Thursday, September 8 Carolina at Denver 8:30PM NBC Al Michaels/Cris Collinsworth Sunday, September 11 Buffalo at Baltimore 1:00PM CBS Spero Dedes/Solomon Wilcots Cleveland at Philadelphia 1:00PM CBS Greg Gumbel/Trent Green San Diego at Kansas City 1:00PM CBS Kevin Harlan/Rich Gannon Cincinnati at New York Jets 1:00PM CBS Jim Nantz/Phil Simms Chicago at Houston 1:00PM FOX... Continue Reading →
Patriots fans wanted Colts embarrassed, and they got their wish
The Indianapolis Colts line up for a trick play against the New England Patriots Sunday night. (Photo NBC video capture) If you asked most Patriots fans prior to Sunday's match-up between the New England and Indianapolis Colts you would have heard how they generally all wanted the Patriots to run up the score on Indy... Continue Reading →
One play shows why the New England Patriots are better than the rest
People hate winners. That's the primary reason why fans around the country hate the New England Patriots. No matter how much the haters complain about unfounded allegations in the long run it really does come down to one thing: the Patriots win and they don't like it. It has to be because Bill Belichick and... Continue Reading →
Textgate and Noisegate: Where’s the uproar?
For several days before the Super Bowl the lead story on almost every national news broadcast was deflategate, and how the New England Patriots cheated by having footballs inflated to under the NFL minimums. You could hardly visit any news or sports site and not see numerous references to the incident, with all sorts of... Continue Reading →
Was Belichick right not calling time out? Well, probably…
There are two big controversies about the last few plays of Super Bowl XLIX: why didn't Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll run the ball from the one yard line and why didn't New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick call timeout with 66 seconds left in the game with Seattle poised to score from... Continue Reading →
I don’t get all the All-Star game hatred
There were two things that basically comprised the entirety of the sports world on social media this weekend: Deflategate, and how much people hated the two All-Star games being played. At least Deflategate started as something that seemed real, so I can see how people could get hooked into that, but why all the hate... Continue Reading →