In the book Parcells: A Football Life by Bill Parcells and Nunyo Demasio, you learn how back in 2007, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank almost landed the Big Tuna as vice president of football operations. Meeting at Parcells’s home in Saratoga Springs it was quite the sequence with Blank in Parcells’s library cooling his heels […]
A Ray of Hope in a Darkened Sky – Belichick Style
The Patriots Stink News everywhere is bad. Israel is at war after being brutally attacked by Hamas. Iran is reportedly behind this outrage. Ecuador was once a retirement dream for plucky Americans before the drug gangs arrived. Reports claim “magical” beachfront towns are being transformed into “violent transit points for cocaine.” Pangas—small, slow-moving fishing boats—now […]
Mirabile Dictu
Let’s have a little football, as Jay Nordlinger would put it: This year’s opening day, the Detroit Lions played the Kansas City Chiefs in Kansas City. Jay Nordlinger in NRO accuses the Lions of being “one of the worst franchises in professional sports.” before correcting himself, that is, “in the history of professional sports.” Jay […]
A Super Bowl for the Ages
Congratulations to the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs and MVP Patrick Mahomes. What a game. Mahomes’s run up the middle for 26 yards late in the fourth quarter (on a bad ankle to boot) looked like he was running from his best friends on the playground. That was awesome. Patrick Mahomes with a 26-yard […]
What It Takes to Be like Tom Brady
You may have noticed that Tom Brady threw for five touchdowns yesterday. Ho-hum. Just another day at the office. Why can’t the Patriots get good players like Brady? Actually, New England fans are pretty excited about rookie QB Mac Jones, a product of Nick Saban’s Alabama. Heading into this season here’s what Saban and Patriots […]
Gene Simmons: Tim Tebow Critics Are Shameful for Mocking His Christian Convictions
Gene Simmons, whom I’ve written about before, has slammed critics of Tim Tebow, calling out their mockery of Tebow’s faith. The Blaze’s Chris Field reports: Tebow, whose Christian faith has been his most identifying characteristic, was often the butt of over the top mockery, anti-faith jokes, and censorship. For example: Liberal groups pressured CBS to […]
Congratulations Tampa Bay and Tom Brady
Wow, that was quite the show. As local sportscaster Bob Lobel used to ask when a former New England player found success on another team: Why can’t we get players like that? From the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaugnessy (abridged) It’s Brady’s seventh Super Bowl victory, more than any NFL franchise. He was named Super Bowl […]
Bill Belichick Turns on Trump
The Young Companies will no longer be supporting Bill Belichick or New England Patriots football. Patriots’ HC Bill Belichick will not be traveling to Washington nor accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he announced today. pic.twitter.com/uvLLigFlHU — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 12, 2021
Left-Wing Activist Disaster for the NFL
The editors of The Federalist’s BRIGHT blog write: Sunday night’s football match between the Rams and Cowboys was expected to bring in big ratings for the NFL, amidst a 2020 season of low viewership. Those expectations were not met. DEADLINE Hollywood reports that ratings for the game were down a stunning 28 percent. The numbers spell […]
Does Roger Goodell Really Support the Marxist BLM?
In a recent statement to the press, Roger Goodell told BLM “We, the National Football League, believe Black Lives Matter. I personally protest with you and want to be a part of the much needed change in this country.” Does Roger Goodell, who works for 32 of America’s wealthiest citizens, really believe in the Marxist […]