After Monday night’s humiliating 13-28 loss to the Saints, a 2-5 team that had been giving up, on average, over 30 points a game, the Eagles have a number of pressing concerns. But the challenges ahead for mustachioed head coach Andy Reid and his team pale in
Change is hard, for football teams no less than people. In fact, the only thing harder than making substantive changes may be convincing others that you’re really, truly different. My therapist says it’s possible. Still, it’s not hard to see why Chicago fans, after years of humiliation
Fan message boards are notoriously alarmist; they’re the place where die-hards go to poke the bruise after a tough loss or question the merits of a shaky win. People who post pride themselves on not being deluded by loyalty or love. The Patriots-specific sections of the Boston
It’s hard to get excited about the Houston Texans. This, despite the fact that they’re a 10-year-old expansion team tied for first in the AFC; that they started a third-string quarterback in a playoff game and won; that running back Arian Foster leads the league
Let’s start with some numbers. Three: the number of games the Vikings won in the 2011 season. Six: the number of games Donovan McNabb, who was picked up by the team after Brett Favre (finally, for real) retired, played that year as starting quarterback. Seventy point one: the quarterback
When asked why I devote a not inconsiderable amount of time and energy to football, I usually give one of two answers. There is the personal: I grew up watching the game. And there is the self-justifying: It’s inherently worth grappling with a sport watched by, on average,
On Monday night, following a spectacularly botched call in front of a television audience of 16 million football fans, Americans, as we so often do in times of crisis, took to the internet. There were cries of outrage from the aggrieved—the Packers’ T. J. Lang tweeted: “Fuck it NFL
Two years ago, I was a recent transplant to New York with little more than a sublet and an unpaid internship to my name. Going home to California for the winter holidays seemed impractical, and anyway, a dear college friend whose family was convening in his grandfather’s Manhattan apartment
The lot of a football fan is a rough one. Fans of professional hockey and basketball have 82 games in the regular season to look forward to. A baseball junkie gets to gorge himself on 162. Tennis lovers have four major tournaments and a slew of minor ones. But the
Like a lot of people this Sunday, I’ll be choosing sides in a contest whose outcome is going to be disappointing. The team I’m rooting for (the 2007 Green Bay Packers) can’t win. This is a replay of one of my least favorite Super Bowls in recent
