Author: Michael

Tyler Huntley was not particularly close to scoring a touchdown against the Bengals during the NFL’s Super Wild Card weekend. How do we know?
The National Football League casually revealed that they have an exact way of measuring the spot of the ball. There is a chip inside the football.
Since the beginning of time, sticks and chains have been used to measure first downs. Officials have been left to their best judgement for spotting the ball.
It adds a large element of human error to the game and often creates frustration when things are not exact.

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The NFL playoffs began this past weekend, which can mean only one thing … the NASCAR season is right around the corner!
Is that a depressed Miami Dolphins fan speaking? Sure. But, that doesn’t change the fact that it’s mid-January, and the Busch Light Clash is mere weeks away. And hey, we even get Wiz Khalifa doing the mid-race show!
No? That doesn’t get the juices flowing? Oh well. I tried.

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Thoughts on Al Michaels, Tony Dungy, Tony Romo, Greg Olsen, Mike Tirico and more.
1. When the NFL broadcasting carousel was taking place in early 2022 and talent was switching networks and landing monster contracts, there was a lot of talk about the value of broadcasters.
People are going to watch NFL playoff games no matter who is calling them, so why shell out big bucks for talent? Even CBS play-by-play man Greg Gumbel said on the SI Media Podcast that a broadcaster doesn’t bring one viewer to the TV set.

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