Tim Tebow. Green Eggs and Ham. Auto-Tuned.

Via PFT

10:51 am - 22 Feb 2012 - 1 note
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Filed under: #football #Tim Tebow #Denver Broncos

With a 3-2 record in Super Bowls, [Brady] looks a lot less like Montana and more like … John Elway, I guess? Who may have been better than Montana? But Montana might not be as good as Brady … and Brady can’t find a way to beat Eli Manning … who’s probably not as good as his brother … whom Tom Brady once dominated.

— Bomani Jones, effectively trolling the Ringz Uber Alles crowd.

10:21 am - 6 Feb 2012
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Filed under: #football #Tom Brady #Eli Manning #Joe Montana #Peyton Manning #Super Bowl

Deion Sanders, the ideal Super Bowl Media Day correspondent. Check out more examples from Dan Levy.

4:06 pm - 31 Jan 2012 - 3 notes
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Filed under: #football #Super Bowl #Deion Sanders #New York Giants #New England Patriots #Eli Manning

Last year Stefan Hankin of Lincoln Park Strategies threw Craig James into a statewide poll and found that James was less popular in West Texas than Barack Obama. ‘It’s not that people in West Texas don’t like him,’ said [GOP political consultant Brian] Mayes. ‘It’s that nobody likes him.’

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Ladies and gentlemen, Craig James!

Via Deadspin

1:54 pm - 27 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #politics #football #Craig James #Texas

Devin Thomas, who recovered both fumbles, told the Star-Ledger “he’s had a lot of concussions. We were just like, ‘We gotta put a hit on that guy.’ [Tyler] Sash did a great job hitting him early and he looked kind of dazed when he got up. I feel like that made a difference and he coughed it up.”

This is a fascinating angle I also want to see covered more.

10:15 am - 24 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #football #Kyle Williams #San Francisco 49ers #New York Giants

Nine years after he was pitched overboard by Matt Millen for Steve Mariucci, Marty Mornhinweg could be headed back to the top job for an NFL team.

Via our corporate cousins at CSNPhilly.com, an online oddsmaker has installed Mornhinweg as the favorite to replace Jim Caldwell.

If this comes to pass, Mornhinweg would be the first ex-Lions head coach to be hired for another NFL/AFL head coaching job since George Wilson left Detroit to take over the Dolphins in 1966*. Wilson jumped leagues for his new job, so to find an ex-Lions head coach who was hired elsewhere in the NFL, you’ve got to go back to Wilson’s predecessor, Buddy Parker, who went from Detroit to the top job with Pittsburgh back in 1957.

*Dick Jauron was an interim head coach in 2005 and later was the head man in Buffalo, but that’s the closest they’ve gotten.

9:59 am - 19 Jan 2012 - 1 note
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Filed under: #football #Marty Mornhinweg #Indianapolis Colts #Detroit Lions

This is a horrifying image for San Francisco 49ers fans. The weather at Candlestick Park this Saturday is expected to be sunny, clear, with light winds, and temperatures hitting as high as 67 degrees. Sounds great for a bike ride at Candlestick Point, but it’s looking more and more like the legendary swirling winds and bitter cold at The ‘Stick won’t descend until Sunday, too late to help knock off the New Orleans Saints juggernaut.

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10:44 am - 13 Jan 2012 - 7 notes
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Filed under: #football #San Francisco 49ers #New Orleans Saints

Of all the corrupt things surrounding college athletics, no matter what they may say in Boise, postseason reform is small potatoes. While the BCS as a championship system could be better, it isn’t wrong. It’s obviously imperfect, and its potential for error and PR catastrophe is high. But as things go in the broken world of college sports, the BCS is one of the few things that does what it says it will. The sport it influences so greatly is overwhelmingly popular and lucrative on nearly every level. Until the masses stop acknowledging its champions, to call the BCS illegitimate is disingenuous. What’s wrong is how poorly players are compensated for their efforts. What’s worse is how powerless they are to do anything about it. And if that’s not bad enough, their plight is ignored while a friggin’ playoff is discussed using terms like “access” and “opportunity,” the sort of rhetoric used in fights for civil rights.

— As usual, Bomani Jones is pretty right.

12:10 pm - 11 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #college football #football

A few weeks ago, I was talking with a high-level NFL executive who told me, based on talking directly with the Broncos, that the team’s original plan was to play Tebow a few weeks for the fans, and then start with the rebuilding process. Tebow was former coach Josh McDaniels’ pick and the Broncos, according to this executive, wanted to move on. They wanted nothing to do with the McDaniels’ regime.

— Michael Lombardi, reporting that Tim Tebow was, apparently, supposed to fall on his face, and ruined a well-laid plan. If true, this is exceptionally damning of Broncos brass, who sent a player on the field specifically to fail instead of seeking out what they thought was a better solution.

9:06 am - 14 Dec 2011 - 2 notes
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Filed under: #football #Tim Tebow

Weak. Sauce.

[Jen] Wiley’s son, now 4 years old, is actually named Spurrier Urban Wiley, after Florida’s two national championship winning coaches — Steve Spurrier and Meyer - but after Meyer’s move to the Big Ten, Wiley wants to change her son’s middle name.

Here’s your lesson for the day: don’t name your child after someone who has a pretty good chance of disappointing you. And if that namesake does disappoint you, use it as a teachable moment.

10:32 am - 7 Dec 2011
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Filed under: #Urban Meyer #football