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Super Bowl Week Experience: The Real Game Before The Game
The National Football League, the greatest marketing machine in the Western Hemisphere, held it’s biggest event of the year a few Sundays ago in Indianapolis. The Super Bowl has become known not just for the game, but for its ability to become the epicenter of North America, for one week every year wherever it is held. This [...]
Steve Young, Rookie With the USFL’s Los Angeles Express in Spring 1984
For a lot of NFL fans, it’s very easy to not know that the USFL existed: the league that died 27 years ago after playing games in the spring of 1983, 1984, and 1985 is scarcely discussed by either the NFL or the media covering the NFL, let alone by fans. One site, USFL.info, does [...]
SUPER BOWL XLVI
For the second time in four years, the New York Giants and the New England Patriots met in the Super Bowl. The first time they met, the Giants came away with a 17-14 win. Many critics said it was the best Super Bowl ever. This one was just as good. The Patriots won the coin [...]
Economics of NFL Stadiums
In a 2002 study titled “Representative NFL Stadium Public/Private Partnerships,” Horrow Sports Ventures reported the estimated total costs, lease terms, and any public and private contributions, cost overruns, and referendums associated with 22 football stadium projects. Although there were likely changes of each project’s costs, terms, contributions, overruns and referendums if implemented, the study revealed [...]
Giants
January 24, 2012 The New York Giants entered the postseason with the worst record of any NFC playoff team and now, a few weeks later, they’re headed to the Super Bowl and are building their resume as perhaps the greatest franchise in the history of the NFL. Let’s look things over: The Giants are playing [...]
Giants 20, 49ers 17
The New York Giants made the trip across the country to take on the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game. The Giants were coming off a huge 37-20 upset win over the Green Bay Packers and the 49ers defeated the Saints 36-32 in a shootout that went down to the wire. The Giants [...]
Patriots 23, Ravens 20
The Baltimore Ravens headed north to take on the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game. The Ravens were coming off a hard fought 20-13 over the Houston Texans and the Patriots had no problem knocking the Denver Broncos out of the playoffs with a 45-10 win. This game started out like I thought [...]
Remembering Mike’s Mistake
As we all know by now, the Green Bay Packers are spending the rest of January ice fishing and curling instead of playing football after getting dinged by the New York Giants last weekend. The surprising and ignominious early playoff exit by the 15-1 defending Super Bowl champs spoils Green Bay’s opportunity to be considered [...]
All Out Blitz
Arizona Cardinals: Last year’s 2nd round pick RB Ryan Williams, remember him, is still recuperating from his torn patellar tendon, best case scenario is that he will be able to play come training camp, but that is no guarantee…..All that talk about Todd Haley joining the Cardinals staff seems to be a bunch of hot air [...]
The Tuck, Ten Years After
Where were you when “the tuck” changed history? It was ten years ago, January 19, 2002, when the Oakland Raiders traveled to Foxboro, Massachusetts for an AFC divisional playoff game against the New England Patriots and won, advancing to the AFC title game against the Steelers….no, that’s what was supposed to happen. What really happened [...]
All that Ties New York and Green Bay
Without football the only link between New York City and Green Bay would be cold weather. New York is the largest city in the nation, while Green Bay ranks at number 262. But despite their obvious differences these two cities have shared a lot on the gridiron. Before Sunday the most hated teams in Green [...]
A Backgrounder on the 49ers and Giants in the Playoffs
During the ‘80s the 49ers and Giants matched up four times in the playoffs, twice in San Francisco and then twice in the Meadowlands. Here, adapted from my e-book covering the 49ers under Bill Walsh, are summaries of these four games, followed by quick notes on the teams’ three following playoff games and a wrapup [...]
