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Low Socks and Chop Blocks: Why And How To Avoid Watching The NFL TodaySo, you may have heard, the NFL fined Colin Kaepernick $10,000 for wearing the wrong headphones to a post-game presser last Sunday....

Counterprogramming Football: What To Watch Today Instead Of The NFL In evaluating the NFL's concussion protocol, it's important to look at why concussions are dangerous in the first place. For helpful perspective on this, let's step away from football and look at a much more direct activity centered around doing awful damage to an opponent's brain: boxing....

Counterprogramming Football: What To Watch Today Instead Of The NFL So, here we are at Week 4, roughly the quarter mark of the NFL season and the first round of bye weeks. Bye weeks were introduced to the NFL schedule in 1990 as a way of extending the regular season, and teams use the time to make roster changes, occasionally fire a coach or two, and, most importa...

Counterprogramming Football: What To Watch Today Instead Of The NFL

Lost, perhaps, in all the discussion of the NFL's handling of domestic-violence cases is the question of just why in the hell the NFL is punishing its labor force under something called a "personal conduct policy" in the first place. Just what the hell's going on there?...

Insidious Hypotheticals: A Guide to Ignoring the NFL Today

So, here's the question, and it's a good one:...

The Best of NFL Counterprogramming: Week 1

The NFL sucks. Watch this instead....

What to Watch Today

Just because we're never afraid to be too servicey, here's a rundown of some notable televised sporting events today, starting with college football....