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NFL Football Picks – Turkey Day Edition

One of the best holidays of the year is finally upon us.  Thanksgiving is known for turkey, pumpkin pie, family and of course football!  This year’s slate of games is a little underwhelming as Oakland and Detroit are both involved.  But what do we do to make a boring football game more exciting? That’s right [...]

NFL Lines Week 1

Tennessee @ Pittsburgh (-6.5)
The defending champs (damn you Santio Holmes) open up their title defense against one of last year’s surprising teams.  For the Titans, I see two questions heading into the season.  The first being whether Kerry Collins can repeat his performance, especially with a still below average receiving group.  Another is the loss [...]

National Felon Fantasy League Update

Well that didn’t take too long now did it? Cell Block D and Eli and Peyton’s Anal Contriband Smugglers take an early lead in the National Felon Fantasy League. If you missed the first post explaining how the National Felon Fantasy League works click here.
Cell Block D scored 2pts for Brandon Marshall’s amazing practice [...]

National Felon Fantasy League – A new kind of fantasy league

In honor of Plaxico Burress’ guilty plea and subsequent two year jail sentence gridironfanatics.com would like to introduce to the world wide web the “National Felon Fantasy League.” A new kind of fantasy football league where points are not awarded for personal accolades on the field but rather for the stupid, idiotic, illegal things [...]

NFL Season Over Under Lines

With the start of the NFL season right around the corner and a few preseason games under our belts it is time to start and look at teams and predict what kind of a season each one will have. Sportsbook.com has their NFL season win totals up and a few of the season win [...]

Fantasy football draft – What is the optimal strategy?

There are a lot of different draft strategies you can have going into your fantasy football draft. In recent years the optimal draft strategy was to pick a running back in the first two rounds of the draft. With the idea being that because running backs are generally the most consistent point getters [...]

The Sunshine State…Denver. Gorgeous!

Denver may be the sunshine state to Mitch Martin but it has not been that “gorgeous” for Kyle Orton.

Orton was booed at practice after throwing two interceptions and a handful of other poorly thrown balls.
Bronco fans did not stop there as they also booed kicker Matt Prater when he missed consecutive 43 yard field goals. [...]

The Ocho Cinco Show on Ustream

Stephon Marbury might be starting a new trend for athletes. Forget Twitter and Facebook, Usteam.tv is set to become all the rage now. After Starbury’s awkward and sort of disturbing internet show debuted the other day Chad Ocho Cinco has embraced the self broadcasting website Ustream.tv with his own show, The Ocho Cinco [...]

NFL draft to expand to three days. Start in Primetime

The NFL draft just became more of a spectacle than it already is. Now football fans will have the opportunity to stare at Mel Kiper’s hair for three straight days. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced Thursday that the NFL draft will be expanding to three days instead of the traditional 2 day event [...]

Let Ocho Cinco Tweet

As you may have heard last week Chad Ocho Cinco plans on “tweeting” from the sidelines during games. While I originally sided with the league and Chad’s coaches on this one in thinking it was a bad idea for my star receiver to be worried about sending updates to Twitter instead of catching the [...]