It's time for American Football Spectacular's capsule reviews of the first round in the 2009 NFL Draft. All the intrigue, all the anticipation, all the measurables! All hard information was culled from NFL.com's pretty excellent draft tracker site. Let's do this. more ›

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. more ›

It's time for American Football Spectacular's capsule reviews of the 2007 NFL Draft. Adventure, excitement,measureables! more ›

Coming to you from da city of Da Bears, it's your American Football Spectacular shorthand 2007 NFL Draft overview for the 49ers and Raiders. The draft is here. What should each team want, and what should each team do-not-want? * For the 49ers, WANT: NT/DL DO-NOT-WANT: WR Shut up. Listen, picking a wide receiver high in the draft simply does not pay dividends by nature of the position. You've got the rare Larry Fitzgerald, and... more ›

Having the number one pick in the 2007 NFL Draft, that is. After losing horrifically to the Houston Texans 23-14 in a home game where the dauntless Raider Power Mullet defense limited Yoostun to 32 yards passing yards and still lost! more ›

Let's meet the guys newly selected to bear the Silver And Black, shall we? Presenting the top three picks of your Oakland Raiders' 2006 Draft. more ›

With training camp opened and the whir of footballs in the air, SFist is going to take a look at some of the people who'll be hitting tackling sleds in ninety degree weather... Let's meet the guys newly selected to bear the Silver And Black, shall we? more ›

As much as we said we were going to avoid the NFL Draft, we found ourselves on a lazy Saturday morning tuning in and getting hooked. In it's way, it's got that same addictive quality as a good reality show-- it's totally mindless yet totally absorbing. And like your good reality show, there's all the suspense going on once you figure out all the various more ›

Being part of the Award Winning SFist news desk, we suppose we should say something about the NFL draft tomorrow. So we started up with the researching and decided we were so sick about hearing about the thing that we just couldn't take it anymore. Somewhere along the umpteenth story along the lines of "Reggie Bush Sneezes at Combine-- Could Cost Him Five Spots on the NFL Draft!" or "Does Leinart Rooming With Nick Lachey Show He Is a Good Decision Maker?" we decided to beg off. We mean, both ESPN and CNNSI had lead stories recently about a player dropping positions on their Mock Draft. And we're talking big, headline grabbing, front stories about, say, Vince Young going from #3 to #10. ON A MOCK DRAFT. It's like us writing this big, huge, posting saying that we're leaning towards going to a party over the weekend with Natalie Portman instead of Salma Hayek. Yes, there's probably (probably) more of a chance that Young really could be drafted late in the draft than us having a date with either actress, but, and not to get too Buddhist here, both are based on the exact same level of real-ness. Which is none. more ›

here are few sensations worse than the feeling that you've been used. It is a oily, ugly emotion that sits butter-thick at the back of one's mouth. It can change the very air in a room. No good can come of this, yet lessons may be learned. Wariness for the future. Having felt that you've been used can set a mark on your psyche. Our two Bay Area teams both got used this wknd more ›

SFist can’t remember whom the comedian or writer was, but we recently read something by someone about the nature of geekdom. What they were wondering is why if somebody spends endless amounts of time, say, debating the ins and outs of Star Wars, watching the DVDs, going on message boards, and camping out before movies, they are somehow total geek losers, their masculinity completely in question. If, however, they spend absurd amounts of time debating the ins and outs of NFL draft picks and studying the draft and an entire weekend doing nothing but watching the draft, they are considered not geeks or losers, but the very height of manly man. This despite the fact that Star Wars has way more explosions and cool-ass space ships. What we are getting at is that tomorrow is the NFL Draft Day and SFist has long felt that the NFL Draft is one of the most annoyingly over hyped, over analyzed sports event of the year. Heck, it even has a logo and it’s own coporate sponsor. Life is way too short to spend idle amounts of time contemplating the draft. Especially when we have a fantasy baseball team we have to take care of. more ›