Month: October 2024

data-mm-id=”_aociiwfcb”>The NFL returned Thursday night as the Kansas City Chiefs took down the Houston Texans, 34-20 in the season's opening game. With the return of football comes the discourse you and I both love to engage in: ratings debates! That particular discussion promises to be even more heated this season as the "stick to sports" crowd gets worked up about the various demonstrations promoting social justice the NFL and its players have promised to put on over the course of the season. It has already begun. The numbers are in from the opener, and average viewership was down about 10 percent from the 2019 season. The NFL season opener on NBC averaged 20.3 million viewers, down from 22.7 million viewers a year ago. Let the arguments about the decline commence. Th…

data-mm-id=”_eep1uvakm”>The NFL is currently facing a major crisis. Several teams have been hit by COVID-19 outbreaks and the 2020 schedule has been fully reworked already. With more positive cases coming almost daily, the league needs to immediately add several weeks to the end of the season for makeup games. On Friday, the New England Patriots canceled their practice after yet another positive coronavirus test. If the result is confirmed by a second positive test, the Patriots may not be able to face the Denver Broncos as scheduled on Sunday. That game was already rescheduled from Week 5, after Patriots defensive lineman Byron Cowart tested positive. Reporting with @FieldYates: The Patriots will be canceling their Friday practice after a positive COVID-19 test, per a source. There is…

data-mm-id=”_e11x0rmbv”>Myles Garrett is a physical specimen. The NFL stats and highlights back that up. However, the football pads hide just exactly what offensive linemen are really dealing with on a weekly basis. Yesterday, Garrett posted a video on Twitter from a pickup basketball session. Myles Garrett playing basketball in a Jurassic Park jersey might be the scariest thing in all of sports. You need a big guard @mcuban? ? pic.twitter.com/73c55fEqTp— Flash Garrett ⚡️ (@MylesLGarrett) February 24, 2021To put it in classic basketball Twitter parlance, Myles Garrett is a problem. He looks like Zion Williamson if he traveled back to the 80s and spent a year training with the original cast of Predator. So what would it take for you to stand in front of that man if he were going t…

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data-mm-id=”_jxgrmibp5″>When reports emerged on Monday that the Indianapolis Colts had granted Jonathan Taylor permission to seek a trade, many possible trade partners were thrown about in theoretical transactions. The Dallas Cowboys were regularly included. Even The Big Lead threw their name into the mix when the schism between Taylor and the Colts first began to grow earlier in the summer. And one not need be a rocket scientist to understand why.The Cowboys cut Ezekiel Elliott after Tony Pollard broke his leg late in the season. The meaningful moves they made to replenish the RB room was draft the very-small Deuce Vaughn and sign Ronald Jones, who got frozen out of the Kansas City offense last season. It seems their hopes are riding largely on Pollard's ability to recover quickl…

data-mm-id=”_xlsird5t5″>Travis Kelce has reached the final stages of celebrity: filing trademarks that no normal person could possibly care about. What better way to celebrate losing to the 2023 Denver Broncos? According to People, Kelce has filed trademarks for "Flight 87," "Alright Nah," "KillaTrav" and "Kelce's Krunch." Oh, and Travis Kelce has also filed a trademark for "Travis Kelce."According to the article, "alright nah," is Kelce's "signature catchphrase." You may recognize it from his podcast or if you've ever heard someone say "alright now," but slightly different. It is amazing to see some of the ridiculous things that people try to trademark. It's been more than a decade sinc…

data-mm-id=”_qqlrhp5z9″>The win we were all waiting for happened Sunday night and it didn't involve the NFL. Kieran Culkin won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama for his work in the final season of Succession. After winning, Culkin had a message for fellow nominee Pedro Pascal. After he got his shiny golden trophy he looked into the crowd and said, "Suck it, Pedro, sorry." Then held up the statue and said, "Mine."Watch:"Suck it Pedro, sorry." – Kieran Culkin wins his first Golden Globe for his role in #Succession at the 2024 #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/lrczdSXEfO— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 8, 2024Pascal was the other presumed favorite in the category for his work in HBO's The Last of Us. Obviously Culkin…