Bill Belichick (coach), Tom Brady (quarterback) and Robert Kraft (owner) differ on Brady’s trainer, body coach, business partner Alex Guerrero. According to Seth Wickersham at ESPN: THE CRACKS FIRST revealed themselves in early September. The season had just started, and Guerrero was once again becoming an issue in the Patriots’ building, just weeks before the release […]
Nescient Millionaire 20-Somethings’ Moral Superiority
What do the NFL, ESPN and higher-education administrative cadre have in common? Exhaustion, writes Victor Davis Hanson. They all have forgotten their original mission: respectively, athleticism; sports commentary; and inductive thinking, civic education, and disinterested inquiry. Instead, given their money and adulation, sports and colleges puffed themselves up as Olympians who from high could sermonize […]
How the NFL Shows Its Colors
Exactly what are the NFL players protesting when kneeling during the playing of our National Anthem? “At the start, the protest was explicitly directed at purportedly institutional racism in the nation’s police departments, which had supposedly led to an epidemic of police violence against black men,” explains Andrew McCarthy in NRO. McCarthy goes on to […]
The NFL Fan Base Will Dissipate
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan writes that the NFL conflict is a mirror for the current divide in America. Pat called Sunday a sad day for NFL players, coaches, commentators, owners and fans. He also says it’s going to get worse. He continues (abridged): The culture war has come to the NFL. And Trump […]
Carlson Slams NFL for No Respect
Former New England Patriot Retires
Former New England Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork, in announcing his retirement, will be hanging up his cleats. What’s next? His options are open. Check it out.
The Reality Distortion Field Surrounding Football
Gisele Bündchen, the supermodel and beauty/fitness mogul, also happens to be the spouse of NFL superstar Tom Brady. In a recent interview on the Charlie Rose show, Ms. Bündchen spoke of her husband, suggesting that he has “suffered concussions regularly over the course of his career,” writes Jason Gay in the WSJ. Bündchen is probably […]
Edelman to Brady: Let’s Win this for Your Mom
Perhaps the most poignant story coming out of the Super Bowl was Tom Brady’s dedication of the game to his cancer stricken mom. A Mic’d Up Julian Edelman focused on Brady’s mom to get himself and the QB psyched up when things looked bad for the Patriots in Super Bowl LI. Here WEEI lists some […]
Congratulations Peyton Manning
Congratulations to Peyton Manning and the Super Bowl 50 Champion Denver Broncos. There is no arguing that in victory or defeat Peyton Manning knows what it’s like to be a W-I-N-N-E-R. What a way to go out if he decides to hang ‘em up.
Super Bowl 50 Best Ad Winner
And the winner is: Hyundai’s ‘First Date’ wins USA TODAY’s Super Bowl Ad Meter.