The N.F.L. Pulled Something Out of the Air This Season
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A convergence of schemes, rules and personnel made this the highest-flying season in N.F.L. history.
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The Denver Broncos were hoping to find some kind of offensive rhythm headed into the regular season.
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One of the enduring beauties of college football season is the way that it unveils itself to the world. While the N.F.L. slogs through bad preseason games to fill its ownersâ coffers, college football opens with a snap, like an artist pulling a sheet off of a canvas. And sometimes, thereâs an unexpected work of [...].
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The NFL may not be all about television, but a lot of it is. Start with the NFL Network's presence, which is impossible not to notice here.
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For L.S.U., a decision as daring as it was baffling may have returned some semblance of normalcy to this most combustible of college football seasons.
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In the wake of the Patriots being punished by the NFL for illegally videotaping defensive signals of Jets coaches, some say momentum is building to allow a communication device in a defender's helmet, thus negating the use for signals altogether.
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One play shy of turning their incredible winning streak into a six-pack, just a fourth-down tackle removed from having converted a grotesque 1-7 start to this season into a potential
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Two years after quarterback Aaron Brooks criticized the N.F.L. and the Saintsâ team owner for failing to help the team cope with Hurricane Katrina, heâs out of the league. Was it something he said?
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The Atlanta Falcons took the mystery out of their worthiness for the playoffs with a drubbing of the St. Louis Rams.
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it&#39;s been more or less around the clock since the steamy lead-in to Monday Nihilist Football last week. Why we haven&#39;t seen this sort of firestorm in ... oh, about 10 months.
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If you hadn&#39;t been following the NFL lately and tuned into yesterday&#39;s Monday night game, you may have thought you had stepped into a time warp.
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Two of the NFL&#39;s most disappointing teams put on quite a show in prime time. And after all the wild plays and big offensive numbers last night, a phantom penalty that preceded
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One wondered if the events of last week had penetrated the normally iron-clad concentration of the New England Patriots.
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FOXBOROUGH - For a team that has rampaged through its first eight games and was coming off a 52-7 victory over the Redskins yesterday, the words seemed a bit misplaced.
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The Division 4 Super Bowl last night featured two teams coming off 180-degree turnarounds.
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They are no-names on the rosters of Super Bowl combatants New England and New York, yet one crunching sack or twisted ankle could thrust Matt Cassel or Anthony Wright into the brightest spotlight of U.S. sports.
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Maybe I&#39;m out of the loop, but I don&#39;t remember when it was normal for a football coach to work for two teams at the same time.