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Departing from its usual custom of allowing the Super Bowl champions to host the opening game of the following season, the NFL said its 100th season will open with the league’s oldest rivalry, between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. NBC will host the contest on Thursday, September 5, under a rights deal that…

UPDATE, 2:14 PM: The score for the New England Patriots' win yesterday over the Los Angeles Rams was historically low and so is the viewership for Super Bowl LIII. The CBS broadcast game out of Atlanta was seen by a total audience of 100.7 million, according to CBS Sports. That number comes from when you add up…

With eight minutes to go in Super Bowl LIII’s fourth quarter, New England Patriots fans at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium started a “Brady, Brady” chant. The veteran quarterback answered their prayers, as Greatest-of-all-Time Tom Brady began to surgically carve up the Los Angeles Rams secondary, loosening up what had…

UPDATED, 12:55 PM: The numbers for the Los Angeles Rams' overtime win on Fox against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday are good, but they are not as good as the results of the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game. The late Sunday AFC battle in the BBQ Capitol of the World pulled in a…

The Chiefs had a loud crowd behind them at their Arrowhead Stadium home and the best young quarterback in the game. They just didn’t have Tom Brady. The wild and woolly AFC championship boiled down to this: quarterback Brady of the New England Patriots had the ball first in overtime. If you’re his opponent, that’s…

Taking down the previously unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs last night Tom Brady pulled off some NFL history on Sunday Night Football as the New England Patriots quarterback became the first signal-caller to win 200 regular season games. Up against an NFL delayed 60 Minutes with its Donald Trump sitdown plus the second…

Despite a less than stellar opening to the NFL season, if there was any doubt the New England Patriots still have what it takes, Tom Brady and the boys tackled it last night in a smashing Thursday Night Football victory over the Indianapolis Colts. The Patriots’ 38-24 victory on Fox in primeitme was just one of a…

No one will ever call Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles the Greatest of All-Time. That title belongs to New England’s Tom Brady. But Foles, or St. Nick as fans can now call him, out-dueled The G.O.A.T. at Super Bowl LII, bringing the Eagles their first Super Bowl championship in history, 41-33, and winning…

Some of the most drama-filled moments of Super Bowl LII occurred just before kickoff. Questions were in the air about whether a flu-ridden Pink would manage to show up and lip-synch to the national anthem, which is mandated to be pre-recorded.  The singer had reportedly struggled during a Thursday rehearsal, but…

The quarterback many call the Greatest of All-Time did it again. New England’s Tom Brady rallied his team from a three-point deficit with under three minutes left to send New England to Super Bowl 52 by beating the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-20. CBS play-by-play man Jim Nantz called it a “David vs. Goliath matchup,” and…

UPDATE, 12:55 PM: The score between the winning Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots was settled on the field at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA, last night and now the final viewership numbers are in too. And NBC and the NFL might be feeling a lot like the defending Super Bowl champs: not so great. With…

UPDATED, 8:59 AM: More information has come to light this AM about the book and movie based on the New England Patriots superstar Tom Brady. Little, Brown and Company just won a bidding war for the book which is entitled 12 and written by authors Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge. The story chronicles the Patriot’s…