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State Your Case: Super Bowl XLV
In: NFL
6 Feb 2011This year’s Super Bowl has all the ingredients for a classic contest: two of the NFL’s most storied teams, franchise quarterbacks, high-flying defenses, up-and-coming coaches, hirsute superstars and the palatial locale known as Jerry World. In fact, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers are so evenly matched, many people are finding it difficult to [...]
OTPB NFL Picks: Conference championships
In: Football
22 Jan 2011The “real” NFL season ends this week with the conference championship matchups. No matter how you feel about the Super Bowl, football seems to be the last thing on the minds of those involved, so, more often than not, better games usually occur here. People have argued that this has been a topsy-turvy season, but [...]
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- Tags: jay cutler, jets, nfl picks, steelers, super bowl
Strange days in Steeler Nation
In: NFL
18 Apr 2010Is it possible to root for a team without supporting its best player? Steelers fans are facing that very scenario in the upcoming months when Ben Roethlisberger finally gets to step on the field for the black and gold after his sure-to-be-four-game suspension is served. With all the sordid details spilling out from Big Ben’s [...]
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- Tags: big ben, controversy, santonio, steelers
AFC midseason report card
In: NFL
13 Nov 2009In many ways, this year in the AFC has gone to form. You’ve got traditional powers like Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and New England on top of their respective divisions. On the other hand, it’s been a surprising season in many ways within the conference, with surprise teams like Denver and Miami ascending while projected favorites Tennessee [...]
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- Tags: afc report card, colts, steelers
OTPB NFL predictions: Week 7
In: NFL
22 Oct 2009If you are one of the millions of football fans tired of hearing about Brett Favre, you might want to go into lockdown over the next two weeks, because it’s shaping up to be a Favre-apalooza. Unless you’ve been living under a rock you know that in two weeks, Favre returns to Green Bay for [...]
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- Tags: Brett Favre, nfl picks, steelers
OTPB NFL preview: AFC
In: NFL
7 Sep 2009For more than a decade, the AFC has been the dominant conference in the NFL, winning the intraconference head-to-head matchups every year since 1995 and nine Super Bowls during that same span. There’s no reason to think the AFC won’t be on top again, as many of the league’s powers reside here: Pittsburgh, New England, [...]
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- Tags: afc preview, afc vs. nfc, patriots, steelers
Your handy NFL Draft drinking guide
In: NFL draft
22 Apr 2009The NFL Draft is right around the corner, which for fans means an interminable amount of time watching a clock slowly tick down while a neverending succession of talking heads try to guess/analyze which 21-year-old players are going to make a difference in a league where most of the first-round picks eventually wash out. So [...]
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- Tags: big ben, NFL draft, steelers
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- Chris: I would have been fine with Kuechly. Would have been interesting to see if the Hawks would have been [...]
- Brian Barney: What are your thoughts about Luke Kuechly or is drafting a linebacker early a mistake after the Curr [...]
- AgentJ: College tuition is already high enough. Giving the NCAA a blank check to up the price of a degree is [...]
- Chris: Nice work, EZ. Here's the one I was writing at the same time: http://www.examiner.com/washington- [...]
- Chris: You were right. (I just wanted to test our comments) [...]
- Seahawks Examiner: Is Chris Michael the next Shaun Alexander?
- Seahawks draft notes: Which positions in which rounds?
- Hard to argue with Carroll’s choice of Russell Wilson at this point
- Why would Pete Carroll start Russell Wilson now?
- Will Peyton Manning talk to Pete Carroll this time? (And more)
- Seahawks got second round started Thursday with Bruce Irvin
- Seahawks’ draft trade scenarios
- Mariners still don’t have an offense
- Catch up on a week’s worth of Seahawk content at Examiner.com
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