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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...
Does Former NFLer Sam Hurd Deserve Life Without Parole For Coke Bust?
Be sure to take time to read The MMQB's long look at the fall of Sam Hurd, the former Cowboys and Bears receiver who will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to drug trafficking back in March. Michael McKnight's story outlines the complex series of events that led two years ago to Hurd's arres...
Dwayne Bowe Asked Cops If Sonic Was Still Open Before His Weed Arrest
What's the world coming to when a football player can't even get stoned and buy a chili cheese coney on his bye week? ...
Lowsman Trophy Watch: UCLA's Freshman Two-Way Threat
Each week, Football Outsiders recognizes the most outstanding college linemen, defenders and other darkhorses from the previous weekend who are habitually overlooked in the hype for that other award (whatever it's called). These are the Lowsmen....
NFL Logos As European Soccer Badges
The best thing on the internet right now is Football as Football, a site that redesigns NFL logos as if they were crests for European soccer teams....
Greg Schiano Was Almost Psyched Out By A Jumbotron
Donald Penn's score in Monday's Dolphins-Bucs game was an awesome fat guy touchdown, but it almost didn't happen. Why? Because Greg Schiano was paranoid of the Jumbotron at Raymond James Stadium....
How The Jets' Run-Stuffing, QB-Ruining Defensive Line Came To Be
It's up in the air who named the Jets' defensive line of Sheldon Richardson, Damon Harrison, and Muhammad Wilkerson the "Sons of Anarchy," but there's no question how disruptive and dominant the line has been. Without much help from the secondary, it's helped return Rex Ryan's squad to its place as...
NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 11 (Early Edition)
Here is your early betting info for Week 11 NFL; we'll update on Thursday with money lines and spread movements for these 15 games....
Michael Jordan Traded His Flu Game Sneakers For Applesauce (Sort Of)
Graham crackers and applesauce. That's all Michael Jordan wanted during an early-season game in Utah. The Bulls' trainer had his graham crackers, but applesauce was nowhere to be found. ...
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....
Florida Ruined The NFL
Burn Florida. Sterilize the entire state of its NFL teams as you would an MRSA contamination. Float it into the Gulf, Bugs Bunny-style. Send the NFL to Los Angeles or London or Lucknow, anywhere but the Sunshine State—professional football cannot thrive on its saline soils. After an ugly, addled Mon...
Buckeye's "Wipe The Field" Boast Is The Future Of FBS Shit-Talk
The biggest stones in college football today belong to Evan Spencer, who plays receiver for Ohio State and who just got his name written on wipeboards across the Midwest today. ESPN.com reported the lad said, in reference to top- and second-ranked Alabama and Florida State, "I'm a little biased. I t...
Video: Bears Fan Tasers His Packers-Fan Wife To Settle A Bet
Finally, video has emerged of Bears fan John Grant using a stun gun on his wife, after he won a bet on the outcome of last week's Monday Night Football game. (She's a Packers fan, you see.) ...
The Problem With Bitching About Fourth Downs And Two-Point Conversions
It's funny how the analytics of a sport can often mirror the sport itself. Sabermetrics are as regimented (or more) as the national pastime ever was; basketball analytics have progressed into lively, intersecting data points thanks to new player tracking technology; and heady football talk often en...
People Keep Tweeting Hate And Support At The Wrong Jonathan Martin
You know what this Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin mess could use? Some levity. So let's take a moment to laugh at how dumb people on the internet are. ...
An Emotional Shannon Sharpe Rips The Dolphins Locker Room
On CBS's pregame show, Shannon Sharpe had some very strong words for the Dolphins, less about their handling of the Incognito-Martin fallout, and more about a locker room that let things get to the point where a white player can call a teammate a "half-nigger" and it's supposed to be taken in good h...
How Peter King Got His (Late) Dog Because Of The Redskins
It's almost not fair to write about putting down an aged dog, because there's no possible way you can read it and not get misty-eyed. (Bill Simmons's piece on his late dog remains one of the best things he's ever written). Today it's Peter King's turn to pay tribute to Twitter-famous Bailey, who was...
Florida State Running Back Demonstrates How To Run Over A Defender
Turns out, it's a lot like it sounds. The defender's lucky that James Wilder Jr. was close to the end zone, otherwise he probably would have been dragged along for another ten yards or so. Photo by Nell Redmond/AP Images...