Thanksgiving day is one of my favorite holiday’s of the year for two reasons – Football and Food. It begins with the family sitting down at noon for the first of two helpings of grandma’s turkey dinner. I was in such a hurry to woof down all my food and get back to the couch [...]
It was one of the most bizarre endings to a football game I have seen in the 30-plus years I have been following the National Football League. The Cleveland Browns defeated the Baltimore Ravens, 33-30, in overtime Sunday in a game changing call that was reversed without the help of instant replay. “But they made the [...]
I give Vinny Testaverde all the credit for stepping back onto the football field this year after just a short retirement period. Testaverde, who turned 44 years old last week, came out of retirement after the quarterbacks on the Carolina Panthers started dropping like flies. Testaverde’s first start of the season for the Panthers was a [...]
Totally calm and cool, Jimmie Johnson left the pre-race drivers’ meeting Sunday afternoon flashing the peace sign at people wishing him luck. Two fingers. Two straight championships. Johnson became the first driver to win consecutive championships since Jeff Gordon in 1997 and ’98, wrapping up the title by finishing a trouble-free seventh in the season [...]
Let the hype begin for the biggest Kansas-Missouri game ever. Todd Reesing passed for 253 yards and four touchdowns and No. 4 Kansas remained unbeaten Saturday with a 45-7 rout of Iowa State, setting up a grand showdown with sixth-ranked Missouri for the Big 12 North title and possibly much more. Missouri did its part [...]
Dante Culpepper makes his second start of the season against a former team as the Oakland Raiders travel to Minnesota to take on the Vikings in the Metrodome. Culpepper turned the clock back in week 4 as he led the Raiders to a 35-17 win over the Miami Dolphins in South Florida. Culpepper threw for two [...]
I’ve never seen an 8-1 team, in the thirty plus years I have been following the National Football League, getting as little respect as the Green Bay Packers are this season. The so called NFL Experts must think that Rodney Dangerfield is the quarterback of the Packers this year instead of 3-time MVP and first ballot [...]
For the second consecutive year, the Indianapolis Colts have turned to one of head coach Tony Dungy’s former defensive lineman in Tampa Bay to save their season. The Colts learned Tuesday afternoon that they lost their All-Pro pass rusher Dwight Freeney for the season. They wasted no time signing Simeon Rice, a two-time All-Pro defensive [...]
Who would’ve thought after week 10 of the National Football League that the only thing standing between the Green Bay Packers and the top spot in the Hookscenter Power Poll would be the New England Patriots. The Packers continued their spectacular play Sunday afternoon as they thumped the Minnesota Vikings, 34-0, in front of 70,945 fans [...]
Nobody could touch Jeff Gordon in his prime, a three-year stretch when he won 33 races and consecutive championships.That was almost 10 years ago, and few thought they’d ever see a driver capable of dominating the way Gordon did. Until Jimmie Johnson came along. Johnson took command of the Nextel Cup championship Sunday, winning at [...]
