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It's 4:20 on 4/20, let's fire one up for the sports heroes who smoke weedWith every 4/20 that goes by, sports leagues seem to care less and less about weed. As they should....

After The NFL Comes Weed, Hollywood, And Fantasy FootballAgainst the Colts Peyton Manning ended up three yards short of Brett Favre’s record. They had the champagne ready. The cannons loaded. The midgets were hiding in the cakes. The hookers were naked in the limos. Everything was ready. All we need is a few more numbers! C’mon, Peyton! Keep coming! Certa...

The Feds Are Very Interested In The NFL's Painkiller Problem Yesterday, federal drug agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration conducted surprise inspections of the medical staffs of multiple NFL teams. Bags were searched, doctors were questioned, all in the DEA's ongoing probe into claims that football has a major issue with prescription drugs....

How I Let Go Of My NFL Career

Excerpted from the new epilogue to Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile, now available in paperback. We published an adaptation from the book last year....

What Playing Football Does To Your Body

The paperback version of Nate Jackson's Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile is now on sale. It's got new material, and we'll have some of that on the site next week. Below is an adapted excerpt from the book we ran last year. It's still painfully timely....

Tony Scheffler Retires, Citing Three Concussions

Lions tight end Tony Scheffler has announced his retirement, citing the three concussions he suffered during his NFL career as the reason he's walking away from the game. Below is a 2011 story from Nate Jackson, a former teammate of Scheffler's, offering a behind-the-scenes look at one of the nights...

My Injury File: How I Shot, Smoked, And Screwed My Way Through The NFL

Adapted from Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile (Harper)....

Nate Jackson goes deep on a player's complicated relationship with safety: "I’ve come to understand the NFL’s priorities—protecting the shield from bad publicity—and so I don’t trust them." [MMQB/Buy the book]...

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Why The NFL Should Let Players Smoke Pot

Originally published in Bloomberg View....

by Jonathan Mahler|scary scary drugs

|09/20/2013

The Most Honest Book About Football You'll Read All Year

Former Bronco Nate Jackson's book is out today, and it's an exceptional memoir of life on the NFL's margins. You'll find out what it's like hiding injuries to make a roster, waiting for the year's annual drug test to pass so players can start smoking, and what a dickbag Eric Mangini is. Slow Getting...

by Tom Ley|nate jackson

|09/17/2013

Buy this book: Nate Jackson's Slow Getting Up comes out in two weeks, and it's one of the best descriptions of life on the NFL margins I've ever read. We'll have some more stuff from Nate soon. [Amazon]...

by Barry Petchesky|books

|09/05/2013

The Health Of An NFL Player Belongs To Everyone But The Player Himself

"Greatness is not given," Robert Griffin III says in his national Gatorade spot. "Greatness is taken, when the weak and distracted are resting on their reputations."...

by Tommy Craggs|Nfl roundtable 2012

|01/09/2013

The Real Outrage Of The Saints Bounty Scandal

This is an offseason edition of the NFL roundtable, a partnership between Deadspin and Slate. For more roundtable goodness, go back and read every entry from the 2011 season, from the preseason to the Super Bowl....

by Tommy Craggs|Scrutiny of the bounty

|03/06/2012

What It's Like When An NFL Linebacker Nearly Knocks Your Head Off

We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

by Tommy Craggs|NFL roundtable

|02/03/2012

The Fake Outrage Over Fake Injuries; Or, How To Piss On An NFL Sideline Without Anyone Seeing

Faking injuries in the NFL is a time-honored method of stopping the momentum of an opponent and giving your own team a much-needed breather. It's like calling a timeout in basketball when the other team is on a big run. Since football doesn't have the luxury of all those silly 20-second timeouts, th...

by Tommy Craggs|Cheaters

|09/23/2011

My Team Threw For 731 Yards And Lost

by Tommy Craggs|NFL roundtable

|09/14/2011

Jay Cutler Doesn’t Need To Be Loved By You

by Tom Scocca|NFL roundtable

|09/12/2011

You Are Not In A Happy Place: A Player's Farewell To The NFL Preseason

Preseason doesn't matter. For fans, training camp and exhibitions are patiently endured, on the way to the games that are real—games that count for standings, for fantasies, for anything, really. The stories of professional football ambitions go untold. What is interesting about interviewing Peyton ...

by Tom Scocca|Nfl

|09/07/2011

Chris Kluwe And Nate Jackson Have Made Up

In August, former Broncos tight end Nate Jackson questioned in this space whether Vikings punter Chris Kluwe had the right to call Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Logan Mankins, and Vincent Jackson "douchebags."...

by Jack Dickey|class warfare

|09/07/2011

Chris Kluwe Responds: Can I Kick It? (Yes, I Can)

Dear Nate Jackson,...

by Chris Kluwe|class warfare

|07/22/2011

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