The Philadelphia Eagles made a step towards keeping Michael Vick for the upcoming season recently.  Vick was due a$1.5 million dollar bonus or the Eagles would have to release him.  They paid it and now there is a lot of talk about what Eagles management is thinking with Vick, McNabb, and Kolb on the roster. And it’s a pretty good question. (more…)

Well it’s that time of year when Football Nuts are almost in complete withdrawel pains.  The Super Bowl is a memory, next year is month’s away….what are you going to do for football?  Well many football fans really start to focus on the NFL Draft.  In fact I have been amazed at the attendance and also the television coverage of the draft these days. (more…)

Well it’s that time of year in the NFL. Football coaches are on the move, but not in a good way. This Monday after the regular season ends is when the firings start. And the process is underway with Washington owner Dan Snyder already sacking Jim Zorn. Who else has a bulls eye on their shirt? (more…)

So Coach Mike Leach has now responded in interviews about his dismissal by Texas Tech.  And as I start to scan the articles about what happened, I see the usual “he said, she said” different sides of the story.  We may never really find out what happened, but my question at this point is,  What is the lesson of this particular situation?  What should college football and football fans really learn from all of this? (more…)

When Brian Kelly recently accepted the head football coaching job at Notre Dame it stirred a pretty intense debate on several talk radio shows.  People were ripping the coach for leaving his team in the lurch and others were saying that it was just business as normal.  I heard a call from one for the NCAA to forbid this kind of change, in other words a coach had to finish out his contract for the year.   Well, it’s an interesting debate and, as usual, I have an opinion or two. (more…)