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Offensive Lineman Scores Touchdown In Our Favorite Football Play Ever
We love Fat Guy Touchdowns. This is the ultimate Fat Guy Touchdown....

High School Football Team's Bus Bursts Into Flames
On the way to play under some Friday night lights, Central Catholic's J.V. team bus caught fire and was quickly engulfed in flames during rush-hour traffic last night. ...

South Carolina Assistant Coaches Fight On Sidelines During Game
S-E-C! S-E-C!...

Baylor Returns Fumble 91 Yards Against Other Hapless Team From Buffalo
Buffalo was this close to cutting the first-half deficit against Baylor to 22 and really making a game of things. Then Sam Holl strip-sacked Joe Licata at the 10-yard line and Bryce Hager picked it up and rumbled and slashed his way 91 yards into the endzone. ...

<i>SI</i>: OK State Hostesses "Providing Sex" To Football Recruits
Sports Illustrated has been investigating the Oklahoma State football program and has uncovered the exact kind of activities one would expect from an investigation into a major college football program. SI has not yet published its full accounting but The Oklahoman has several details, including coa...


Penn State Freshman QB Has Bad Start, Bounces Right Back
This is not how Christian Hackenberg wanted to start the game, gifting Eastern Michigan a 7-0 lead in the first quarter, but he quickly rebounded on the following possession....

WKU Commits Five Turnovers In Six Plays
Western Kentucky came into Neyland Stadium today on a roll; they already beat one SEC team (Kentucky) last week, and took an early lead against the Volunteers. Then things went terribly, terribly wrong....

"My GF's Tits 4 Tickets": Notre Dame vs. Michigan <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
We did not have to wait long for the day's winner; dude really wants to get into the Big House. Let's see what else we've got. ...

Nike Forced Schools To Return Gear That Needed More Swooshes
No controversy here, just a friendly reminder of who actually runs sports. More swooshes! We need more swooshes! People won't see the swooshes!...

Pat Tillman Now Leads Arizona State Onto The Field
It's a damn shame that Pat Tillman, killed by friendly fire in an Afghanistan mountain pass, the truth of his death covered up by the Pentagon, tends to be used as a symbol for the exact opposite of what he should be remembered for. But if anyone's allowed to claim and exploit him, I suppose it'd be...

Infographics: Which NFL Teams Are This Season's Biggest Road Draws?
With the NFL season set to kick off in mere hours, Vivid Seats has released data on which teams are the best and worst road draws–in terms of ticket prices–for the 2013 season. The Broncos come out on top, increasing ticket prices by an average of 53.7 percent when on the road. While Denver has abov...


The Time Eric Crouch Asked His Lineman To Spit In His Mouth
A reader alerted us to this story, which was written by former Nebraska quarterback and Heisman winner Eric Crouch for HuddlePass.com, a website featuring various first-person accounts from former college football stars about their playing days. Crouch's story is a pretty standard one about Week 1 j...

Sixth-Grade Running Back Hurdles Defender En Route To End Zone
Via Bob's Blitz, this youngster for the Rebels of Obion County (Tenn.) knew right when to press the correct button on his controller. ...

'Bama Synagogue Issues "No Spoilers" Warning For Yom Kippur SEC Games
Bad news for Jewish college football fans in Alabama: next week's Auburn-Mississippi St. and Alabama-Texas A&M games fall smack-dab in the middle of Yom Kippur. That means fans will be tied up with prayer services while the Tide try to avenge last year's loss to Johnny Football's Aggies and the Tige...

Reminder: The Jets Aren't The Only Team With A Dismal QB Situation
This week, the Oakland Raiders announced that Terrelle Pryor will be the team's starting quarterback in Week 1. We're all for that, because Pryor at least has a chance to make Raiders games somewhat exciting, but NFL.com's Michael Silver is reporting that not everyone in the Raiders organization is ...

The Marx Brothers Play Football
From the Marx Brother's fourth feature, Horse Feathers (1932)....
