maya (Maya Sweedler, editor): Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Before everyone clambers up to their roofs to start stringing up Christmas lights, let’s put Turkey Day to rest and briefly run through all the NFL action of the past two weeks. Week 11 had some fun outcomes (well, fun for everyone except perhaps the New York Jets’ […]
maya (Maya Sweedler, copy editor): The NFL’s opening weekend had some fun surprises (Overtimes! A safety kicking an extra point!) and some fun not-surprises (The Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills are good! The Green Bay Packers showed up to Week 1 not ready to play! The Dallas Cowboys aren’t going to win the […]
In the 18 Super Bowls played between 2002 and 2019, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots represented the AFC in exactly half of them. Brady switched conferences following the 2019 season to join Tampa Bay … and has since started for the NFC in half of those Super Bowls, too. So it’s fitting that […]
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Though only a third of the games were competitive on the first weekend of the NFL playoffs, we still got plenty of weirdness across the board. An inadvertent whistle! A tight end throwing a touchdown! Players forgetting that a ref needs to place the ball! Lots to talk about before […]
After an exhilarating week of games closed out the NFL’s extra-long 2021 regular season, the playoff bracket could deliver another helping of chaos. Most (though not all) of the teams left standing have a decent shot at the Super Bowl, and everyone but the respective No. 1 seeds in each conference will be in action […]