I’ve gone back and forth for nearly two weeks on this game. At first glance, I figured the New England Patriots would easily dispatch of the we’re-just-happy-to-be-here Atlanta Falcons. Then, I started to believe in…
You got your wish, Roger Goodell & Co. 12 years later, finally, FINALLY, you got your Tom Brady-Ben Roethlisberger, Patriots-Steelers AFC Championship Game that had narrowly eluded you on five previous occasions since 2004. But…
Chris Berman used to call this “the best weekend in all of sports.” The NFL’s divisional round of the playoffs features the top two teams in each conference, well rested off a bye week. But…
The New England Patriots are the clear-cut favorites in the AFC, but are they unstoppable? A bigger question is, does it matter if they are? The latter isn’t a hard “no,” but it’s not far…
Backed by popular demand — fine, backed by my demand — celebrity impressions on NFL action are back. This week, Apu from the Simpsons gets us started, followed by Liam Neeson talking Titans, Lou Holtz…
I don’t use the term “script” loosely, either. This is the NFL after all, a league with plummeting ratings that needs to squeeze every ounce of drama out of every oversaturated primetime game that it…
Remember Marlon McCree? Probably not, but Troy Brown certainly does. How about Billy Cundiff? Patriots fans do, even if Ravens fans would rather forget. And Andy Reid reminded us last week that his poor clock…
It doesn’t matter how many Super Bowls Bill Belichick leads the New England Patriots to — the 2008 non-playoff team will forever be his biggest masterpiece. You can argue all you want and bring up…
Nearly seven years ago to the day, the New York Jets had Brett Favre at quarterback, near the end of his storied career but also near the end of a one-and-done divorce with Gang Green….
If you heard what Ray Lewis said last week, the future Hall of Famer thinks about Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. No, he does not hate them like most of America seems to, but he firmly…