How tight is the National Football League with the TV networks who show the games?
Ask Bob Costas, the veteran NBC sports announcer who tells ESPN that NBC dropped him from last year’s Super Bowl coverage because he appeared at a University of Maryland symposium on football in November 2017 and said ‘the game destroys people’s brains.’ Read more →
The two conference championship games on Sunday proved anew that the NFL has the worst officiating in all of sports. The lamentations in the aftermath of the New Orleans – Los Angeles Rams game proves anew that the world has too many lawyers. Read more →
Cody Parkey missed a field goal (officially a blocked kick) on Sunday night that would have sent his team deeper into the NFL playoffs, and people wanted him dead. They literally wanted him to die. Read more →
Kyle Williams, a defensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills, played his last NFL game on Sunday and retired with a final lesson that has very little to do with football per se. Read more →
What gets you fired quicker in the National Football League: treating a woman like a ragdoll? Or criticizing a prima donna quarterback? I know. Silly question. Read more →
Curiously, the demographic that has increased the most, is also the demographic that has been most upset about the players’ protests for racial equity in America. Read more →
Let’s fully understand what yesterday’s decision by NFL owners to crack down on employee protest is. The owners, under pressure from the government in the form of the President of the United States, agreed to modify its speech to please that government.
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Last week’s signing of a franchise quarterback has Minnesota Vikings fans dreaming of Super Bowls.
What do you suppose Jackie Wallace, who played in two of them, is dreaming about these days? Read more →
A glance around the ‘news’ coverage of the Super Bowl shows the National Football League has done it again. It’s convinced the skeptical world of journalism to fall head over heels over the celebrities who latch onto the Super Bowl, and the theater surrounding the “big game.” It’s hard to tell where the public relations arm of the NFL ends and journalism begins when a Super Bowl comes to town. The league’s ability to tamp down a discouraging word is how the NFL has become a billion-dollar non-profit organization.
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It’s probably only a coincidence that it happened just after a big snowstorm in the host city, but the price of Super Bowl tickets at US Bank Stadium are sliding. Read more →
It’s been a long time since we’ve all had the kind of fun together that we had in the last week, despite football’s best effort to make us hate it. Read more →
We’re going to have plenty of these sorts of videos, we suspect. There’s nothing classy about Philadelphia sports fans and Vikings fans were warned it might be a bad idea to wear the purple at the Vikings-Eagles game. Read more →
A commission member urged the full board to oppose any Super Bowl-bound planes landing in Brainerd until the NFL enforces its rule requiring players to stand during the National Anthem. Read more →
The Green Bay Packers asked the fans in Lambeau Field last night to do what the players on the field were about to do: link arms and show unity. It could have been an inspiring moment. It wasn’t. Read more →
A few NFL fans are posting videos of burning tickets in response to the NFL player protest of racial inequality in America. A former Vikings QB is offering real cash for them.
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