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I will take this one opportunity to applaud a Philadelphia Eagle. Eagles offensive lineman Evan Mathis posted this photo on Instagram. And when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell tweeted about it Mathis retweeted…

@nflcommish I’m offended by the actions of Philadelphia Eagle player Evan Mathis peeing on the IRS sign in front of the IRS [...]

Hey, Rodgers!

Not quite sure that scream I heard coming from the direction of South Korea a little earlier was one of delight or disgust. Either way, get ready for more groans from the rest of the football world, notably the Chicago metro area.

“Green Bay, Wis., is home to the World Famous Green Bay Packers [...]

Hubba Hubba Big Man: Draft Chat

 

I’m happy.  I love O-line guys (my all-time favorite NFL player was a center), and KC needs to bring back the glory days of Joe & Tim & Will & Willie.

How’s your team doing?  Andy Levy already tweeted his greatest fear:

@andylevy

assuming the jets will draft a point guard

 

R.I.P. — Pat Summerall

And yet another piece of my childhood passes by. Pat Summerall, former NFL kicker for the New York Giants and long time NFL broadcaster has died at age 82.

For many sports fans in the 1960s through the 1990s, Pat Summerall was the voice of the NFL, starting with CBS’ Sunday telecasts and later [...]

Dust in the Air

Kudos to the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers — this is a class act all the way. Be careful of that video it seems to irritate the eyes a tad

Nebraska held is annual Red-White Spring Game on Saturday and the star of the contest was a 7-year-old boy.

Jack Hoffman is a diehard Nebraska [...]

Weekend Five -- March Madness Edition

March Madness is upon us and in Wanks’ down time this weekend’s Five will be some of our favorite college sports moments. I’d say 5 NCAA basketball moments, but I don’t think I can muster 5 of those so we’ll broaden the topic to all of college athletics…

In no particular…

1. My [...]

Hall of Fame Hustler

NFL.com, glomming off of NCAA March Madness is having a “tournament” by which they hope to whittle down 64 all-time great plays down to the greatest play in NFL history. The list is here… One that jumped out at me… and which I’d forgotten about was Dallas Cowboys’ Offensive Tackle (now Hall of Famer) Larry [...]

Kick Like A Girl

Lauren Silberman was hyped up as the first woman to try out for the NFL. She attempted two kicks at a regional NFL combine in New Jersey… sort of.

Lauren Silberman’s bid to make the NFL consisted of two kickoffs totaling 30 yards, an aggravation of a quadriceps injury she said she initially suffered [...]

Talk without speaking …

Thanks to the wonderful 21st century invention known as pausing and fast-forwarding through live TV, the Super Bowl blackout became a moot point. Instead, Chez Porvaznik wrapped up watching the recently purchased Led Zeppelin Celebration Day blu-ray which had been part of the pre-game festivities. As if we didn’t know we weren’t missing a [...]

Super Bowl Thread

A bit late to the game… Ravens up 14-3 so far and the 49ers QB is looking like a rookie. This Oreo is my pick for best ad so far — unless a certain son’s ad plays.

Super Fly (Over)

This video is a few years old, but NFL Films did this on pregame flyovers and it’s pretty awesome. I love the reaction shots of the players and coaches… nothing impresses like raw power and speed. When the planes are yours it’s like being an awestruck kid. There’s even some helicopter love for Outlaw.

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A Blitz of a Different Sort

Walter Olsen, of Overlawyered (see blogroll at left) talks with Steve Chapman of The Washington Examiner about the coming onslaught of lawsuits against the NFL related to head trauma… and he isn’t optimistic about the future of football.

“Seriously?” you may ask. A guy who made a good living engaging in high-speed collisions with [...]

Say Huh?!?

This is pretty good stuff from BadLipReading.com

if someone posted it earlier this week in an OT or whatever I never saw it. That is the understood and standard hat tip from here on out. I can’t keep track of it all.

Triple played

Latest from John Ziegler’s blogging at FramingPaterno.com, in which he cites the Manti Te’o, Lance Armstrong, and Steubenville football team stories to yet again filets a media far too in love with spinning its own narratives, facts and logic be damned. Naturally, John also ties it nicely to his continuing examination of how it relates [...]

She’s a Hoax, You Know She’s a Hoax

Multiple award-winning Notre Dame linebacker and Heisman Trophy runner up Manti Te’o has got some ‘splainin’ to do vis a vis his dead “girlfriend”. Deadspin.com has the story — and kudos to Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey for doing the reporting. Sure it was like pulling the loose thread on a very loose sweater, [...]

Captain Comeback

Today is the 40th anniversary of the greatest NFL playoff game of the 1970s. The Dallas Cowboys defeated the San Francisco 49ers 30-28 on this date in 1972 in the NFC Divisional Playoff game in San Francisco, CA. Many, if not most of you don’t know that because all the NFL talks about — [...]

Johnny Heisman

Congratulations to Texas A&M Freshman quarterback on his Heisman Trophy win last night. As many of you may know his nickname is “Johnny Football” and while the funny pictures of him in the Scooby Doo Halloween costume working the “ladies” are typical college freshman fare, his nickname is “Football” for a reason. The kid [...]

Go Army, Beat Navy!

The Obama Challenge, Part 1

To our trolling good friend BarryO, with the new year approaching, and the second term of our lord and master (please note the lower case “l,” Jamie Foxx fans) inspiring all the non-earners to new levels of mediocrity, hoping you could set a new and inspiring message. In the event you’re still coaching, I [...]

Tell it like it is

Comedian Thierrion Kagan, laying the smack-down on Bob Costas. Oh, how the once mighty, even those of the 5-foot-nothin’ variety, have fallen in my eyes. Be sure to check out the rest of Thierrion’s column.

After Costas recapped the events in Kansas City, he haughtily scolded those who need tragedies like this to keep [...]