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Police: Michael Floyd Was Drunk Enough For Mandatory Jail Time
Wide receiver Michael Floyd, who was waived by the Cardinals (and signed by the Patriots) after being arrested on suspicion of DUI on Dec. 12, has been charged with something called “Super Extreme DUI,” which is reserved for the drunkest of the drunk and carries automatic jail time....

Witness Identifies Aaron Hernandez As Shooter In 2012 Double-Homicide Drive-By
After former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested for the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd, police in Boston connected him to a 2012 drive-by in which he allegedly pulled up next to a car outside of a club, and shot into the vehicle, killing two men and leaving two survivors. ...

The Patriots Can Win With Anyone
It has felt at times this NFL season like there are no good teams, or at least no teams without glaring, potentially fatal weaknesses. The Patriots certainly have theirs—a shorthanded offense, a middling defense, occasionally disastrous special teams—but they are surely the best of the bunch, and th...

Shea McClellin Pulled Off A Perfect Leap Over The Ravens' Offensive Line
Malcolm Butler made a perfect deflection on third down to put the Ravens’ best player (kicker Justin Tucker) on the field for a 34-yard field goal attempt. Tucker missed his first field goal attempt of the year on the attempt, but it was through no fault of his own. Patriots linebacker Shea McClelli...
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Report: Gronk Needs Back Surgery [Update]
New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski’s injury in Week 10's game against the Seahawks was more than the reported punctured lung. According to Vic Carucci of the Buffalo News, Gronkowski needs back surgery and will be out for a while....

Bill Belichick Apparently Cost Tim Tebow A Lucrative Endorsement Right Before Cutting Him
Before he turned into a full-on salesperson with a struggling baseball career, Tim Tebow was briefly a New England Patriot. He was on the team for most of the summer of 2013, but he got cut before the season started. Tebow, fresh off a middling spell in the Arizona Fall League, is now promoting his ...

Bill Belichick Not Amused By Buttfumble Question
Yesterday marked the four-year anniversary of the infamous and hilarious buttfumble. This inspired a reporter to jokingly bring up the incident during Patriots head coach Bill Belichick’s press conference today. You know how this is gonna go:...

Pete Carroll Was Not Impressed By Patriots Fans
The Seahawks’ Sunday night win at the Patriots was a pretty excellent game between two of the NFL’s best, but Seattle coach Pete Carroll is wondering why it felt like a preseason crowd....

Report: Rob Gronkowski Finished Last Night's Game Despite Having A Punctured Lung
Rob Gronkowski, the NFL’s most talented Shot Ski, got one of his lungs punctured during his team’s loss to the Seahawks last night, yet somehow managed to finish the game, per Ian Rapoport. Gronkowski has a history of playing with injuries, but playing professional football through a punctured lung ...

The NFL Knows America Doesn't Want To Watch The Jets
We already savaged the Rams for their role in the NFL’s least enjoyable game since this Week 1 debacle, but no one deserves to come out of that with dignity intact. The Jets, led by Bryce Petty in his first NFL start, were just as complicit, punting eight times and gaining just 17 first downs. You d...

Rob Gronkowski Said This Was The Hardest He's Ever Been Hit
In the second quarter of the Seahawks’ win over New England, TE Rob Gronkowski took a hell of a shot from safety Earl Thomas:...

One Step Back Helped Kam Chancellor Foil The Patriots' Last Play
There’s something pleasant about sports displaying symmetry; it’s a reassurance, however misleading, that we aren’t devoting so much of our lives to a random number generator. The ending of Seahawks-Patriots looked a lot like the ending of Super Bowl XLIX: It came down to a goal-line stand, the defe...

Gisele To Tom Brady: Stick To Sports
Just as it was fair to ask Tom Brady about his support of “good friend” Donald Trump back in the primaries, it’s fair to ask him today, the morning after Trump won the presidential election and two days after Trump announced at a campaign rally he had Brady’s endorsement....

Bill Belichick Says His Letter To Trump Was About "Friendship And Loyalty To Donald"
Patriots head coach Bill Belichick confirmed firsthand that he wrote the note that Donald Trump read aloud at one of his final campaign rallies on Monday, but denied that it was “politically motivated.”...

Report: Bill Belichick Did Write That Letter To Donald Trump
At a rally last night in New Hampshire, Donald Trump read a glowing letter of support that he claimed had been penned by Bill Belichick:...
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Trump Claims Tom Brady Endorsement; Recites Glowing Letter He Says Bill Belichick Sent Him [Updates]
At a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire this evening, empty gas station salami wrapper Donald Trump revealed the endorsements of a pair of New England Patriots heroes. Tom Brady and Bill Belichick purportedly told the future former candidate for president that they’d vote for him, and Trump even rea...

Five-Year-Old Bills Fan's Birthday Cake Has A Message For Tom Brady
A reader who would like to remain anonymous sent in these photos of his son’s birthday cake. More information, if you need it:...
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Is This The Dildo Thrown Onto The Field Yesterday By A Bills Fan? [Update: Yes, It Is]
Multiple sources have provided Deadspin with images of a marital aid that is purportedly the dildo thrown onto the field during yesterday’s Patriots-Bills game in Buffalo....

Report: Patriots Send Jamie Collins To Cleveland In Inexplicable Trade
What the hell is this?...