 What are they thinking?! We examine free agency
The consensus is that the 2010 free-agent pool is not a great place to go swimming this year. But that hasn't stopped the NFL from spitting out winners (like New England's Vince Wilfork) and losers (like 49ers fans). We examine the thought process behind several big moves so far.
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531 players hit FA market in capless 2010
The NFL's capless 2010 free-agency period got underway Friday, first with a bloodletting as teams unloaded high-priced veterans, and then with big signings. Most notably, the Bears landed Julius Peppers for $80M. Here's a look at some notable early moves.
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10 days that shook the sports world
Thirty years after the United States hockey team upset the Filthy Commies in the 1980 Olympics, we count down 10 moments that shook the American sports world, covering everything from golf to college football to the sweet science.
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The near dynasty: the Greatest Show on Turf
The Rams are on the clock with the No. 1 pick in the April draft after a disastrous 1-15 season. It's easy to forget that they dazzled the football world as the Greatest Show on Turf just a decade ago. How'd they do it? And where did it all go wrong for this almost dynasty? Bryn Swartz examines.
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Big Government and all-time Olympic medal count
The thrilling Olympic gold medal hockey game was a welcome bit of entertainment here in the early stages of the interminable NFL off-season. It was certainly better television than the NFL Combine. It also provided fans of sports and politics a perfect case study with which to examine the big issues dividing America today.
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Stop running back abuse!
There's an abuse problem that plagues pro football. It's not steroids, gun crime, blow, syphyllis or a BrettFavre-style speedball of Seagrams VO and Vicodin. No, it's the abuse of running backs, and LT is just the latest example of a two-decade trend that has ruined some of the NFL's greatest players.
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LT: the old gray mule just ain't what he used to be
NFL teams treat their stud running backs the way poor Dust Bowl farmhands used to treat their rented mules: riding them hard until the poor old plowhorse slows to a crawl, then keels over and dies before their time is through. LT is the latest example of a young stud ridden too hard.
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CHFF dominates 2009 PFWA writing awards
The Cold, Hard Football Facts and our resident Potentate of Pigskin dominated the 2009 Pro Football Writers of America writing awards announced in February, capturing more honors than any other outlet or writer in the country.
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The CHFF Super Bowl victory tour
It’s something of a tradition here at Cold, Hard Football Facts: we bask in the glorious glow of another championship-trophy-hoisting season of analysis, while separating the winners from the losers in the bloody aftermath of our wars against the "pundits."
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Our Pro Bowl line-up: the Fox Foxes
Yeah, killing two weeks before the Super Bowl gets old real fast. But over the years we’ve filled the downtime by gawking at the bombshells of Fox. Beats looking at football spreadsheets 24x7. Today, for the first time, we present our findings to an adoring pigskin public: the Fox Foxes starting 11.
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