The Crazy Weekend in Football Actually Made Walker's Rants Look Tame
walker-sports.net 9/18/2008 — Another week in the books, football season seems to be running well on the college and professional levels, and the MARFU Rugby season kicked off here on the East Coast. All in all you have to say it was a good week. So let’s get this week started right with another edition of Walker’s Rants

McNabb's clutch-play issue
philly.com 9/18/2008 — It's fair to criticize Donovan McNabb for his botched fourth-quarter exchange with Brian Westbrook that led to Dallas' game-winning touchdown Monday night at Texas Stadium. He blamed himself. It's fair to say the quarterback should have run when he had room to take off on the Eagles' final ...

Dallas Cowboys will be better prepared for Packers' Rodgers
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43 Years Later, Steelers Looking To Win In Philly - News Story - WPXI Pittsburgh
wpxi.com 9/18/2008 — PITTSBURGH -- In only a week's time, the Pittsburgh Steelers will go from playing in an opposing city where they almost never lose to one where they've never won. At least during the lifetime of any of their current players. After beating the ...

Football analysis and NFL stats for the Moneyball era - Authors of Pro Football Prospectus 2008
footballoutsiders.com 9/18/2008 — Regular season totals, through Week 3 Revised as of 9/23/2008 These are the Football Outsiders team efficiency ratings through three weeks of 2008, measured by our proprietary Defense-adjusted Value Over Average (DVOA) system that breaks down every ...

NFL Power Rankings Week 2 — Bleacher Report - NFL 9/18/2008
These are my NFL Power Rankings after Week Two: 1. New York Giants (2-0) 2. Dallas Cowboys (2-0) 3. Pittsburgh Steelers (2-0) 4. Green Bay Packers (2-0) 5. Philadelphia Eagles (1-1) 6. Denver Broncos (2-0) 7. Buffalo Bills (2-0) 8. Carolina Panthers ...

Eagles-Steelers: Does Anyone Care? — Bleacher Report - NFL 9/18/2008
The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers meet Sunday in the Battle for Pennsylvania.  Cue the collective "yawn." It's not that it shouldn't be a good game; both teams have had impressive performances.  The Steelers (2-0) come in ...

Fallout continues over ref's bad call in Denver — Boston.com -- Football news 9/18/2008
The fallout continues over NFL referee Ed Hochuli's game-deciding mistake in Denver last Sunday. Mike Pereira, the NFL's supervisor of officials, said on his NFL Network show Wednesday night that he's talked several times to Hochuli and the referee ...

NFL Week Three: Cowboys-Packers, Steelers-Eagles, Saints-Broncos, and More! — Bleacher Report - NFL 9/19/2008
Week two might have been the most exciting week of games the NFL has seen in a long, long time. We had huge comebacks, high scoring games, a game winning two-point conversion, and perhaps the best offensive football game I’ve seen in years.  ...

Joey Porter Speaks Out:Too Bad NFL Drug Tests Don't Check For Crazy Pills — Bleacher Report - NFL 9/18/2008
In a recent interview, Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter (who bolted a successful Steelers team to play for a Miami squad who went 1-15 in his first year) laid into Patriots QB Matt Cassel. "I just know he's not a Tom Brady," Porter said. "So if it's ...