Here’s a bunch of links to keep you busy in that downtime in between calling your bookie and inventing new drinking games.
NFL releases
Not sure if we’re supposed to publish these. But why the hell not? The NFL (and individual teams) releases these stat- and fact-filled reports each and every week. Most never see the light of day. So we figured, hey, why not link to ‘em? Really, there’s tons of great info in here and the NFL is obviously a pretty trustworthy source of data. We find these releases, generally turned out by anonymous worker drones and league and team offices, more informative than 90 percent of the stuff you read out there in the sports world.
Cold, Hard Football Fact: Jags boast NFL's best opening-day record (9-3; .750). 'Boys won 17 straight Week 1 games from 1965-81.
Cold, Hard Football Fact: Peyton Manning (93 career wins) is second in Colts franchise history to Johnny Unitas (118).
Cold, Hard Football Fact: Rex Grossman's 17-6 (.739) record as a starter is third among active quarterbacks.
Cold, Hard Football Fact: 30 percent of American women say NFL is their favorite sport. MLB baseball second among women at 14 percent.
Cold, Hard Football Fact: New England's Bill Belichick is shooting for his 125th career victory today.
Cold, Hard Football Fact: Steelers, Eagles and Redskins are all celebrating 75th season this year; Bengals celebrating 40th; Packers celebrating 50th anniversary of Lambeau Field.
Cold, Hard Football Fact: The "g" is silent: Haloti Ngata is pronounced ha-LOW-tee na-ta
Cold, Hard Football Fact: He's no goon: Adewale Ogunleye is pronounced add-uh-WALLAY oh-GOON-lau-yay
Around the Web
A quick look around the league with links from Cold, Hard Football Facts boy-wonder intern Will Kantrowitz.
From TheBigLead: ESPN’s Mike Tirico “passed on the opportunity to take over Dan Patricks’ coveted national radio show.”
Motor-mouth and ‘roid abuser Shawne Merriman trash-talks the more accomplished Chicago linebacker, Brian Urlacher, for no reason whatsoever.
You know you suck when the worst team in football names a fumble drill after you. But hey, the worst opening day game in recent memory needs something to spice it up. Oakland and Detroit went a combined 5-27 last year.
Hot girl with blatant sexual innuendo
This is pretty bad, but it’s a hot girl – and, even better, an apparently not-so-bright hot girl – talking about football and point spreads. We were waiting for her to talk her shirt off, but no such luck. If we knew any hot girls, we'd create these videos ourself. (Note to our readers: if you know a hot girl who will do a video like this for us, we'll publish it each week.)
