I’ve always considered it something of a coincidence that I ended up attending the same university as my favorite all-time football coach.  I was, after all, a Packers fan and devoted Vince Lombardi supporter for a decade before deciding on Fordham (to none of the fanfare that yesterday’s...

New York Jets fans looking to attend the Super Bowl in the event their team wins Sunday’s AFC Championship Game now have an opportunity to secure the right to buy game tickets at current market prices – before the expected surge should the Jets advance.  National Event Company (www.NECO.com)...

There’s usually a stinker or two in the NFL Wild Card Weekend, particularly since there’s usually a team or two in one conference or another that, upon further review, made the playoffs by default (this means you, Bengals and, it turned out, Eagles). This year, the first three playoff games,...

I’m just about finished with John Eisenberg’s excellent book That First Season, about Vince Lombardi’s first year in Green Bay, 1959, when he turned a team that had not had a winning record in 12 years and was coming off a 1-10-1 season that was not only the worst by record in Packers...

Three games on Thursday. Four more on Sunday. One on Monday.  Fully half of the NFL schedule was available to the television viewing public this week (ok, the segment thereof that lives in greater N.Y. or greater Denver or has access to the NFL Network had eight, everyone else had seven, but you get...

After Sunday nights Cowboy-Giants game, T.O. made a witty Tweet ripping his ex-teamate Tony Romo.  The Tweet read “Dallas just found out they had a T.R. problem not a T.O. problem !!” (@terrellowens) T.O. must have lost some of his creativity as this message was a re-tweet (Twitter language...

This was a great week for football and I couldn’t be more happy with some of the plays and games I saw today.  Brett Favre won the opener for the Vikings today by handing the ball off to Adrian Peterson.  Take a look at Adrian’s 64 yard run with some punishing stiff-arms: Adrian Peterson...

You can continue the list of the Madden Curse as Troy Polamalu has injured his knee in the first week of play.  This years Madden 2010 features Polamalu and Larry Fitzgerald; a Madden first by having two stars on the cover.  I have been a believer of this curse however, I do hope that Larry doesn’t...

Much like his last season, Chad Johnson has fallen off the face of the Twitter-realm.  The NFL has “made it tough” for players like and including Johnson to fully “enjoy” Twitter and thus, he is deleting his account. Despite the new NFL Social Media rules and regulations, many...

I was reading an article in the Wall Street Journal the other day that really struck me as shocking.  When you hear players signing for millions, its hard to understand that in smaller terms, but nevertheless this article in which I read does just that.  It breaks down how quickly some athletes in...