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<em>Sunday Night Football</em> Producer: No Need To "Glorify" Big Hits Anymore
The producer of the NFL's flagship broadcast, NBC's Sunday Night Football, said he's getting super-cautious about showing repeated replays of rough hits, especially those of the helmet-to-helmet variety....

Chip Kelly Says The Eagles' Offense Was "Too Slow"
Kelly's got to be joking, right? The Eagles' rapid-fire first-half offense was so intense, my super is coming by tonight to clean the stains off my ceiling. ...

The NFL Keeps Sowing Confusion Over What Constitutes An Illegal Hit
The headline on PFT was posted in the wee hours Monday morning. It reads "League quietly shifts focus of helmet-to-helmet hits." Here's Florio:...

The World's Most Valuable Sports Teams, Visualized
Column Five has put together an interactive that visualizes Forbes's list of the 50 most valuable sports teams in the world. The takeaway: It's good to be good, and it's good to be old. ...

Rob Ryan Saunters Into New Orleans Dive Bar, Buys Everyone A Round
Here's reason number 3,489 why the Ryan brothers are the best....

Ndamukong Suh Likely Won't Be Suspended For Dirty Block
You can see Suh at the end of this gif, making a low block from a 90-degree angle on Vikings center John Sullivan during an interception return Sunday. He swears he wasn't aiming for the knees. The NFL apparently agrees....

Make Your Own In-Stadium Prison Shank, America!
Did you attend the Redskins game last night? Were you sitting in the upper deck of the open-air jail that is FedEx Field? Were you stabbed with a beer bottle fashioned into a shiv? No? Well, consider yourself lucky. From reader Jon......
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Redskins fans are excited for the new season....

Guy Holding Baby Catches Foul Ball, Nearly Falls Over Row Of Seats
Yes, we know we said it's probably time to move on from showing videos of fans catching baseballs while holding babies. But we're making one last exception for this guy in San Francisco who catches a baseball while holding both a baby and a diaper bag....

A Fan Fell To His Death At The 49ers Game
The frightening trend of fans falling to their deaths at sporting events continues. According to police, a fan fell from an elevated walkway and died at Candlestick Park shortly after the Packers-49ers game kicked off on Sunday. ...

Mike Wallace Is Already Bitching About His Role
If you had Week 1 in the "when will Miami's $30-million-man first complain about his number of targets" pool, congratulations! Please collect your prize. It's a turd in a paper bag....

The Packers-49ers Game Featured A Replacement Ref-Level Blown Call
Packers-49ers was the most entertaining of Sunday's slate of NFL games, but it featured one moment that elicited flashbacks to those dark days when the replacement referees were screwing up games left and right. ...

Unnamed Sources Don't Get More Pointless Than This
Exclusive! Must credit PFT! Professional athlete excited for sporting event!...

David Wilson Ticked Off The Wrong Hardass Coach
Take a good look at this photo. It might be the last time you see David Wilson carrying the ball for a while. It damn well will be the last time you see Wilson carrying the ball with one hand, or Tom Coughlin will eat his heart....

Buffalonian Intimately Familiar With Tom Brady's Bathroom Habits
Send stories, photos, and anything else you might have to [email protected]....

That's Some Grade-A Manningface: Week 1 NFL GIF Roundup
Football is back! Among the 1 p.m. games to watch: Vikings-Lions, Falcons-Saints and Bears-Bengals. We'll be updating with GIFs throughout the day of anything interesting, so check back often....

America's Game
Baseball Card Vandals is killin' it for the start of the NFL season. ...

Terrelle Pryor Not Only Made The Raiders Watchable, But Competitive
Terrelle Pryor didn't put away concerns of his starting capabilities in the last preseason game, but against the Colts, he seemed to have added some evidence as to why he rose to the top of Oakland's QB depth chart of sadness....

Your NFL Late Games Open Thread
Talk about Packers-49ers and Cardinals-Rams here....