The word "fan" comes from "fanatic," which stems from the modern Latin fanaticus, meaning "insanely but divinely inspired." Combine insanity with inspiration and you get some strange people. As a result, we were easily able to comprise a list of the 10 worst types of fans in the world of football. The Bandwagon Jumper We have […]

While juggernauts like the Niners, Ravens, Packers, Patriots, Giants and Eagles continue to jockey for spots in the top 10, three teams with a combined zero Lombardi trophies continue to lead the way as the only undefeated squads in the National Football League. Here are our latest power rankings… 1. Houston Texans (4-0, 1st week): […]

It's never a good thing when the focus of a sports game is on the officials rather than the players and/or the teams, and that's been the case far too often three weeks into the 2012 NFL season. It'll likely be the case again Thursday night, when the Baltimore Ravens host the Cincinnati Bengals, but […]

  Three weeks in and Houston, Atlanta and Arizona are the only unbeaten teams left. Oh, and New Orleans is one of only two winless franchises. Just as we all expected, right? How do you not love this league? I usually stray from the standings pretty dramatically here, but I actually believe that those three […]

We wrap up the third Sunday of the NFL season by looking at a handful of players who exceeded expectations and a handful who failed to deliver . Surprises Jamaal Charles, Kansas City Chiefs: Just when fantasy owners were beginning to wonder if Charles was ever going to regain his 2010 magic, the guy went […]

This Given Sunday is examining the biggest injury questions before each week of the NFL season. Here are the top five health-related storylines entering Week 3. Matt Forte The good news is that the ankle sprain Forte suffered last Thursday in Green Bay was not of the "high" variety. The bad news is that he […]

Let's not draw conclusions two weeks in, but it should be noted that the offensive juggernauts who usually dominate NFL power rankings in this pass-happy era have sort of taken a back seat early in 2012 to teams that are arguably more multi-faceted. Coincidence or a sign of things to come? 1. Houston Texans (2-0, […]

Even when his larynx is producing sounds and his lips are moving to form those sounds into words and his left temporal lobe is stringing those words together to create whole sentences, Bill Belichick rarely actually says anything.  And that's why, on the rare occasions in which the cliché-dispensing New England Patriots head coach breaks from […]

This Given Sunday is examining the biggest injury questions before each week of the NFL season. Here are the top five health-related storylines entering Week 2. Rashard Mendenhall The Steelers are really jerking us around here, because Mendenhall practiced fully on Wednesday…but the same thing happened Wednesday last week and the two-time 1,000-yard rusher didn't […]

U.S. president Barack Obama knows his sports, and although he's a basketball guy first, the prez isn't afraid to talk some football when the occasion arises. Just this summer at an event in Oakland, he told Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha to

We wrote last week that we only pretend we know what we're talking about prior to Week 1. In actual fact, no one knows. Put your hand up if you had the defending champions getting dominated at home. Same thing happened to the defending champions. In fact, each of the last five Super Bowl champions […]

We wrap up the first NFL Sunday of 2012 by looking at a handful of players who exceeded expectations and a handful who failed to deliver in their season-opening efforts. Surprises 1. Robert Griffin III, Washington Redskins: I'd be shocked to see anyone but Griffin win offensive player of the week honors, which is remarkable […]