Dave’s Football Blog

The following video shows the recent implosion of Texas Stadium. If you look closely, it kind of resembles the last four months of Santonio Holmes’ career. I’ve been quiet about the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offseason troubles thus far, in part because it seems what I wrote about Ben Roethlisberger four years ago… It’s really difficult for [...]

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There are people who still visit this blog thinking it’s the same old NFL blog it was in its first incarnation five years ago. Those people are probably wondering why I’m prattling on about Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, rather than saying something witty and profound about Donovan McNabb being traded to the Washington Redskins, a [...]

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There were many people — and I count myself among them — who were less than impressed with The Who’s performance during the Super Bowl XLIV halftime show. Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend looked old and lacked the sort of energy and focus that Prince, Bruce Springsteen and even Aerosmith surrounded by Mickey Mouse Club [...]

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Can we all please stop acting like the Philadelphia Eagles are somehow “mistreating” Donovan McNabb by trading him to the Oakland Raiders? Did the San Francisco 49ers mistreat Joe Montana when they traded him to Kansas City? Did they mistreat Jerry Rice when they cut him and let him go to Oakland? Did the Dallas [...]

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Remember when Malcolm Glazer was hailed as the man who rescued the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and brought that once horrid franchise a Lombardi Trophy? Apparently, none of that good will has been passed to his sons, who now look like they couldn’t convince a teabagger to buy a ticket to a Sarah Palin rally. I’ve [...]

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A century from now — assuming the world isn’t hit with a series of nasty EMPs that wipe out everyone’s hard drives and destroy the electronics we need to read discs and flash memory — we’ll have pristine HD video of football matches that will show people just how incredible Lionel Messi and Wayne Rooney [...]

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