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If you were interested in the social ramifications of the murder-suicide by Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher (none), the continued debate over concussions (point taken), a possible rule change to dilute a game already too diluted (terrible idea), and this amorphous thing called the NFL culture, in which players act violent off the field because they are
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Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning were the best coach-quarterback combination in the NFL coming into the 2012 season. They had won two Super Bowls together the previous five years, twice beating Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, who have... more »
The morning of the Sunday, Sept. 23 game against Jacksonville, Chuck Pagano met the Colts' team doctors. "How long have you had those bruises?" they wondered. "A long time," Pagano told them. Two days later, a nurse was brought... more »
He came in with a plan, and the plan was to have no plan, or at least not one that was obvious. In the NFL, they can sniff out a wannabe-leader, a bold-faced climber, a fraud from a mile away. All the way back in the spring,... more »
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