Ranking every primetime game on the 2016 NFL schedule
This year’s NFL schedule features 50 primetime games and 56 nationally-televised games, with one more scheduled to be...
Posts by Brad Gagnon
NFL should be crushed for key part of New York Times concussion story being overlooked
There’s been a lot of buzz about a New York Times story from last week which revealed that the NFL...
Does a drop in Super Bowl viewership indicate the NFL has peaked on TV?
For only the second time in 11 years, viewership numbers for the Super Bowl dropped in 2016. Not...
Ranking Denver’s potential opponents for the 2016 season opener
Schedule-wise, the only thing we do know about the 2016 NFL regular season is that the Denver Broncos will...
Super Bowl media coverage is way over the top; will it ever change?
“You know what’s confusing? How can I reword questions I’ve been asked so many times? Golly. Nothing pretty...
The things we said about Cam Newton five years ago
Cam Newton is about to be named MVP and is a strong favorite to earn the same award...
Ranking the NFL teams eligible for Hard Knocks next year
While it’s not entirely clear if any team that has been featured on HBO’s Hard Knocks was forced...
Are the Dallas Cowboys the biggest draw in sports?
The Dallas Cowboys have not been very good this season, but that hasn’t stopped the nation’s most buzzed-about...
NFL has had plenty of magic in primetime this year, even on Thursday nights
You might recall — or you may have already forgotten — that 2014 was the year of the...
Concussion Movie Review: A complex, humanity-driven tale of the crisis facing the NFL
Awful Announcing had a chance to get an early look at the much-hyped and inevitably controversial Concussion, a so-called biographical...
Somehow, some way, the NFL keeps destroying television ratings
When it comes to the NFL on network television, everyone continues to wait for the other shoe to...
Week 8 NFL game watchability rankings
Ed Note: The Game Watchability Rankings appear every week at This Given Sunday. Week 8 in the NFL...
Week 2 NFL game watchability rankings
Ed Note: The following appears courtesy This Given Sunday. Week 2 in the NFL is here, and you...
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...
