Entries from SFist tagged with 'nfl'
January 22, 2008
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January 5, 2008
* Jacksonville vs Pittsburgh Saturday, January 5, 5:00 PM PST Wild Card 2008 The Purists' Battle This is the game that John Madden has been eeeagerly awaiting. A matchup of two classically built, smashmouth NFL franchises in a cold weather playoff game. Pound the rock. Control the line. Stick 'em on D. This is a football game for the NFL purist. Can't wait. Photo via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette......
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: Wild Card Wknd 2008, "Purity Test""January 5, 2008
The NFL's 2008 Wild Card Wknd has arrived at the same time as this rainstorm front......
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: Wild Card Wknd 2008, "And Then The Rain...""December 24, 2007
December 23, 2007
With the perpetual rebuilding process that is the San Francisco 49er franchise, every so often an old part of old successes will cycle back through SF. This Sunday, Gilroy’s second-most-favorite export returns to the Bay Area at the reigns of Chucky Gruden’s particular strain of West Coast Offense. You never should have been run out of town, Jeff....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: Donohue's Deceit, Garcia's Return, And Delicious Garlic"December 10, 2007
December 2, 2007
Joe Frazier was once quoted as sayin' "Kill the body and the head will die." For an NFL offensive unit, the opposite is the case. And here comes the context: it's your American Football Spectacular preview for lucky Week 13 of the 2007 NFL season....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: Kill The Head And The Body Will Die"November 25, 2007
Reporting from spa-side in Santa Ana, it's your American Football Spectacular preview of the next rung of pain on the agony ladder that is the 49ers' '07 season....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: One Up, One Down"November 21, 2007
-With tonight's 108-82 win against the running joke that is the New York Knicks (seriously, what does it take to get fired in that organization?), the Warriors have now won three in a row and are one game from totaling the amount of wins our local football teams have. The Beard led the way with 31 points, seven assists and six rebounds and Stephen Jackson got 23 points. For the Knicks, Starbury played his first game of the season showing that blackmail does work ...
Continue Reading "It's Got to be the Morning After"November 14, 2007
If there's anybody in the city taking more heat than Mike Nolan, it's his quarterback, Alex Smith. Smith stands accused by the Faithful of not very being good. The evidence? Overthrowing Receivers. Underthrowing Receivers. Not seeing open Receivers. The numbers back up the evidence-- he has a preposterously low QB rating (57.2) and completion percentage (48.7). He is also 11-19 as a starting QB. In the games we've watched, Smith looked like the same QB he was when he first started-- skittish and inaccurate-- so much so, the Faithful are muttering that Smith, as a #1 draft pick, has been a bust of Lucy Pinder-like proportions (sort of NSFW-y). ...
Continue Reading "A Tale of Two Quarterbacks"November 5, 2007
November 3, 2007
Continuing the tour of pain through the ex-members of the NFC West, this week the 49ers visit the the wreckage that once was the Atlanta Falcons....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: At The Bottom And Still Falling"November 1, 2007
A hurrah and a huzzah goes out to Raider Nation for not selling out Sunday's Raiders game. As a result, football fans throughout the area will be allowed to watch The. Biggest. Game. Ever. from the vicinity of their couch. ...
Continue Reading "Happy Colts/Pats Sunday"October 29, 2007
October 27, 2007
For both the New Orleans Saints and the 49ers, this season has suuucked. There's no worse feeling in fandom than unmet expectations. And both of the NFL's gold-helmeted teams have seen the bottom drop out of their dreams for the 2007 season....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: All That Glimmers"October 23, 2007
Some random effluvia from the weekend that was ...
Continue Reading "It's Got to Be the Morning After"October 22, 2007
September 25, 2007
Here's a few random sports stories for the day...
Continue Reading "SFist Has Your Random Sports Effluvia"September 23, 2007
Ahhh, crap. During this week’s practice, 49er OLB Manny Lawson tore an ACL and will be out for the 2007 season. This is a mighty blow to the nascent Niner defense, who had been counting on the former first-round pick to lend his 6’5” frame and sprinter’s speed to the linebacking corps this year....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: Man(ny) Down"September 17, 2007
September 11, 2007
Here's todays sports news...
Continue Reading "It's Got to Be the Morning After"September 10, 2007
The glaring problem with the 2007 San Francisco 49ers is that there are two 49er teams: the American football team that Head Coach Nolan II will put on the field of play this year, and the ownership team led by the hapless Dr. York. While Nolan's West Coast Ravens are being hyped as having come to fruition out from the dark days post-Mooch, Dr. York's ineptitude is threatening the sustainability of the Niners franchise to......
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: The 2007 49ers, "Nolan's Great Leap Forward""September 6, 2007
Thank goodness. Let the blessed distraction begin. For just a little while, there there be kickoffs and touchdowns and the illusion of a level playing field. Tonight, it's time for the National Football League's 2007 regular season to begin. Wonderful....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular: Your Complete 2007 NFL Regular Season Guesstimate"September 4, 2007
Offside! Penalty -- three months. Any talk of the Niners moving from San Francisco down to Santa Clara is before the snap (did we get our convoluted football metaphor right? SFist Jon's out on vacation this week so we can't check), now that the City of Santa Clara's experienced yet more delays in completing the required feasibility study about how they're going to raise their $160 million share for the stadium. The study was supposed......
Continue Reading "Niners Still Not Sure If They're Moving To Santa Clara"August 15, 2007
August 2, 2007
A public memorial is all set to honor Bill Walsh. It'll be held at Candlestick at 11 AM on August 10th and among the speakers will be Joe Montana and Eddie De Bartolo. A private ceremony will be held on August 9th at the Stanford Memorial Church. Speakers there will not only include Montana and DeBartolo, but NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Dianne Feinstein. Rumored to attend are Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Secretary of State George Shultz who were friends of the Genius. Current owners of the 49ers, John and Denise York have also asked that the Governor declare a Bill Walsh Day. ...
Continue Reading "Remembering Bill Walsh"July 31, 2007
Yesterday, the gentleman who came to be called The Genius passed away from leukemia at the age of 75....
Continue Reading "American Football Spectacular Remembers Bill Walsh"July 26, 2007
\ -- Poll: Should MUNI's 15-Third line rise from the dead? (Hint: Yes) [Examiner] -- San Francisco sheriff deputies accuse Sheriff Michael Hennessey of gender discrimination. [BAR] -- Father won't be charged with the death of his 11-month-old son. [Chron] -- Bonds calls out Costas' severe Munchkin-ness. [NFL Scores] -- SFPD officer hurt while directing traffic. Ouch. [KGO, KRON] -- Arf: another coyote dies in Golden Gate Park. [KPIX] -- Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums wishes......
Continue Reading "Day Around the Bay"July 17, 2007
American sports fans, do you know what you're missing right now? -- the magical, the legendary, the completely captivating Tour de France. Yup. In fact, the Tour has already reached its first rest day after eight straight days of racing.
Let's face it: for cycling fans, the Tour is the pure Nirvana. Thanks to the Versus (formerly OLN) network, US fans (all 12 of them) of skinny tires, incredible bike handling, and human suffering can watch cycling every day for three straight weeks. It just doesn't get any better than this. It's like the NCAA tournament, the US Open, the NFL playoffs, the NBA Finals, and the World Series all rolled in to one. Every night -- every goddamn night -- cycling fans can kick back in their recliners (or on their stationary trainers), drink in the international flavor, and let the joy of cycling wash over them. Every night! For three straight weeks!
... Continue Reading "Cycling: Feed Your Head"