Holding out has just proven to have been the best bet for star running back Chris Johnson’s bank account. The Tennessee Titans played fair after the three-time Pro Bowler refused to report to training camp without a new deal, determined to keep him in their uniform. Read the rest of this entry »

Man, I nearly forgot to share this one. Being from Nashville and a Titans fan…well, apparently Chris Johnson is rapping during the NFL downtime because he dropped a song via Twitter yesterday. And now you ask, can he flow? Read the rest of this entry »

For the third and fourth time in the last five years, Indy and New Orleans enter December as unbeatens. Both teams maintained the course on their quest for perfection, Indy with a routine win over the feisty Titans (sorry Gotty™) and New Orleans with anything but against the Washington Redskins.

Down to the Skins, the Saints got a key touchdown after wide receiver Robert Meachem forced and recovered an improbable fumble after a (terrible) Brees interception. That’s a once or twice a year in the NFL play. Read the rest of this entry »

Look, not every NFL week can be a winner. Luckily most of us were still comatose from a 20,000 calorie weekend, so we didn’t notice that the week 12 slate was full of dud matchups between mediocre squadrons. Still football is football and a full slate of games will produce moments.

The mediocrity started on the grand day itself, as America continued to punish themselves and Detroit’s fine citizens by putting the Lions on national TV. Plus as an added bonus this year we got the Raiders. In fact the most exciting thing to happen in the three Turkey day games was Josh McDaniels inspiring profanity, captured for millions of fans as Roger Goodell spilled his pumpkin pie. Who doesn’t love a little awkward announcing?

The Eagles and Falcons spared themselves similar profanities by barely keeping their playoff hopes alive. Against JV squads Washington and Tampa respectively, the favored fowl franchises foully fucked with their fandom before finally pulling out fourth quarter wins. Roddy White was the hero for ATL pulling down the game winning TD pass from backup QB Chris Redman with less than 30 seconds left. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m glad the NFL has 32 teams. I appreciate that second-rate cities like Jacksonville and Indianapolis get to enjoy the pride of having their own professional franchise in America’s game. But there are definite downsides. One is that some of the 32 teams are going teams are going to be really, really bad. A painful waste of fans dollars and hours. Read the rest of this entry »

The other early face of the Titans, Eddie George speaks about his former teammate. Saw this on local ABC affiliate WKRN last night and I think it was actually a little longer because Eddie talked about Steve’s composure and leadership, McNair being the first person to call him when the local media drug both George & his mother through the mud for a D.U.I., and the early Oilers/Titans years. Read the rest of this entry »

En route to my first cookout today, I was asleep in the passenger seat when Juan called. “They just found Steve McNair dead in downtown.” This was approximately twenty minutes after the news broke. Immediately after, I’ve received numerous emails & calls about his death & the circumstances. Honestly, the word I keep using to describe me reaction to it is “salty.”

When the Titans came to Nashville & with their subsequent success, Steve McNair gave the city an alternate face to display. It was a face different from the usual Country music icons that everyone not from here knew the city and that was a blessing. It was, of course, a Black face so that made it even sweeter. Regardless of color, the majority of middle Tennessee embraced him. Stuck with him, even during the Titans struggles & his D.U.I. arrest.

And everybody rooted for him, even when he was traded to archival the Ravens. The level of respect Read the rest of this entry »

As a lifelong New Orleans Saints fan, I’ve become quite accustomed to not having a team to root for this time of year. Though my boys are usually gone by December, I tend to find myself rooting intensely for some team when the playoffs role around — that team is always the one with the Black quarterback. My father went to Dillard University and I was raised near Jackson State University, so we have both been immersed in a culture that has celebrated the Black quarterback. NFL and BCS teams haven’t always been as enthused by the concept; successful, heavily recruited candidates being few and far between, for the most part.

Aside from perhaps the hockey goalie, the Black quarterback is one of the last frontiers of major sports. Read the rest of this entry »

As a blogger/writer, I consider myself never to be @ a loss of words. Ever.

But I think the latest entry in the Pac-Man Jones story has left me speechless by the sheer fuckery ignorance involved. Following his career since he was a rookie with the Titans until now, I think he’s finally crapped out. Perhaps not in the judiciary system, but definitely with the League.

In case you haven’t been keeping up with it.

1. Adam “Pac-Man” Jones was released by the Cowboys on Wednesday.

2. ESPN let the cat out of the bag that Jones was involved in ANOTHER shooting in June 2007, only months after the infamous “make it rain” shooting in Las Vegas that got him in hot water in the first place. ESPN also claims that the NFL was aware of this second incident. How this was swept under the rug so long is beyond me. Read the rest of this entry »