Articles Tagged with #football
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End Zone
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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End Zone
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...
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Season Retrospective
In Week 8, the Giants (5-2) and the Patriots (5-2) both had a worse record than the perennially disappointing Lions (6-2). What other team had a 5-and-2 record that week? The...
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Conference Championships
Whatever the reason, something went horribly wrong for Green Bay at Lambeau on Sunday. It was as if, in a Freaky Friday-type incident, the Packers’ entire offense had switched...
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Division Weekend
Of perhaps slightly greater significance, as we look ahead to this weekend’s Divisional Playoffs: It turns out that clichés, just like dreams, sometimes do come true...
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End Zone
Wildcard Weekend
Watching football is a complicated pleasure, one distinctly tinged with discomfort, even guilt. You can’t watch James Harrison, the Steelers linebacker, head-butt Browns quarterback Colt McCoy to the...
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Spoofs & Satire
John Ashcroft’s 2002 College Football Preview
Thanks to the 2001 PATRIOT Act, we can learn the dark secrets that lurk in the hearts of men. The time is upon us to take this information and put it to good use: predicting the 2002 college-football champions.