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Stop Whatever You're Doing, And Watch This Sad Drunk Lady Cry About The Packers Loss
I can't. I can't even do this. Thank you Giants, and thank you Internet, and thank you Megan for being a better cameraperson than friend....
Jersey City Assemblyman Is Sorry A Friend Wrote About Dallas "Cowgirls" And Philly "Gaybirds" On His Facebook Page
Charles Mainor, an assemblyman and Giants fan out of Jersey City, N.J., was the victim of an insensitive friend's Facebook posting over the weekend. Take note, pols: Blaming your friends, it seems, just might be the new hacking claim....
The View From The Wrong Side Of An NFL Instant Classic
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....
Mike Martz Is Retiring
So reports Jason La Canfora. Martz tells the Chicago Sun-Times "It's time." Ominous. He's turning 61 in May....
Jack Harbaugh On His Sons: “They Have No Weaknesses. They’re Just Like Their Mother. They’re Stealth.”
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: the coaching patriarch refuses to play favorites....
You Have No Idea Whether Greg Jennings Really Fumbled Or Not, So Shut Up Already
Here's the definitive camera angle on the play from yesterday's Packers-Giants game that everyone is so twisted out of shape about. Greg Jennings is on his way to the ground, and the ball is a fraction of a second from being wrenched out of his grasp, and you can clearly see—what? Unless I missed th...
Turns Out That African Fellow Running A Gold-For-Sale Scam Was Dikembe Mutombo
WHO WANTS TO SEX BUY $10 MILLION WORTH OF CONFLICT MINERALS FROM MUTOMBO?...
Four Theories On How The Giants Went From Awful To Amazing
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....
Jeff Fisher Is Putting Together A Terrible Coaching Staff In St. Louis
Jeff Fisher, he of that popped collar and tied sweater, has the Rams' reins and he's not relinquishing them. In fact, he's already gotten started on doing some fantastically stupid things:...
Apparently, Alex Smith Should Have Chosen Not To Run For That Touchdown
In some divergent reality, that gangbusters Saints/49ers game didn't come down to the teams trading scores like heavyweight blows in the final few minutes. In this alternate universe, Alex Smith scampered free for 27 yards, with a clear path to the end zone, and took a knee. The 49ers would run ou...
Here's The Tim Tebow And 9/11 Connection You Never Thought Anyone Was Dumb Enough To Make
Tebowmania died Saturday night, but not before Stu Bykofsky of the Philadelphia Daily News went there in his column on Friday:...
The Kansas City Chiefs Might Have The Worst Workplace In America
The Kansas City Star came out with a story that paints a provocative, troubling picture of life in the Chiefs offices under Scott Pioli. To ensure no one would notice, they published it on Saturday night. But we're more than happy to dive in to the tales of a workplace gone mad with paranoia and sec...
ShortCenter: Merril Hoge Explains Aaron Rodgers's Very Bad Day
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....
Why, Oh Why, Did The Packers Have To Lose?
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....
Hakeem Nicks Hauled In A Halftime Hail Mary
The Green Bay Packers' circumstances for the second half of their playoff game against New York changed enormously when Hakeem Nicks brought down this heave by Eli Manning, turning a three-point Packers deficit into a 20-10 doubling-up. [Fox]...
Your NFL Playoffs Divisional Round Open Thread: New York Giants At Green Bay Packers
And so marks the beginning of the end of a great weekend of football. Gather below....
Your NFL Playoffs Divisional Round Open Thread: Houston Texans at Baltimore Ravens
Welcome back for day two of the divisional round. As always, make yourselves comfortable down below in the comments....
Tom Brady's Punt Finally Brought Some Life To The Broncos Defense, If By Life You Mean Punches
Blame Von Miller for this dirty hit that is an unfortunate coda to his otherwise spectacular season. But quick kicks always tend to result in some kind of craziness; like turnovers, they put players outside their comfort zone. In this case, it was reason for Miller to go on an assault mission, th...
Here's The Evidence That Alex Smith Really Did Throw A Playoff Game-Winning Touchdown Pass In The Final Seconds
Jim Harbaugh played for the win, and the 49ers delivered it for him on this Alex Smith-Vernon Davis touchdown pass with ten seconds remaning in the game—just a minute and a half after blowing an earlier lead. [Fox]...
Your NFL Playoffs Divisional Round Open Thread: Denver Broncos At New England Patriots
The back end of our Saturday doubleheader begins now. Talk amongst yourselves down below....