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After Seattle Debacle, NFL Reaches Deal With Officials

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: September 27, 2012

The howls of outrage after the unprecedented ending to the controversial Seattle-Green Bay game on Monday Night Football was the final straw in the ongoing dispute with the National Football League’s on-field officials. Several reports late Wednesday night said a tentative eight-year deal has been reached between the league and its locked-out officiating crews. Although...

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NFL Fantasy Week 2 Start or Sit

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: September 14, 2012

The first game is in the books but you can still save your match-up this weekend in NFL Fantasy Football. Al Dannity breaks down his start-ems and sit-ems for Week 2. Start: Joe Flacco (Ravens) at Eagles. Flacco took to the no-huddle like a duck to water and provides tremendous fantasy value. There will be...

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Seattle Seahawks Surprise as Wilson Named Starting QB

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: August 27, 2012

Sometimes a little goes a long way. Russell Wilson, a third-round draft pick (75th overall) in 2012, has gone all the way from short-season single-A baseball two years ago to being named the starting quarterback of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. Listed at 5-foot-11 and 205 pounds, Wilson impressed in camp as he completed 67 percent...

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Brees Gets Record Contract Guarantee from Saints

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: July 13, 2012

Friday the 13th has turned into a lucky day for quarterback Drew Brees. The Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XLIV has reached an agreement with the New Orleans Saints on a five-year, $100-million contract which guarantees a record $60 million and makes him the highest-paid player in the history of the National Football League....

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NFL: Hall of Famer Dickerson Joins Concussion Lawsuit

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: May 22, 2012

Former Rams standout running back Eric Dickerson is the latest (and so far, the greatest) to file a lawsuit against the National Football League, seeking compensation for concussions and other head-related trauma sustained during his Hall of Fame career. Dickerson, who is seventh all-time in the NFL with 13,259 rushing yards amassed during a 12-year...

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Luck Expected, Irvin a Shock at NFL Draft 2012

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: April 27, 2012

The Colts took Luck, but the rest of the 2012 NFL Draft is much more interesting. Frank Doyle reports. Everybody and their uncle knew that Mr Luck would go to Indianapolis and that Mr Griffin would go to Washington at last night’s NFL Draft. But after that, it got interesting. The most talked about draft...

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NFL: Luck and Griffin Set to Go at Top of 2012 Draft

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: April 25, 2012

The 2012 NFL Draft is finally here and it’s going to last several days. Al Dannity looks at the important moves at the top and bottom of the draft as teams get ready for the 2012 season. Who goes at #3? The decision by St. Louis to trade down with the Redskins appears to have...

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Where to Now for Peyton Manning? Kansas City, Miami Early Favorites

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: March 7, 2012

Frank Doyle reacts to the news about Peyton Manning’s imminent departure from Indianapolis, and speculates about where the future Hall of Famer will now finish his career. The NFL isn’t a sentimental business while players are still playing. Once their hair has turned grey and they’ve had their new hips and new knees, you can...

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Packers, Saints Early Favorites for Super Bowl XLVII!

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 7, 2012

The end of one football season means the beginning of another – Frank Doyle looks ahead to Super Bowl XLVII in the Louisiana Superdome! There’s only one way to deal with the sense of loss and emptiness that accompanies the end of every football season – look forward to the next one. And with that...

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Super Bowl XXXVII-XLV: The Patriot Years

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 5, 2012

Old faces and new faces – Pittsburgh won its fifth and sixth Super Bowls while the Buccaneers their first. The Colts their first since leaving Baltimore, while Green Bay won its fourth. But the past nine years have been about the Patriots. New England was a two touchdown underdog against the Greatest Show on Turf...

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Super Bowl XXVIII-XXXVI: Epic Teams, Epic Games

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 4, 2012

Dallas and Green Bay, two of the storied names in the League, returned from relative obscurity to win Super Bowls. Brett Favre electrified the League with his gunslinger approach and the sheer joy he took from playing the game, while the Cowboys triplets set the standard everyone else had to reach in the 1990s. San...

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Super Bowl XIX-XXVII: The West Coast Era

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 3, 2012

Super Bowl XIX was set up as the first skirmish between the two great quarterbacks of the 1980s, Dan Marino and Joe Montana. It turned out to be Marino’s single appearance in a Super Bowl, and proof of just how thin the line can be. That San Francisco win over Miami was the start of...

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Super Bowl X-XVIII: The NFL Replaces Baseball as the National Pastime

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 3, 2012

Football’s golden age was the 1970s. It was when the NFL overtook the NCAA as the premier expression of the gridiron game. The Steelers, Raiders and Cowboys all won Super Bowls, while Bud Grant’s Vikings became the first team to go 0-4 in Super Bowls. The ‘eighties saw more change, as the Raiders moved to...

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NFL: Super Bowl XLVI Betting Preview

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: February 3, 2012

The long wait is nearly over. The re-match to end them all takes place this Sunday in Indianapolis. It’s the Giants taking on the Patriots for all the marbles and Al Dannity is ready to break down Super Bowl XLVI. Turnovers will be crucial Ball security, or rather creating a lack of it, is going...

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NFL: Super Bowl Prop Betting Bonanza

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: February 2, 2012

The biggest game of the NFL calendar is nearly upon us and Al Dannity is here to take you through Sports Interaction’s wide range of prop bets for Super Bowl XLVI. Start with the Law Firm BenJarvus Green Ellis doesn’t have catchphrases like Rob Gronkowski. He doesn’t sport Tiquan Underwood’s high top. He just never...

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Super Bowl I-IX: The Legend Begins

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 2, 2012

The Super Bowl began as a challenge game between the NFL and the AFL, named after a toy that belonged to the NFL Commissioner’s daughter. The toy was called the “super ball,” and so the game became the Super Bowl. What started as a challenge that couldn’t fill the LA Coliseum became legitimate in Super...

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NFL: Ranking the 5 Best Super Bowls of All Time (VIDEO)

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: January 30, 2012

The biggest game of the NFL season takes place on Sunday but what was the greatest Super Bowl of them all? Al Dannity casts an eye through history to pick his top five. Honorable mentions Before we get to the top five, there were some notable games to miss out. ‘Wide right’ wasn’t enough for...

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NFL: Giants and Patriots Advance to Super Bowl XLVI

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: January 23, 2012

Does anyone else get a sense of déjà-vu? The Giants and Patriots are going to do it all over again in the Super Bowl. Al Dannity rounds up the drama from Sunday’s AFC and NFC title games, a day where tragic errors proved decisive. Ravens bring some offense We have yet to confirm whether Joe...

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NFL: Giants and 49ers Battle in NFC Championship Game

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: January 17, 2012

It’s a battle of East meeting West as the NFC East champion Giants travel to the Bay to take on the NFC West champion 49ers. Al Dannity breaks down the key battles in this contest to decide the NFC’s representative in Super Bowl XLVI. Eli gets ready for face full of Justin The MVP of...

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Patriots Favorites over Ravens, One Step Away from the Super Bowl!

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: January 16, 2012

Frank Doyle previews an epic AFC Championship Game between New England and Baltimore! Two fundamental truisms will face each other across the line of scrimmage in Foxboro on Sunday. Only one can win. If the NFL is a quarterback league, as we’re so often told, then New England will stroll to the AFC Championship and...