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Is Watching Football Wrong?
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 31, 2010 at 4:42pm
Cross-posted at BlogHer.
When I clicked the link to the article in the New York Times and the title of the article was “Should You Watch Football?” I thought: Is this a trick question?
Should I watch football? Does that question mean to point out t...more
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Thinking about Lombardi on Broadway
by Pretty Tough
posted October 25, 2010 at 10:53pm
I have had a lot of coaches in my life. I have only recently begun to understand why they matter so much.
Or, not so much why coaches matter. Everyone knows why they matter – they tell you what to do, they organize teams, teach plays, make judgment cal...more
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This Week in Nothing to Write About in Sports
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 24, 2010 at 9:57pm
Brett Favre has a unique ability to annoy the shit out of people who don’t even care. He has to be the most needy “man of a certain age” in professional football. I just hope when he sent around those pictures of Brett Bretterson that he was
Br...more
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A survey for female football fans
by A Glam Slam
posted October 23, 2010 at 1:43pm
It has been the season of the female football fan. A wide variety of new fan gear options have been introduced, a dedicated women’s NFL apparel campaign has been created and a female supermodel has been dubbed the league's "SuperFan." The ladies represe...more
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HS girl sets national record with 43-yard field goal
by Pretty Tough
posted October 22, 2010 at 3:05pm
With the high school gridiron season in full swing, girls are demonstrating time and again that they can play with the boys.
This past weekend, senior standout Alana Gaither of Firestone High School (Akron, Ohio) set what is believed to be a national re...more
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What Sports Are Really About
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 22, 2010 at 12:49pm
From the “That’s what it’s really all about” files I give you Dylan Galloway:
Galloway is the Arkansas teen with cerebral palsy that scored a touchdown for his high school. A life long dream of his, he had been bugging the head football coach, ...more
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Concussions, Football and You
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 20, 2010 at 6:54pm
It’s hard to know where to begin. Maybe where the fans simultaneously go “Ooooohhhh!” when two men viciously collide. That being said, no one likes to see men on the field twitching.
On Sunday, I thought DeShaun Jackson was dead when I saw Du...more
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NFL is going to suspend for leading with helmet
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 20, 2010 at 1:58am
The NFL has had it with your shenanigans. This is your final warning. NO MORE LEADING WITH YOUR HELMETS.
After the brutality of week 5 – James Harrison knocked out two Browns, Dunta Robinson lead with his head and knocked himself out and he took DeSean...more
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Tuesday Morning Fantasy Football Quarterback: Week Six
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 19, 2010 at 6:06pm
You know what happened in the NFL this week? The Rams won their third of the season after winning just three games in the two prior seasons combined. And in St Louis, it was a damn near riot in the streets. Because when you’re .500 six games into the se...more
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NFL drafts supermodel Marisa Miller
by A Glam Slam
posted October 18, 2010 at 8:13pm
The NFL just got a whole lot prettier. Sports Illustrated and Victoria’s Secret supermodel, Marisa Miller, has signed on as the new spokesperson for the 2010-2011 season. [Hollywood Reporter]
This is latest in a string of new NFL marketing techniques ...more
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The name of the game is chaos: College Football
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 18, 2010 at 3:56pm
From your favorite Gridiron Gdodess:
College Football Is The Best.
I mean where else do you get consecutive upsets of the #1 team in the nation, dormant teams waking up in the most delightful of way, unranked opponents taking ranked opponents by surpris...more
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All for the love of a forlorn team
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted October 17, 2010 at 10:10pm
John Campanelli of The Cleveland Plain Dealer writes about John Barr, a Connecticut warehouse worker with no ties to the northeast Ohio city but who moved there recently after quitting his job, so he could more easily cheer for the Browns:
“In East Ha...more
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Jackie Kasburg: Football star and homecoming queen
by Pretty Tough
posted October 13, 2010 at 5:12pm
High school senior Jackie Kasburg of Chippewa, Ohio made some history last Friday. Wearing her custom-made pink game day cleats, she made her varsity football debut, converting three point-after-touchdowns kicks. Then, to top off the night, she was nam...more
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NFL Fashion Update: Reebok out, Nike added to the roster
by A Glam Slam
posted October 13, 2010 at 12:23pm
Football is a tough sport and these days even apparel brands need to fight to make the team. Though Reebok has been the league’s uniform provider for the past 12 years, it was announced today that they’ve been benched. Nike Inc. will become the NFL's ...more
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Kids These Days… They Aren’t All Bad
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 13, 2010 at 12:07pm
Every Sunday morning I start out the day reading the paper. It’s my favorite way to start/end the week. This Sunday I read an article about a local high school football team that had me in tears. Normally I can’t stand the little high-schoolers, but t...more
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College Football Recap Week 6 – Sweet Carolina Edition!
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 12, 2010 at 5:53pm
Well, holy crap sports fans! What a weekend in college football! The number one team in the country got knocked off! That always equals a good week to me! Clearly! By my overuse of exclamation points! (As long as my team isn’t the number one team, which...more
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My Last Word on Michael Vick (I Swear.) (Probably.)
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 10, 2010 at 8:37pm
(My friend Jonna wrote this piece about rooting for Michael Vick and my comment got so long it was embarrassing. So here we go.)
Michael Vick is unquestionably one of the most talented quarterbacks in the National Football League. He might be the best...more
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Real Men DO wear Pink
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted October 10, 2010 at 12:45pm
Hats off to the NFL for helping to support National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.If you didn’t tune in to a football game the first weekend in October, then you missed NFL players wearing pink or pink-tinged items to help bring attention to breast canc...more
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Yes. Yes, I am rooting for Michael Vick.
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 5, 2010 at 5:55pm
I can’t help it. And people, I’m not even a football fan. Well, not really. The older I get, the less sleep-inducing it is (and yes, I know how ironic this seems coming from a baseball lover, which for many is a SNOOZE FEST, and yet: Yes, I make it th...more
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Tuesday Morning Fantasy Football Quarterback: Week Four
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 5, 2010 at 3:49pm
Hello. I just want to note that, while writing this, I’m suddenly compelled to conceive a fantasy league for the television show Hoarders but I realize the only way to do it would be to have dead animals score negative otherwise people would want to see...more
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Real men wear pink...in October
by A Glam Slam
posted October 3, 2010 at 4:31pm
For the second year in a row, the NFL’s roughest and toughest will look “pretty in pink” when they hit the field throughout the month of October. Beginning October 3rd, NFL games will feature players, coaches and referees wearing pink game apparel, ...more
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Weekly Roundup: Sex, Drugs, and Bieber Edition
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 3, 2010 at 2:05pm
Sex
Cincinnati Bengal Chad Ochocinco was trying to help Feed the Children by having their phone number for donations printed on boxes of his cereal, “OchocincOs.” A typo sends callers to a phone sex line instead. If Chad were not a Bengal, would this...more
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