Entries from July 2009

July 31, 2009

Move over Flutie Flakes – TO’s Toasted Oats are in town

I’m not sure what they put in the milk in Buffalo but we now have another Bill launching a breakfast time bowl filler.
It had to happen – not content with most of the NFL training camp spotlight now that Brett Favre has decided to stay retired (thank god!) Terrell ‘TO’ Owens has decided to give [...]

July 29, 2009

NFL Podcasts – I hold my hands up I’m addicted

The Audible – my favourite NFL podcast

Everyone wants an edge when it comes to fantasy NFL, whether you are a rookie fan via a free Yahoo.com or NFL.com league or like me a hardcore fan owning teams with 55 players in a dynasty type league.
Some people pay for access to websites that claim to have [...]

July 13, 2009

My Twitter Interview with Superbowl stud WR Larry Fitzgerald

This Twitter lark is getting crazier by the day.
On Friday I fired off a series of questions to Adam Schefter, the soon to be ESPN NFL top dawg reporter.
On Sunday just gone I went one better, and after various attempts with a range of NFL players to get them to respond to my direct Twitter [...]

July 11, 2009

What does watching America’s Toughest Prisons on Bravo have to do with the NFL?

And no I’m not talking Micheal Vick. It was another appalling night of nonsense television here in England last night, with Big Brother limping along like a wounded deer.
My wife and I scanned through our Sky TV channels hoping for some sort of entertainment and stumbled across ‘Behind Bars – America’s Toughest Prisons’ on Bravo [...]

July 9, 2009

My new hobby – NFL Paparazzi Twittering – and my new best mate Mr Adam Schefter

A few months ago I was introduced to the rather bizarre world of Twitter. Twittering it seems is the new My Space, Bebo and Facebook all stripped down and made simple.
Everyone is now twittering, from Elizabeth Taylor snubbing Michael Jackson’s funeral on Twitter to Chad ‘mad as a box of frogs’ OchoCinco announcing that he [...]

July 9, 2009

Steve McNair – the dictionary definition of a warhorse

McNair in the Superbowl – how he should be remembered

I spent the last week on holiday in Cyprus, floating in a swimming pool listening to a whole raft of NFL pod-casts, some good, some poor and some that ITunes should have simply blocked from being uploaded.
In that time I did not access the Internet, and [...]