After the 2010 NFL season, league officials decided that kick offs were too dangerous. Too many athletes were getting up to full speed and running headlong into each other. Football is the American sport that showcases some of the most elite athletes on the planet, and kickoffs are an opportunity for fans to see this prowess exercised to its full capacity.
The ball is kicked and the returner gets it deep near his own endzone, and he has to decide if he should run it out and risk not making it …

Tonight’s Monday Night Football game on ESPN was another showcase of just how strange the NFL can be at times.
Most sports betting sites had the Baltimore Ravens favored by at least 7 1/2 points (some 10 pts). The Ravens featured a high-profile offense – I think so at least – and a great defense that can (could?) hold it’s own against any team in the NFL. The Jacksonville Jaguars come in with a rookie quarterback in Blaine Gabbert at 0-5 on the season.
Picking Baltimore to win was a no-brainer.
Jacksonville Defense …

One of the most in demand football jerseys this year is the Aaron Rodgers jersey.  It shouldn’t surprise anyone, being that he won that little game known as the Super Bowl last season, leading his Green Bay Packers over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Aaron Rodgers is one of the top quarterbacks in the game of football, and by the time his career is over, barring injury, he could go down as one of the greatest.
Aaron Rodgers Quarterback Stats
The statistics don’t lie.  Rodgers threw for just under 4000 yards in 2010 in …

Just like every other National Football League fan, I am eagerly awaiting the kickoff of the regular season and for the meaningful games to start. We can expect e a lot of story-lines and drama to unfold during the 2011-2012 NFL season – below are some of those I’m most looking forward to.
#1 Reason
IT’S FOOTBALL DAMN IT!!
What other reason could I need? Haha… Keep reading fool!
Lost Teams (On the Field)
This is actually a pretty simple thing to explain… Many of the teams have had very little time to prepare for the upcoming …

Pete Rose just spent his 70th birthday still blacklisted from baseball. As yet another milestone for one of baseball’s most storied, infamous player-coaches comes to pass, the debate about Rose’s past and future with Major League Baseball will once again fill the sports talk airways and interwebs. From gambling and steroids to sex and violence, throughout the last 20 years since Rose’s problems surfaced we have witnessed many athletes fall victim to their own self-made scandals, and yet just as many are able to walk away scot-free.
Had he played his …

This isn’t your typical football preview post, because there are enough of those out there for you to read, from people well more versed in the X’s & O’s of football than myself. Rather than focus on the game strategies, I wanted to help you understand who the fans think are the top players on the respective teams left in the AFC Championship game, to be played this Sunday.
Top Selling AFC Championship Player Jerseys
There’s no magic formula or crazy math here… the players for the respective teams are ordered by …

Quarterback Tom Brady will have surgery on his right foot as early as Monday to repair a “stress fracture” that he’s had for over 2 months. Despite leading the New England Patriots to a 14-2 record, a playoff bye & likely an NFL MVP award, Brady has reportedly been playing w/ the injury, but the time has come to get it fixed.
Brady’s foot injury first was listed on the injury report after the Patriots’ 34-14 loss at Cleveland on Nov. 7, New England’s final regular-season loss. He missed six practices …

NFLShop.com and the NFL announced the most popular football jerseys of the year (Apr 1 – Oct 31) recently and there are some interesting takeaways from the list. The most frequently purchased jerseys are essentially post-draft sales counts, but the draft started on 4/22 so there is some brief overlap and/or carryover from the Super Bowl & NFL playoffs most likely. Its clear, however, that the NFL Draft has had a large impact on sales as you’ll clearly see w/ the #1 overall player.
Before getting into the individual players, checkout …

As if last year wasn’t a good enough indicator of how bad Mark Sanchez is at quarterback in New York, the former USC stand-out showcased his great hot-dog eating skills last night… oh wait, that was last year. So what exactly did Sanchez do on Monday Night Football w/ his team trying to make a statement vs. the Baltimore Ravens?
Try 74 total passing yards.
Not in a quarter or a half, in the entire game – minus Ed Reed on the Ravens defense btw. The total is 2nd to last for week 1 …

Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was the clear choice for NFC Offensive Rookie of the year in 2007. With his superhuman like abilities, Peterson set the league mark for rushing in a game (296 yards) and also had an impressive 224-yard game against the Chicago Bears.
In an interview with Men’s Fitness, Peterson stated “I’m around 218 lbs right now. I want to keep my body lean, but I’d like to add a couple more pounds of muscle. If I get my weight steady around 222 lbs, something like that, …

With the NFL season kicking off Thursday, I figured what better time than now to do a quick preview of what might be to come. For all you fantasy football geeks (myself included), the season brings w/ it more than just the games themselves – it’s your time to shine & dominate your league.
Saints vs. Vikings Highlights New Season
On Thursday night, we get a great game right from the get-go, as the two teams from the NFC Championship game re-unite to see who might be the dominant team for the …

Much maligned quarterback Matt Leinart could be spending his last days as a member of the Arizona Cardinals football team according to Jay Glazer, who says the Cardinals’ front office is actively seeking a trade. Parting with Leinart would bring an end to an (un) storybook romance between Leinart and head coach, Ken Whisenhunt.
Nearly from the day Whisenhunt took over as head coach of the Cardinals, it seems Leinart has been in the dog house. Despite some solid performances over the past few years and the fact that future Hall of Famer’ Kurt Warner …

The Cincinnati Bengals welcome a new wide receiver to join Chad Ochocinco (Johnson) and give Carson Palmer a viable second option in the passing attack – former Bills player Terrell Owens (#81). The Bengals are expected to announce the official signing of Owens today.
After searching and getting denied by as many as 4-5 other teams already this off-season, Terrell Owens finally landed with a team. He will reportedly be paid about $2 million in salary with some other incentives kicking in if he hits certain milestones throughout the 2010-11 NFL …

The NFL left us this week w/ no shortage of interesting stories and bylines from what was really a great weekend for football fans.  Ranging from record setting outings, quarterbacks feuding w/ their coaches or a head coach pulling one of the most boneheaded plays in recent history, the NFL is definitely the hottest discussion in sports this week – Tiger Woods’ indiscretions seem like a thing of the past already.
Two Cleveland Browns Set Records
I feel like starting off w/ some of the positive news that happened on Sunday, which …

Already this year, we’ve seen a slew of great NFL games and inspiring storylines to help us make it through the doldrums of fall & winter… I’m in Arizona, so not so much personally, but I know enough people in colder and more varied climate regions that really having nothing but football to enjoy.
While most of the stories surrounding the NFL right now are positive (e.g. Saints, Colts, Favre, Young), there are some others being dramatized by national/local media analysts and other individuals covering sports that may not have (full) …