Listen carefully, that silence you hear is the sound of nobody missing the Pro Bowl.
These numbers are far from shocking. (And that is sad).
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"INDIANAPOLIS—The NFL is increasing the number of Thursday night games so more of its teams can play in prime time. Commissioner Roger Goodell said that there will be Thursday night games on the NFL Network from the second to the 15th week of the season, giving all of the league’s teams a chance to appear in prime time on some outlet. Those games will be in addition to the usual Sunday night and Monday night games, which tend to feature teams coming off good seasons. Goodell revealed the television scheduling change at his state of the NFL news conference Friday."
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Goodell says league expanding prime time games - Boston.com
Ugh, I’m generally pretty meh on Thursday games, but they’re really a pain in our annual pick-em league.
The NFL’s annual Pro Bowl routinely provides the league with an occasion to let its hair down. Or, some would say, to remove to the stick from a place where sticks ordinarily aren’t stuck.
At this year’s Pro Bowl, the league will permit players to post Twitter messages during the game, according to Darren Rovell of CNBC.
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This could get interesting…
Great stuff here from Scott Kacsmar, the entire article is must-read. But the below quote is a fascinating stat on the D…
The New England Patriots are the only defense in the league to never allow more than 27 points in any game this season (including playoffs). A few caveats: this is all about points allowed by the defense. Buffalo scored 34, but 7 were the result of a pick six thrown Brady. The Patriots allowed 27 twice on defense (Buffalo, Washington), which is their “minmax” this year. Only the 49ers also allowed no more than 27 points in the regular season (and also twice), but did allow 32 to the Saints in the NFC Divisional. Every other team gave up 28 at least once on defense. Was it just a coincidence the Patriots and 49ers hosted on Championship Sunday? We’ll leave that one on the research backburner. Just know for right now that the Patriots haven’t given up more than 27 to any offense, and that has been a critical factor in getting to Super Bowl XLVI.
I guess it was too early to hope for a week (finally) in this NFL season in which the media wouldn’t be obsessed with Tim Tebow.
Looking forward to Saturday’s game in Foxborough to end it once and for all (or at least until the offseason).
DARK NIGHT RETURNS The lights go out a second time during a National League Football match between the San Francisco 49ers and the Pittsburgh Steelers at Candlestick Park on Monday, Dec. 19. Video prior to the game showed what appeared to be a transformer explosion outside the stadium just before the first power outage. (Photo: Ezra Shaw / Getty Images via the San Francisco Chronicle)
It actually looks beautiful like this. Almost like a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Is it a coincidence that this happened on the same day as the trailer for the new Batman movie was released? (Which also involves a disaster at a football game — with a faux-Pittsburgh team)?
This mustache is ready for some football! (Go Pats)
To be followed by some basketball, with the Hoyas’ midnight tipoff from Maui!
Wow, that Patriots game was pretty ugly.
Tough to win when you have pretty much no offense.
At least Liz will enjoy having the Steelers mini-helmet on top of the Christmas tree for just the second time in our six years of marriage.
Patriots tight end AARON HERNANDEZ, getting hit by Jets linebacker David Harris, at Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Oct. 9, 2011
What they were thinking - Boston.com:
“You better get off my head before I … I’m just joking. What was I thinking on that play? I’ve got to score. I don’t know, it just happened so fast, I forgot. He cut my lip and he scratched me. I’ve had a helmet ripped off my head before. I was thinking, ‘Ow, that hurts.’ My mother saw it and said, ‘Be nice to my baby,’ or something like that. Be nice to me.”
