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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. [...]
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 [...]
This is a blog that I have been looking forward to writing ever since I completed the NFC North blog a few weeks back. But I am dragging today, and not feeling so gun ho about slapping the keys on the keyboard to type this one out. I will make this happen though, I need [...]
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 [...]
Three NFL coaches who are on the "Hot seat"
Job security is something that few coaches in professional sports have these days, even more so in the NFL. Every coach is basically coaching for his job game by game, season by season. It’s as if a coach’s contract has been written on wet toilet paper or in the sand on a windy beach near [...]