Liguori: The Blue Collar Bowl
Football fans who appreciate the game's tradition will savor this year's Super Bowl match-up between two of the most legendary teams in the NFL: the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Football fans who appreciate the game's tradition will savor this year's Super Bowl match-up between two of the most legendary teams in the NFL: the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
After a week of practices about as stressful as a Hawaiian sunset, players shifted to Aloha Stadium for their final workouts before Sunday's Pro Bowl.
If you think things are starting to get ugly, just wait. The clock is starting to tick even more quickly, and both sides are digging in for a battle that seems to have no chance of ending well.
In a report released Friday called "Dangers of the Game of Football," the NFLPA says injuries increased from 3.2 to 3.7 per week per team and the share of players injured increased to 63 percent compared to a 2002-09 average of 59 percent.
Sunday's Pro Bowl marks the return to Hawaii - where it had been since 1980 - after a spending a year in Miami. The players, however, clearly want the game to stay in the islands.
Antonio Cromartie is at it again. This time, he threatened Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck in a Thursday night Twitter tussle.
"Honestly, once I found out that they clinched a playoff spot, I had some time to kill and I had this beat lying around that I felt really good about," said Matt Fox.
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is expected to have right foot surgery on Thursday, the Boston Globe reported on its website on Wednesday night.
A Union spokesman said Wednesday's session between Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith is "an effort to advance the bargaining,'' rather than a formal negotiating session toward a new labor contract.
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wants to see immediate progress in labor talks. "It's time to get to the table and negotiate," he said Tuesday after an owners meeting Tuesday.
Giants safety Antrel Rolle is at it again. While New York's outspoken defensive back softened the blow by calling Tom Coughlin a "very caring, honest guy" on Monday, he also delivered strong criticism for the Giants' "uptight" head coach.
Minnesota Vikings and former New York Jets quarterback Brett Favre has officially filed papers with the NFL for retirement.
The field is set for the conference championship games. And both No. 1 seeds are done.
So the Jets weren't all (trash) talk after all. Now Rex Ryan's rowdy bunch is headed to its second straight AFC championship game after New York backed up its coach's boasts with a 28-21 win Sunday over the Patriots - the team that had the best record in the NFL.
Tom Brady threw an interception on New England's first possession Sunday against the New York Jets — the first time he has been picked off since Oct. 17.
The Bears' 35-24 dismantling of overmatched Seattle on Sunday sets up the biggest game in their 90-year series with the Packers. Chicago and Green Bay will play for the 182nd time next Sunday, but their first meeting for the NFC title.
Carving up the NFC's top-seeded team, Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes, ran for another score and led the Green Bay Packers to their second straight postseason road victory with a stunning 48-21 rout of the Atlanta Falcons on Saturday night.
Ben Roethlisberger hit rookie Antonio Brown on a 58-yard pass play on third-and-19, and Rashard Mendenhall scored from the 2 with 1:33 remaining to give the Pittsburgh Steelers a 31-24 comeback victory over the Baltimore Ravens in an AFC divisional playoff game Saturday.
Jets center Nick Mangold countered Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker's tongue-in-cheek words Thursday with some words of his own, via Twitter.
The NFL has warned players to cut out the trash talk, specifically when it threatens other players.
If former NFL star Lawrence Taylor keeps fighting his third-degree rape charge, his New York trial could be just weeks away.
Concerns about injuries and insurance make the league's push to switch to an 18-game regular season a major sticking point in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement, according to two NFL players.
This road thing seems to agree with wild-card teams. Now, can the Ravens, Jets and Packers keep it going next weekend?
The Denver Broncos are no longer aggressively pursuing Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh for their vacant head coaching position. New York Giants defensive coordinator Perry Fewell will interview for the position on Sunday.
