football

Watch Two Retired Football Pros Get Into a Cane-Swinging Brawl

Seth Abramovitch · 11/27/11 09:27PM

What should have been just another sleepy Canadian Football League alumni luncheon in Vancouver on Friday turned unexpectedly violent, when Joe Kapp, 73, former quarterback for the B.C. Lions, got into a fight with his longtime rival, 74-year-old Angelo Mosca, former defensive tackle for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

'This Is About the Football Players,' Moron Tells Penn State Protester

Max Read · 11/12/11 06:03PM

After the embarrassment of Wednesday night's riot, in which thousands of Penn State students took to the streets to protest the firing of longtime football coach Joe Paterno for helping to cover up assistant coach Jerry Sandusky's alleged rape of several young boys, you'd think Penn State fans would have learned their lesson. As it turns out, not all of them have.

What If Everyone Involved in This Penn State Scandal Were Black?

Hamilton Nolan · 11/10/11 10:49AM

It's times like this—when a "hero" beloved for not-quite-justified reasons meets a scandalous end, and college kids start rioting in the streets over sports, not social justice—when we, as a nation, need to sit back, take a deep collective breath, and ask ourselves: "Can you imagine if everyone involved in this thing were black?"

Yale Quarterback Faces Worst White Boy Dilemma Ever

Maureen O'Connor · 11/08/11 03:41PM

Yale University quarterback Patrick Witt is "every inch the football hero," "a contender for the NFL draft," "the most accurate passer in Yale history." He is also very smart, with a 3.91 GPA and a shot at the Rhodes Scholarship.

Streaker Posing as Referee Causes Bench-Clearing Brawl at Football Game

Matt Cherette · 10/21/11 03:43AM

The University of Arizona played host to UCLA on Thursday for an evening game of football. Just before halftime, a man posing as a referee rushed the field, was exposed as a fraud, and then attempted to escape while simultaneously shedding his clothing. Did I mention that all the commotion led to a bench-clearing brawl?

Four NYPD Cops Punished for Being Friendly to Little Boy

Lauri Apple · 09/19/11 08:45AM

NYPD Officers Catherine Guzman and Mariana Diaz and two of their colleagues were disciplined for tossing a football to a little boy they encountered in a Bronx housing project, and now Guzman and Diaz are complaining that their punishment was unfair. It sure was—they should have all been fired.

Anti-American Cowboys Fan Arrested for 9/11 Taser Attack

Jeff Neumann · 09/13/11 06:20AM

Leroy McKelvey, a 59-year-old Dallas Cowboys fan, went with three friends to see his team face off against the New York Jets on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Naturally, emotions were running high. But before the game even started, trouble was afoot in upper-deck Section 324 of MetLife stadium:

New York Post Disturbed By Lack of 9/11 Coverage On TV

Jeff Neumann · 09/12/11 04:00AM

If you had to think of one thing that stood out on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, you would probably say there was a lack of television tributes, right? Funny, because that's how the New York Post sees it, too. Fact-based reporting from the paper:

David Vitter Is the Senate's Saddest Little Boy

Jim Newell · 09/08/11 01:41PM

Louisiana Sen. David Vitter is one of the members of Congress who's been bragging in the last few days about not attending President Obama's speech tonight — in his case, to hold a football-watching party at his house. But it probably wasn't a good idea to broadcast his lame flouting of congressional tradition! Because Sen. Harry Reid heard him, and now it appears that little David will have to stay in Washington after all.

More Crucial Congressional Business Today: Football Sign-Up

Jim Newell · 07/29/11 10:38AM

At some point, maybe Speaker John Boehner will become good at his job and round up enough House Republicans to pass his go-nowhere debt ceiling bill. Maybe. Because Congress has other, much more important business to attend to this afternoon, like signing up for a football game.

College Football Game Narrated As A Nature Film

Richard Blakeley · 03/07/11 11:55AM

Using footage from a 2010 Iowa verses Wisconsin football game, this clever spoof overlays a compelling nature film narration providing an amusing juxtaposition on the human condition.

Tree Terrorist Heats Up College Football Rivalry

Jeff Neumann · 02/18/11 08:35AM

When Auburn University beat Alabama in the Iron Bowl last year, something in Harvey Almorn Updyke Jr. snapped. Updyke is an Alabama fan — bitter rivals of Auburn — so the loss was especially tough. In an act of revenge, he phoned into an Auburn radio station to say that he'd sprayed a tree-killing herbicide called Spike 80DF around the school's famed 130-year-old oak trees at Toomer's Corner — where Auburn fans celebrate after wins, do keg stands and puke and make choices that they regret the next day. Updyke ended his call to the radio station with "Roll Damn Tide." Now the trees are dying and there's bascially nothing that anyone can do to save them.