How ‘Bout This?
With Rob Gronkowski destroying his knee on a perfectly legal low hit, there is some rumbling in NFL circles about whether such hits should be, in fact, legal. Despite some defenders predicting that just...
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And Down the Stretch They Come
Just four weeks remain in the NFL regular season. How do the powers line up? Here are one man’s thoughts…
A Risk Manager’s Take on the Richie Incognito Scandal
Is the NFL’s hazing culture legal? If not, would changing that culture be the end of the NFL, as so many are now claiming? Tod Kelly puts on his risk manager hat and looks at the Richie Incognito debacle.
Halfway Highlights
With 8 weeks behind us, let’s re-assess the contenders and the pretenders in the NFL. The criteria are the same: I rank teams based on how I think they’d fare against one another in...
Peyton Manning: Mr. 41%
You probably missed it, because only mere mortals were involved, but Peyton Manning threw 7 touchdowns last night. Of course, that is just 41% of what Tim Tebow threw when he was with the...
An honest question for football fans
How will it remain possible to separate enjoyment for the game from its unambiguous potential to harm its players?
Kazzy Questions #1
Esteemed commenter Kolohe asks: “Will a woman attempt a field goal or an extra point in a regular season game in the NFL sometime within the next 50 years?” So, basically, he’s asking if...
Surely a sign of the Apocalypse…
I’m starting to wonder if the Mayans were at least in the right ballpark on the date of the whole end of the world thing. Last night my beloved and perennially hapless Seahawks destroyed the the...
NFL Football Contest!
Summer’s winding down, and Labor Day’s just around the corner, which means that it’s just about time for football. I was thinking this year we might have a contest to see whose professional gridiron...
I don’t watch football for the violence
Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger writes in Newsweek/Beast of the Junior Seau suicide: If you asked reporters why they were there, they would give some mumbo-jumbo reason that as hard as it may be,...
The Costas Rant
I expect that this is going to be a somewhat unpopular post, judging by the feedback I’ve gotten on Twitter for suggesting it in the first place, but I want to hear what other...
The Polian Connection
After a decade of success relying on Peyton Manning, Marvin Harrison, and for awhile Tony Dungy, the Indianapolis Colts are sitting undefeated through 14 games. Manning is still there, but Dungy and Harrison are...
More on the NFL and concussions
The Week has a good article on the reaction of many pro athletes to new concussion-related concerns. They’ve also put together a helpful summary of other news and opinion pieces on the subject.
Our National Drug of Choice
No one is above the outrage cycle. We have now, in our culture, synthesized the two worst elements of pre-9/11 and post-9/11 media: the pre-9/11 obsession with meaningless bullshit; and the post-9/11 obsession with...
Bloodsport
Contra Bill Simmons, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest article isn’t 2009’s best piece of sports journalism. In fact, it’s not even the best article about football-related concussions. For that, you’ll have to go to GQ’s “Game...
