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Auburn Considers Pretending It Won Another Four National Championships
Auburn has two national championships, in 1957 and 2010. But what if we're all wrong? What if Auburn actually has nine national championships in its storied history? All it takes to claim a title is to believe it....
Former NFLer: "Getting Banged In The Head Was Just Part Of It"
This is an interview series in which we ask the plaintiffs of the NFL concussion lawsuit one question (and maybe a few more): Knowing what you know now, if you could do it over again, would you still play football?...
On Softness
Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. ...
Facebook Data Show Just How Much Football Games Depress You
Whenever Facebook rolls out a new broad survey of its data, like a map of NFL fandom, the instinct is usually to jump right to the counterintuitive bits—Why would there be a pocket of Saints fans in the heart of Texas?—and then sussing out an answer. But here, with a look at how positive and negativ...
Guy Surprises His Mom And Two Adorable Dogs With Super Bowl Tickets
OK, yes, we've seen plenty of videos just like this one before, but none of those predecessors have included tears and cute doggies....
The Truth About The NFL, The Super Bowl, And Sex Slavery
Originally published at Sports on Earth....
Former NFLer: "Every Drill Was Live... Just Bang 'Em Up, Jack 'Em Up"
This is an interview series in which we ask the plaintiffs of the NFL concussion lawsuit one question (and maybe a few more): Knowing what you know now, if you could do it over again, would you still play football?...
Former Michigan Kicker Expelled For Sexual Misconduct
Brendan Gibbons, the former starting kicker for the University of Michigan football team, has been "permanently separated" from the university, according to a letter sent to Gibbons by the school's office of student conflict resolution. The contents of the letter were reviewed and reported by the Mi...
Your Super Bowl Weather Report: AND A GREAT SNOW MURDERED YOUR FACE
All week long, we'll be keeping track of the weather conditions for Super Bowl XLVIII. Here is your Wednesday update:...
Former NFL Player: I Guarantee I Have CTE
This is an interview series in which we ask the plaintiffs of the NFL concussion lawsuit one question (and maybe a few more): Knowing what you know now, if you could do it over again, would you still play football?...
Police Officer Indicted In Shooting Death Of Former Florida A&M Player
A grand jury yesterday indicted Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Randall Kerrick on a count of voluntary manslaughter, for his role in the Sept. 14 death of Jonathan Ferrell. Kerrick fired 12 shots, hitting the unarmed Ferrell 10 times, as he sought help after a car accident....
NFL Logos As European Soccer Badges, Part III
They're here. It's the third release from Football as Football, an ongoing design project that is reimagining each of the NFL's 32 teams in the style of four different European soccer crests. ...
British People Offer A Perfect Explanation Of The Super Bowl
Everything they have to say is pretty much exactly right. ...
Northwestern Football Players Are Trying To Unionize
In the opening shots of a major new assault on the NCAA's amateurism model, an "overwhelming majority" of Northwestern football players have filed to be recognized as members of a union. Their endgame, if successful, would be college football players officially being classified as employees....
North Hollywood Forty
I WAS sitting at the window of a ninth-floor room in the Stoneleigh Hotel the week before Hollywood Henderson's wedding, facing approximately north, reckoning by the Dallas Cowboys tower out on North Central Expressway. The clouds had closed back in after burning off for a while earlier in the day. ...
Call Trent Dilfer And He'll Teach You All About Football
From reader Neil comes this latest (and weirdest) effort from Dilfer, Inc. In much the same way your neighbor with the ponytail advertises his guitar lessons, Trent Dilfer has apparently plastered a few of these bad boys around Manhattan in the hopes that you'll call him to learn the finer points o...
Former NFLer: I Paid "Rathole Money" For Big Hits
This is an interview series in which we ask the plaintiffs of the NFL concussion lawsuit one question (and maybe a few more): Knowing what you know now, if you could do it over again, would you still play football?...
Your Super Bowl Weather Report: ICY DEATH AWAITS YOU ALL
All week long, we'll be keeping track of the weather conditions for Super Bowl XLVIII. Here is your Monday update....
Football: Still Really Freaking Popular
The annual Harris Poll survey is out, and for the 30th year in a row, Americans named pro football (35 percent) as their favorite sport, with baseball (14 percent) a not-so-close second....