by Kent Sterling The NFL came of age in the 1960s, exploded in the 1970s, and became America’s Game in the 1980s. Two men were at the forefront of that evolution. Commissioner Pete Rozelle understood the potential of the NFL, and NFL Films founder Ed Sabol knew how to frame its magnificence. Sabol died yesterday […]
by Kent Sterling The questions about the assault charge against Colts linebacker D’Qwell Jackson outnumbered the answers by a significant margin, so we did what the curious tend to do – seek the answers by parties as close to what happened as we could find. Sportstalk radio sometimes relies on speculation rather than searching for […]
by Kent Sterling Football used to be a game of pure toughness, where 11 men lined up, hit each other as hard as they could, and won or lost with the results. Somewhere along the line, coaches decided that getting clever wins games. Almost a half century ago, Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr jogged […]
by Kent Sterling What is shown on NBC Sunday night between the commercials and garish pageantry of Katy Perry belting out the hits might be pretty good too. The Super Bowl drives me bats. Sorry, I can’t pay attention to the game. Nobody watches. The women at parties wait for the commercials, and the guys […]
by Kent Sterling There are two ways to amass great wealth – inheritance and balls. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft put the second of those points of differentiation on display yesterday in front of the media gathered in Arizona for the Super Bowl. Net worth is a scorecard in life that has nothing whatsoever […]
by Bert Beiswanger Let’s make one thing clear: No one blames the Indianapolis Colts throttling at the hands of the New England Patriots on deflated footballs. Most Colts fans and Indy media are more concerned with with coaching/personnel/in-ability to make adjustments – any adjustment – that led to the embarrassment of a conference title game. […]
by Kent Sterling There are undoubtedly NFL teams that look for any advantage they can gain within the rules, and a few that stretch their search into those realms that lie outside restrictions imposed by the NFL. If the NFL doesn’t bring down a massive hammer against the New England Patriots franchise that appears to […]
by Kent Sterling Deflategate is not about who won or lost the AFC Championship game Sunday night. The New England Patriots would have throttled the Indianapolis Colts if the game was played with boulders, a taped up bath towel, or a toaster oven instead of a football. The Patriots were the better and tougher team […]
by Kent Sterling The AFC Championship was an ugly waste of nearly four hours for Indianapolis Colts fans, but for the brain trust charged with continually evaluating and improving the roster, it was an accurate snapshot of where they are and where they need to go. Reports of deflated balls aside (could that have helped […]
by Kent Sterling Sunday’s AFC Championship will send one of two flawed teams to the Super Bowl. Which one, we don’t know. That’s why America will be riveted to this matchup with generational undertones. There are so many unknowns that projecting an outcome is silly, although I’ll do it today on my radio show (3p-6p […]