NFL Championship Weekend Features Two Exciting Battles

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by Russ_Cohen - January 20, 2021January 21, 20210

Here we are at NFL Championship weekend. There are two games with everything on the line. Winners get a trip to the big game in Tampa, Florida. Each of the remaining teams has won at least 13 regular-season and postseason games combined this season, marking the first time since 2015 that all

The Jets Should Resist Hiring Doug Pederson

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by Russ_Cohen - January 12, 2021January 12, 20210

Doug Pederson and New York Jets general manager, Joe Douglas have a history. They won a Super Bowl together, and those are nice memories that should stay tucked away in a drawer, and the best thing Douglas can do is stay away, but he probably won’t. With Adam Gase gone, Douglas

Joe Buck Was Seemingly in a Verbal War with Troy Aikman For Airtime

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by Russ_Cohen - February 3, 2020February 3, 20200

The Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl, but Troy Aikman came out victorious with the verbal war he either knowingly or unknowingly was involved in while calling the most important sporting event on that day. Troy Aikman, losing his voice at times, did all he could to breakdown plays and

The 49ers Game Plan Will Be Victorious Like The Jets in Super Bowl III

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by Russ_Cohen - January 29, 20200

The Kansas City Chiefs have the glitzy offense, the best quarterback in the game in Pat Mahomes, all the offense you can want and yet I don’t think they’ll win on Sunday. Kyle Shanahan runs his game plan and when it works, he doesn’t deviate from it. Fans may not like

NFL Quarterbacks Who Could Be on the Move or Retire

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by Russ_Cohen - January 9, 2020January 9, 20200

I’ll attempt to guess where a few might end up or if they retire. The list is vast, and it shows how quarterbacks don’t have the type of careers they did 20 years ago. If they don’t win in a certain amount of time, this is what happens. In some

Remembering the First Super Bowl (Part I)

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by Harvey Frommer - January 21, 2019January 21, 20190

A lot of twists and turns, evolution and revolution, mistakes and major steps forward, colorful characters, dedicated idealists and guys with an eye on making a quick buck, - all of these and much more were part of the mix in the history of professional football before it would finally

The First Super Bowl: Excerpted from When It was Just a Game

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by Harvey Frommer - January 31, 2018January 31, 20180

With the next Super Bowl almost upon the globe and ready to take center stage, we flash back to the first one whose name officially was the AFL-NFL Championship Game. My book has many oral history memories. Herewith, just a few of those who were there at the game remember

Three Most Improbable Super Bowl MVPs In NFL History

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by Sportsologist - January 10, 2018January 11, 20180

Quarterbacks have always been favorites to win Super Bowl MVP. Despite the fact that football’s a team sport, pivots attract the lion’s share of media attention. More than half of all Super Bowl MVPs have been quarterbacks. A poor performance by both pivots tend to be the only reason QBs

Upon Further Review: Vince Lombardi is Still The Greatest NFL Coach

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by Russ_Cohen - February 8, 2017February 8, 20170

When Bill Belichick won his 5th Super Bowl many proclaimed him the greatest head coach in NFL history. I wondered to myself, how does he stack up to Vince Lombardi, who I always thought was the best but has been largely forgotten in these conversations since it’s not sexy to

What I Learned Writing WHEN IT WAS JUST A GAME: REMEMBERING THE FIRST SUPER BOWL

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by Harvey Frommer - January 23, 20171

With the 2017 Super Bowl almost upon us, how it all began is recounted in chapter and verse in my WHEN IT WAS JUST A GAME: REMEMBERING THE FIRST SUPER BOWL, an oral history. Below follows just some of the fascinating things I learned. Other rivals to the NFL through the