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This Is Quite The <i>Madden </i>Chokejob
In that frame up above, the guy playing as the Seahawks in Madden 18 recovered the onside kick with a lead of six and five seconds left. He still absolutely blew it....

Ryan Shazier's Dream Is To Return To The NFL, For Some Reason
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier gave his first press conference today since getting carried off the field with a serious spinal injury in a December game against the Bengals. That injury left fans in the dark for over two months about whether Shazier was even able to walk, but Shazier, w...

Ravens Give Bullshit Player-Blaming Explanation For Violation Of Offseason Rules
The offense and the punishment here are minor and don’t much matter, but the excuse is very much indicative of how things work in the modern NFL....

Hue Jackson Tries To Motivate Browns By Inadvertently Making Their Helmets Look Cooler
Anyone paying attention to Browns training camp—so, nobody beyond a group of irascible, underpaid beat writers—may have noticed that the players’ equipment looks a little different. The brown and white stripes that go across the middle of the helmet are missing. In a surprising deviation from everyt...

Malcolm Jenkins Says A Lot Without Saying A Thing
The Eagles had a media availability today, the day after Donald Trump celebrated Philly’s Super Bowl title by honoring himself. As one might expect, there was a big media turnout:...

The NFL Is Too Dumb To Realize That Donald Trump Is Never Going To Stop With This Shit
There is a story—which is usually described as a poem but is more precisely a muddled version of a song written by the jazz singer Oscar Brown Jr.—that Donald Trump delights in reading to crowds at his campaign rallies. Trump refers to it as “The Snake” and his fans know it by that name. “Who likes ...

The Athletes Hit A Slump This Week On <i>The Bachelorette</i>, But Lil Jon Showed Up
Okay, team. This week was a rambunctious one, full of so many twists and turns that none of us could really follow the playbook. As the season goes on, the chaff will be cut and the roster will really start to gel. But in the meantime, as your stern but loving coach, I’m here to make clear what real...

Trump Unable To Remember Words To "God Bless America" At Performance Commissioned To Prove His Patriotism
Donald Trump’s hastily arranged replacement for the Super Bowl champion Eagles’ White House visit featured the president making a very brief appearance to talk about how great the economy is and, then, stand awkwardly while mouthing maybe half the words to “God Bless America” like a Yankees fan in r...

Pro Football's Anti-Domestic Violence Initiatives Are Still Garbage
Deborah Epstein is a law professor at Georgetown, where she’s also co-director of the law center’s Domestic Violence Clinic. Today, she published an op-ed in the Washington Post revealing that she and another person, a past president of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, recently resigne...

White House: Philadelphia Eagles "Decided To Abandon Their Fans"
Donald Trump won’t leave this alone, because he can’t leave this alone, because this isn’t about patriotism or respecting the flag or honoring the troops or anything other than his own desire to stoke outrage and division in the name of political expediency. Via the White House press office:...

Fox News Shows Eagles Players Praying, Falsely Implies They Were Protesting During Anthem
Picking on Fox News is the easiest thing in the universe. So let’s do it, shall we?...
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Flag-Humping President Disinvites Eagles From White House Visit [Update]
The Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles aren’t going to be at the White House for the presidential visit that was pretty much traditional until the Golden State Warriors blew off Donald Trump. According to a statement from the President, the Eagles “wanted to send a smaller delegation,” implying...

Dwight Clark Dies After Battle With ALS
Dwight Clark, the two-time Super Bowl-winning receiver for the San Francisco 49ers and the man who caught “The Catch,” has died at age 61, according to a tweet signed by Clark’s wife, Kelly....

Park Service Boss Who Helped Dan Snyder Cut Down Trees Apologizes For Mysterious Crotch Grab
Have you heard the story about the National Park Service director who took a trip to Alaska and grabbed his dick and balls? Neither have we. Well, not the whole story. But suddenly we’re hearing lots about the tale. And we’d love to hear the rest!...
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Mychal Kendricks, On Potentially Joining The Browns: [String Of Expletives]
This is probably just what happens when it is suggested publicly that a self-respecting football player would play for the Cleveland Browns if he had any other choice:...

Annual Also-Ran Buffalo Bills File Trademark For "Respect The Process"
The Buffalo Bills recently pushed reset after a 9-7 season and poured resources into moving around in the draft to select huge quarterback Josh Allen and even huger middle linebacker Tremaine Edmunds, figuring the moves point them towards a future in which they might actually someday win their divis...

Peyton Manning Denies Claim In Court Filings That Peyton Manning Was Source For Peyton Manning PED Allegations<em></em>
Unsealed court papers claim Peyton Manning’s lawyers “confirmed much of what” a source told Al Jazeera about the retired NFL quarterback’s alleged PED usage along with that of MLBers Ryan Zimmerman and Ryan Howard, who are suing the network over claims made in the 2015 report....

NFL Players Are Preparing For A Fight After All
Here’s an interesting item about the NFLPA tucked deep into Albert Breer’s latest weekly column over at Sports Illustrated:...

Washington Football Executive Resigns Over Cheerleading Escort Scandal
Washington president of business operations Dennis Greene has resigned in the aftermath of a New York Times report detailing a disturbing trip to Costa Rica made by the team’s cheerleaders for a photo shoot, where they were told to serve as escorts for sponsors....

What In The Hell Is Pete Carroll Talking About?
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll had a few really good motivational anecdotes, and then he ran out of them and his players stopped listening to him. Carroll truthered the 9/11 attacks to a four-star general. Carroll’s players started to wonder if he was maybe more Chauncey Gardiner than actual genius whe...