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I perused the accounts of the game and Favre is being roasted for throwing the interception. One blogger wrote that Favre is the most overrated player of the era.

Yes, the DWF's and media have never been entirely comfortable with Peyton Manning playing the most important position in professional sports better than it has ever been played.

I enjoyed Roger McGrath's piece on Glenn Davis. He was a little before my time (born 1950), but as a football fan since childhood I was aware of Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard. ESPN ranked the 25 greatest players in college football history a few years ago and Davis ranked 13th. You can see a 28...

A few weeks ago, I was looking at the comments in an article on Tim Tebow. I found one from a DWF that said, "Tebow is nothing but a Great White Hope. I can't wait to see him flop in the NFL. He and Gerhart are getting too much attention."

I was born in 1950 and followed pro football closely from the early 1960's. The NFL Network program claims the AFL was blacker, but I never have checked the numbers. It varied from team to team, not from league to league. The 1960 Houston Oilers had only 2 black players (one starter, I think)...

The NFL Network is running a series titled "Full Color Football," about the AFL. Part 2 and 3 are showing Thursday night starting at 9 PM ET. A persistent theme is that the AFL opened it up for more black players. Part 2 has a lot on the 1963 San Diego Chargers and does identify lance...

Weren't the sports media types asking Favre, "When are you going to retire?," 5 years ago?"

This is not the first time the Chargers have lost a playoff game on their home field when favored.

Shockey catches a TD pass.

Leo Durocher's signature phrase was "Nice Guys Finish Last." He put out a book with that title in the early 1960's. I recall reading the serialized version in, I think, The Saturday Evening Post. In the book, Leo said that if his own mother was rounding third base with the run that would beat...

Two plays before the fumble, Rodgers almost hit a TD pass. What would the fixers have done if he had? You write: "Usually, that's the team with more white players than the other." Why do the teams with more white players win pretty often? Why did they fix it for McNabb to be knocked out...

Thousand Okie puts into words something I too have noticed in the over 50 years that I have observed football. Yes, it doesn't seem to be as big a negative now as it used to be. Like many other things, it is accepted. As an old-line Big Orange fan, I can't begin to tell you how many passes...

Woody Paige writes that he has been in this business for 40 years. I recall seeing his byline in Pro Football Weekly in the 1970's and 80's. To me, Paige's most notable observations were: "Truth is, players play for themselves, not the team. I've certainly seen the changes from when I started...

Dawson is a big favorite of Peter Gammons, who has some influence. In a column I saw once, Gammons described Andre Dawson as the finest person in baseball.

Most pro football players leave the game only when they are forced to. Rarely does a player walk away when he can still play. Favre has "retired" twice and came back both times. He will stay until he is released and nobody picks him up.

I can't tell you how much the intelligence factor has rankled sportswriters the last 45 years concerning the Black Quarterback Issue. They have insisted the whole time that blacks were more than intelligent enough to play QB in pro football. I would like to have $5 dollars for every column that...

As Don wrote above, the media types don't like Tebow's religiosity. A good many DWF's don't either. Writing as an old-line SEC fan, last night Tebow reminded me of Ken Stabler at Alabama (1965-67). Before a knee injury, Stabler was similar to Tebow as a dual threat QB as well as a...

I have written several times about how sportswriters would complain about the lack of black QB's back in the mid-1960's. They were also calling for more black linebackers. The writers charged the NFL with keeping blacks from playing linebacker (especially middle linebacker) because they "lacked...

One thing about last night's Monday night game was the fact that they were playing a night game in late December in Chicago. I have noticed this for several years. Back in the 1970's, Pete Rozelle would make sure the late-year Monday night games were either in a warm-weather area (California or...

If you look at the total career (try profootball reference.com) for both Lincoln and Lowe, they were not "one year wonders." Because of injuries and the whims of coach Sid Gillman (he decided Lincoln was too small for FB), they only played as a tandem during the 1963-64 seasons and parts of...

Sayers and Piccolo were not a tandem as Piccolo was Sayers' backup. Piccolo was briefly tried at fullback but only lined up alongside Sayers a few times. I followed pro football very closely during that period. In 1968, I was in college and one day went to the library and read the Chicago...

"Lincoln and Lowe? Who the hell are they?" Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe were the running backs on San Diego's AFL championship team of 1963. They were both HB types at around 205. In 1963, Lowe gained 1010 yards at 5.7 per carry. Lincoln ran for 826 at 6.5 per. In the Charges 51-10 win over...

Years ago, I read that New Jersey had a lot of high school football talent with no regional loyalty, meaning New Jersey prospects will travel.

This is one of the NFL Network's Top 10's which I had not seen until recently. The list of the Top 10 backfield tandems is: 1. Taylor and Hornung, 1960's Packers 2. Brown and Mitchell, 1958-61 Browns 3. MacElhenny, Perry, Tittle, Johnson, mid-1950's 49ers 4. Harris and Bleier, 1970's...