0 comments by This Given Sunday's Locker on 8/25/2014
We’re officially into the last week for back to school shopping, and think of how cool your kid will look strutting down the hall wearing one of these. Or better yet, it’s never too early to conquer your Christmas shopping. This latest fresh T-shirt take on Johnny Manziel is the perfect gift for the special […]
0 comments by Andrew Juge on 8/22/2014
Oh God, what have I done, can I take it back?!?! As a fan of the New Orleans Saints, I watched “my team” get wrecked in Seattle twice last year, once to diminish their playoff seeding, and once to end their entire season. It was not fun times. Of course I then watched that Seahawks’ […]
0 comments by Sean Tomlinson
Bone breaking and muscle ripping, and just general body chaos will always be a part of football. A horrible and unfortunate aspect of the game for both the downed player and his team, but a reality nonetheless. The pain of that reality is amplified when an injury occurs during the utter nothingness of a preseason […]
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Very few words are needed here. The only words you need are below, the words that Le’Veon Bell actually said. Affidavit:
0 comments by Brad Gagnon
We’ve stated time and again that making the extra point only slightly harder isn’t the solution to fixing the game’s most boring play. If anything, dropping the success rate from 99 percent to, say, 90 percent would only make fluky misses more common, which in turn would result in more tough-luck losses. Plus, kicking from […]
0 comments by This Given Sunday's Locker on 8/21/2014
The Pittsburgh Steelers are getting poleaxed in their dress rehearsal for the regular season, currently losing 31-14 to the Eagles in the all-important-but-not-really-important third preseason game. The first string offense was particularly pitiful and no match for Chip Kelly’s high flying attack. The performance led one famous Steelers fan to voice his displeasure. Snoop Dogg posted […]
0 comments by Sean Tomlinson
Of the many ambiguous terms we toss around, “underrated” is among the industry leaders. What exactly constitutes an underrating? And who is doing the rating? We are. We all are. An underrated player is someone who makes an unexpectedly awesome play, and then you say “hey, who’s that guy?”. Or he can also make you […]
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Aren’t you ready to run through at least 11 walls after watching this video of a SUPER INTENSE re-sodding? Your browser does not support iframes. Red Bull infused repairs aside, those images aren’t exactly a promising look for the 49ers. Yesterday Jim Harbaugh pulled his team off the field less than an hour into a […]
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Jim Harbaugh is an intense, fiery man. But like any NFL head coach there are many moments during a game when he needs to set that raw emotion aside, and think clearly to make a crucial decision fast. He’s pretty good at that, a skill which has its roots way back when a five-year-old Harbaugh […]
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Thank goodness it’s 2014 and we have video constantly rolling to catch every great play that takes place on each of the 32 NFL practice fields, because rookie receivers Sammy Watkins and Cody Latimer have given us a few unreal catches this summer. The latest from Latimer in Denver: Makes you wonder how many of […]
0 comments by Brad Gagnon
“Upon further review” is a recurring segment in which This Given Sunday analyzes quirks and fascinating tidbits from the NFL’s history books. The Super Bowl halftime show has become such a staple that the NFL is now asking potential A-list performers to essentially bid for the right to star in it. But that wasn’t always […]
0 comments by Josh Zerkle on 8/20/2014
Summer TV is the worst. It’s either crap you’ve already seen or mid-season replacement shows that weren’t good enough to get a full slate of episodes during pilot season. And nobody cares, because that three-month parade of filth is presented entirely by design. And the NFL has followed suit, presenting a slate of horrid, borderline-unwatchable […]
0 comments by Brad Gagnon
Now that’s it’s been confirmed that Johnny Manziel won’t start Week 1 in Cleveland, the odds are significantly better that we’ll have our first full regular-season NFL week without a rookie starting quarterback since 2007. There’s still a chance Blake Bortles gets the Week 1 nod in Jacksonville, but the Jaguars have said they want […]
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Since Chip Kelly is the best, he doesn’t do anything halfway. He set up a pool of frigid, bone-numbing water for his entire Eagles team to take part in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge all at once. Then Kelly had an even better plan. As the rest of his team was walking slowly to the […]
0 comments by Sean Tomlinson
The Cleveland Browns had a choice between a quarterback who isn’t ready, and a quarterback who isn’t that good. They went with the second guy, but there’s a good chance we’ll see the first guy in, oh, about a month. That was the decision made by head coach Mike Pettine and his staff this morning […]
