It has been over 3 years that the Squibster has held the football blogging for Squibkick at B5media and with this post it will all come to a close. It has been a good run and so much fun writing and ruminating about the NFL. It was a great time to be a Lions fan if you were a blogger like the Squibster. How can one thank Matt Millen enough for providing constant material. My second favorite story line was Brett Favre. Brett retires, unretires, retires, unretires and just keeps piling up the all time NFL records. He is the Iron Man of unretiring. You just have to like Brett as he wears that smile and throws touchdown bombs against your team. Brett is having so much fun there can be no true retirement. It would be like no more Rocky movies.... [Read more]

NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest. Stop right there and put down your scathing comments that were soon to appear from your keyboard. The Squibster is not inferring that the Redskins had anything close to a playoff lineup. That statement came from up top by GM Vinny Cerrato. That was reported by several news services including the AP. Then it gets weirder as Steve Largent, a close friend has this to say, about Jim Zorn being forced to take Sherm Lewis as his offensive play caller. Cerrato had a different version of events at that meeting with Zorn. He said it was just the two of them and that when he suggested a change in play calling duties, Zorn said he would go home and think about it. Several hours later, Cerrato said,... [Read more]

NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest. Just who is this Miles Austin guy? And why doesn’t he wear a cape with an ‘S’ on it? (full disclosure: The Squibster briefly had Miles Austin on his Fantasy Football Team, Naruto, but had to let him go. We only carry a 3 player bench. Who knew?) Miles Austin is unbelievable. First he breaks the all time Cowboy record with 10 catches for 250 yards and 2 tds, and then he takes a bye week to rest up. Hey, that was only Kansas City. It had to be a fluke, right? Look, Miles had only caught 18 balls coming into the season. How good could he be? Evidently Miles Austin can be as good as he wants to, because he came right back in the Cowboy Falcons game and caught 6 balls... [Read more]

NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest. Squibster here, reporting from Wembley England where my fine blogging company sent me to see the game live in order to bring you this fine post. There is talk of a team in the future being stationed in England, but that seems a long way off. It would not be practical with the 6 hours travel time to the east coast, so maybe you would have to have an entire NFL Conference in Europe and maybe the winner would play the winner of the Super Bowl. Who knows? Ok, delusional thinking, bloggers do not get any travel allowance. Besides the game was on the Hi-Def Big Screen in my basement and they serve pretty good food there. Tom Brady is hot in Wembley Brady was good enough in this game to get... [Read more]

NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest. Ben Roethlisberger is looking forward to the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Minnesota Vikings game, because one of his idols growing up was Brett Favre. The whole Steeler team may be seeking autographs, such as it is for Brett Favre at the age of 40, when you hold practically every known NFL quarterback record. Ben Roethlisberger is off to a great start this year, one of his best ever, but Brett is having another Hall of Fame year and has already won two last second games for the Vikings. Roethlisberger is off to a Favre-like start, the best of his six-year career. He leads the NFL in passing yards (1,887), yards per attempt (9.1) and passes of 20 yards or longer (26) and ranks second only to... [Read more]