I just had a profoundly sad realization – today will be the last day of real football gluttony for over 7 months. Yes, there’s still the Super Bowl, but that’s more of an event than red meat for the hard core fan. Plus, it’s only one game! With the NFL, one game a day is […]
Philip Rivers
Philip Rivers Leads the Chargers Comeback
GREAT video of the Chargers’ comeback on Sunday led by Philip Rivers. Click here Relatedly, the Washington Post ran this article within the past week analyzing the Chargers-Giants trade that brought Rivers to San Diego. In the spring of 2004, while holding the top pick in the NFL draft, Smith was rejected by the obvious […]
State Places 3 in Pro Bowl
Three former NC State players have been named to this year’s NFL Pro Bowl. Torry Holt, Philip Rivers and Adrian Wilson all were distinguished witht he honor. * This marks Holt’s 6th Pro Bowl. We encourage you to click here. * Rivers joins Peyton Manning and Carson Palmer in the AFC, therefore placing ahead of […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
I know why we’ve yet to win a national championship in football. It’s a theory I’ve developed over my many years of watching far too much college football and retaining far too much useless information. While there is nothing scientific about it, I do consider myself a foremost expert on the subject; if only I’d […]
A Good Looking ESPN the Magazine Cover
Can’t beat this (unless it is Cowher in a NC State hat)
The Onslaught Has Begun (Updated 5:30pm)
The local media started the ball rolling on Sunday and the student media chimed in with an emphatic, “Amato Must Go”. It is just beginning. Today, another local media member sees the writing on the wall while the national media is revving their engines about the mess in Raleigh. We start national, where an ESPN […]
Blood In The Water- Tudor & Dascenzo Fire Away (Updated 10:30am)
“Other than his love for his school, lively personality and work with the defensive unit, there’s not a compelling argument to be made for giving Amato more time.” (Caulton Tudor) Dascenzo: Amato’s stock isn’t on the rise Ah Chuck, this is late November and you’re standing across the field from that light blue color, the […]
CNNSI’s Peter King on Philip Rivers
I think — no, I know — the two most impressive people I watched Sunday were Philip Rivers, in a win, and Drew Brees, in a loss. I remember talking to Phil Simms before the ’04 draft, when I’d come back from doing a story in Raleigh on the North Carolina State quarterback, Rivers, who […]
Tarheel Football Search Very Relevant to State
The UNC-Chapel Hill coaching search has the potential to be very interesting. It also has the potential to be very boring. Regardless of the amount of public fireworks that the search creates, NC State fans need to be very clear on the fact that Carolina’s search for a football coach is extremely relevant to Chuck […]
Record Day for Wolfpackers in the NFL
I was having a conversation with my buddy at Carter-Finley on Saturday when we started talking about Sunday’s match-ups in the NFL. My buddy commented that “the NFL and Sunday’s takeson a real different feel for me now that we have so many former Wolfpackers playing so prominently on Sundays”. Yesterday did nothing to prove […]
