Football’s role in Junior Seau’s suicide
Daniel Engber, at Slate: We don’t need the CDC numbers to tell us that the national debate over head trauma and suicide has long since outpaced the scientific evidence. Just[...]
Category: Football
A sneak peek at Madden ’13
Madden ’13 is coming in June, and it’s putting you in the game in a whole new way.
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New York City sports history, in pictures
A hundred-plus years of Yankees, boxers, and skaters.
If you build it, will they come?
LA has no football team, but it’s about to have a heck of a football stadium.
NFL logos redone to fit their teams
The Gridiron League helps every team look the part.
Betting the Farm
Systems don’t matter without the right guy running the show.
Football in 1903
Jason Kottke dug up a clip of a 1903 football game between Princeton and Yale, and it’s a pretty fascinating look at how different the game was in its early[...]
Sports Illustrated’s view of the Super Bowl
Sports Illustrated took 364 different photos of the Super Bowl, and stitched them together to make one enormous, pannable, zoomable photo of the game as it was being played. The[...]
Required reading before the Super Bowl
Get ready for The Big Game.
It’s all in the camera angles
Tomorrow’s Super Bowl will almost certainly be the most-watched television event of 2012. It also might be the most-watched television event in history, a crown that currently belongs to last[...]
A sneak peek at the NFL’s new uniforms
The NFL is getting Nike’d.
The one good thing that happened at the Pro Bowl
This weekend was the NFL’s Pro Bowl, though you’d be forgiven for not remembering that fact. If you missed it, here’s what happened: the AFC won 59-41 (a record number[...]
NFL Championship Weekend Preview
Championship weekend is here. Here’s what to watch for.
Forget QBs — I want DEs
After watching all four games this weekend, I’ve come to believe that quarterbacks aren’t the most important players in any given NFL game. Despite the fact that that the games[...]
Fighting the System
On Matt Flynn and “System Quarterbacks.”
