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NFL's First Openly Gay Draft Pick Celebrated by Kissing His Boyfriend
Lacey Donohue · 05/10/14 06:31PMTom Scocca · 04/02/14 12:12PM
America's most-loved NFL player, Richard Sherman, on the moral panic over ex-Eagles star DeSean Jackson's rumored "gang ties": "Nobody suggested the Colts owner had 'ties' to drug trafficking, even though he was caught driving with controlled substances ... and $29,000 in cash to do who-knows-what with."
Rich Juzwiak · 03/17/14 04:03PM
Tom Scocca · 02/12/14 03:49PM
NFL Execs Predict Doom for the Potential Teammates of Gay Player
Rich Juzwiak · 02/10/14 11:47AMCollege Football Star Could Be the First Openly Gay NFL Player
Gabrielle Bluestone · 02/09/14 08:22PMHow Richard Sherman Became America's Newest Thug
Cord Jefferson · 01/23/14 10:05AMFormer Pro Football Player Reflects on Brokeback Romance with Teammate
Rich Juzwiak · 01/22/14 04:25PMThis account of an affair between two men who played together on the Washington Redskins in the late '60s/early '70s is heartbreaking. It comes from the NFL Network's episode of A Football Life profiling player Jerry Smith, who remained publicly closeted for his entire life (Smith died of AIDS in 1986).
Massachusetts Boy Dies from Complications of Accelerated Aging Disease
Justin Charity · 01/12/14 04:32PMColumnist: Adrian Peterson Is a Jerk Because His Son Was Murdered
Hamilton Nolan · 10/14/13 08:33AMRich Juzwiak · 04/16/13 10:40AM
Four NFL Players May Be Coming Out on the Same Day, Says Confused Former NFL Player
The Oiler · 04/06/13 11:15AMESPN recently polled its readers about gay people in professional sports and found out that, well, people are still kind of homophobic (surprise!). One poll found that 56 percent of its readers think a player coming out while still a pro athelete would be a "selfish act" that would divide the locker room.
Surreptitiously Recorded Video Chronicles One Family's Hilarious 'Football Meltdowns' Over the Course of the Entire 2012 Season
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/05/13 03:04PMNow this is a football highlight reel.
15 People Concerned About the Impact of Jovan Belcher's Suicide on Fantasy Football Matchups
MTanzer · 12/01/12 03:39PMThis morning's news that NFL lineman Jovan Belcher had murdered his girlfriend and then subsequently committed suicide was extremely tragic. Any compassionate human being would immediately would reflect on the fact that a talented athlete wasted his own life and unfairly ended his girlfriend's as well.
Report: NFL Player Kills Girlfriend and then Himself
MTanzer · 12/01/12 11:48AMHow We Made and Won the NFL Referee Lockout
Mobutu Sese Seko · 09/27/12 02:05PMIt takes remarkably few complaints about the NFL referee lockout to provoke a chiding comment about "bread and circuses." It's a novel insight, assuming your conversation occurs nearly 2,000 years ago in imperial Rome. But all too often it represents misplaced disengagement. And now, of course, it's over, which makes it even easier to dismiss—a hiccup of labor history remembered only by people who paint themselves blue and stand nearly naked outside in January.
The Non Sports Fan's Guide to the NFL's Replacement Referee Fiasco and Green Bay's Stolen Game
Max Read · 09/25/12 02:45PMLast night, a bad call by the NFL's replacement referees cost the Green Bay Packers a win, and everyone's talking about it. Everyone except for you, hiding in your office, unable to understand 50 percent of the words in the previous sentence, faking a coughing fit every time one of your coworkers passes by. Well, non sports fan, we're here to save you. This is everything you need to know about the NFL's replacement referee fiasco and last night's crazy Green Bay-Seattle game — tailored for people who've never watched a minute of professional football.
A List of Things to Say to Sound as if You Understand the Super Bowl, Dummy
Emma Carmichael · 02/04/12 05:00PMNot everyone knows football, and that's okay—even if you're an American. Everyone, though, is perfectly capable of sounding as if they might know a thing or two about football should the need arise. Here's what to yell at your TV and friends in order to sound like you maybe-kinda-sorta know what's going on this Sunday evening.