Per a confirmed report by the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Cincinnati Bengals will be featured on HBO’s Hard Knocks for this upcoming football season.
Bengals Always Go For the Big Name
February 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
Except with the Cincinnati Bengals, you always get shortchanged. This time it looks like they’re getting Gruden to be their offensive coordinator. That’s great, right?
Don’t Worry Carolina Panthers, You Are Not Alone
December 24, 2010 By 2 Comments
Last night’s match-up against the Pittsburgh Steelers pushed the Carolina Panthers one game closer to receiving the not so coveted first overall pick of the 2011 draft. The Panthers have struggled mightily this season at quarterback, trying Matt Moore and rookie Jimmy Clausen who have both been unable to secure the starting job. Although the [...]
Batman & Robin Are No More, Terrell Owens Not Returning to Cincy
December 21, 2010 By 7 Comments
This shouldn’t come as a shock but despite Terrell Owens Pro Bowl play this year the Cincinnati Bengals have decided not to bring T.O. back for a second year.
Ranking The Fake Nike NFL Uniforms
November 20, 2010 By 24 Comments
Many of you who have subscribed to helmetandpadsrequired.com or are avid readers of Yardbarker.com most likely came across my article yesterday that broke the news that the pictures of the Nike NFL uniform sketches were fakes. Per Gregg Rosenthal of Pro Football Talk, Darren Rovell of CNBC, the NFL and Nike, the pictures are fakes. [...]
Former Bengal under investigation for defrauding three NFL rookies
October 28, 2010 By 1 Comment
Word on the street is that a former Cincinnati Bengals player is being investigated by the NFL for allegedly attempting to jack three NFL rookies “white collar style” for more than $350,000.
Quarterback Play In The NFL Today
September 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I am sure by now you have heard either me, or any of the many NFL analysts on ESPN, Fox Sports, NBC Sports or the NFL Network routinely state that the NFL is a passing league now. You can have the most dominant running game on the planet, however if you don’t have a quarterback [...]
NFL Picks: Week #2.
September 19, 2010 By 1 Comment
I figured with me debuting my very own sports/blogging website this weekend I would start posting my weekly NFL picks. Last week I had written down all of my football picks but never got around to posting them. I don’t know why I didn’t; I think writing 5 blogs in two and a half days [...]
2011 NFL Season Preview. Part 9 of 9: NFL Power Rankings & Super Bowl Prediction
September 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
Welcome to my new blog site www.helmetandpadsrequired.com. After months of using the generic version of WordPress to do my blogging, I decided to go out and get my own domain name and web hosting site. It’s still under construction and I wasn’t going to debut it until October 1st once the iPhone app version of [...]
The Ultimate 2011 NFL fantasy football blog part 3: Defense
August 16, 2010 By 2 Comments
Here is what some of you guys have been waiting for, the next installment of my 2011 NFL fantasy football blog series. Today I am ranking all 32 defenses in order of how I would draft come fantasy football draft time. I will admit that I may post another version of this blog in a [...]
Madden 11: Maybe the most realistic Madden to date
A lot of people seem to be blogging or talking about number 81 today and rightfully so. It’s good to see a black man in this country no longer be unemployed. lol However, Terrell Owens getting signed by the Cincinnati Bengals wasn’t the only big news yesterday, the Madden 11 demo was released for download [...]