
Introducing Fanduel and Daily Fantasy Football The following is a new venture my good bud, Injury Rate, is doing. I’ll let him explain it —— FanDuel, the daily fantasy sports site, is having a $50,000 NFL fantasy football championship this fall. Some of you are probably thinking, what the heck is FanDuel? And most of [...]
Every year, just before the season starts and teams converge on the practice field, there are those few players who don’t show up for the “voluntary” practices. Then, when the mandatory practices start, training camp and mini-camps, speculation abounds over which players will show up and which will scorn their teams. Albert Haynesworth has already [...]
After a trade between the Broncos and Browns, it looks like Brady Quinn will be the next one challenging Kyle Orton for the starting QB job in Denver. The Broncos gave up fullback Peyton Hillis and a couple draft picks for Quinn, who was a first round pick in 2007. Quinn’s career QB rating is [...]
After nine years with the San Diego Chargers, LaDainian Tomlinson has been released by the team. He was tearful as he bid good-bye to the place he has called home for almost a decade. At 30 years of age, with several injuries slowing him, LT has become what many people view as a typical NFL veteran, [...]
Courtesy of Jimmy Traina‘s endlessly entertaining Hot Clicks, here’s ESPN getting pranked by the Howard Stern show, under the guise of former Eagles RB Brian Westbrook, who was just released.
Posted on 18 January 2011
Nope. No Chance. Rex Ryan can run his mouth all he wants this week. Pittsburgh is not New England. You want bulletin board material Rex? Keep running your big mouth, you will get some this week. As far as the upcoming game itself goes, Pittsburgh should win by at least ten, and I have good [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 02 January 2011
If the New Orleans Saints are going to have any chance at a repeat, they will be doing it with smoke and mirrors. Sunday, the Saints dropped a game to Tampa Bay, 23-13. The loss was costly for the Saints because Malcolm Jenkins lecft the game injured in the first period and Christopher Ivory injured [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 28 December 2010
Before New England Patriots fans start pouting about how Tom Brady can’t be denied the biggest individual award in pro football, read this whole article objectively. The jokes have been made since Michael Vick was arraigned on dogfighting charges in August of 2007. Seemingly, Vick’s career was doomed and he would never prosper under center, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 22 December 2010
Like a perfect storm, things are going to be falling into place for The Pittsburgh Steelers just in time to make a run at an AFC Championship and possibly another Super Bowl. Everyone wrote Pittsburgh off during the preseason when it was determined that Ben Roethlisberger would be suspended for the early part of the [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 05 March 2010
It’s not the first time, and unless he finally gets locked up for it, I’m guessing this won’t be the last time Big Ben Roethlisberger will be accused of putting Lil’ Ben where it doesn’t belong. TMZ is reporting that Roethlisberger has been accused of assaulting a woman in a club early this morning in [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 04 March 2010
Michael Vick will be picking up his Ed Block Courage Award on Tuesday. I won’t even go into my thoughts on the many reasons he doesn’t deserve the award, but I think it’s safe to say that most people with a functioning brain would agree with me on that. Going back to playing professional football [...] Continue Reading