Remember when we said that Randy Moss is a quitter who only plays when he wants to play? Two weeks ago suddenly seems like two decades ago, after a scoreboard cameraman in Gillette Stadium found a dude in a Randy Moss mask in the stands, and Moss decided to have a little fun with him [...]

[Read more →]

O MY GOD ONE TIME I TOOK A SNAP TURNED AROUND AND THREW THE BALL OVER MY HEAD AND SAID WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! Seriously, it’s more fun if you’re listening to this while watching that video. (Spotted on The Sporting Blog.)

[Read more →]

Three years ago, I wrote about Carolina Panthers v. New Orleans Saints game in which the Saints, down by four points with 1:56 left to go, failed to stop DeShaun Foster from getting a key first down and let him run into the end zone for a touchdown. The Saints then scored a TD of [...]

[Read more →]

In August of 2004, I launched this humble little football blog with no other purpose than to share my thoughts on “our modern-day gladiators” in the National Football League. The four and a half years since then have been quite an adventure, but alas, all adventures must end, and I have decided it’s time to [...]

[Read more →]

So The Run of Play put up this post last week that looked at what was written on that site a year ago. Far more intrigued by this than I had any right to be, I decided to look back here and see what I was writing in this space last November. My discovery? Despite [...]

[Read more →]

If you’re looking for the one thing that separates American sports from sports in other countries, it’s this — in America, someone has to win every single game. Is that baseball game tied after 9 innings? Play another inning. Is that basketball game tied at the end of regulation? Play another five minutes. Still not [...]

[Read more →]