Tag: NFL

  • Slow Time of the Year

    This past week is my least favorite week of  the year.  It’s a sports dead zone.  Baseball is on the All Star Break and MLB doesn’t want teams announcing trades and it is still a couple of weeks from the trade deadline anyway so there aren’t too many deals in the works yet.  Football is…

  • Robert Gill running 25 mph on a treadmill GIF

    Robert Gill, an undrafted rookie for the Arizona Cardinals, running 25 mph on a treadmill GIF

  • Pat Tillman May 3, 2004 Sports Illustrated cover

    Pat Tillman appears on the cover of the May 3, 2004 issue of SI. Tillman famously retired from the NFL in order to join the military and fight overseas.

  • Chased by a murderer

    “This is what it looks like to be chased by a murderer!” – Pete Mitchell wrote about Ray Lewis. #NFL #Ravens

  • Brian Urlacher retires

    Brian Urlacher retires and joins fellow #Bears LBer greats Singletary & Butkus in Chicago lore. #NFL It is a sad day for me as a Chicago Bears fan.  I was a little young when Mike Singletary was in his prime patrolling the middle for the Chicago Bears so I wasn’t able to fully appreciate him…

  • Brian Urlacher retires

    It is a sad day for me as a Chicago Bears fan.  I was a little young when Mike Singletary was in his prime patrolling the middle for the Chicago Bears so I wasn’t able to fully appreciate him at the time.  I have a fondness for the things and people that were my favorites…

  • Chicago Bears NFL Draft Recap

    The 2013 NFL Draft is in the books and it is time to analyze what the Chicago Bears did in an effort to return to the playoffs for the first time since losing to the dreaded Packers in the NFC Championship game in January 2011.  The Bears had a lot of needs heading into the…

  • Fire – a NY Jets season

    Photo: New York Jets truck on fire. Is there any better metaphor for the New York Jets’ season?

  • Kellen Davis Martellus Bennett.

    #Bears fans will never have to see Kellen Davis drop another pass after the signing of Martellus Bennett. #NFL

  • Random Fire for March 7th

    This season’s Kentucky Wildcats basketball team is awful.  That’s right.  Awful.  The players have talent.  Tremendous talent.  But as a team, they are God awful.  It all starts with Archie Goodwin.  I saw it early in the season.  I hate to be an “I told you so” kind of person, especially because I wanted to…