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No, Soccer Player Didn't Dedicate His Goal To A <em>Family Guy</em> Character
Striker Leigh Griffiths scored in the 16th minute for League One side Wolverhampton tonight, and lifted his shirt to reveal a message: "R.I.P. Brian."...
Bill Belichick And The NFL's Unexpected History Of Overtime Kick-Offs
Yesterday was 11 years to the day that Marty Mornhinweg declared that the Lions would kick off to start overtime. Chicago scored on its first series, and Mornhinweg wasn't Lions coach much longer. Yesterday, Bill Belichick pulled a Marty Mornhinweg, with better results....
Rob Gronkowski Thinks Planes And Cars Are Time Machines
Football steakhead Rob Gronkowski is back! Well, he's been playing for a few games now, but we know he's really back because of the astounding answer he gave after being asked for his ideal superpower. Basically, the Patriots' tight end doesn't understand how time works....
Soccer Team Issues Wonderfully Bitchy Statement Over Pee Allegations
Boreham Wood, in the sixth tier of English soccer, lost an FA Cup heartbreaker on Tuesday night at Carlisle United. Afterward, media accounts and photos showed the visitors' locker room to be a mess, including a tea kettle in a urinal, a broken door, and what was reportedly a puddle of urine on the ...
Why Officials Picked Up The Flag And Gave Carolina The Win
The non-call that ended the Panthers' win over the Patriots was a bad call. Not a historically terrible one, in a vacuum: worse missed penalties and more egregious undeserved flags happen every week in the NFL. But on the last play of the game, a supremely entertaining slugfest between two Super Bow...
Steve Smith To Aqib Talib: "Ice Up, Son!"
Steve Smith and Aqib Talib spent a good portion of the evening locking arms and dancing the dance of people who hate each other. Twice in one drive the two had to be separated, the first coming on a first down conversion where Talib wouldn't let go of Smith's leg. The two tumbled to the ground and ...
Tom Brady Drops F-Bomb On Ref Following Loss To Panthers
The Panthers barely held on to beat the Patriots 24-20 on Monday Night Football and the Charles flows with the tears of confused Bostonians thanks to a defensive pass interference call that was wiped away. Tom Brady might be the saltiest of the bunch; he dropped a serious F-bomb on referee Clete Bl...
Lady-Punching Jets Fan's Lawyer: "They Should All Have A Beer Together"
Attorneys representing Kurt Paschke and Jaclyn Nugent appeared in court yesterday to review some additional footage of a brawl that took place last month at Met Life stadium, which ended with Paschke punching Nugent in the face. The footage doesn't seem to have offered much more insight into who ins...
So, Yeah, Brian Holloway Is Pretty Damn Weird
Grantland's Jay Kang traveled to Stephentown, N.Y., to talk to Brian Holloway, the former all-pro NFL lineman who recently set off a bit of a media shitstorm after a bunch of teenagers threw a party in his abandoned and foreclosed home. Kang's piece attempts to answer the question that has hung over...
Bill Parcells Used To Have Drew Bledsoe Fetch Drinks For Mike Francesa
Mike Francesa's gawt a hazing storee for ya in the video above, uh-kay. It dates back to 1993, when Drew Bledsoe was a big-shot rookie with the Patriots. Francesa only took paht beccause it's what Pahcells wanted. But it was hahmless, uh-kay. And now one is left to wonder what Francesa would do wit...
Gronk, On Asian Fan: "They Told Me He Could Only Cook Fried Rice"
The Endless Summer of Gronk rolls on. On Sunday night, Gronkowski hosted a watch party in Foxboro for the Cowboys-Saints game. For $87 a person, attendees received food, two drinks, a photo with Rob, and the opportunity to be playfully stereotyped....
Tom Brady Can't Get Over How Small Red Sox Players Are
Several Red Sox players showed up before the Steelers-Patriots game on Sunday to show off the World Series trophy to New England fans. Tom Brady and Josh McDaniels were amazed at how tiny Shane Victorino and Dustin Pedroia were. Look at those wee baseball players!...
NFL's New Cover Girl A Former Teen Porn Model?
If you're unfortunate enough to receive junk mail from the NFL, you recently received the holiday issue of the NFL Shop catalog, which features a big Patriots fan named Jaime Morente. Several individuals familiar with the Florida modeling scene contacted us and said they recognized a previous itera...
Bill Belichick Dressed Up As A Pirate For Halloween
Captain Grumblebeard sails the seven seas! Bill Belichick and his wife girlfriend Linda dressed up as a pair of pirates for Halloween. And Bill's actually smiling!...
NFL: Jets Should Have Been Called For Same Pushing Penalty As Pats
There was a lot of bitter back-and-forth between the Jets and Patriots about last week's controversial overtime pushing penalty. At first, Bill Belichick didn't seem to know what the penalty was. (He made a big deal about the "second level" in the pushing penalty—"We weren't on the second level wh...
Bill Belichick Says The Jets Also Pushed. Did They?
Lots of controversy—fun, silly controversy—over the overtime penalty on the Patriots that may have cost them Sunday's game at the Jets. Tackle Chris Jones was flagged for pushing teammate Will Svitek into the offensive line, negating a missed field goal. The first conspiracy theory was that the NFL ...
Gronk To Host Women's Football Clinic At Harvard. There Will Be Booze.
Sup, ladies. Do you like football? Do you like Rob Gronkowski? Do you want to learn some of the basics of how to play football? Would you like to learn those basics from Rob Gronkowski? Welp, for $99, Gronk is here to help. Provided you're at least 21 years old and you're into drinking before any so...
Dolphins Alerted League To Personal Foul On Last-Second FG In Week 5
After a loss to the Ravens in which Caleb Sturgis missed a last-second 57-yard field goal that would have tied the game, the Dolphins noticed that Baltimore pulled the same maneuver the Patriots got busted for yesterday. Miami sent video of the play to the league and the league reportedly admitted t...
Patriots Had Cheated Before On FGs; Jets Warned Officials
You're looking at a screengrab from last weeks' New England win over the Saints, shared by the Globe's Ben Volin. On a New Orleans field goal attempt, rookie tackle Chris Jones is pushing Will Svitek into the offensive lineman. It's the same illegal move, with the same two players, that got the Pats...