 18-hour pre-game show. Blah, blah, blah.
When it comes […]