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Elated Redskins Fan Tackling A Christmas Tree? Elated Redskins Fan Tackling A Christmas Tree
The description of this YouTube video reads: "if the redskins make the playoffs, i'm going to tackle the christmas tree!" - dad. Well, dad did not disappoint, and we are all better for it. I can't imagine an image that more perfectly captures the joy of holiday season football than that of a grown...
Roundup: What You Missed The Weekend We Made Delicious Bean Dip
How To Make A Bean Dip: A Guide For New Year's Eve Partygoers Who Are Getting Too Old For This Shit | There's no way around it: When you first place your bowl on the food table, peel away the aluminum foil or plastic wrap, and are engulfed in a rising cloud of bean-steam, you're going to feel exquis...
Poor Tony Romo: Cowboys-Redskins In Five GIFs
Washington 28, Dallas 18: This, I am convinced, is Tony Romo's favorite play. I think his palms get a little sweatier when he hears it called in. Look at the dedication. The grace. He wants to sell you that botched snap. He wants to sell it to you so...bad....
Deadspin Up All Night: Oh The Sweet Refrain
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We've got the game of the century or something coming up so stick around and watch with us....
![Andy Reid Was Fired Before Today's Game, Coached Anyway [Update: Reid Says He Hasn't Been Fired]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/189zmjjcgeus5jpg.jpg)
Andy Reid Was Fired Before Today's Game, Coached Anyway [Update: Reid Says He Hasn't Been Fired]
If you're following our updating coach termination liveblog, you already know this—or, if you've watched the Eagles this year, you'd surmised it—but Andy Reid will not be patrolling the Eagles' sideline next year. Reuben Frank reports [video at link], "Jeff Lurie and Andy had spoken even before the...
![Dancing, Yawning, And Picking Our Noses Into The Sunset: Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/189zgitsb63ozgif.gif)
Dancing, Yawning, And Picking Our Noses Into The Sunset: Your Sunday NFL GIF Roundup [UPDATE]
We'll be putting all our GIFs for the day here, from every last person in the league—coaches, players, mascots—breaking out that one dance move they've been saving up all year, to a referee in New Orleans thinking he could pick his nose because no one was watching. We'll update the post as the late...
Welcome Back, Gronk: Your NFL Late Games Viewing Guide
Nosotros somos fiestas. Vamanos. ...
Venezuelan MLB Players Spend More Time Worrying About Being Kidnapped Than Most Professional Athletes
Becoming a professional baseball player should mean you're pretty much set, right? Forget the odds that a fringe (or star) professional athlete will go broke before he's a certain age—if you spend much of your twenties and thirties making millions or near millions of dollars for playing a game, you'...
Next Week Will Be Great, Though: Your NFL Early Games Viewing Guide
Welp. This is it. The last week of the regular season. It seems like only a year ago we were lamenting the end of the 2011 regular season. The more things change, the more Rex Ryan keeps on crying and saying weird things like "mad as a hornet" and "no way in heck." ...
![Potential NFL Firings Live Blog [UPDATING]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/189ypyz93vbatjpg.jpg)
Potential NFL Firings Live Blog [UPDATING]
We are going to try and keep tabs on the impending doom in the NFL so keep it here for the latest regarding who may or may not be getting the axe in the coming day(s). Front office, head coaches, coordinators, mascots—they're are all up for grabs....
Report: Former Pro Bowl Defensive Lineman Neil Smith, 46, Suing The NFL For Concussion-Related Fraud, Misrepresentation And Negligence
Neil Smith, a six-time Pro Bowl selection at defensive end who played eight years for the Chiefs, three for the Broncos and one for the Chargers, is suing the NFL in federal court for misrepresentation and negligence. Smith seeks sanctions against the NFL and damages for memory-loss, cognitive impai...
How-To's, Restorative Milkshakes, And A Ranked List Of Meats: The Year In Foodspin
Deadspin had a bountiful year in the consideration of, eating, cooking, asking about, and taking solace in food. We also received it in the mail, once. Relive our gastronomic experiments as if they were all just one big burp, below....
NFL Playoff Scenarios And Tiebreaks, So You Can Be Sure You're Ignoring The Right Games
Week 17 is always an odd melange of completely unwatchable misery between mathematically eliminated teams, stop and start contests between teams that can't remember if they're playing for something, and impossibly intense games between teams that are fighting to see another day. Here are the likely...
American Hero Poses For Embarrassing Photo Opportunity
Part of the deal with big events like Bowl games is that due to the corporate-like nature of each these days, you've got to do a lot of glad-handing with a bunch of yutzes in suits. The Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl is no different....
USF Guard Anthony Collins Immobilized, Taken Off Court On Stretcher After Apparent Head Injury
A competitive game between George Mason and South Florida came to a halt that silenced the Sun Dome crowd as USF star Anthony Collins collapsed to the floor, delaying the game several minutes before EMTs carted him off on a stretcher....
Deadspin Up All Night: Happy New Year
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Back at it tomorrow (with Sean) and around tonight for the bowls and what have you. Enjoy the Saturday....
"Mitch McConnell Just Lost His Seat In The US Senate": Kentucky Fans React To Seeing Mitch McConnell Praise Louisville During Louisville-Kentucky
During this afternoon's Kentucky-Louisville tilt, CBS cut away for a moment to show a clip, from November 29, of senior Kentucky Senator and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell giving a speech on the Senate floor praising Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich. Politicians rarely fare well on s...
Hockey Fight That Starts As A Whole Team Against One Player Eventually Envelops Everyone On Both Teams, Including Trainers
"Referees grabbing one guy, I don't know why he's grabbing one guy, there's about 50 guys involved," says the announcer about midway through this vast, all-encompassing hockey brawl between the Hunstville Havoc and the Mississippi Surge of the Southern Professional Hockey League. The answer is tha...
The Memphis Grizzlies' "Lifetime Supply Of Tater Tots" Giveaway Is A Vicious Lie
The Memphis Grizzlies are running an ostensibly fun promotion that received a write-up in yesterday's Wall Street Journal: instead of cash or a car, the lucky Grizzlies fan randomly selected to take a shot from half-court will get—quote—"a lifetime supply of Tater Tots" from Sonic should the shot ha...
The State Of Florida Excoriates Florida A&M For Failures That Led To Hazing Death
We recently directed your attention to the story of Robert Champion's hazing death—Champion, a drum major at Florida A&M, was beaten to death by fellow members of school's famed marching band. Investigators from the Florida Board of Governors inspector general's office wrote a report on the school's...