Football Page 799 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Kyle Williams And Bills Go With <i>Any Given Sunday</i> Celebration After Touchdown
Defensive lineman Kyle Williams has played for the Buffalo Bills for 12 seasons. Today could be his last game. With the Bills on the goal line in the third quarter, the team lined up the defensive tackle at fullback—and handed him the ball....
Ravens WR Chris Moore's Excruciating Bobble Turns Into A Bengals Pick-Six<em></em>
Despite the worst efforts of Joe Flacco, who went 4 of 18 for just 28 yards in the first half, the Ravens are actually trying to make the playoffs by beating the Bengals today. It’s proving to be extremely difficult, and Darqueze Dennard made the task even harder by stealing a catch away from Chris ...
Colts Fire Chuck Pagano After Six Seasons
They gave him the game ball right beforehand, too:...
Alvin Kamara Almost Didn't Run Out This 106-Yard Kickoff Return TD
The Saints’ Alvin Kamara—the most fun surprise of the NFL season—appeared to have some second thoughts about taking out his first touch of the game on the Bucs’ kickoff. It’s a good thing he didn’t take the touchback, though, because once he got up a head of steam Kamara just blew straight through a...
The Browns Had 16 Chances To Win A Game This Season And Just Could Not Do It<em></em>
This game really looked like it could be the one. Granted, the overtime loss to the Packers in Week 14 looked promising too, as did Week 7's extra time 12-9 defeat against the Titans. But going up against Pittsburgh’s B team, with all the Steelers’ best players resting, the 0-15 Cleveland Browns had...
The Patriots Tried To Cheat, As Usual
The New England Patriots wrapped up the No. 1 seed in the AFC today with a dismantling of the New York Jets. The primary highlight of the game, however, was this flop by Johnson Bademosi....
Donnie Jones Puts On A Show Before Punting
If you haven’t noticed by the ice forming in your water glasses, it’s very cold up north and out east today, and it’s messing with at least a few NFL players. One of them was Eagles punter Donnie Jones, who went out to punt while still wearing his warm-ups, then had to treat fans to a little show....
Vikings Fall For A Bears Trick Punt Return
A few trick plays have been some of the only highlights of this otherwise poor Bears season, and Chicago sprinkled in another one for their final game of the year. On a punt return against the Vikings, the Bears pulled off the always-satisfying decoy punt return, with Tarik Cohen serving as the bait...
Report: The Raiders Are Prepared To Dump Out Their Wallets For Jon Gruden
Jon Gruden coached in Oakland for four good years, leading the Raiders to four consecutive .500-or-better seasons, including two playoff appearances and an AFC Championship game. In the 16 seasons since the franchise traded him to the Buccaneers, the Raiders have had four .500-or-better seasons, and...
Washington Announcer Bob Rondeau Ended His Career With A Humble Final Sign-Off
Thirty-seven years after he first began calling Huskies games, Washington radio announcer Bob Rondeau signed off from his final broadcast in a characteristically low-key fashion....
Browns Owned From Beyond The Grave By Disgruntled Dead Fan
Well, you knew this was coming: the Cleveland Browns have been owned by another dead person....
Of Course The NFL And The NFLPA Blamed The Concussion Protocol For Failing Tom Savage
The NFL and the NFLPA completed their inquiry into what happened when Texans quarterback Tom Savage was permitted to re-enter a game earlier this month after smacking his head on the turf and sustaining a brain injury that caused him to experience a fencing response. Their joint conclusion: The conc...
What's Wrong With Gus Johnson?
If you know anything about announcers, you know that Gus Johnson gets excited a lot. His Gusgasms at the slightest hint of any action in the games he calls has delighted and aggravated fans for years in equal measure....
Jaguars Barely Defeat Tarps
Blake Bortles and the Jacksonville Jaguars are going to play a real, actual NFL playoff game the first weekend in January. (Still a weird fact to write.) Although the team’s stadium has a capacity of about 84,000 for college football games, the Jags usually limit their games to 67,000, with parts of...
The Ice Bowl, The Sneak, And The Family Who Shot The Packers For 70 Years
It wasn’t just cold at Lambeau Field. With the temperature at 13 below zero at kickoff, and the wind chill at 36 below, Dec. 31, 1967, ranked as the coldest New Year’s Eve day that Green Bay, Wisconsin, had ever witnessed....
More Steelers Pile On James Harrison
Pittsburgh offensive lineman Maurkice Pouncey, who said ex-Steelers linebacker James Harrison “erased his legacy” by signing with the Patriots, wasn’t the only former teammate to talk shit about his old coworker. Linebacker Bud Dupree had shots to take:...
Report: Car Registered To DeSean Jackson Found Wrecked, Abandoned On Christmas Eve
A car registered to Buccaneers wide receiver DeSean Jackson was found abandoned on Sunday night in Tampa, Fla., according to a police report reviewed by NFL.com. The car, a Chevrolet Silverado, at some point struck a tree, and inside police found a misdemeanor-level amount of marijuana and two legal...
Giants Suspend Eli Apple For "Detrimental" Behavior <em></em>
Giants cornerback Eli Apple has been suspended for the final week of the season for “detrimental” behavior, according to a statement released by the team today....
Steelers’ Maurkice Pouncey Says James Harrison “Erased His Own Legacy” By Signing With Patriots
It’s been quite a week for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and it has nothing to do with their play on the field (a 34-6 win over the Texans on Christmas). On Saturday, the Steelers released James Harrison, a Hooverball enthusiast and the franchise’s sacks leader. It was surprising, but he’d only played 40...