Football Page 1100 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Police Officer Indicted In Shooting Death Of Former Florida A&M Player
A grand jury yesterday indicted Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Randall Kerrick on a count of voluntary manslaughter, for his role in the Sept. 14 death of Jonathan Ferrell. Kerrick fired 12 shots, hitting the unarmed Ferrell 10 times, as he sought help after a car accident....
Richard Sherman Answers Question About Strippers The Best Way Possible
Super Bowl Media Day is a circus, and the mass of "journalists" allowed to ask questions inevitably results in events like this, when Richard Sherman is asked a question about how to prevent girls from becoming strippers....
NFL Cheerleading Is A Scam: A Former Ravens Cheerleader Tells All
As a glimpse into the dark side of NFL cheerleading, the recent Raiderettes lawsuit was revelatory, but it didn’t quite capture the soup-to-nuts seediness of the enterprise. Thanks to a tipster—a former cheerleader—we’ve gotten our hands on a copy of the many rules and many regulations the 2009 Balt...
NFL Logos As European Soccer Badges, Part III
They're here. It's the third release from Football as Football, an ongoing design project that is reimagining each of the NFL's 32 teams in the style of four different European soccer crests. ...
British People Offer A Perfect Explanation Of The Super Bowl
Everything they have to say is pretty much exactly right. ...
Denver Airport Has Flights To Peyton Manning's "Omaha!"
Denver International Airport has gone Omaha crazy just like the Manning boys. To celebrate and support the Broncos as they make their bid for the Super Bowl this weekend, flights from Denver aren't just going to Omaha, they're taking a cue from Peyton and going to "Omaha!"...
Former NFLer: I Paid "Rathole Money" For Big Hits
This is an interview series in which we ask the plaintiffs of the NFL concussion lawsuit one question (and maybe a few more): Knowing what you know now, if you could do it over again, would you still play football?...
Statistically, When Is The Best Time To Buy Super Bowl Tickets?
Just a few days ago, you'd have had a better chance of finding a reasonably priced one-bedroom in Manhattan than you would've of scoring Super Bowl tickets for less than a mortgage payment or ten. For those who were able to hold off a few days, though, the savings are likely in the thousands....
Pete Carroll And Macklemore Are BFFs And It's Totally Weird
Pete Carroll wants you to know he was into Macklemore before you'd even heard of him, you poser....
Chief-On-Chief Violence At The Pro Bowl
The only remotely noteworthy thing to happen during yesterday's Pro Bowl was Derrick Johnson laying a solid hit on Chiefs teammate Jamaal Charles. More than solid—Johnson, named the game's defensive MVP, went helmet-t0-helmet on Charles three weeks after the RB left a playoff game with a concussion....
Your Super Bowl Weather Report: ICY DEATH AWAITS YOU ALL
All week long, we'll be keeping track of the weather conditions for Super Bowl XLVIII. Here is your Monday update....
Football: Still Really Freaking Popular
The annual Harris Poll survey is out, and for the 30th year in a row, Americans named pro football (35 percent) as their favorite sport, with baseball (14 percent) a not-so-close second....
Pro Bowl Attendees Treat Themselves To A Nice Nap
I mean, what the hell else are you supposed to do at the Pro Bowl?...
Idiot On The Field Invades Pro Bowl, Manages To Make It Interesting
The Pro Bowl is going on right now. You knew that, right? Anyway, it's a yearly tradition for somebody to run out onto the field during the game in Hawai'i, and sure enough it happened again tonight as a bikini-clad young woman rushed out to celebrate a touchdown. From the sounds of it, she managed...
Texts With Blair Walsh May Corroborate Kluwe's Claims Against Priefer
Clayton Halunen, an attorney for Chris Kluwe, claims that text messages between his client and Vikings kicker Blair Walsh support Kluwe's allegations that Vikings special teams coordinator Mike Priefer created a hostile and homophobic work environment in response to his increased support for same-se...
Colorado Viewers Miss Six Minutes Of AFC Title Game, Learn About Santa
Somehow this flew under the radar all week, but it turns out Broncos fans in Colorado Springs missed much of the first quarter during Sunday's AFC Championship game due to technical difficulties on KKTV—during which Tom Brady was frozen on their screens for nearly six minutes. Even stranger, the CBS...
The NFL Is Still Hilarious When Subjected To Bad Lip Reading
Remember that dumb, great video of NFL players being given very bad lip-reading voiceovers? Adrian Peterson and his orange peanut? Here's another—it's pretty good! ...
Cops Allege Former Wisconsin WR Marcus Randle-El Is Gun-Toting Abductor
An Amber Alert issued in Illinois at 11:45 p.m. Eastern time Thursday night named a Marcus Randle-El as the suspect in the kidnapping of his own three-year-old daughter. Local media reports that's the same Marcus Randle-El who played wide receiver at Wisconsin and is the brother of former Steelers p...
Here's Every Finable Offense For Raiders Cheerleaders
Lacy T., a Raiderette during the recently completed season, has sued the Oakland Raiders for a slew of shoddy business practices regarding cheerleader pay. The whole suit, which you can read at the bottom of the page, is a glimpse into the many indignities of being an NFL cheerleader (besides the ma...
Brandon Jacobs Nonchalantly Calls Jim Harbaugh A "Bitch"
Via Bob's Blitz, former 49ers and Giants RB Brandon Jacobs called into Boomer & Carton this morning, and Jacobs has no love lost for his old coach in San Francisco. I love how he just slips it in toward the end of his hit. "I got two rings, and Harbaugh, he's a bitch, so it doesn't matter."...