Articles Tagged with #football
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The Falcons Stink
Sure, the Falcons have performed well since they signed Matt Ryan in 2008, but as reliably well as they play in the regular season, they lose with the same predictability in...
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The Eagles Stink
Three years ago, Vick was a chagrined third-stringer who hadn’t played football in two years because he’d been in jail; the following year, he posted a...
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The Bears Stink
Two weeks ago, Grantland’s Bill Barnwell ranked the Bears as the NFL’s best team. His argument began with a single sentence that speaks volumes: “Yes,...
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The Patriots Stink
The Patriots-specific sections of the Boston Sports fan forum “Sons of Sam Horn” is no different. While the passion and vitriol on display don’t offer solid...
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The Texans Stink
Instead, most of us living outside the greater Houston area feel a kind of neutral respect for the team, despite their enviable narrative momentum: They’re plucky upstarts! Their...
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The Vikings Stink
It doesn’t take a mathematical savant from Football Outsiders to know those numbers stink. In fact, when the Daily Norseman (that’s a real website devoted to...
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The Saints Stink
Neither answer tells the whole truth. Football also appeals to something more fundamental in my character, something worse: a desire for neat narrative arcs. Football narratives are easy and dangerous....
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The Refs Stink
During the post-game analysis, Steve Young seemed to fight back tears. “And it brings it down. To a level of other things that we see in sports, that&rsquo...
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TMN Weekender
Irreplaceable
In this edition of the TMN Weekender, a selection of stories about (American) football. Ready to read here on TMN or in an e-book you can export to your Kindle,...
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The Jets Stink
Which is how I found myself, as 2010 ended, witness to possibly the most poignant and prescient Jets-themed gift exchange ever. (Possibly there is not much competition in this particular category.) ...
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Postseason
Even if your team makes it to the playoffs, it’s only a brief stay of execution: The season extends, at the most, five weeks. Which means, for those...
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Super Bowl, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bill Belichick
That I am going to support the Patriots was never really in question. The Giants have eliminated the Packers from the playoffs twice in the past four years, and there...