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The Chiefs Just Fired Todd Haley
Kansas City announced it on their website. They haven't announced an interim replacement, but Haley had Romeo Crennel AND Jim Zorn on his staff. So many possibilities! (UPDATE: It's Crennel.)...
Reality Is Now Indistinguishable From Tim Tebow Fan Fiction
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
Last Night's Giants-Cowboys Game, Reduced To Its Al Michaels-Stupefying Lead Changes
Last night's prime time football game gave us some of the most exciting action of the day—a rarity this season.The Giants-Cowboys game was full of lead changes, and Al Michaels was on top of it, constantly providing an updated tally for the viewer....
The Cowboys' Season, In One Jason Garrett Facepalm
Your morning roundup for Dec. 12, the day we learned the benefits of prison sojourns. Photo via Ryan W. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. ...
Brandon Jacobs Likes To Dance Dirty
It was bad enough that Brandon Jacobs elected to dance on the star in the Cowboys end zone, but the manner in which the Giants running back got jiggy appeared to be his attempt at eroticism. It gave New York a short-lived lead, and at the half Dallas leads 17-15....
Your Cowboys-Giants Sunday Night Football Open Thread
Here is your nightcap. Knock a few back and talk some shop down below....
Tim Tebow Makes Me Feel Like A Doped Up Child: Your Sunday NFL Roundup
What is there to even say at this point? It's like these inexplicable things keep happening and I need a simple way to explain them all. Tim Tebow just wins. There. Perfect....
Tim Tebow Tebows 59-Yard Tebow To Force Tebowtime (UPDATE)
After a late touchdown pass but failed onside kick left the Broncos looking as done as the supper in your oven, Denver quarterback Tim Tebow drove the bare minimum of yards in the final minute to set up this 59-yard Matt Prater field goal and force overtime. ...
And Lo Did Tebow Come Bearing Gifts, An Interception For The Bears' Charles Tillman
Okay, so this was less a gift than a brilliant play by the Bears' Charles Tillman in both making the catch and keeping both feet inbounds. But it was Tim Tebow's first interception in six games, and that makes it at least a bit of a holiday miracle. [FOX]...
Here's Tom Brady's Bitchfest With An Assistant Coach
Up a touchdown late in the Patriots' battle in Washington, Tom Brady threw an interception in the Redskins' end zone then threw a tantrum on his own sideline with New England assistant coach Bill O'Brien. The two eventually had to be separated, though CBS analyst Dan Dierdorf would have you think...
Tebow's Number One: Your NFL Late Games Open Thread
We power on through the late games. Here is your open thread, discuss....
Cincinnati Bengals Give Opponents' Family Members Terrible Seats
Marv Albert, oozing with sarcasm, helpfully points out where the Bengals sat T.J. Yates' parents this afternoon. They started two rows from the top and made it all the way down to, like, seven rows from the top....
Thom Brennaman And Brian Billick Find Megatron's Possible Concussion Hilarious
Lions WR Calvin Johnson was clearly shaken up after this reverse play in the first half of Detroit's matchup with Minnesota today, but not enough to avoid getting giggles from FOX's Thom Brennaman and Brian Billick, for whom possible concussions are the height of comedy....
Just Gronk Bein' Gronk
Rob Gronkowski set the NFL season record for TD catches by a tight end today with his 14th grab, but it was set up by this remarkable play in which the porn star-loving Patriot managed to stay on his feet long enough to turn a short gain into a... longer one. [CBS]...
Better Double Bag It: Your NFL Early Games Open Thread
Week 14 is here. Dreams will come true, or be shattered. Or begin to take shape only to be shattered at a later date. Join us down below....
Your Heisman Trophy Winner Is Robert Griffin III
Robert Griffin III—RG3 for the uninitiated—won the Heisman trophy this evening. Andrew Luck is all sad faced a few months before he becomes a multimillionaire. [ESPN]...
Montana State's Elvis Akpla Just Made The Catch Of The College Football Season
Unseeded Montana State has its work cut out for them today against top-seeded Sam Houston State in the FCS playoffs. Nevertheless, Bobcats receiver Elvis Akpla is doing his best to get his team to the next round with this ridiculous catch—the best I've seen at any level of college football this s...
Montana Celebrated Their FCS Playoff Win Over Northern Iowa By Getting Stabby
Montana's Grizzlies crushed perennial FCS power Northern Iowa last night 48-10 in Missoula last night, and celebrated in a manner you might call.. unique? The Griz will take on the winner of Montana State and top-seeded Sam Houston State....
Colt McCoy's Father Says His Son Doesn't Remember The End Of Last Night's Game
This is what Colt McCoy looked like after James Harrison launched himself into McCoy's face with the crown of his helmet last night. It obviously wasn't a good idea for the Browns to put McCoy back into the game. But after only one play, they did just that. And five plays after Harrison's hit, McCo...
Study Of Dead Football Player's Brain Is Even More Depressing Than Usual
A year ago, just after former NFL player Lew Carpenter passed away at the age of 78, his family decided to donate his brain to a team of researchers studying chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative disease often found in athletes who have suffered repeated head injuries. ...