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Watching the replay tonight I noticed CMAC's rushing stats were 14-37 2 TDs in the third quarter. On his last carry of the game he broke 25 yards to set up the clinching TD. For the game McCaffrey had 20 carries for 90 yards and 2 TDs, along with 42 yards receiving. Like a lot of other great...

The NFL Network showed the replay tonight (Monday) of the 49ers-Lions game. In the 3rd quarter, Purdy made a good run and Olsen said something like, "Nobody will mistake him for Lamar Jackson." Yes, it was after another good run by Purdy and after the "He's not the greatest athlete in the world"...

It's still basically paleo. I've been a Chronicles reader for over 30 years.

Naturally, the announcers use the "not the fastest" trope.

This is the kind of stupidity "conservative" media personalities indulge in, especially with a black guest. Watters was too stupid to point out the only White RB in the league was also the best.

And the "feminists" have acquiesced to it.

Sometimes a team that is favored (the 49ers were 10 point favorites) will play so the underdog has a good chance for an upset. The 49er-Packer game was an example but the 49ers led by Purdy and CMAC came back to win.

Vince Lombardi was another example. He "retired" after the Packers won the Ice Bowl and Super Bowl II but after a year as Packer GM took big money in 1969 to coach the Redskins. He died of cancer a year later just before the 1970 season. Lombardi didn't have much of a coaching tree either.

A win like this can be a good omen for going all the way.

I've seem dumb DBs fumble in that situation.

It's not too uncommon for a team to win the Super Bowl one year and fall back the next.

I first noticed Howard Cosell in the 60s when he wrote a monthly feature in Sport Magazine on famous sporting events. It was pretty good, neutral in fact. I heard him on the radio doing the 1964 Clay-Liston fight in which Liston quit on his stool after Round 6. Cosell shouted, "HE's NOT COMING...

Well said. Trump, along with being for only himself, is a political dead end. Trump would be a 78-year old lame duck. One way or another Trump in 2024 means failure. And he wants Haley as running mate.

I remember Billy Parks. He was another White player of the early 70s who didn't always play up to his ability. Parks identified with the emerging counterculture. He was a hands and moves type. Sid Gillman had a soft spot for this kind of WR. In 1972 with the Cowboys, before a game, Parks...

Thanks for the comment but it was 1962 when Jim Taylor led the NFL in rushing. I can't tell you how many times writers have gloated about never having White RBs anymore. By the way, nobody was surprised at the time when Taylor had the yardage totals he did.

This is ironic when I recall a 1981 SI article on Collinsworth during his rookie year. The theme was, "Cris Collinsworth loves to talk!" Collinsworth was quoted as resenting being compared to White receivers and said something like, "I want to be compared to guys like Lofton." So as an...

You need better leaders than Trump. You need many leaders which results in more adherents and a larger movement.

I read Tatum's book when it came out. His apologia for the hit on Darryl Stingley received considerable attention. Tatum said he had to play that way or Al Davis would cut his salary or trade him. Tatum ripped Franco Harris for running out of bounds along with "slipping, falling, and caking...

Over the years we've seen White players do this often in decisions of this nature.

I remember it very well. It started with Atkinson's hitting Swann in the neck during the 1975 AFC Title Game, knocking him out of the game with a concussion. Swann came back with his most famous performance in Super Bowl X. George Atkinson caused another incident in the 1976 Raiders-Patriots...

Jim Taylor in 1962, 14 game season. Taylor gained 1474 yards, 5.4 avg. per carry, 19 TDs all rushing.

Yes, letting down in the last regular season game when your playoff spot is clinched has been disastrous.

I remember seeing all the players mentioned on TV and reading about them in the sports magazines of the time. Tommy Mason was a very good (short of great) player from 1962-65. He made the Pro Bowl (Pro Football Reference) three straight years (1962-64). Mason was having another good year in...

Yes, it was the usual demeaning and/or condescension that someone like Danny Woodhead gets from media types. The phrase "had to scrap his ass off" is supposed to mean Woodhead lacked physical ability. Danny Woodhead couldn't have played as well as he did if he wasn't very talented. I noted in...

Whether CMac wins the season MVP or not, the best thing would to have big games in the playoffs, win the Super Bowl and be Super Bowl MVP.