http://youtube.com/watch?v=yDr3_EuRq_c?wmode=Opaque Oakland 25, Houston 20 – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door by Bob Dylan After Raiders owner and NFL icon Al Davis passed away, the Raiders honored him in the best way possible. Playing with their hearts on their sleeves, the Raiders took advantage of an injured Texans squad. It was an emotional day for the Raiders organization but at […]

The proud silver gameday helmets were adorned with a simple black shield, with a two-letter tribute inscribed: “AL.” The Oakland Raiders were still processing the news, barely 24 hours old, that their iconic and seemingly immortal owner, Al Davis, had passed away. There hasn’t been time for a funeral, so this game would have to […]

Rise and shine, NFL fans, the best day of the week is finally here. As always, we help nurse that Sunday morning hangover by letting you turn down the volume on your TV and read about the gameday’s stories right here. Of course, the one story that will dominate the weekend is the passing of […]

The NFL world lost one of its driving personalities, today, a man whose pride in his team became the very organizing principle for the franchise and its far-flung fan base. Not everyone will miss Al Davis, but no one will forget him or the impact he had on the league. In his honor, this week’s […]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=b1NeJFIdUJQ This 10-minute video edits together decades worth of classic NFL Films footage, narrated by the great John Facenda, chronicles the heights of the Oakland Raiders that Al Davis built. It’s a great watch, and if you have any connection to the silver and black, you’ll get a little misty-eyed. As a coda, tune in […]

Nick Saban knows a thing or two about developing high level talent. Mark Ingram, Julio Jones, Rolando McClain, James Carpenter, Andre Smith and Kareem Jackson are some of the high end players that have come out of ‘Bama in the past few years and gone high in the draft.  Now it is time for Dre […]

Hank Williams Jr. wins the clueless musician of the year award, getting huffy and deciding to pull his song off the air, after ESPN reacted predictably to his Obama-Hitler commentary. Maybe he doesn’t remember the shape his career was in before MNF breathed new life into his music, and approximately a bajillion people into his […]

The early season schedule has not been kind to the Oakland Raiders. After getting past the Broncos on opening night, they have had to face the Bills, the Patriots, the Jets and now the Texans. Not exactly a soft schedule for a team trying to find their identity. This week they travel to Houston to […]

This Given Sunday’s football experts gathered at TGS World Headquarters to select the NFL’s outstanding players at the quarter pole.  We hand out the virtual hardware for the players and coaches who brought it in the first four games of the 2011 season. MOST VALUABLE PLAYER OF THE QUARTER Nominees: Calvin Johnson, WR, Detroit Lions […]

They walk among us, but they are not like us, the fans of the NFL’s doomed franchises. After four short weeks, the disease of losing has turned them into zombies. Their autoimmune system, necessary to brush off a loss and look forward to next week, has been devastated. Their capacity for logical processing, destroyed. Their […]

No one expected this. No one could have scripted it. The San Francisco 49ers were supposed to be one of the underclass of the NFL, a B-rate contender in a D-rate division. They weren’t supposed to be upstaging the elites. They weren’t supposed to be for real.  Bringing Jim Harbaugh forty miles north from Stanford […]

So close, yet so far. Division third-place teams are within a game or two of the top. With 12 games to go, there is time for the New York Jets, Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys to lap the leaders. For the Arizona Cardinals, Jacksonville Jaguars and Chicago Bears, two games back may be a game […]

The greater Toronto area, or the GTA as it is locally known, has a metropolitan population of 5.5 million people. That would place it in the top ten in the States, right between DC and Miami. But the difference with Toronto is the fact that the entire population of Canada is just 33 million. So […]

When did the Eagles become champions of the offseason? How could the Philadelphia Eagles be in the same division as the Washington Redskins and not learn the lesson preached at Daniel Snyder every year that he has owned that team? You can’t buy a championship. The Eagles’ biggest offensive move was to re-sign quarterback Michael […]