The Dallas Cowboys have opened training camp and from the sounds of it Dez Bryant is off to a fantastic start on the field. His start with teammate Roy Williams is another story. Apparently Bryant has refused to take part in the rookie ritual of carrying pads for veteran Wide Receiver Roy Williams. “I’m not doing it,” Bryant [...]
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Walter Payton’s Performance Just Plain Sick!
Image via Wikipedia Sick is good these days, right? Thought I heard some kids saying that. Like in the 70s-80s something “bad” was good? ESPN Chicago just reminded me how sick (good sick)Walter Payton was and how bad (good bad) of a performance he put on while sick (bad sick) back in 1977. The game [...]
Full Story »19 Football Related ESPY Nominations
Coming up on Wednesday July 14th at 9PM ET is the annual take on award ceremonies that are the ESPY Awards on ESPN. This year the broadcast is going to be hosted by Saturday Night Live Star and three time winner of the Golden Seth Fantasy Football Championship, Seth Meyers. So the football fan knows [...]
Full Story »Fancy New Schedule at NFL.com
Swinging by NFL.com today we see that they have a fancy new interactive schedule for the 2010 season. It doesn’t look too different from the ordinary mainstream media NFL schedule when you arrive at the landing page. As soon as you pick either a weekly or team schedule, things get flashy! Weekly Schedule: First thing [...]
Full Story »New York Super Bowl Opens Door for Chicago?
Image via Wikipedia Now that the NFL has granted New York a Super Bowl, watch the flood gates open for other cold weather cities waiving their hands in the air. We are already hearing about how Washington and Baltimore would be interested. Commish Goodell is trying to put a kabosh on that talk ASAP… “I [...]
Full Story »Tim Tebow Watch Page on ESPN…Really?
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Getting back into the swing of football things today, doing a little spring cleaning on favorites and RSS feeds. I was at ESPN when I noticed the “Tim Tebow Tracker” on the right sidebar. Really? I didn’t follow as I was, you know, busy wasting time on the internet. [...]
Full Story »A Call for Mike Martz Turf in Chicago
Everywhere that Mike Martz goes you are not going to be able to shake that whole “Greatest show on turf” thing from when the Rams were flying around the field in St. Louis a decade ago. Now the circus tent is being set up in Chicago and Neil Hayes at the Chicago Sun Times is [...]
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