Geoffrey Norman
Professional football players shouldn’t really care about rivalries. Rivalries are for the college game where you find Alabama vs. Auburn, Michigan vs. Ohio Stare, Army vs. Navy, and so on. The passion that surrounds these annual games is intense enough…
If you were a faithful fan and not yet ready to give up on the game, you may have tuned in last Sunday morning to watch the New Orleans Saints play the Miami Dolphins. You would have told yourself that…
The NFL needed a good day, Sunday, and needed it badly. Earlier in the week, President Donald Trump had made some famously intemperate remarks about those players who would not stand for the playing of the Star Spangled Banner before…
Hard to imagine anyone feeling sorry for the National Football League. The money, the TV ratings, the magnificently gaudy stadiums… professional football seems inevitable and unstoppable. But … Those TV ratings were down for the first week’s package of games…
Television ratings declined, last season, for the National Football League’s games. This came as a shock to the Lords of the NFL. Ratings are not supposed to decline. The NFL’s ratings never decline. This is a law of nature. The…
Vice President (but not for much longer) Joe Biden recently advised President-Elect (likewise) Donald Trump to “grow up.” Call it “constructive criticism.” The suggestion came in response to something that Trump had tweeted. As everyone knows, our next President is…
Who knows if it is fake or not. And eventually that question will mutate into “who cares?” In some ways, it already has. As Jack Shafer wrote at Politico, the day after Buzzfeed published the “secret” dossier: And even if…
Well. Well, well, well. Wlady warned me that I might be premature in my assumption that Hillary Clinton would be marching on Washington at the head of an army of policy wonks. He was right, typically, and I was wrong. Among the…
In a recent column with the title, “The Banality of Change,” David Brooks makes the argument for Hillary Clinton as the candidate who can get things done without a lot of what kids call “the drama.” She is seasoned and,…
We are all supposed to be shocked, shocked that Donald Trump may have paid no taxes for several years. Not shocked, mind you, because he did something illegal. Nobody, so far, is suggesting that. So it follows that we are…
