Since my adolescence, the AFC has been as stale as three-year-old bread. The Patriots. The Steelers. Peyton Manning. Virtually nothing else. But in 2018, I’m taking a stand against that. At least there’s been the…
It’s a theme that has circulated the sports spectrum before. A cast-off member of a rising team basks in his one shining moment against the club that unceremoniously ditched him, only to ultimately watch that…
If you’ve watched, say, a single minute of baseball this year, you know the entire league is a one-team show. Of course, I had the wrong Evil Empire as the one to flirt with history….
Apparently, I was three years off. It wasn’t 2004. It was actually 2001. Call it a space odyssey if you want. It was weird. Nick Foles hoisting the Lombardi trophy as Tom Brady dejectedly jogs…
The Matchup: PHILADELPHIA EAGLES (13-3) vs. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (13-3), 6:30 p.m. ET Spread: Patriots by 4.5 My playoff record ATS in 2017: 5-4-1 My overall record ATS in 2017: 35-28 For most of…
Does this Super Bowl feel familiar? Is there an echo in here? If you’re too young to remember Super Bowl XXXIX, I feel sorry for you, because that means your entire life has been encapsulated…
Disclaimer: I am NOT officially picking the Philadelphia Eagles to beat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII. Not yet, anyway. But it might be time to stop harping on the Nick Foles narrative…
Let me just state for the record that I hope this headline is wrong. I hope that the words echoed by Chris Berman in last night’s wonderful, once-in-a-lifetime NFL PrimeTime reunion show, are not actually…
I’m not sure what you can really say. The Patriots are in the AFC Championship Game for the seventh straight year and 12th time in the Brady/Belichick era. Who are the Blake Bortles-led Jaguars to…
It’s not often a team coming off a first-round bye is a home underdog. It’s not often a career backup is favored against a future Hall of Famer. It’s not often we talk about anybody other…