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Future of the NFL: The Virtual, Augmented, 3D, 360-Degree Football Experience

November 4, 2016

Tom Brady is standing on the pool table in your man cave. Brady looks real enough to reach out and touch as he waits for the snap behind the Patriots line. ...

Great Offensive Line Play (Seriously) Has Some Teams Rediscovering the Run

November 3, 2016

Old-fashioned, hard-nosed, slobber-knocker, ground-and-pound, insert-cliche-here, running-game oriented football is making a comeback.  The Cowboys, Bills and Titans all are averaging more than 150 rushing yards per game. Over the three previous ...

Urban Legends of the NFL: Mel Blount’s Killer Pass Interference

November 2, 2016

No, Mel Blount never killed an opponent on the field. There's an urban legend that Blount, a bone-crunching Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers defensive back of the 1970s, actually delivered a ...

Cam Newton’s Roughing-the-Passer Complaints Open Pandora’s Box of Questions

November 1, 2016

Could the NFL be sitting on a trove of data about blown penalties and officiating errors? If so, then this is information that teams, players and fans need to see. ...

Monday Morning Digest: The NFL Is Fun Again, Especially If You’re the Patriots

October 31, 2016

The games were better this week. Much better. Thank heavens. Packers-Falcons was a gem. Seahawks-Saints came down to the final play. Redskins-Bengals was a tie, but it was an exciting tie, ...

Prescott-Wentz Duel Has Look of Special Rivalry, but Both Have Plenty to Prove

October 27, 2016

Dak Prescott and Carson Wentz are supposed to be third-string quarterbacks. They entered training camp buried behind established, expensive starters and veteran backups.  One thing led to another, and now they ...

Urban Legends of the NFL: The Fixing of Super Bowl XL

October 26, 2016

The football world was in a state of chaos. The Steelers had just stolen Super Bowl XL from the Seahawks with the help of some shockingly one-sided officiating.  Fans and sportswriters ...

Bad Football? It May Be (Mostly) an Optical Illusion

October 25, 2016

Sunday's slate of NFL games sure looked ugly. They were ugly before breakfast, ugly after midnight, ugly in the city, ugly in the desert, ugly on two continents. It looked ...

Monday Morning Digest: Can’t Look Away from an Unwatchable NFL Sunday

October 24, 2016

Yuck.  This was one ugly week of football. All of the major matchups featured the worst that the NFL has to offer: fumbles galore, penalties, field goals, missed field goals, muffed ...

Why Is There a NFL Ratings Crisis? Look No Further Than London, Thursday Games

October 20, 2016

It's 6:30 on Sunday morning, Angelenos. Do you know where your new NFL team is? Why, it is kicking off in Merry Olde England, of course. The NFL allowed the Rams ...

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