Roger Goodell may go down as the worst NFL commissioner in history. He screwed the pooch on the concussion issue when, during his congressional testimony, he could not answer whether concussions hurt football players. He is in the process of doing the…

In our modern era of internet connectivity and 24-hour news cycles, for better or worse, celebrity is an instant megaphone for gaining national attention. Especially for the controversial, or in former quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick’s case,…

Back in the seventies and eighties, the Big Three, aka GM, Ford, and Chrysler, experienced difficulties with the auto unions. The unions, irritated by this or that perceived slight, would engage in slowdowns, strikes, and shoddy workmanship that sabotaged buyers…

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…

Let’s not stress out, shall we, while endeavoring to make sense of the fuss and foolishness over mass NFL boycotting of the “Star Spangled Banner.” That would be because the fuss and foolishness themselves make no sense: save as a…

As they say in baseball, play ball. But apparently not in the NFL. Instead of playing the game they are being paid millions to play, whole teams of the National Football League have decided instead to insult the fans who…

Donald Trump, the person the media tells you at every turn is the dumbest guy in whatever room he is in, in just one weekend outflanked the left, the Democratic Party, the media, and the elites. Not only did Trump…

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…

Well, the first weekend of the 2017 National Football League season is over and Colin Kaepernick still does not have a job. Hip, hip hooray!!! Kaepernick, the former (oh, that word is soooo lovely!) quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers spent all…

Irony doesn’t come up too much when we’re talking about sports, except maybe when a color commentator is finding it “ironical” that a guy on one team went to high school with a guy on the other team. Maybe that’s…