Here are 5 lessons that you should take away from this past weekend in the NFL.
The Road to Super Bowl XLV Begins Today; Wild-Card Weekend Picks
January 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
With the best tournament in all of pro sports kicking off this weekend we here at HPR are giving our winners for the Wild card round of the NFL playoffs.
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. [...]
NFL: Beast or Bust
October 10, 2010 By 4 Comments
Every year during the first few weeks of the NFL season we get several surprise teams. Teams that come out of nowhere and get off to a great and unexpected start (09 Broncos, ’10 Chiefs) and teams that are popular Super Bowl or division champion picks (’10 49ers, ’10 Cowboys, ’10 Vikings). So with only [...]
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 [...]
2011 NFL Season Preview. Part 8 of 9, AFC West: The West will be more competitive than in recent years
September 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Here is the second to last blog in my nine part NFL season preview blog series. Part nine will be my power rankings, and Super Bowl picks. AFC West (Note: If you click on the red colored team name, a link will take you to a web page that will show you strength of schedule [...]
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 [...]
No NFL team wants to share popcorn with Terrell Owens right now
I wasn’t going to blog about the Terrell Owens situation because I have said all that I needed to say about him immediately after the season on twitter. However, since Terrell has been in the news constantly for the past two weeks. I feel compelled to put in my two cents on this situation. First [...]