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Browns Prank T.J. Ward With Fake Rat In His Locker
And Phil Taylor caught the whole thing on camera and put the video on Instagram. Afterward, with his teammates laughing all around him, Ward did all there was left to do: He sheepishly rubbed his balls a lot....

Which NFL Teams Have Started The Most Quarterbacks, 1999-2013?
As has been noted, when Jason Campbell led the Browns onto the field in week 8 he became the team's 20th starter since the 1999 season, their first back in the NFL after the Art Modell saga. Intrigued, we decided to compile data on the rest of the NFL's starting quarterbacks over that time period, w...

Cops Covered Up Jameis Winston Case, Accuser's Family Says
This is getting ugly. Yesterday, a Tallahassee Democrat report indicated that the sexual battery case involving Jameis Winston became "inactive" because the complainant told cops she didn't want to pursue the case. But today, in a statement released by its attorney to Tampa Bay Times reporter Matt B...

Fat Guy Fake Punt Hurdling Touchdown!
Kent crushed Ohio 44-13 in Athens tonight, but the highlight for all who tuned in for #MACtion was this 61-yard fake punt by Nate Terhune, a 6'4" 265 lb. defensive lineman who played up-back on the punt team and made the most of his opportunity—hurdling a Bobcat return teamer en route to the end z...

Shawn Andrews: Time With Eagles Felt Like "A Living Hell"
Offensive lineman Shawn Andrews spent all but one season of his NFL career with the Philadelphia Eagles, and according to him, the locker room atmosphere was absolutely horrible. Andrews says that then-quarterback (and current awful Twitter user) Donovan McNabb was disrespectful and constantly deman...

NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 12 (Early Edition)
Here is your early betting info for Week 12 NFL; we'll update on Thursday with money lines and spread movements for these 14 games....

Gay Former Football Player Says He Had Six Or Seven Gay-Ish Teammates
Philly Mag has an insightful look at the post-football life of Dorien Bryant, the first (almost) openly gay NFL player. The story is worth your time, if only because Bryant doesn't shy away from speaking his mind or gossiping....

Falling Out Of Upper Deck May Have Been High Point Of Bills Fan's Week
Yesterday: banned from the stadium. Today: out of a job. Tomorrow: jail?...

Report: Jameis Winston Case Stalled When Woman Stopped Cooperating
The investigation into Jameis Winston's role in a sexual battery allegation had been "inactive" in February because the complainant told police she didn't want to pursue charges, according to an email sent by a city official last week. But a Tallahassee police spokesman says the case was made active...

Skins Fan Narcs On "F RG3" Plate To DMV, And Now Everybody Hates Him
Washington's season has just about reached the point where the fans are turning on each other. The pro- and anti-Griffin sects are at war. Blood is being spilled over which Shanahan to dump, or both. The Kirk Cousins fifth column waits in the wings. Everyone hates Dan Snyder. You'd think if anything...

Do Tough Calls Favor The Home Team? One Explanation For Pats-Panthers
What do the following plays have in common?...

Report: Richie Incognito Also Harassed A Dolphins Staff Member
Hey, it's been a few days since we've had a report about what a gigantic shit head Richie Incognito is. So here's this, from Jason Cole at the National Football Post....

How To Turn A Big Mac Into A Linebacker: The 300-Pounder In The NFL
Football players are massive. But they weren't always. In a chapter from their new book, Newton's Football: The Science Behind America's Game, Allen St. John and Ainissa G Ramirez explain how we came to have so many 300-pound players, and why we don't have, say, 8-foot-tall quarterbacks. ...

How To Turn A Big Mac Into A Linebacker: The 300-Pounder In The NFL
Excerpted from Newton's Football: The Science Behind America's Game....

Is Eli Manning On Pace To Top The Post-Merger Interception Record?
Over on r/nfl, Reddit user marvin02 put together the graph below, showing how Peyton Manning's TD pace through 10 games compares to the five highest single-season touchdown marks in NFL history:...

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...

How The <em>New York Post</em> Manufactured A Stupid Jets Controversy
Earlier today, we told you about the New York Post's stupid attempt to turn a completely non-controversial event—a Jets team trip to Dave & Buster's the day before their game against the Bills—into a controversy. That story, by columnist Mark Cannizzaro, was based in part on a quote from Buffalo def...

Veteran NFL LB Thomas Howard Killed In 100 MPH Car Crash
Thomas Howard, a linebacker who played parts of eight NFL seasons and was cut by the Falcons last week, is one of two dead after an early-morning high-speed car crash in Oakland. ...