Football Page 925 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

Joe Thomas Endures 10,000 Consecutive Snaps With The Browns
Cleveland Browns offensive lineman Joe Thomas has made history by experiencing more uninterrupted disappointment on the field than any other NFL player....

The Packers Got Hosed But Also Trounced
The Green Bay Packers’ chances of spoiling the Falcons’ first game in their gaudy new butthole stadium crumbled to dust on two plays on either side of halftime. ...

The Shovel Pass To Travis Kelce Is A Cheat Code
Two weeks into the season, the Kansas City Chiefs have the most entertaining offense in the league. They shoved 42 points right into the Patriots’ faces by using a read-option scheme, letting Alex Smith sling it, and deploying rookie running back Kareem Hunt like prime-era LaDainian Tomlinson. Yeste...

Ezekiel Elliott Quit On A Play And Some People Are Aghast
The Broncos manhandled the Cowboys 42-17, just a thorough annihilation in every aspect of the game. But almost immediately, most of the blame for the loss—or at least the loudest of the criticism—fell upon Ezekiel Elliott, who had the worst game of his life....

Los Angeles Doesn't Care About The Chargers
Sunday saw the return of the Los Angeles Chargers, their first home game since 1960, and no one’s very excited about it....

Marshawn Lynch Had The Oakland Coliseum Dancing
Marshawn Lynch scored his first touchdown since returning to the NFL in the Raiders’ 45-20 thrashing of the Jets today. With an acceptable stat line and his team up comfortably in the fourth quarter, Lynch danced to the music at the Oakland Coliseum....

Broncos WR Bennie Fowler Struggles To Leave Field After Landing On His Head
A really scary moment happened in the second quarter of the Broncos-Cowboys game, when Denver’s Bennie Fowler landed hard on the ground while trying to catch a touchdown. As Fowler tried to get back up, he stumbled multiple times before finally being helped off....

Mike Zimmer Says Sam Bradford Is Both Fine And Out For A While
A week after he started the Vikings’ season with a 27-for-32, 346-yard, three-touchdown performance in a 29-19 win over the Saints, Sam Bradford was inactive in Minnesota’s 26-9 loss to the Steelers today. ...

Antonio Gates Reaches Most TDs By A Tight End, Gets Dogpiled By His Teammates<em></em>
On a day where the Chargers honored their latest Hall of Famer, LaDainian Tomlinson, another legend cemented his place in history. In the third quarter of L.A.’s game against Miami, Antonio Gates caught his 112th career touchdown catch, passing Tony Gonzalez for the most ever by a tight end and gett...

Gronk Catches 69th Score, Injures Groin
It was hella dope news and bummer news for Rob Gronkowski today. First, the big lunk of a New England Patriot hit a very personal milestone by catching his 69th career receiving touchdown on a play that the Saints’ defense scarcely could have made any easier....

Cam Newton Gets Crushed But Quickly Returns To The Game
The Buffalo Bills were getting after Cam Newton all game, and unfortunately, one hit finally did some real damage, with two defenders smothering Newton and forcing him to leave the field with an ankle injury....

Tom Brady Says Colin Kaepernick Deserves To Play In The NFL
As part of the PR tour for his new self-help book, Tom Brady sat for an interview with Norah O’Donnell of CBS during which he was asked whether he thinks Colin Kaepernick will get another chance to play in the NFL:...

Kareem Hunt Is Still Fast
Rookie sensation and Patriot-defeater Kareem Hunt didn’t have a blisteringly fast start to his second career game today, but luckily, he’s got some pretty good acceleration. In the third quarter against the Eagles, Hunt sliced through the Philly defense and made himself impossible to catch, giving K...

Eagles Get An Incredible Break, Then Screw It Up
Late in the first half against the Chiefs, Eagles tight end Zach Ertz caught a once-in-a-lifetime break when a pass bounced off of Kansas City’s Terrance Mitchell and directly into his path. Ertz couldn’t quite reach the end zone, but his luck put the Eagles into game-tying field goal territory righ...

Steelers Score Twice And Get In Some Quick Rounds Of Craps
The Steelers are enjoying themselves early against Minnesota, jumping out to an initial 14-0 lead against the Sam Bradford-less Vikings. They’re having so much fun, in fact, that they added another game to the mix after their touchdowns....

Report: Jerry Jones Is Holding Up Roger Goodell's Contract Extension
Roger Goodell has made as much as $44 million in salary in a single year as NFL commissioner, and in his time on the job has reportedly made more than $200 million. The NFL’s compensation committee is currently working out a proposal to extend Goodell’s existing contract beyond its current 2019 expi...

It's 87 Degrees And Humid In Jacksonville, And Jaguars Fans Are Swimming In Mayonnaise
The Jacksonville Jaguars, at 1-0, are off to their best start since the 2011 season, when they opened up with a narrow win over the Tennessee Titans. Jaguars fans, in their euphoria, have rocketed all the way to the Belly-Flopping-Into-A-Vat-Of-Mayonnaise stage of celebration. Observe:...

Better Sports Options: Today's Guide To Ignoring The NFL
We are still in the part of the year where the Sunday counterprogramming schedule is chunky with other sports—early season European soccer, regular season baseball, the WNBA playoffs—which is good for sports fans in general, because the NFL’s product so far this season has been poor. Just five of 15...
