The sportswriters will applaud him if he goes to the game instead of his son's birth, but Traditional Family Value Americans will get upset.

Imagine the firestorm if he skipped the birth of his son to play in the game. He can't win either way. If his girlfriend goes into labor on Sunday, half the country is going to hate him no matter what he does.

Does Dan Snyder still own Six Flags? If so, I'm surprised that there isn't already an NFL themed area in one of the Six Flags parks.

When someone invokes the Fifth Amendment right to not speak, they are mocking the First Amendment right to speak!

Lynch is actually giving the media more to write about than if he just went up there and gave the standard stock answers of "I'm really excited to be in the Super Bowl" and "We're working hard. They're a good team. We're a good team. It should be a good game."

Apparently he still likes to show his defensive players film of Lawrence Taylor and tell them why they aren't as good as LT. That film reel is probably one.

I didn't think of the Mel Kiper thing. That's a good point. So Ford either did it himself or knew it was being done.

I'm inclined to agree that Ford had the most motivation to do it and thus is the most likely culprit, but I think you're oversimplifying. Most of Ford's rankings are behind the ESPN Insider Paywall. The more accurate his rankings are, the better ESPN can promote Insider. Therefore, anybody in marketing or an editor at…

A couple of years ago I went to dinner with a few friends. One of them commented that everyone had two salad forks and not full-sized forks. The rest of were basically like "why do you care?" and someone (it might have been me, I honestly don't remember) jokingly suggested that he tell the waitress. When the bill came…

Sounds like Nickelodeon might be in trouble with the FCC.

There's a case to be made that he is great at shielding them from criticism because he draws all the negative attention to himself. During the height of the Rice and Peterson ordeals, people criticized Goodell and not Steve Biscotti or Zygi Wolf.

I agree completely. I don't think the deflated balls affected the outcome of the AFC Championship game, but I highly doubt that was the first game in which the Patriots deflated balls. In fact, the Colts complained to the NFL about it back in November and the Ravens claimed the balls were deflated in the Divisional…

I'm perfectly okay missing every single one of those games. Chiefs-Lions will probably be the best of the three and it's not exactly a marquee match-up.

Lynch should do a Senate-style filibuster on Media Day. Just stand at a podium and read a phone book or something like that for the entire duration of the time that he is required to be there.

When he tweeted that, I saw someone respond with something along the lines of "'I put the ball right in your hands. What more do you want?' - God."

When athletes thank God, I've always thought there's a fine line between being humble and arrogant. It doesn't bother me when they thank Him for the opportunity to play pro sports or their talents or something like that. But when they thank Him for helping them win, the implication is "God helped me beat the other…

If a football team entered the stadium wearing mismatched, dirty, torn uniforms, you would expect very little of them, and the team would not have the same confidence as a team that looks prepared.

1) I saw Sherman running around celebrating after the game. Fox just didn't interview him. He's quoted in an ESPN article about the game, so it's not like he was rushed to the hospital and no one interviewed him. http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2…

Why didn't Fox try to interview Richard Sherman after the game? I wanted to see if he would yell again.

It was a sexual discrimination case. He rejected all the women and got an all male jury. The TV question didn't wind up factoring in.