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The Return Of Peyton Manning: Your Sunday Night Football Viewing Guide
Pittsburgh at Denver: Usually I get a little pukey about "story lines" in big games. Football, by virtue of its rarity alone, is exciting enough without some contrived plot point forced down our gullets. However. I am legitimately interested to see how Peyton comes back and it will absolutely domina...
Deadspin Up All Night: Flames Licking
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We've got more in store for you. A guide for the night game, a roundup of all the days action and anything else we stumble across. Thanks for sticking around....
David Akers Tied An NFL Record With This 63-Yard Field Goal
Akers is something like 75 years old, but still kicking field goals like a boss. He drills this one right on the crossbar, bouncing over after a few drama-building seconds to give San Francisco a 16-7 lead over Green Bay heading into halftime....
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NFL Spokesman Slams Mike Pereira For Pointing Out How Obviously Terrible The Scab Referees Have Been [UPDATE]
Mike Pereira, you'll recall, was vice president of officiating for the NFL. This year, Pereira has not pulled any punches when talking about how terrible the replacement refereeing has been. He, like most of the internet, believe the referees are doing a number on this San Francisco-Green Bay game....
Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em: Your Late Games Viewing Guide
Man, what a rush. Everyone still alive? Season not over yet? Good, because we have four more games to go today, with three kicking off at 4:25 p.m. Let's keep this gravy train rolling. ...
Nate Washington Scores Touchdown, Does Willie Beamen Dance From <i>Any Given Sunday</i>
Nothing quite like an homage to a 13-year-old film. But there's Nate Washington of the Tennessee Titans doing the Willie...Willie Beamen dance after cutting New England's lead to 21-10 (after PAT; now 28-10). Lot of embarrassing celebrations out of this one. [CBS]...
Here's Rob Gronkowski Making An Ass Of Himself While Actually On The Field
We're used to seeing Gronk make a fool of himself on the dance floor or at bars, usually without a shirt on. Gronk flipped the script on us this week, though, after scoring a touchdown against the Titans. Gronkowski goes for his patented Gronk Spike and in all his excitement, it squirts out of his...
Randy Moss Is Back In Green Bay Today
Randy Moss returns to the scene of a disgusting act this afternoon. His new team, the San Francisco 49ers will be visiting his old rival, the Green Bay Packers. Moss put up some impressive numbers in Green Bay. He also mimingly took down his pants. A lot of the players in today's game were playing h...
It Looks Like Thurman Thomas Is Watching The Bills-Jets Game
Moments after Jeremy Kerley ran a punt back to put the Jets up 21-0 over the Bills, Buffalo Hall of Fame running back Thurman Thomas spoke for Buffalonians everywhere....
Robert Griffin III's First Touchdown Pass Was An 88 Yard Strike
There’s a lot of excitement in Washington, D.C. these days and here is the primary reason. The Saints scored on a quick play of their own and Griffin comes right back and hits Garcon for 88 yards. With three minutes left in the first quarter Griffin has 123 passing yards (12 rushing) and one touchd...
Sanchize Vs. Teambow: Your NFL Early Games Viewing Guide
It's finally here. Sunday football. Wednesday was cool and all, but this is the day that really counts. For the remainder of the day you will watch football and only football and it will be awesome. Until your team, obviously playing a 1 P.M. game, loses and ruins the entire day for you. But you've...
Mary Lou Retton, Vanilla Ice, and William Hung Talk Tebow On NFL Network Because The World Is Officially Ending
Hey guess what everyone? The NFL network has helpfully offered you a segment where Vanilla Ice offers words of wisdom to Tim Tebow for sustained professional success. I want to kill myself....
Camera Spontaneously Disintegrates While Cameraman Films Interview
Peek-a-boo is not just a fun game for babies. It's also good fun for adults watching some boring rugby interview or whatever when a cameraman disappears as quickly as he pops up on screen when his camera falls apart and he drops it all over the place....
Joe Girardi And Joel Sherman Had Themselves A Good Old Fashioned Bitchfest Last Night
Last night, the Yankees lost to the Orioles on a botched third out call that made everyone go a little crazy. It actually started before (and likely caused) the blown call: Mark Teixeira decided sliding head first was a good idea. He was called out. He then said the umps wanted to get home early an...
Are The Dolphins Really Super Bowl Contenders?
Oh my goodness, no. No, no, no. But it's the first week of the season! Anything is possible. In a few hours football becomes a reality, but for now, we can still dream. The Dolphins can dream that they will win more than they will lose. The Colts can dream that Andrew Luck will be just as good as Pe...
Will Brett Favre Have To Discuss His Penis Under Oath?
Brett Favre's (alleged!) penis is back in the news and now it's because he doesn't want it shown off. We told you last week about the two former Jets masseuses who, as part of their ongoing lawsuit against Favre alleging sexual harassment and retaliation, tried to get him to admit that photographs p...
A.J. Ellis Hits Walk-Off Single For Dodgers, Teammates Take Turns Punching Him In The Nuts
If Ellis wants to blame anyone, it should really be Andre Ethier. If not for his game-tying home run in the bottom of the ninth, Ellis never would have had a chance to hit a single in the bottom of the 11th, driving in the winning run as he capped off a 4-3 Dodgers comeback against the Padres....
