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Talking about college and professional football daily. Chances are we hate your team.
Helmets Don't Save Lives. Top Story - March 2021.
The conversation on concussion prevention within American football cannot be had without discussing why. The right question to ask is not why concussions occur but why it’s important to limit and prevent them. Within the last decade, a multitude of former NFL players who have been diagnosed with a brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) have taken their own lives. This is not a coincidence but a serious reality faced by real people. Does this mean that the long-term effects of repeated concussions can lead to severe brain changes? Evidently, and if so, what exactly are those changes and just how damaging can the effects be?
By Joy5 years ago in Unbalanced
Kansas City Chiefs: A Football Family
The Kansas City Chiefs is an American football team traditionally based in Kansas City, Missouri. They compete in the National Football League's Western Division as an independent member of the league. The team is one of the pioneers in the NFL's new expansion of Sunday Ticket, offering sports lovers a chance to watch their favorite teams in the biggest games in the country. The club is the only remaining one of the original eight NFL franchises that was not established during the opening phases of the NFL's competition and was known as the Kansas City Blues.
By abert bruce6 years ago in Unbalanced
Ranking Russell Wilson's Possible Trade Destinations
I really cant picture Russell Wilson in a different uniform other than the Seattle Seahawks. Ask any football fan over the last 10 years what player they think of when asked about the Seahawks and I think at least 80% of them will tell you Russell Wilson. He has helped lead them to 9 straight winning seasons including 2 super bowl appearances and 1 win. As great as they have been together, recently Russ has expressed frustration and has made it clear that he is open to being traded if the Seahawks want to move on from him. Reports came out in February about the 4 teams that he would prefer to go to if he does somehow end up getting traded. A new report came out this morning, March 5th, that Seattle wont be shopping him around but will take calls from opposing teams regarding Wilsons availability. Th rumored 4 teams that Wilson would like to play for if traded is as follows: Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Bears, New Orleans Saints, Las Vegas Raiders. Below I am going to rank those teams based off how Successful it would be.
By LeftBench6 years ago in Unbalanced
The Playoff Pool
E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES! The obnoxious notification alert awoke Sylvie with a start, but she grabbed it from the spot beside her on the bed in a hurry. Lighting the phone screen up in the dark, she had to squint into the brightness to see who the incoming text message was from. But it was just her brother and she groaned as she threw her arm down with the phone back onto the bed and rolled her eyes in frustration. Didn’t her brother know that nobody in Las Vegas got up before eleven o’clock in the morning? But she was up now, despite the time on her phone telling her it was 6:58am, so she climbed out of the queen-sized bed and flicked on the light switch beside the door before snatching up her cellphone out of the sea of purple sheets and scurrying out to her dining room table.
By Justine Klavon6 years ago in Unbalanced
Selling The Out
We played a lot of street football in my neighborhood. I say neighborhood, but it was really just us and the Proctor kids, our nearest neighbors, playing on the semi-rural road between our driveways. Sometimes some other kids might play, but it was pretty much the next-door-down Proctor kids and us, the Balls. That’s right, the Ball kids, mostly my brother and I, were referred to as “The Balls.” And Steve, my beloved “big ball” brother, and I (yup—“little ball”) would play street football with the Proctor boys, Jim and Bruce. Now Jim, the older brother was slim as an eel in Winter— he could have been in our family; Steve and I were always thin, long before our distance running days— and Bruce was much the opposite, and as it turns out, the only actual football player of the lot. We would choose sides, filling in with whatever sisters were around, and play till we couldn’t see the last game-saving long bomb.
By Mike Ball6 years ago in Unbalanced
The Switch up
The snackscape has changed. There was a time that the gameday spread at my house would rival a deep south buffet, complete with all of the dips, wings, meatballs, every variety of chip known to man, and a robust sourdough bowl overflowing with cheese-laden chili. Not this year. We didn't even rock the football shaped snack plates or green-turf garland with little dangling pigskins.
By Liv Stecker6 years ago in Unbalanced
Why I Refuse to Talk About the Chiefs' Loss
If you've read my story Surviving "Killa City", you might know that as a Kansas City native, I am a big Chiefs fan. Which is why this year's Super Bowl definitely was a downer for me. So much so that I checked out right before half time (I didn't even watch the Halftime Show and that's saying something because I love watching the Halftime shows). After spending two quarters yelling at my TV and cussing out the referees for the constant flags against the Chiefs, I knew in order to keep my blood pressure at a normal level, it was best to remove myself from the carnage.
By C.R. Hughes6 years ago in Unbalanced
History of the Super Bowl . Top Story - February 2021.
The Super Bowl™ is a territory acquisition athletic contest played on a fixed agrarian grid using, as a token, an inflated porcine prolate spheroid. It is the most important holiday of the year in America some will say. While it is ostensibly a secular holiday, others argue that it is truly a religious holiday. And there are several reasons why. It has:
By Bill Petro6 years ago in Unbalanced
Documentary Review: 'ESPN 30 for 30: Al Davis vs the NFL' . Top Story - February 2021.
ESPN 30 for 30 has become a haven for documentary filmmakers eager to find unique ways to tell familiar stories. The documentary format can tend to be a very homogenous artform, always very similar and familiar in structure and presentation. Thus a series such as 30 for 30 can feel a little rote after a while. To change that, documentary filmmakers need to get creative and find little ways to set themselves apart from the rest.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Unbalanced
