Topic: Professional Football

Scouting The NFC West

Scouting The NFC WestPredicted order of Finish: Seahawks (11-5), Rams (9-7), 49ers (8-8), Cardinals (6-10)Seattle SeahawksA lineup stacked with high profile veterans emergence off injury/down seasons look at 2007 as an attempt to ...READ»

Cincinnati Health Insurance Quotes

Cincinnati health insurance rates are quite affordable. But you need to know where to look. Health insurance rates in Cincinnati are found at Ohioquotes.com, the premier resource for Ohio health insurance.READ»

NFL Training Camps Ban Twitter on the Sidelines, and in the Stands

We reported yesterday that the National Football League is reviewing its social media policy with regards to players Tweeting from the sidelines of games. But now the ban on social media has expanded from the locker room to the press ...READ»

The Wal-Mart of Food Banks

How Michael Mulqueen is using smart logistics to deliver 42 million pounds of food to Chicago's inner-city poor.READ»

Penalty! Unnecessary Blandness! Redesigning the Worst NFL Helmet Graphics

Ken Carbone couldn't stand to let another football season go by watching great teams play with subpar helmet graphics. So he redesigned three of the worst offenders.READ»

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The Money Game

Despite the NFL's problems, the league remains the premier advertising and marketing platform for companies that target men. An official sponsorship lets companies use all NFL and team logos in their marketing and promotions, and get value from being seen on television during games (in sideline Gatorade dunks, for example). Rival companies that lose out on an official deal cleverly formulate counterstrategies to associate themselves with NFL teams and players. Here are the marketing muscle matchups in four popular advertising categories.READ»

Fast Talk: Good Sports

These five executives from the world of sports bring an array of clever approaches to finding, wooing, and retaining their fans as competition for their devotion--and their dollars--increases.READ»

Tough Guys

How the NFL and its corporate partners have been able to avoid a permanent black eye despite persistent drug and violence problems.READ»

To be fair to the fans of NFL or American seminary football

To be fair to the fans of NFL or American seminary football NFL jerseys, I looked up the jargon used in football of the English kind. The lexis I skimmed through were as succulent and distinguishable as English food. I could honestly ...READ»

Peyton Manning's copy pullover is in high plea in Indy

They've got courage, yes they do. They've got specter, how 'bout you? Fans of Super Bowl XLI Champions Indianapolis Colts aren't afraid to show their pride, representing their band by dressing in down.To boon, you must dearest ...READ»

Is the New Wave of Super Big Buildings Wretched Excess? Or Is Bigger Still Better?

With the NFL season less than a week old, the new $1.15 billion stadium for the Dallas Cowboys may be the most talked about piece of architecture in the country. Designed by HKS, the go-to architecture firm for splashy sports ...READ»

Monster.com Offers $100k for "Ultimate Dream Job" at Super Bowl [video]

Wanted: Director of Fandemonium for the NFL and Monster.com. Benefits: $100,000 signing bonus and massive pigskin perks. Job Skills: Love of football.READ»

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Sports: Goodell Faces Tough Decision On Patriots

In my last post, I praised the NFL for providing fans with the best possible product. One week later, it seems that I may need to revise that statement. If the New England Patriots really cheated, the fallout might be worse than ...READ»

Our Home. Our Team. Be a Saint.

Well, the news did not make the front page of today's Wall Street Journal and New York Times, but it did make the cover of my Cleveland Plain Dealer and I suspect most other local papers: The New Orleans Saints returned to the ...READ»

Apple Announcements

Apple announced a host of new products today including iPods, iTunes 7, QuickTime 7.1.3, and iTV. iPod The new iPod Shuffle is now about the size of the iPod Radio Remote with an aluminum design and contains one gigabyte of flash ...READ»

Adrian Peterson has become a much known name as elite back in the NFL

Adrian Peterson has become a, much known name as elite back in the NFL. Just in team of seasons. With his super hard to pin down moves and cut eclectic swiftness everywhere you go, whether to the Minnesota Vikings fixture or a ...READ»

Relive Your Team's Glory Days

An all-time record family amusement is undoubtedly the NFL football. Just about every person, men, women and kids alike, Sundays and Monday nights take on an unbroken different worth during football season. Friends and families ...READ»

Football Inspires the Unthinkable (And That's Why I Dig It)

In the past 48 hours, I've consumed roughly 12 hours of NFL. I've watched as more yards got run than plays got stopped, seen a team emerge from their imminent 0-2 status to clinch a game in the final 3 minutes, and another team ...READ»

Sports: A Season to Sling?

The 2007 NFL season kicks off tonight, as Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts take the field against Reggie Bush and the New Orleans Saints. While fans across the country are rightfully eager for their own teams ...READ»

Sports: Blacklist the Patriots!

Before the start of the NFL season, Eric Gillin, editor of Esquire.com, compared this year's New England Patriots to Communist China. At the time, he focused mainly on positives, including the team's enormous potential and the "for ...READ»

NFL Kickoff Weekend

"How do we bring back casual fans?" Mark Waller, the NFL's SVP of marketing and sales, asks rhetorically. Well, are you ready for some football ... and some event-driven marketing? Kickoff Weekend is a clever marketing construct ...READ»

Careers: Bank of America Hires an Avatar

When I get a warm and fuzzy feeling about a bank it's usually because I'm watching a tearjerker TV commercial. Some bank has rebuilt a blighted neighborhood or loaned an underprivileged mom the dough to build a bakery. Until ...READ»

How Jersey wins gold at Chelsea

Along with a sumptuous three course meal, comes satiated dusk of top nfl jerseys classic satire with a sassy twist of cabaret, comedy, allure and entertainment.The twilight will be compered by the formidable mistress of ceremonies, ...READ»

The Defense of Bear is Back Or Was Back

I odium to say it, but pending Urlacher got hurt, the Bears plea was looking fairly 2006. They were hasty all over the place and thumping the crap out of our rude players. Not to mention the hit that he put on Aaron Rodgers that near ...READ»

Sports Business: The Future of Tickets

An article in today's Arizona Republic refreshed my memory about a cool start-up I heard about last year that hosts an online exchange of futures-like contracts for major sporting events. The site, yoonew.com, allows sports fans to ...READ»