Roger Goodell's Memo To Teams About Ray Rice
There are still lots of questions swirling around the Ray Rice knockout video, and the NFL's reaction to it. Did they know about it and just fail to get it? Did they watch it and fail to react?
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There are still lots of questions swirling around the Ray Rice knockout video, and the NFL's reaction to it. Did they know about it and just fail to get it? Did they watch it and fail to react?
"I wasn't trying to be heroic or nothing, but we really didn't have another tackle," Hilliard said.
The NFL can't be happy that its most controversial franchise is playing its primetime game to kick off Week 2. But that's exactly what's happening as the Baltimore Ravens host the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night (8:25 ET, CBS).
Solomon Wilcots may have had one season in the black and yellow, but he's an expert on all things football and he took the time to weigh in on this Thursday's match-up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens. Amid numerous controversial stories, there is still football to be played and games to be won. Week two starts with the Ravens and Steelers in an AFC North divisional match-up.
The Detroit Lions and Carolina Panthers both won their openers. Now, they square off in week two, with the Panthers getting their starting quarterback back.
With Bentley out for the year, the Lions will likely be making some acquisition at the position soon.
As far as how the Lions would deal with a player who committed an act of domestic violence, Caldwell implied the player would be released.
Now he's suffering another indignity.
If your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take all happiness away, you've succeeded on so many levels. Just know we will continue to grow & show the world what real love is! Ravensnation we love you!"
The Detroit Lions opened the season at home for Monday Night Football, vanquishing the New York Giants with relative ease, led by an impressive Matthew Stafford.
Stafford emerged from the game with a 125.3 passer rating, but statistics tell only part of the story.
"We just felt it was kind of to honor Mr. Ford in his passing," Lions head coach Jim Caldwell said.
Stafford improvised brilliantly on two early touchdown passes to Johnson, and Detroit beat the Giants in Jim Caldwell's first game as Lions coach.
Here is how players, sports pros and regular folks reacted to Ray Rice's suspension on Twitter.
If you want to be able to handle pressure, I guess you just kick with a hundred or so band members surrounding you...
Acknowledging he "didn't get it right" with a two-game suspension for Ravens running back Ray Rice, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced tougher penalties for players accused of domestic violence, including six weeks for a first offense and at least a year for a second.
"... After coming here, you see the players aren't as bad as they're portrayed to be on TV, and the city isn't like that, at least the areas that I've been in. You kind of live just like a normal city. I think every city has their bad areas. The economy may be a little different here, but for the most part, it's cool."
Caldwell said last week the Lions would not name season-long captains and instead appoint the honors on a game-by-game basis.
The front office publicly announced that they were aiming to win the division title this year in the first year of the Jim Caldwell era.
Ford Field will be giving fans a unique in the NFL experience at the Microsoft Fan Cave on the stadium's north end, second floor concourse.
Eastern Market is ready to cheer on the Lions as they take on the New York Giants in their first Monday night season opener since 1971.
As the 2014 schedule begins, Detroit wants to atone for its late-season slide, while the Giants are still smarting from an 0-6 start that they never fully recovered from.
How do you know for sure you're a die-hard NFL football fan? Let me count the ways.
Here are 8 ways you responded on Twitter to Manziel trademarking 'Johnny Cleveland.'
Football reduces us to our most private and primate impulses. We survive winter through the vicarious thrill we get from our favorite football teams.
