Tag Archives: Jon Gruden

NFL mandate for coaches to wear masks is an optical illusion
September 29, 2020

NFL coaches being forced to wear masks on the sidelines during games is absurd, but they do it because it is expensive not to. A week after five NFL coaches were dinged to the tune of $100K apiece and their teams clipped for a quarter-mil each for mask violations, it seems the league bought compliance […]

Monday Night Football’s 700th game evokes memories of a more fun generation
October 14, 2014

by Kent Sterling Before we started to take sports so damn seriously, there was a Monday Night Football broadcast that was more TV party than typical play-by-play. Howard Cosell, Don Meredith, and Frank Gifford brought swagger and celebrity to the NFL, and their performance was more important to the success of the show than the […]