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Pittsburgh’s mayor is not hiding the ball on this one. Acrisure Stadium and PNC Park both need work, and Corey O’Connor says Pittsburgh stadium public funding belongs in the conversation. His logic is simple enough. The city pulls tax money out of those two buildings, so keeping them standing is good for everybody. Fine. Both...

Here is the part nobody puts in the Ben Roethlisberger first ballot Hall of Fame argument, and it’s the part that actually decides it. A guy needs 80 percent of a 50 person committee. 40 votes. Which means eleven people can sit in a room, say nothing, vote no, walk out, and never once have...

Everybody spent this week sharing the seven hours a day quote, and while that was going on the Chiefs started lining Patrick Mahomes under center at camp. That is a much bigger deal than it sounds. Last season the Chiefs lined up in shotgun on 80.6 percent of their snaps. Third most in the entire...

ESPN is out here praying my football team misses the Super Bowl and honestly? I’m not even mad. I get it. Per the Daily Mail, people inside that building are crossing their fingers the Pittsburgh Steelers don’t make it, because Aaron Rodgers got on their own airwaves and lit them up and now nobody there...

Joey Porter Jr pulled into Latrobe on Tuesday, the same day Denzel Ward became the highest paid defensive back in the history of the sport, and by the end of the day Joey was on the PUP list with a bad back. Everybody wants to argue about the money. The thing that actually decides this...

The NFL 2026 schedule cost was already out of control before today. Now the full schedule is out and the only day without a football game is Tuesday. That is it. One day. They left you Tuesday. Wednesday games now. Two of them. Thursday Night Football all season on Amazon. A Friday opener in Brazil....

The 2026 NFL mock draft conversation has been dominated by hot takes that stop at pick five and call it analysis. I’m going all the way. Thirty-two picks, three trades I’m making myself on top of what’s already been agreed to, and one paragraph per selection explaining exactly why I pulled the trigger. No hedging,...

The NFL replacement refs 2026 panic is getting louder and I’m here to tell you it’s being driven by people who have somehow convinced themselves the current officials are doing a good job. They’re not. They haven’t been for years. The same refs everyone is rushing to defend are the ones who told Jesse James...

NFL owners wrapped up three days of meetings in Phoenix this week, voted on five rule changes, and congratulated themselves on a productive offseason. Three of those five changes were about the kickoff. Again. This is the third straight year they have fiddled with the onside kick rules, and the big new addition is a...

The flag football Olympics team question got answered today and it wasn’t pretty for the NFL side. Team USA went 3-0 at the Fanatics Flag Football Classic against a roster that included Tom Brady, Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts, Jayden Daniels, Saquon Barkley, Odell Beckham Jr., Luke Kuechly, and Jalen Ramsey. The scores were 39-16, 43-16,...

NFL Refs Won’t Accept Accountability. Now the Whole League Might Pay for It. The NFL’s referee CBA expires at the end of May. Talks are going nowhere. Owners are frustrated. And the league is already compiling a list of 150 small college officials to replace the guys who are currently blowing calls on the biggest...

The Job Should Not Pay What It Pays Adam Schefter makes nine million dollars a year to answer his phone. NFL Insiders make too much. That is not a knock on his work ethic. The man genuinely works seven days a week and sleeps with his phone next to the shower. But nine million dollars...

The NFL just watched Seattle win Super Bowl LX 29-13 with defense and a run game doing most of the talking, and then the league immediately sprinted back to quarterback shopping like it forgot the whole lesson on the ride home. If you need a QB in the 2026 offseason, you’re not “finding your guy,”...

What would it take for a defensive player to win NFL MVP again? A season so ridiculous it feels illegal, plus a year where the quarterbacks don’t hand voters an easy choice. And even then, I’m not confident it happens, because the MVP has basically turned into “Best QB Season / Best QB Story.” Defensive...

Why was the Netflix NFL broadcast so bad is not even a dramatic question; it’s literally what it felt like yelling at the TV while everybody’s trying to eat cookies and pretend the holidays are peaceful. The Cowboys beat the Commanders 30-23 on Christmas, and the game itself was fine. The coverage was the part...

Quick question. If you lose the wrong guy in December, are you still the “better team,” or are you just the next team getting shoveled into the same grave every season gets eventually? Because sometimes the NFL isn’t about who’s the best team. It’s about who gets lucky and avoids the injury bug. That’s it....

Like clockwork, it’s that time of year again where we have the seemingly age old debate: Should the Steelers fire Mike Tomlin? In years past I have always erred on the side of keeping Tomlin, maybe mainly to troll my yinzer friends but at the end of the day I thought he was still a...

The Penguins tripped on Friday but responding with a stomping of the Nashville Predators on Sunday morning. Friday afternoon the Penguins came out with one of their least sharp performances of the season. Passes were not connecting crisply, offense was non-existent, and the defense was haphazard. Still, the Penguins were up 1-0 with about a...