This is a bullshit statement:

This was the greatest weekend in American rugby history. Not only did our sevens team win the Las Vegas 7s, but the USA Eagles XV won the Americas Rugby Championship for the second straight year, defeating Uruguay 61-19 to finish with a 5-0 record.

That YouTube embed marked Philadelphia-Brooklyn is actually from the 1939 NFL Championship Game between the Giants and Packers.

The hot stove has definitely been more like an occasionally lit can of sterno this winter. I’ve got no sympathy for the owners, but it does appear that they’ve learned one important lesson from the spending frenzies of the past: it’s stupid to hand out gigantic contracts that are going to result in paying eight-figure…

Your gripping prose distracted me from the videos.

My favorite memory of the strike was a Monday Night game (I think) between the 49ers and Giants. At one point, Bill Walsh sent out a different QB and ran a couple of series out of the wishbone. At one point cameras panned to Walsh on the sideline, shrugging his shoulders at a nonplussed Bill Parcells across the field.

If Garoppolo wants to start, and he’s backing up the GOAT QB who wants to play another 4-5 years, there’s likely not enough money in the world to make that happen.

What kind of delicate flower is Marchman that he doesn’t want a roast? Roast his ass anyway!

The punt return story really resonated with me. I played football at a small D-III college—so small we were never able to suit up more than 40 players and a bunch of guys had to play both ways. No one—NO ONE—wanted to return punts, for exactly the same reason you described above. The guy who ended up doing it, who was…

Same here

I have massive thighs (I wish my upper body looked as good). I do the prowler after the leg press—3 sets of 12 reps at 568lb. And I’m middle-aged.

Prowler, loaded with 275lb, is a mainstay of leg day for me.

That was a significant one when we moved from Chicago to the suburbs. The local elementary school was not one with a sterling reputation, so we paid tuition at a Lutheran school in a nearby suburb, about a 10-minute drive from our house. The other issue for us was the size of yards and the feeling of always being on…

Like every other sport that has adopted video replay for in-game stuff, it’s going to take some time get the kinks worked out. It was the same way in rugby when the Television Match Official became a thing, and the TMO role has changed, mostly for the better, over time. If football is patient, it should become a…

Should’ve penalized black #18 for joining the maul from the side.

It’s finances. So many millions tied up in player contracts that the only place to save money on salary is on a cheap manager.

Really smart writeup Laura. One tiny nit—MMQB got rolled back into the SI site this year, not last year as you said.

I prefer to remember Craig Penrose wearing the ... gold of the USFL’s Denver Gold.

Norris Weese, a backup QB who played for the Denver Broncos from 1976-79. His career highlight was throwing a TD pass to paunchy kicker Jim Turner on a fake field goal. 12-year-old me thought that was amazingly cool. 12-year-old me had some issues.

It’s my favorite part of the game to referee. There’s nothing I like more than trying to figure out why a scrum is going south. A few years ago, the Midwest RRS brought the front row from a local club in at the annual clinic and they gave a seminar in how front rows cheat. Very informative.