NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest.
You know my first instinct was to think of this as “another fat guy getting skinny”, but that is not what this is about. Refrigerator Perry played for the Chicago Bears and Mike Ditka and that famous 87 team. He was massive before everyone did massive. Sometimes they would move him to fullback on the goal line just to scare the linebackers. Most of the time he was a very good and very large defensive lineman.
Now Michael Dean Perry has Guillan-Barre syndrome and there is no cure. …read more

NFL Football at its best. NFL Football at its craziest.
Two thumbs up for Gene Upshaw

Gene Upshaw has been guiding the player’s side of NFL football for a long time and the results have been amazing.
Upshaw’s legacy is etched with the tremendous economic gains of the players, who receive 60% of an estimated $6 billion in NFL revenues. Backed by a landmark court decision, Upshaw and his union won unrestricted free agency, which ushered in an era of labor peace that includes more than 20 years without a work stoppage — the longest-such run of any sports league.
Since the league’s current …read more