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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

Nick Lachey Simply Will Not Go Away

You know when we were joking earlier about ESPN finding more airtime for Nick Lachey? Uh, it looks like we weren't kidding, and we didn't even know it....

by Leitch|Nick Lachey

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Page 2 Hires USC Cheerleader. We Mean That Pretty Much Literally

Who is Erica Lucero? Well, she's a sophomore at the University of Southern California, she's an opinion columnist at the Daily Trojan and, apparently, the newest writer for Page 2. The site's 19-year-old "Gal on campus" is filing reports all season about what it's like to be at USC during the Matt...

by Leitch|Usc

|Tue Jun 18 2013

From Meathead To Television Capitalist

In what is apparently becoming a trend in high-profile reality shows, "The Apprentice" will feature a former NFL player in its cast this year. ("Survivor" will include former Cowboys quarterback Gary Hogeboom.)...

by Leitch|College Football

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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

Cha-cha-chaing With Matt Leinart

Life is good if you're Southern California quarterback Matt Leinart. Not only are you a defending Heisman Trophy winner, and not only is the entire Los Angeles metro area at your beck and call, but you're also redefining the term "student-athlete:" Leinart is taking just one class this year. And i...

by Leitch|Southern California

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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...

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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....

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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....

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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 ...

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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...

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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:...

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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...

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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.)...

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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:...

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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?...

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Kraft Meant To Give The Ring All Along! Of course!

Patriots owner Robert Kraft now says that he meant to give Russian president Vladimir Putin his Super Bowl ring in the first place....

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

He Should Have At Least Gotten Some Vodka Out Of It

Patriots owner Robert Kraft was out doing what huge capitalists do this week: Meeting with leaders of other countries and gladhanding them enough so they'll give them some free shit down the line. Kraft shook hands with Russian president Vladimir Putin and, to show off, handed Putin his Patriots ...

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Kurt Warner, Busy Man, Getting Busy

New Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner is renowned for his firm Christian values and devotion to family, his wife and God. (Not in that order.) He also, according to an interview with the Arizona Cardinals Web site, can apparently inseminate his wife just by looking at her....

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

The LaVar Arrington Weekend

A spy sends us this report from an event that Redskins linebacker LaVar Arrington and 49ers defender Julian Peterson hosted this last weekend which allegedly involved gunfire:...

by Leitch|Nfl

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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