Happy New Year!
We’ve been awfully quiet for the last two weeks, and I apologize. It was not my intention to slag, but I went to visit my family over the holidays only to discover that they had a miserable internet connection that made it impossible for me to do just about anything. Then I became [...]

DISCLAIMER Born and raised in a small Pittsburgh suburb where the smell of slag meant people were working hard and proud of it. I wear Pirate gear as proudly as Steeler and Penguin stuff.
Last week, I‘m in a sports bar the Flyers are losing a hockey game, the Steelers rallying against [...]

Week 15 is over and the NFC Playoff Picture is as murky as ever. With only two positions clinched (the New York Giants in the East and the Arizona Cardinals in the West), eleven teams are very much alive. Shockingly, the Giants, who a mere two weeks ago (i.e. before the Plaxico Burress fiasco and [...]

Today Junior Seau has come out of retirement a second time to rejoin the New England Patriots’ injury-decimated defense. The Seau signing comes only two days after another former Patriot, Rosevelt Colvin, also rejoined the Pats to help with the team’s end of season playoff-push stretch drive. The big question is not whether it will [...]

The NFL has fined the Dolphins’ Channing Crowder and the Patriots’ Matt Light each $15,000 for their on-field fight this past Sunday?
$15,000?  That’s it?  Both players deserved a suspension.  $15,000 is a drop in the bucket to top-tier athletes, neither a significant punishment nor a deterrent to other players for future brawls.  Football is a [...]

Parity, thy name is the NFL.  To be sure, at 10-1 each the Tennessee Titans and New York Giants are running away with the AFC and NFC, respectively, but after those two teams…  The next 17 teams all have records of either 8-3 (4), 7-4 (7) or 6-5 (6).  How close together are the majority [...]

No one likes to lose, and while Patriot fans may be disappointed that New England lost to the rival New York Jets in overtime last night, they can take solace in the play of Matt Cassel.  The backup quarterback, who until this season hadn’t started a game since high school, finally came of age in [...]

Not exactly, but a brief look at the payrolls of the 32 NFL teams reveals some surprising numbers. Two of the lowest salaried teams, the Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots (29th and 30th, respectively), have, as we all know, been two of the most successful franchises in recent years; the team with the highest payroll, [...]