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Who Has The Funnier Challenge-Flag-Throwing Motion, Bill Belichick Or Mike Tomlin?
The Deadspin NFL Coach Challenge Challenge is a tournament pitting the throwing motions of 20 NFL coaches against one another. ...
Trindon Holliday Is 16-0
The NFL's shortest player is also its winningest. Return specialist Trindon Holliday just completed a perfect regular season, 5-0 with Houston, 11-0 with Denver, and he joins an exclusive club featuring the rosters of the 1972 Dolphins and the 2007 Patriots. If the Broncos go all the way, Holliday w...
When The Game Became <em>The</em> Game: An Afternoon With A Deranged, Piss-Smelling Vikings Fan (Me)
I was giving my eight-month-old baby a bath on Saturday night when I started to space out. In my head, I was giving Vikings QB Christian Ponder an imaginary pep talk. I was Leslie Frazier, only I was Leslie Frazier if Leslie Frazier were a goofy-looking white man. And I was in the film room with Pon...
Ilya Bryzgalov Leaves Russian Team Because He Thinks The Lockout Is Ending, Or Maybe Because He Saw A Shiny Object
Here's what's not up for dispute: Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, best known for being a crazy person, will not be playing anymore for CSKA Moscow. He finishes his KHL stint with a 6-5 record and a 2.13 GAA. The real question is, why is Bryzgalov leaving now?...
ESPN Suddenly Remembers That Jay Glazer's Name Is Not "Sources"
Well, look what we have here. That's Fox Sports' Jay Glazer getting credited—with his actual name this time—on SportsCenter for first reporting that the Browns had fired head coach Pat Shurmur. This is somewhat of a big deal, as it comes on the heels of yesterday's Twitter kerfuffle between Glazer ...
![Here Are All The Football People Who Have Been Fired Today [UPDATING]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/18a23h8stnkxtjpg.jpg)
Here Are All The Football People Who Have Been Fired Today [UPDATING]
We're cheering for a particularly bloody Black Monday today. Almost every team is terrible! They all have such bad rosters! Fire everyone! We'll be updating here as the firings roll in. ...
NFL Network Not Even Bothering To Spell "Jets" Correctly Anymore
When you go 6-10 without once starting a competent quarterback, when your season is derailed by locker room backbiting and anonymous shit-talk, when your second-string QB generates the biggest awareness-to-playing-time ratio in football's history, then you lose the right to have NFL Network PAs fact...
Elated Redskins Fan Tackling A Christmas Tree? Elated Redskins Fan Tackling A Christmas Tree
The description of this YouTube video reads: "if the redskins make the playoffs, i'm going to tackle the christmas tree!" - dad. Well, dad did not disappoint, and we are all better for it. I can't imagine an image that more perfectly captures the joy of holiday season football than that of a grown...
In The End, The Cowboys' Offense Was Simply Toothless
Dallas fans are placing the blame squarely on Tony Romo's shoulders for last night's season-ending loss to Washington, but that's not really fair. As our friend Pat points out, Romo closed out the season with 17 touchdowns and only three interceptions. Of course, one of those came at an inopportune...
Poor Tony Romo: Cowboys-Redskins In Five GIFs
Washington 28, Dallas 18: This, I am convinced, is Tony Romo's favorite play. I think his palms get a little sweatier when he hears it called in. Look at the dedication. The grace. He wants to sell you that botched snap. He wants to sell it to you so...bad....
Tony Sparano's Exit Plays Out Like World's Saddest Horse Race
Tony Sparano was a goner as soon as this game ended. He knew it, you knew it—we all knew it. So, rather than talk with reporters about another woeful Jets offensive performance, he just left. No "no comment," "sorry guys, I'm not talking" or "get out of my face, you hyenas"—he just calmly walked o...
![Andy Reid Was Fired Before Today's Game, Coached Anyway [Update: Reid Says He Hasn't Been Fired]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/189zmjjcgeus5jpg.jpg)
Andy Reid Was Fired Before Today's Game, Coached Anyway [Update: Reid Says He Hasn't Been Fired]
If you're following our updating coach termination liveblog, you already know this—or, if you've watched the Eagles this year, you'd surmised it—but Andy Reid will not be patrolling the Eagles' sideline next year. Reuben Frank reports [video at link], "Jeff Lurie and Andy had spoken even before the...
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Dancing, Yawning, And Picking Our Noses Into The Sunset: Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [UPDATE]
We'll be putting all our GIFs for the day here, from every last person in the league—coaches, players, mascots—breaking out that one dance move they've been saving up all year, to a referee in New Orleans thinking he could pick his nose because no one was watching. We'll update the post as the late...
Welcome Back, Gronk: Your NFL Late Games Viewing Guide
Nosotros somos fiestas. Vamanos. ...
If There Is Anything Subtle About ESPN It's The Deception
On Friday evening, a serious dustup developed regarding the sourcing of news and ESPN's crediting practices. Jay Glazer reported that Sean Payton would be signing an extension with the New Orleans Saints. Hot on his heels were Adam Schefter and Jason La Canfora. Awful Announcing has a good breakdow...
U.S. Border Guards Detained Mo Farah, Who Won Two Olympic Gold Medals Six Months Ago, On Suspicion Of Being A Terrorist
Mo Farah, gold-medal winner in the men's 5,000m and 10,000m this summer in London, hilarious celebrator, and world-famous meme, couldn't get through customs in Oregon over the Christmas holiday because he is of Somalian descent. That'll show him for beating us in the Olympics! (And also expose our b...
Venezuelan MLB Players Spend More Time Worrying About Being Kidnapped Than Most Professional Athletes
Becoming a professional baseball player should mean you're pretty much set, right? Forget the odds that a fringe (or star) professional athlete will go broke before he's a certain age—if you spend much of your twenties and thirties making millions or near millions of dollars for playing a game, you'...
Next Week Will Be Great, Though: Your NFL Early Games Viewing Guide
Welp. This is it. The last week of the regular season. It seems like only a year ago we were lamenting the end of the 2011 regular season. The more things change, the more Rex Ryan keeps on crying and saying weird things like "mad as a hornet" and "no way in heck." ...
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Potential NFL Firings Live Blog [UPDATING]
We are going to try and keep tabs on the impending doom in the NFL so keep it here for the latest regarding who may or may not be getting the axe in the coming day(s). Front office, head coaches, coordinators, mascots—they're are all up for grabs....
Report: Former Pro Bowl Defensive Lineman Neil Smith, 46, Suing The NFL For Concussion-Related Fraud, Misrepresentation And Negligence
Neil Smith, a six-time Pro Bowl selection at defensive end who played eight years for the Chiefs, three for the Broncos and one for the Chargers, is suing the NFL in federal court for misrepresentation and negligence. Smith seeks sanctions against the NFL and damages for memory-loss, cognitive impai...