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Brett Favre Was Always Pretty Awful Thanks to his legion of defenders, the ex-QB thought he could get away with anything. An egregious scandal in Mississippi shows there are limits.
By Will Leitch
respect the classics
Sept. 27, 2022
By Justin Curto
rihannaissance
Sept. 25, 2022
Rihanna to Headline 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show The most important person the NFL has ever drafted.
By Charu Sinha
Rihanna is Going to Make Us All Watch the Super Bowl The singer will headline the 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
blank space
Sept. 23, 2022
By Justin Curto
Tom Brady Endorses a Shorter Workweek The quarterback will be taking one extra day of rest per week.
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
Rejoice: Tom Brady Is Miserable It’s nice to know the guy who always wins experiences rough patches like the rest of us.
By Will Leitch
The NFL Is America’s Best Crisis-Management Company A new season brings with it new scandals, but the league’s cultural dominance has never been more secure.
By Will Leitch
College Football Is Now NFL Lite A sport once defined by regional charm is awash in money and becoming more like the pros every week.
By Will Leitch
The NFL Expects You to Forget About Sexual Misconduct Anyone expecting a harsher punishment for Deshaun Watson has just as short a memory as football fans have.
By Will Leitch
vulture sports!
July 25, 2022
By Eric Vilas-Boas
washington commanders
July 13, 2022
NFL Owner Dodges Congressional Subpoena by Going on Vacation on His Yacht The House Oversight Committee can’t depose Dan Snyder on alleged sexual misconduct at the Commanders because he’s touring the Mediterranean.
By Matt Stieb
The Bills Stadium Deal Is Both Indefensible and Understandable It makes no sense from a financial standpoint. It makes slightly more sense if you consider the team’s priceless importance to Buffalo.
By Will Leitch
The NFL Stops Pretending to Care About Violence Against Women Deshaun Watson’s warm welcome in Cleveland marks a return to the league’s pre-Ray Rice, look-the-other-way era.
By Will Leitch
Tom Brady’s Retirement Never Made Sense in the First Place Was a fierce competitor still at the top of his game really going to yak about football on TV?
By Will Leitch
vulture sports
Mar. 13, 2022
Tom Brady Unretires He’s going back to the Buccs for a 23rd season.
By Alejandra Gularte
Los Angeles Won the Super Bowl in More Ways Than One The Rams won the game. The city, the stunning stadium, and the wonderful overall vibe won everything else.
By Will Leitch
Why You Should Root for the Bengals in the Super Bowl Sunday will mostly be about the NFL’s utter cultural dominance, but one of these teams is more deserving than the other.
By Will Leitch
Brian Flores and the Paradox of the Black NFL Coach Even if Flores’s discrimination suit were to succeed, what would he gain?
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Brian Flores’s Allegations of NFL Game-Rigging Are a Very Big Deal If true, Dolphins owner and Trump buddy Stephen Ross could be on the hook for bribery charges.
By Kevin T. Dugan
The Most Damning Allegations in Brian Flores’s Lawsuit Against the NFL The former head coach alleges the Dolphins tried to get him to tank and that other teams had him sit for “sham” interviews for top jobs.
By Matt Stieb
Tom Brady Won’t Be the Last 40-Something Superstar It’s not just science that has enabled so many old athletes to remain dominant.
By Will Leitch
Peyton Manning Is Emily in Paris ’ Biggest Stan He stopped by SNL ’s “Weekend Update” to prove it.
By Charu Sinha
How Not to Lose Your Shirt Gambling on Sports New Yorkers can now wager their 401ks on a Russian table-tennis match. Hooray?
By Will Leitch
super bowl lvi
Jan. 20, 2022
By Justin Curto
The Las Vegas Raiders Are an Inspiration to Screwups Everywhere If this team of misfits can make the playoffs, you can do anything.
By Eve Peyser
Antonio Brown and the Specter of CTE The wide receiver’s erratic behavior has rekindled a conversation the NFL doesn’t want to have.
By Will Leitch
NFL Legend John Madden Has Died at the Age of 85 “Nobody loved football more than Coach. He was football.”
By Alejandra Gularte
Professional Sports Are Learning to Live With COVID. We’re Next. The Omicron variant demands a more nimble approach to the virus.
By Will Leitch
coronavirus
Dec. 15, 2021
COVID Is Catching Up to American Pro Sports Again After limited pandemic interruptions in their 2021-2022 seasons, the NHL, NBA, and NFL are all facing an uptick in COVID cases.
By Matt Stieb
Behold, Aaron Rodgers’s Foot Aaron Rodgers wants you to look at his toe.
Olivia Truffaut-Wong
Aaron Rodgers Fooled Us His anti-vaccine ravings offer another hard lesson about our distorted perception of athletes.
By Will Leitch
vulture sports
Nov. 5, 2021
By Rebecca Alter
Turns Out Aaron Rodgers Isn’t Vaccinated After All After saying he was “immunized” in August, the Packers QB got COVID following a homeopathic treatment that didn’t raise his antibodies.
By Matt Stieb
Jon Gruden’s Emails Are the Tip of the Iceberg His disturbing messages are a small part of a larger investigation — one that could reveal the true rot at the center of the NFL.
By Will Leitch
Jon Gruden Is Out of a Job Following Email Scandal In addition to a racist comment about a Black NFL union leader, Gruden frequently made homophobic and misogynistic remarks, per a new report.
By Chas Danner
We’ll Never Hate Anyone Like This Again Sunday night’s Brady-Belichick showdown was a reminder that their era of NFL archvillainy is unlikely to be replicated.
By Will Leitch
Dave Zirin Thinks the Kaepernick Era Is Just Beginning Talking with the veteran sports journalist about his new book, which examines how the activist quarterback transformed the sports landscape.
By Will Leitch
Unfortunately, Roger Goodell Deserves Some Credit Everyone’s favorite punching bag has steered the NFL back to sheer dominance with a single-minded focus on making money.
By Will Leitch
streamliner
July 29, 2021
Hulu Says ‘Sports Fans, We See You’ With a New Add-on Football, motorsports, competitive fishing, and more will soon be at your streaming fingertips — if you’re a Hulu + Live TV user.
By Brennan Carley
The NFL Is Getting Tough on Unvaccinated Players Roger Goodell says teams with a COVID outbreak could face penalties and unprotected players must be tested daily.
By Nia Prater
Richard Sherman Arrested After Wild Clash With Family and Police The NFL cornerback was pepper-sprayed in the face by his father-in-law and was subdued by a police dog after driving his vehicle into a barrier.
By Matt Stieb
pride month
June 21, 2021
Carl Nassib Is the NFL’s First Active Out Gay Player “I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but I finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest.”
By Bethy Squires
NFL Will Stop ‘Race-Norming’ Policy That Diminished Black Brain Injuries Policy was used to determine smaller payouts for Black ex-players suffering dementia from years of head trauma.
By Matt Stieb
the streaming wars
Mar. 18, 2021
By Charlotte Walsh
Sports Have Been a Shadow of Themselves Without Fans The wisdom of bringing spectators back right now is debatable. But there’s no arguing how much they’ve been missed.
By Will Leitch
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