February 15th, 2008
Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s where the shirts go after the game. Even though the N.Y. Giants won Super Bowl XLII, the winners will also be children in Nicaragua, Romania, and several other countries. Through a partnership between the NFL and World Vision, millions of […]
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February 4th, 2008
Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
According to Nielsen Media Research, the New York Giants’ upset win over the New England Patriots yesterday was the most-watched Super Bowl ever, with 97.5 million viewers. The game topped the previous Super Bowl record of 94.08 million when Dallas beat Pittsburgh in 1996. More people watched yesterday’s […]
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January 8th, 2008
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Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
As the first major sports league to develop its own online role-playing game, the NFL has launched a new site for young fans and the young at heart called NFLRUSH ZONE (NFLRZ). If you’ve watched any football lately, you’ve seen the commercials. This virtual world is […]
By David Kindervater -- 2 comments
January 7th, 2008
Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
When my CE asked me to write a post about why I love football, I said to myself, “Self, this will be easy.” I’ve answered this question more times than I can remember.
On this first Monday without Monday Night Football in I don’t know how long (a long […]
By David Kindervater -- 5 comments
January 3rd, 2008
Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
The National Football League is more popular than ever. In fact, I just received a press release today announcing that the league set a paid attendance record for the fifth straight year. But not only is the game itself big business, so are the players. Fellow b5er Miki […]
By David Kindervater -- 1 comment
December 14th, 2007
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Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre received 1,140,863 votes to lead all NFL All-Stars in balloting for the 2008 NFL Pro Bowl. There was a record 83.7 million votes cast on NFL.com and on wireless phones with Sprint service using more than 2,262,000 ballots. […]
By David Kindervater -- 0 comments
November 29th, 2007
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Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
For the second year in a row, the NFL is asking fans to pick the pitch that will become its Super Bowl commercial. Rather than fans presenting ideas like last year, for the first-time ever, NFL players will be going head-to-head off-the-field with their pitches for the […]
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November 23rd, 2007
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It went virtually unnoticed by the mainstream media, but Atlanta Falcons RB Warrick Dunn passed the 10,000-yard milestone in the team’s 31-13 loss to the Indianapolis Colts yesterday. Warrick was only the 22nd player to rush for 10,000 career yards. Earlier this season, Jax RB Fred Taylor was the 21st.
It’s […]
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November 22nd, 2007
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Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
Today’s Thanksgiving Day games set the stage for next week’s (Thursday) prime time matchup of 10-1 teams as the Green Bay Packers beat the Detroit Lions 37-26 and the Dallas Cowboys beat the N.Y. Jets 34-3. There was really no mistaking who the better teams were […]
By David Kindervater -- 3 comments
November 22nd, 2007
Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
Thanksgiving is always a great day. The family is together. The food is great. And, invariably, so is the football. The NFL will present fans with a Thanksgiving tripleheader today as traditional competitors Detroit and Dallas host games during the day and the NFL Network kicks off the […]
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