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Chiefs and 49ers in Super Bowl The Kansas City Chiefs are the reigning Super Bowl Champions. And they showed why today as they dominated the Baltimore Ravens. The Chiefs will now defend their title against the San Francisco 49ers. Kansas City will head to its second straight Super Bowl, the franchise’s fourth appearance in the NFL’s title… Read more.
Conference Championship matchups I maintain that Conference Championships Sunday is the most exciting day of the NFL season. The stakes, intensity, rivalries, and suspense often render the Super Bowl anticlimactic. This year’s AFC Championship game showcases a clash between the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens, while the NFC Championship pits the Detroit Lions against the San Francisco 49ers. My… Read more.
Episode 64: Most Exciting Games in History. But NFL Still ‘Managed Like a Plantation’…? Related commentaries: Podcast: Brady’s return… Patriots release Brady… Listen.
No doubt you’ve heard all kinds of sports commentators waxing euphoric about last weekend producing the best four playoff games in NFL history. Here is how the dean of football writers, Peter King, reported his take for NBC Sports yesterday morning: _________ In 25 hours on the greatest playoff weekend in the 102-year history of… Read more.
The National Anthem I usually comment on this ritual just to pooh-pooh it. I invariably measure each performance against the rousing rendition Whitney Houston gave at Super Bowl XXV in 1991. No performer has ever measured up. Demi Lovato performed well. But I remain convinced that no performer ever will. Most commentators are hailing Lovato more for a comeback from… Read more.
I hope you’ll forgive this belated commentary on the most exciting day of the NFL season. Casual Football fans think Super Bowl Sunday is the most exciting day of the NFL season. But real fans know that day is conference championship Sunday. (“NFL’s Historic Conference Championship Sunday,” The iPINIONS Journal, January 22, 2007) Sure enough,… Read more.
I know many of you have no idea who Colin Kaepernick is, and couldn’t care any less about what he did. But bear with me. Kaepernick told NFL Network on Friday night that he chose not to stand [during the National Anthem] because: ‘I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag… Read more.
It probably reveals something about me that the more popular the NFL becomes, the less it interests me. This of course is especially so if my fair-weather team, the Philadelphia Eagles, fails to make it to the playoffs – as was the case this season. I couldn’t even be bothered to comment two weeks ago… Read more.
