AFC EAST is wide open Bills on top
NY Jets and Patriots same record 2-2
Miami is mess they are not going anywhere

 

Ya that 20-0 score against the Saints confirms your theory ...

I like seeing that 2-2 under the Patriots though and would love to see them miss the playoffs but I won't hold my breath on that. The Patriots did keep it close with 14 4th quarter points though but too little too late.

10-0 Bronco's right now over the Raiders.

 

You know you are athletic when you can "hurdle" a 6 foot + player ...


Rams running back Todd Gurley hurdled Cowboys safety Jeff Heath on Sunday.

 

WOW ...

 

My Stampeders go to 12-1-1 after handing Montreal their asses and are the cream of the crop with 3 weeks left until the playoffs.

 

I love the Atlanta Falcons.

 

So with you being a female that likes football, do you think the comments that Cam Newton made toward female reporter Jourdan Rodrigue last week was offensive ???

Here’s why this matters. Forty years ago this week, a female reporter for Sports Illustrated named Melissa Ludtke was denied access to the Yankees locker room during the 1977 World Series, because she was a woman. She sued Major League Baseball, claiming her 14th Amendment rights to equal protection had been violated.

She won the case. And sports journalism changed forever. Which does not mean it immediately improved. Women were continually harassed and demeaned, even by figures we hold in high esteem.

Red Smith of the New York Times wrote that Ludtke had “struck a note of low comedy” by contending in court that she could not cover the World Series unless she could “watch Reggie Jackson undress.”

In other words, like Newton, Smith found something funny that was actually insulting. And he was a sportswriter.

Things weren’t any better 13 years later, when a Boston Herald reporter named Lisa Olson was sexually harassed in the New England Patriots locker room, with players fondling their private parts and making lewd comments.

That same year, in the Tigers clubhouse, Jack Morris told a female Free Press writer that he didn’t to talk to women when he was naked “unless they’re on top of me or I’m on top of them.”

When the Free Press lodged a complaint, Bo Schembechler, then the Tigers president, blamed the newspaper for sending a woman, saying, “no female member of my family would be inside a men’s locker room regardless of their job description.”

By the way, these are all people I knew and admired. Smith was a legend. I covered Jack for years. Bo became a good friend.

That is even more reason why I need to stand up for Rodrigue and other female sports journalists — women like Helene St. James, our fine Red Wings writer, Jennifer Hammond from Fox 2, Christine Brennan from USA TODAY and many others — who have the exact same demands put on them as their male counterparts, but have to deal with so much more baggage.

It’s not funny. And it’s not fair.

Ask those women how many times they get their credentials scrutinized (as if every female’s dream is to sneak into a sweaty locker room) or get their questions ignored, or get pelted with nasty sexist comments whenever they write something a male reader doesn’t agree with.

It’s a weekly if not daily occurrence. Sports has long been a male kingdom, where the starting point wasn’t even “Why are you women interested in reporting?” It was more like “Why aren’t you in a short skirt and pom-poms?”

That’s why it matters what Newton says. Ultimately he issued a video apology on his Twitter account. He said his choice of words was “extremely degrading” and “disrespectful to women.” He apologized and told young people, “Don’t be like me. Be better than me.”

That’s a fine mea culpa. And if we aspire to be forgiving, we should accept Newton at his word.

The only thing missing was the name Jourdan Rodrigue. Perhaps if Newton had learned it better, perhaps if all athletes learned the names of journalists who cover them the way the journalists learn theirs, these incidents wouldn’t happen, because first you learn a name, then you get to know someone, then you find out they know more than enough to analyze a pass route.

The 14th Amendment, invoked 40 years ago by a female reporter, is at the core of things NFL players are protesting right now. You must give respect if you expect to get it. And know the difference between funny and just plain sad.

 

I don't like football I love the Atlanta Falcons because my papi has loved them for 36 + years so I'm supporting his love of his team.

 

Dallas had this one in the bag but scored with too much time on the clock (just over 1 minute) and let Aaron Rodgers do his magic ... and low and behold he took them all the way down the field to win it 35-31.

 

The Chiefs remain the only undefeated team in the NFL as they beat The Texans last night.



And Mike Pence got up and walked out on the football game he was attending shortly after he was told to leave because of those that knelt down during the anthem.

 

Cam Newton?
Here's the thing.
What he said was boorish and sexist and stupid.
He's apologized.
He isn't a sexist, this isn't his normal message.
He had a brain fart.
He apologized.
Let it go. Move on.

 

The apology was much needed but came too late and he helped set back the advances that female journalists have made over the years while taking nothing but abuse from their male counterparts and athletes alike.

We have a zero tolerance for this kind of attitude in our lockerroom up here in Canada.

 

The 3-2 Vikings beat the 1-4 Bears 20-17 last night.

 

Donald Trump threatens to change law to penalise NFL
Donald Trump has criticised NFL clubs for "disrespecting" their country with protests during the national anthem, suggesting they receive "massive tax breaks" and calling for a change to the law to have these removed.

In his latest attack on players peacefully protesting racial inequality, the US president wrote on Twitter: "Why is the NFL getting massive tax breaks while at the same time disrespecting our Anthem, Flag and Country? Change tax law!"

 

Aren't NFL owners all "100-millionaires" if not billionaires? Trump is ready to give them all additional tax breaks with the new "Tax Reform Bill" (otherwise known as the 'Reverse Robin Hood Bill', which takes from the poor and gives to the rich').

If he then cancels any sports-related tax breaks, the poor billionaires might actually only break even. Sob.