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The North Carolina A&T Marching Band Advises You to Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife

September 1st, 2010 · No Comments

It’s not the first time a college marching band has played off an Internet meme. That does not make this any less awesome. It also gives me an excuse to post this photo of me playing with the N.C. A&T drum line. They’re all Internet dorks like me now. This warms my heart. If you’re [...]

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Tags: American Football

Spot Kicks: Did Ndamukong Suh Lose a Playoff Bet?

August 30th, 2010 · No Comments

I don’t pay much attention to the NFL pre-season, in part because it’s filled with games that don’t count, and I’m not that into watching practice squad (and UFL) fodder compete for jobs. These games aren’t anything to take seriously. That said, Lions rookie Ndamukong Suh is clearly taking the mere presence of Jake Delhomme [...]

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Tags: American Football · Association Football · Australian Football · Rugby Football

Could a New Football Helmet Reduce Brain Injuries?

August 20th, 2010 · Comments Off

Now that the gridiron game has proven to be rougher on its players’ brains than anyone realized, designers are taking another look at the football helmet and wondering if that’s the problem. An aerospace designer named Michael Princip thinks he might have a solution: a “multi-component anti-shock helmet design” that absorbs the energy of collisions [...]

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Tags: American Football

The Inner Life of Brett Favre

August 18th, 2010 · Comments Off

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] All apologies to The Run of Play, of course. Seriously, though, Brett Favre is making me hate the NFL. The more I hear about him, the more I want a full-season lockout in 2011. Just go away, old man.

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Tags: American Football

Luis Suarez And The Art of the Tactical Foul

July 3rd, 2010 · 14 Comments

In any team sport, a team has to accomplish a specific objective to score points. In basketball, for example, one has to put the ball in the basket in order to score. Basketball, however, might be the only team sport in which the rules allow points to be awarded in the event a team does [...]

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Tags: American Football · Association Football

What Price Football: Chris Henry and the Future of the Gridiron Game

June 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Last year, my family got together to celebrate my Uncle Johnny’s 80th birthday. This is a photo of him, on the left, with one of his old high school football teammates: Seeing an old fellow leatherhead led Uncle Johnny to tell us a few gridiron war stories. Most notable among them was one story about [...]

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Tags: American Football