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Nike Unveils New NFL Team Uniforms, My Favorite Team’s is Clearly the Best. Clearly.

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As of the 2012-2013 NFL season, Nike has replaced Reebok as the official uniform outfitter. When league officials announced the change in 2010, the world as a whole probably said, “Meh,” and went on with their lives. Most NFL fans I know, however, started trying to predict what the new uniforms would look like. Because, you know, we don’t have anything better to do.

As it turns out, we should have spent that time we wasted trying to figure out the new uniforms on actually working at our jobs. With the exception of very minor stylistic differences, just about every NFL team’s uniform stayed exactly the same. Except for one. Guess who? Read more…

We Can’t Let Kickers Win It In OT – Thus – New OT Rules for Regular Season Play

What is the question?

The NFL owners have decided that they think it’s a grand idea to adopt the Post Season overtime rules for the regular season. In a nutshell they say this:

Each team has an opportunity for a possession in overtime unless the team that receives the kickoff scores a touchdown on it’s opening drive.

Apparently if a kicker runs out and kicks a field goal and scores during over time, it immediately is a signal that all of the other players on the team have small penises.

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A Tale of Two QBs: Peyton Manning vs. Tim Couch

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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” – Football Fans in Cleveland and Indianapolis. (And Charles Dickens)

With the Denver Broncos’ recent signing of Peyton Manning, it’s made this Browns fan wonder about what might have been if Cleveland had been granted our replacement / expansion team one year earlier. In 1998, the Indianapolis Colts used the #1 overall pick in the NFL Draft on Manning, the QB from Tennessee. In 1999, the expansion Browns used the #1 pick on Tim Couch, the QB from Kentucky. Those two horizontal neighbors provided very different types of QBs to Ohio and Indiana, two vertically neighboring states.

Let’s compare and contrast the last decade-plus for these two gunslingers to see who has done better overall since getting drafted:

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Tim Tebow Traded From Broncos to Sodom and Gomorrah, Er, New York Jets

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J-E-T-S! JESUS! JESUS! JESUS!

That is how this goes, right? If not, then it’s about to change. Read more…

Sean Payton Gets Full Year Suspension for Bounty-Gate

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Any benefit Sean Payton got from his so-called “bounty program” went out the window today, as the NFL suspended him for one year without pay for his super sketchy management decision to compensate players for incapacitating specific opponents. Read more…

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