What a clever idea. Buy a stock tied to the lifetime football earnings of Houston Texans star running back Arian Foster. San Francisco-based Fantex Holdings is issuing a million shares of stock in Fantex Series Arian Foster at the bargain price of $10.00 each. I feel one of those late night, 30-minute infomercials coming. Stockholders […]

The Winter Carnival Ice Palace in St. Paul, Minnesota, was a popular attraction for the 1992 Super Bowl. At these prices, can the NFL sell a cold weather Super Bowl to rich corporate sponsors? Two of the next four Super Bowls are in in temperate climates, New Jersey in 2013 and Santa Clara, California, in […]

NFL owners will provide financial support to the Cleveland Browns and to the Washington Redskins to upgrade their stadiums. Will it be enough to compete with fan experience in their own home? Calling a time out for that one. The Browns will receive $62.5 million in funding for at $120 million, two-year renovation project for […]

You've got to hand it to the NFL. Fifteen years of financial loss suffered by NFL Europa hasn't stopped the league from teasing the hearts of Her Majesty's subjects with thoughts of an NFL franchise. Yup. An American football team will make London a big league city. How far would the NFL go to make […]

Maybe Deion Sanders was right. A Los Angeles Times story lambasts Sanders for filing a California worker's compensation claim in 2010 and then criticizing ex-NFL players before the last Super Bowl for filing concussion lawsuits against the league. I never pass up a chance to mock Sanders, who I consider a paid loudmouth. Condemn Sanders for […]

With the NFL season starting up and everyone is into power ranking teams. A pair of cold-eye business professors have power ranked NFL fans. If you are thin-skinned and live outside Dallas, stop here. Emery University professors Mike Lewis and Manish Tripathi say the Dallas Cowboys have the NFL's most loyal and supportive fan base. […]

Vince Young must wake up every morning and ask himself, "How did it come to this?" Young signed a one-year deal yesterday to back-up Aaron Rodgers for the Green Bay Packers. That the Packers did not sign him during OTAs confirms the NFL's judgment of Young since his messy divorce from Tennessee. For all the […]

The most recognizable name on the Philadelphia Eagles' roster right now is receiver Riley Cooper. Cooper might have the hateful heart of a bigot ‒ that's the way he is being portrayed ‒ or, he may be guilty of nothing more than dumb jock behavior while his brain was high on something other than life. […]

Who would have thought that mass media would swarm the New England Patriots for a story that does not focus on Tim Tebow? Broadcasters smell O.J. Simpson’s blood in the water with the investigation of the death of Odin Lloyd and the possible connection to Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. Hernandez is doing everything he […]

So it begins. ESPN and other media outlets report that the New York Jets released little-used quarterback Tim Tebow this morning, leaving the team with five quarterbacks on the roster. New York's little brother team might have cut less heralded Greg McElroy, Matt Simms, or, um. Mark Sanchez. Instead they excised the most useless outsider […]

Great shot of Jets fans reaction to QB Geno Smith (via @

  Chris Berman and his ESPN cohorts held that the NFL hadn't seen a Draft with so many first round offensive linemen since Vince Lombardi's heyday in 1968. Lombardi famously said football is about blocking and tackling. St. Vince must have directed this Draft from the grave. Four offensive linemen, including two guards (yes, guards) […]

Who needs TV color commentators when your Twitter timeline has more wit and silliness. There was really nothing better to do during the game's power outage than to keep your eyes on your handheld for gems like these. How many blackouts does each team get per game? Baltimore better use one soon…