Geoffrey Norman
After several centuries of debate, we still do not know how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. But football philosophers do know what constitutes a “catch” in the National Football League. Here is Al Riveron, Senior…
None of the players in this football game could have made it in the NFL. They were all amateurs in the truest sense of that corrupted word. But, then, when it comes to football they have bigger fish to fry….
It was, once upon a time, a big deal to be named Time magazine’s “Man of the Year.” Or, in more recent times… Person of the Year. What Time is after, as it self-proclaims, is that singular human who has…
Tried to watch the Houston Texans vs. the Baltimore Ravens. Honest… really tried. And while the football wasn’t too bad, the announcing left me adrift. Sean McDonough is probably as good at play-by-play as anyone, but John Gruden… well, to…
Jerry Jones is having a bad year. His football team was close to going to the Super Bowl last season but was denied in the playoffs when Aaron Rodgers managed an improbable pass completion, breaking the hearts of all true…
For the NFL, it was more of the same last weekend. Another one of those “marquis players” going down with a season ending injury. In this case, Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks who blew out his Achilles tendon. Sherman…
Four days after his performance against the Seattle Seahawks had people saying Deshaun Watson of the Houston Texans was on his way to the best rookie season of any NFL quarterback ever, he went down with a season-ending injury. It…
The NFL needed a bounce back weekend and did not get it. There was a sort of Best of Times, Worst of Times quality about the games and the controversies that have attached to it like a diseased tick. Early…
Hard to argue that the NFL bounced back last weekend. Consider the Thursday game. (The NFL weekend begins early and runs late, until past midnight on Monday which means that, technically, the weekend goes from Thursday to Tuesday.) Anyway… the…
When age and injuries had caught up (as they say) with Peyton Manning, the Indianapolis Colts went all in on a quarterback from Stanford who would be the future of the franchise. And for a while, it appears as though…
