Move Over Hank Williams: New Song Suggestions for Monday Night Football

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 […]

Pick of the Week: OAKLAND (+5.5) at Houston

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 Quarter Pole Awards: Matt Forte is your 1/4 MVP

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 […]

Evening Edition: Henne is Done, What’s Next for the Dolphins?

According to Jeff Darlington of NFL.com, Chad Henne’s season is over. His should will require surgery, and that’s that for his season. In all reality, that may end the Chad Henne era in Miami. Now that the Dolphins have no quarterback, a lame duck head coach, and a rebellious fan base, where do they go […]

28 Days Later: The Dolphins, Rams, and the league’s Walking Dead

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 […]

The best team no one is talking about: Jim Harbaugh’s 49ers

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 […]

Toronto is not ready for the NFL

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 […]

2011 NFL Power Rankings: Week 5

Here’s the This Given Sunday power rankings for week 5. Notes from Will: Biggest Fallers: The Eagles (-7). The unlikely implosion continues in Philadelphia with a stunning loss to San Francisco. This is a team in complete crisis, with even a great game by Vick unable to save them. Biggest Risers: the Titans (+8). A […]

The Most Amazing Stat Of The NFL Season

We’ve thoroughly chronicled the unbelievable rise in passing numbers in 2011 here at TGS.  The massive jump in passing yards per game is staggering, and still going up.  Six quarterbacks are still on pace to break Dan Marino’s single season passing record.  Seven quarterbacks have a 100+ quarterback rating.  Aaron Rodgers is at a record […]

Five Odd Things About the 2011 NFL Season: Eagles and Lions and Gailey, Oh My!

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 […]

Monday Night Football Reactor: Bucs 24, Colts 17

  The Buccaneers went all-in to shut down the Colts’ pathetic running game, daring Curtis Painter to beat them. He very nearly did. Painter was credited with two long touchdown throws to Pierre Garcon, though one of them traveled all of two yards down the field. The Colts QB was game, but the Bucs defense […]

Houston Texans Stare Down life Without Andre Johnson

If you are a sports fan, you have felt that feeling. It is the hot burning sensation you feel from the pit of your gut to the top of your throat when your horse, your stud, your guy who will carry your team all the way goes down clutching his knee in the middle of […]

Darren Sproles Is The NFL’s Littlest Big Man

Quick – which player leads the NFL in all purpose yards?  You may think a big name receiver like Andre or Calvin Johnson.  You may think of a brusing running back like Darren McFadden or Adrian Peterson.  You might even consider electric return men like Devin Hester.  Instead, the most impactful skill position player so […]

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