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Titus Young Writes About Hearing Voices, Living With Bipolar Disorder In Prison Diary
Former NFL and Boise State wide receiver Titus Young, a second-round pick who had his career cut short by clashes with coaches and teammates, is currently serving a sentence of four years in a Los Angeles prison for an assault on his neighbor. That assault is the culmination of a series of legal and...
The New XFL Should Have An <i>Ooonnnkkk</i> Horn, And Other New Football Rule Ideas
Last week, Vince McMahon announced the return of the XFL. Considering the quality of the original XFL and the track record of Vince McMahon’s non-wrestling ventures, there’s reason to wonder if this thing will ever happen....
Baby Will Definitely Grow Up To Be Hoagie-Loving Adult
Philadelphia is already out of control with Super Bowl fever, and this baby is no exception. This kid has likely heard the word “Eagles” 10 million times over the last few weeks, so why wouldn’t his first word be “Eagles”? The only thing that’s surprising is that he didn’t say “Go Birds.”...
Bills Center Eric Wood Diagnosed With Career-Ending Neck Injury
Former Pro Bowler and longtime Bills offensive lineman Eric Wood announced this morning that he’s been diagnosed with a neck injury that will end his career. Adam Schefter didn’t shed much light on it, but apparently standard football wear and tear is at least a factor....
Richie Incognito And Yannick Ngakoue Are All Good Now, According To Richie Incognito
Jaguars defensive end Yannick Ngakoue said Bills offensive lineman Richie Incognito used racist slurs towards him in the two teams’ playoff game, but the two players have settled their differences—according to the guy who supposedly said the racist slurs....
The New XFL Is Dumb As Hell But Thank God It's Not Actually Real
C’mon. C’mon. This is not ever actually going to happen. You know it isn’t!...
The New XFL Sounds Nothing Like The Old One
The XFL returned today with a rap. Really....
The 1987 NFL Players Strike Created The Modern NFL
The darkest day in NFL history began with several Philadelphia Eagles players arriving at Veterans Stadium at midnight, some 13 hours before the scheduled kickoff of a game against the Chicago Bears. They weren’t there to play; they were there precisely not to play. More specifically, they were ther...
NFL Ref Carl Johnson's Domestic-Violence Accuser Has Now Been Charged
In September, TMZ reported that Carl Johnson, an NFL line judge and the league’s former top ref, was under investigation for domestic violence in Louisiana. Johnson had been the NFL’s VP of officiating from 2010 to 2012, and since then had returned to the field. The investigation was due to a reques...
Eagles’ Fletcher Cox: I’ve Never Watched The Super Bowl (But He Has Tweeted About It)
One Eagles player will be seeing the Super Bowl for the first time on February 4. Not just seeing it in person. Seeing it for the first time entirely. According to him, at least....
How Nick Foles Did It
Nick Foles wasn’t supposed to be able to do this....
Bob Costas: Actually, I Didn’t Want To Host The Super Bowl Broadcast
Bob Costas won’t be at the Super Bowl this year....
Cordarrelle Patterson On Jon Gruden, Trash Talk, And Surviving The Bleak Minnesota Winter
Oakland Raiders wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson recently swung through New York City. While he was in town, Deadspin sat him in front of a camera to ask him a bunch of stuff....
Trial Begins For Former NFL Player Monty Grow, Accused Of Taking $20 Million From Military Health Care Program
The trial of former NFL player Monty Grow began today in Miami, more than a year after he was first indicted for helping to engineer a scheme that netted more than $20 million from a government program that helps military members and veterans receive health care. ...
Here’s Two And A Half Minutes Of Eagles Fans Going Crazy On The News Last Night
It’s Monday morning in Philadelphia, and the city is still here. Fans rushed to the streets after the Eagles routed the Vikings 38-7 last night. And despite some dire predictions and preemptively greased up poles, fans were apparently pretty well behaved. (The cops say there were only six Eagles-rel...
Stephon Gilmore Flew In To Spoil The Jaguars' Fun
It probably won’t enter the annals of all-time great postseason plays, mostly because it was done in service of extending the Patriots’ exhausting run of dominance and only served to thwart Blake Bortles, but Stephon Gilmore’s fourth-quarter swat is one of the finest plays you’ll ever see in a big m...
Jaguars Junction: Hometown Heroes
It’s Monday in Jacksonville. ...
The Patriots Are Returning To The Super Bowl. Barf Barf Barf.
The New England Patriots overcame the loss of Rob Gronkowski and a ten-point second-half deficit to defeat the Jacksonville Jaguars, 24-20, and return, like the swallows to Capistrano, to the Super Bowl. Fuck this shit....
There Was Violence At The Eagles Tailgate
The Eagles have the late game today, which probably isn’t the best-case scenario for Philadelphia. People have been tailgating since 6 a.m. Maybe earlier. The parking lots were a sea of trash by mid-afternoon....
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Gronk Questionable To Return To AFC Championship After "Head Injury" [Update: He's Out]
Rob Gronkowski left the field in the first half of today’s AFC Championship after absorbing a helmet-to-helmet hit from Jaguars safety Barry Church. Tom Brady’s pass left Gronk in a vulnerable position stretching for the grab, and Church was flagged for unnecessary roughness. Gronk seemed wobbly on ...