Week 2 NFL game watchability rankings
Ed Note: The following appears courtesy This Given Sunday. Week 2 in the NFL is here, and you...
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The NFL has found a way to create yet another prime-time event
In the television world, whatever the NFL touches turns to gold. It’s why the league and its network...
The world has changed quite a bit since Vin Scully first joined the Dodgers
Late last week, it was announced that legendary Los Angeles Dodgers play-by-play man Vin Scully would return for...
Running against stiff competition, Day 2 and 3 NFL draft ratings take a hit
With the Johnny Manziel effect no longer in play this year, ESPN’s ratings for Round 1 of the...
NFL Network NFL Draft Round 1 Report Card
The NFL draft is one of the biggest television events of the year, sports or non-sports. The funny...
AA Q&A: Rich Eisen on working the NFL Draft
Hard to believe, but NFL Network has now been co-airing the NFL draft with ESPN for 10 years....
Ranking every primetime game on the 2015 NFL schedule
This year’s NFL schedule features 51 primetime games and 55 nationally-televised games, with one more scheduled to be...
NFL AM goes on hiatus
Hiatus is a scary word in this business. Although in a technical sense it means a pause or...
Aaron Rodgers will take part in the real Celebrity Jeopardy
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers isn’t just the highest-rated passer in NFL history and the league’s reigning...
Jon Gruden’s QB Camp returns with Winston and Mariota for 2015
With the sports world obsessing over Johnny Manziel, the fifth season of Jon Gruden’s “QB Camp” aired entirely on...
Herm Edwards gets points for deadpan comedy in his llama analysis on ESPN
You know the NFL offseason has arrived when analyst Herm Edwards is providing analysis of four-legged animals. Let...
Who should open the 2015 NFL season at New England?
The 2014 NFL season hasn’t even been over for 48 hours, but we’re already looking ahead to next...
NBC details its six-hour Super Bowl pregame schedule
No annual sporting event gets as much attention and hype as the Super Bowl, which is why the...
As Patriots prepare for Super Bowl, it’s easy to forget about Aaron Hernandez
Ed Note: This post originally appeared on This Given Sunday. On Thursday, the New England Patriots will participate...
ESPN will try everything possible to make the Pro Bowl watchable
Despite the fact most of us can agree the Pro Bowl really sucks, the NFL’s annual all-star game...
Ranking the NFL teams eligible for Hard Knocks next year
If nobody else volunteers, the NFL can now force certain teams to participate in HBO’s Hard Knocks. This...
Week 17 NFL Game Watchability Rankings
Ed Note: The following appears courtesy our friends at This Given Sunday. Week 17 in the NFL is...
Titans-Jaguars is the worst primetime game this century
We’re down to the penultimate week of the NFL season. That means that even with a couple bonus...
Week 15 NFL Game Watchability Rankings
Ed Note: The following appears courtesy our partners at This Given Sunday, Bloguin’s NFL vertical. You can catch...
Week 10 NFL Game Watchability Rankings
Ed Note: Every week our Brad Gagnon breaks down the NFL’s watchability rankings over at our NFL site,...
The amount of NFL primetime blowouts this year is absurd
A month ago, we pointed out that Thursday Night Football games were consistently ending in lopsided fashion. That...
Katy Perry will reportedly perform at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show
With recent Super Bowl halftime acts like the Black Eyed Peas, Madonna, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars, the NFL has...
By banning Beats by Dre headphones, NFL invites criticism regarding its priorities
The NFL has some massive fish to fry right about now. The Ray Rice saga has cast a...
Thursday Night Football has a competitiveness problem
Tonight, CBS and NFL Network will air their fourth Thursday night simulcast of the year when the Minnesota...
Could the NFL hit back at ESPN with next year’s Monday Night Football schedule?
When it comes to prime-time NFL games, the broadcast networks get dealt a better hand than ESPN. As the...
Bill Simmons dares ESPN to punish him for ripping Roger Goodell
ESPN’s Bill Simmons sometimes goes off the rails in very un-ESPN-like fashion. As a result, he’s part of...
NFL broadcasters weren’t kidding about using the Redskins name less often
Several notable NFL broadcasters have declared that they’ll no longer use the term “Redskins” while discussing the team...
Brandon Marshall is pissed at ESPN regarding his new E:60 feature
Chicago Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall has some serious baggage. He’s had several brushes with the law, he’s...
Bill Polian contradicts himself on two separate answers within a 20-minute span
This is enough to cause you to wonder just how disturbingly powerful the NFL is. At 10:47 a.m....
Video: Mike Tyson cusses out local Toronto news host
I’ve never had a chance to interview anyone as unstable or unpredictable as Mike Tyson, which actually kind...
The list of media members boycotting the Redskins nickname
As more prominent media members opt against using the name of Washington’s football team in their coverage, we’ve...
Anti-Semitic joke gets longtime Chargers announcer suspended
We all say stupid s—. At least most of us do. I do, that’s for sure. Usually, the...
Jeff Fisher is still pissed at ESPN over that foolish Michael Sam shower report
ESPN has apologized for an embarrassing segment in which reporter Josina Anderson spent over 30 seconds analyzing Michael...
