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The NFL and its players' union opened talks Wednesday in a bid to avoid a work stoppage in 2011, when the current labor contract expires.
The Detroit Lions didn't get to 0-16 by drafting wisely — think Charles Rogers, Joey Harrington, Mike Williams and the like.
Both owners of Super Bowl rings, Kurt Warner and Ray Lewis are staying put in the belief they can add another NFL title to their resumes.
The Washington Redskins didn't let cornerback DeAngelo Hall get to free agency, reaching a deal with him just as dozens of other NFL standouts reached the market.
Former union presidents Troy Vincent and Trace Armstrong and lawyer DeMaurice Smith are the finalists to succeed Gene Upshaw as executive director of the NFL Players Association.
Projected starters and key players for Sunday's Super Bowl:
After Pittsburgh's James Harrison returned an interception 100 yards for a score on the final play of the first half, Super Bowl strategy went out the window.
A small group gathered for a closed-door meeting at NFL headquarters two years ago in December, as it had regularly since 2003. The topic: identifying minority candidates for coaching jobs.
Dan Rooney believes his Pittsburgh Steelers have been a balm for his city as it tries to get through hard economic times.
For most of the season, the Tennessee Titans and New York Giants were the dominant teams in the AFC and NFC.
Arizona and Pittsburgh will play a historic Super Bowl in Tampa in two weeks: a team with a history as bad as any in the NFL against one that will try to win a record sixth title. Pittsburgh opens as a 6 1/2-point favorite. The Steelers topped the Baltimore Ravens 23-14 last night after the Arizona Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Eagles 32-25.
The Arizona Cardinals haven't won any kind of championship beyond a division title in 61 years.
It's time for everyone shocked by three road underdogs winning NFL playoff games this weekend to take a step back and reflect.
Donovan McNabb finally acknowledges the Philadelphia Eagles' comeback from nowhere started in Baltimore. That just happens to be the game in which he was benched in the second half of what became a blowout loss.
Justin Tuck chuckled when he was asked if the Philadelphia Eagles are this year's version of the New York Giants, a low-seeded wild-card team that can go all the way.
With the second round of the NFL playoffs upon us, there are multiple aspirants to become last season's Giants, the team from nowhere that swept through the postseason to an improbable Super Bowl title.
Mike Shanahan is the perfect example of the flaw in Bill Parcells' classic line: "If you want to cook the meal, you should be allowed to buy the groceries."
Parity. Roger Goodell and the NFL love it.
Baltimore and Tennessee played one of the stranger playoff games in NFL history eight years ago, a 24-10 win in Nashville by the Ravens in which they had just 134 yards of offense.
The Indianapolis Colts ended the regular season on a nine-game winning streak, earning the designation as a team no one would want to meet in the playoffs.
NFL teams searching for coaches saw a big name stunningly burst onto their radar screens.
To grasp the magnitude of what the Miami Dolphins accomplished this season, imagine this:
As has often been the case throughout their somewhat dubious history, the New York Jets didn't know what they had in Chad Pennington.
Before the NFL season was halfway done, the bloggers, broadcasters and babblers all decided that the world MUST know who might be the NFL's MVP. They also decided it would be best if it was an ancient quarterback on a surprisingly successful team: Kurt Warner, Kerry Collins or Brett Favre.
When the New York Jets and Brett Favre opened the season by beating the Dolphins, few people thought the final game of the season would be Miami's chance for retribution and then some.
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