Sold out Melbourne crowd stands for 25th anniversary commemoration of 9/11 at NFL’s first Australia game
The NFL’s only 25th anniversary 9/11 memoriam, conducted during a game actually played on Sept. 11, is happening in Australia, where it is already Friday morning and the Los Angeles Rams are playing the San Francisco 49ers. The ceremony on another…
NFL’s Week 1 9/11 tribute begins in Seattle with wild guitar solo during national anthem
The NFL promised that its Week 1 games would honor the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the 25th anniversary. However, individual teams had some leeway in how they did so, and the Seattle Seahawks took a uniquely local approach. The league’s…
NFL’s conduct policy review of Puka Nacua continues and that drives fantasy football managers nuts
Puka Nacua may have NFL wide receiver superpowers, but that doesn’t make him invisible to the league’s ongoing Personal Conduct Policy review. So the fact he was not suspended over the weekend when the league handed down discipline for three…
Colin Kaepernick is right about the NFL’s ‘performative’ racism campaign — but he’s also a hypocrite
As part of an ongoing media blitz to promote his upcoming memoir, former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick dismissed the league’s condemnation of racism as “performative.” In an interview with NBC News, Kaepernick criticized NFL Commissioner…
Harrison Butker’s 69-yard field goal demonstrates the NFL’s latest big scoring controversy
It wasn’t long ago that most of sports media, and other legacy media, tried to ruin Harrison Butker’s life and career because he’s a religious Catholic. Butker’s crime was sharing those views, including that the most important…