by gordie | Nov 23, 2025 | NFL
John Smith, a man with a common name and an uncommon tale, would like you to know that NFL kickers are not that much better than they were in his day, It is a sketchy premise from which to operate, seeing as somebody seems to nail a 60-yard field goal every other...
by gordie | Aug 29, 2025 | NFL
When you fly into Green Bay, Wisconsin, you descend from 35,000 feet and land in 1967. Such is the aura of Packers history that you half-expect to be leveled by the block of Jerry Kramer or Fuzzy Thurston as you exit the jetway. The team plays in Lambeau Field, on...
by gordie | Jul 28, 2025 | NFL
My cell phone sat atop a dresser in a cramped dorm room at Lehigh University, where I was covering Eagles training camp one July day in 2008. I was getting ready to go to dinner with Les Bowen, then of the Philadelphia Daily News, when it rang. What followed was the...
by gordie | Mar 3, 2025 | NFL
Dear Eagles Fans: First of all, congrats on your Super Bowl victory. Speaking as a part-owner of the Green Bay Packers, I commend your team. I mean, two Vince Lombardi Trophies. Imagine that. Along the way, your team fended off mine in much the same way that your...
by gordie | Oct 28, 2023 | NFL
For a decade he made his living crashing into NFL linebackers, which has left him at age 46 with aching joints, a surgically repaired neck and a firm understanding of the Faustian bargain players strike with the game. That bargain being this: Yeah, it can be fun to...
by gordie | Sep 16, 2023 | NFL
At the Green Bay Packers’ annual owners meeting in late July, team president Mark Murphy stood at a lectern on the 50-yard line in Lambeau Field and informed myself and about 8,000 of my fellow shareholders (many of whom are pictured above) that the team would retire...
