Informative and opinionated sports blogging on NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA Football, Boxing and MMA. Facts, not hype.
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. [...]
During an appearance with Minnesota Vikings fans on Tuesday, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said that the NFL has notified him that health care for players and their families will end in March if there isn’t a new collective bargaining agreement in place.
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 [...]
Tonight the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins will conclude in what was the NFL’s first installment of rivalry weekend. Like most of the games that were played this weekend, tonight’s game should be close and very entertaining. With both teams offenses playing well coming into this game while their defenses are having issues [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Well it has taken me almost a week to complete this running back fantasy football blog. I was supposed to have this done last Friday. However, after LeBron James’s “Decision” on Thursday, I had to say my piece on that whole issue. Then to make matters more complicated, I wasn’t really too sure how I [...]
Yeah, you just read the title of this blog correctly. This blog is about why I don’t think Elvis Dumervil is going to get a contract extension from the Denver Broncos. Some of you guys, especially you die hard Broncos fans who tend to have a biased view point on anything concerning the Broncos, are [...]
A Tarnished Legacy
Brett Favre. The ‘Ol Gunslinger, The Silver Fox, NFL’s Iron Man, statistically the greatest QB of all time. John Madden’s man crush, ESPN’s top 5 favorite athletes. Wrangler Man. Media Whore. Drama Queen, Liar, Cheater, Fraud. Brett Favre is many things. Many great, many not so great. He is the definition of longevity, lasting an [...]