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Football Outsiders Poo On Skip Bayless Some More

Football Outsiders Poo On Skip Bayless Some More

Every successful enterprise needs a villain, and as Football Outsiders becomes more and more popular — their book just arrived at Deadspin World Headquarters and is being devoured with much haste, even as we type — their glee at picking apart ESPN "Cold Pizza" wax automaton Skip Bayless becomes more...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

McMichael's Wife Dropped From Fantasy Rosters

McMichael's Wife Dropped From Fantasy Rosters

Just about two months after being arrested for throwing his wife from their car — it was his second arrest for spousal abuse within a year — Dolphins tight end Randy McMichael has pleaded out, accepting a misdemeanor of "trespassing," on his wife, in a similar way that Jason Christensen "trespasse...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Kicking Off The Season With Satan

Kicking Off The Season With Satan

According to the The Boston Herald, which is being amusingly hush-hush about the whole thing, tonight's special guest at the NFL Kickoff Festivities will be Ozzy Osbourne. What does Ozzy Osbourne have to do with football? Well, Kanye West doesn't have anything to do with football either, and if Ozzy...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

NFL Sighs, Pretends It Doesn't Want To Strangle Kanye West

NFL Sighs, Pretends It Doesn't Want To Strangle Kanye West

By now, you've heard all about rapper Kanye West's impromptu blasting of President Bush in the middle of a telethon. Whatever your thoughts on West's actions, it certainly puts the NFL in an interesting situation; West is scheduled to perform at the NFL Kickoff Ceremonies tonight. (Oh, the NFL sea...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Terrell Owens' Suspicious Charity

Terrell Owens' Suspicious Charity

Now, far be it from us to accuse any athlete of being anything less than 100 percent magnanimous in all of his charitable endeavors ... but we couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at Eagles flapjaw wide receiver Terrell Owens' newest attempt to confuse human beings into mistaking him for a nice fell...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Look Up "Class" in the Dictionary, You'll See a Picture of Larry King

Look Up "Class" in the Dictionary, You'll See a Picture of Larry King

From the Reasons Radio Will Never Die department, it appears that Westwood One Radio is considering hiring Larry King to appear on its Monday Night Football radio broadcasts this year. This is the best news we have heard in months; we still haven't quite recovered SI.com canned his batshit nuts "S...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

The Monstrosity of Leaving The Big Easy

The Monstrosity of Leaving The Big Easy

Currently, the New Orleans Saints — we have to keep reminding ourselves that New Orleans had a football team, and that they still exist right now — are denying CNN's reports that the Superdome will have to be torn down, but whether CNN is right or not, the team still needs someplace to play right ...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

A Full Report on Marvin Jones' Weekend of Sex

A Full Report on Marvin Jones' Weekend of Sex

Some pure gold from NFL Wives Club Yahoo Group today: A discussion of former Jets linebacker Marvin Jones, pictured above with his family. Apparently, someone had a weekend fling with the very married Jones and wrote into the group asking for info. The poster "Gata Negro," after reading a bio abou...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

NFL To New Orleans: Let Them Eat Cake

NFL To New Orleans: Let Them Eat Cake

We live in New York City, which inexplicably does not carry the NFL Network — write your Congressmen! — so we missed a pretty huge faux pas from the league. Fortunately, those intrepid souls at Football Outsiders watched it for us....

by Leitch|NFL Network

|Tue Jun 18 2013

NFL Network Rids Itself Of Stoners, Past, Present and Future

NFL Network Rids Itself Of Stoners, Past, Present and Future

Former Minnesota Vikings running back Robert Smith was always one of our favorite players when he was in the league. He was unusually intelligent — particularly for someone who went to Ohio State — retired at the top of his game and was renowned for his charitable foundations, most notably The Rob...

by Leitch|NFL Network

|Tue Jun 18 2013

The Metrodome Gestapo

The Metrodome Gestapo

People have always hated The Minneapolis Metrodome, and now they have a new reason: It's a Nazi building. So says somebody/something called "Tim's TV," which claims at his/its site, "The Swastika Dome," that the Metrodome has a swastika designed in its roof. Just because we've just discovered thi...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Groupie Fight!

Groupie Fight!

Big fun on the NFL Wives Yahoo Group this morning. Apparently, a woman who's dating an NFL player stumbled across the site and was shocked (shocked!) to see it was populated by groupies....

|Tue Jun 18 2013

T.O.'s Die Hard Fans Go Crazy

T.O.'s Die Hard Fans Go Crazy

The above poll question is currently on the front page of Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens' official Web site....

|Tue Jun 18 2013

HOOGA-BOOM Joins Reality TV World

HOOGA-BOOM Joins Reality TV World

If you are old enough to have watched the NFL back when Brent Musberger, Phillis George and Jimmy the Greek were on "The NFL Today" — and Kevin Nealon's famous SNL mockery of Musberger; "Here on CBSsssssssssss — you will surely remember old Cowboys quarterback Gary Hogeboom. Hogeboom played from ...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

At Least He Hasn't Shown Up At Training Camp Yet

At Least He Hasn't Shown Up At Training Camp Yet

New Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Matt Jones is a bit of a mystery to many NFLers; he has almost unnatural physical gifts, but no one is sure he will make the transition to the pro game. Fortunately, for only $350, you can answer the question about one section of his physical gifts: What's hi...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Oprah Winfrey, The New Lombardi

Oprah Winfrey, The New Lombardi

Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson is notorious for being talented, brash and way-too-loud-mouthed. Kind of like Oprah! OK, not really, but Johnson confesses that the real point of his football career is to figure out a way to make it on Oprah's show. Johnson says:...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Just Asking ... Hypothetical ... No Offense Intended

Just Asking ... Hypothetical ... No Offense Intended

We know we're not supposed to be suspicious of this. We know we're supposed to accept that agent Drew Rosenhaus, who has been a feature subject in every newspaper with a beat writer and seems to want to single handedly send the NFL into a labor war, we know we're supposed to believe every second o...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

McMichael Gets Early Jump On Training Camp With Wife

McMichael Gets Early Jump On Training Camp With Wife

Miami Dolphins tight end Randy McMichael was arrested last week for spousal abuse, his second arrest for that charge in the last 13 months. (The good news is that she wasn't pregnant this time.)...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

NFL Stars Enjoy Playing With Themselves And Other NFL Stars

NFL Stars Enjoy Playing With Themselves And Other NFL Stars

We are just more than a month away from the release of Madden 06, the EA Sports game that's slowly becoming just about as much fun as the actual NFL. At a release party for the game in Manhattan last week, various NFL players tried it out. Selected highlights:...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Sports Illustrated Knows Not Of This Herpes!

Sports Illustrated Knows Not Of This Herpes!

We picked up our copy of Sports Illustrated yesterday and were most pleased to see Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick on the cover. Finally! Vick ends his silence on the whole giving women herpes fiasco and shed some light on that whole Ron Mexico business. Why else would he be on the cover?...

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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