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A while back I looked at how stiff-arms and leaps are great ways for a running back to find the endzone. But as any geometrician will tell you, the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line. These fifteen ballcarriers didn't need no education to find that out. They took the most direct route possible to the end zone, and jukes and defenders be damned. ...

When bodies move quickly in motion towards each other, occasionally their contact enters the troubling strata of "cheapness". It's a difficult notion to pin down, but you can bet NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is holding a lot of important meetings about it. Luckily, we can skip those meetings and learn to just know them when we see them. Here are twelve of the worst NFL cheap shots (with video!) from the past few ...

The Denver Broncos are 4-0 after another miracle win; the 49ers are 3-1 (and could be 4-0 without a little magic from Favre); the Bengals are 3-1, scoring an overtime win over Cleveland. Seems like this is the year when traditionally underachieving powers capitalize on their fast starts to stake a playoff claim. But not so fast, my friend. The season is long, and teams have gotten off to fast starts before; ...

Whether it was poisoned from the top down or uncoachable from the botom up, the Detroit Lions were, without question, the worst sports franchise of the 2000's. The awful draft picks, incompetent free agency moves, and bewildering coaching changes came to a head in 2008, when the Lions became the first franchise in history to lose all 16 games in the regular season. Now that the infamous losing streak is over, and ...

Brett Favre is back, for good or ill. Once again, Favre's late game heroics have propelled him to the forefront of the NFL - maybe not as a fantasy option, maybe not as a statistics darling - but as the gutsy, gritty game-winner we've known him as for the past 17 years (and counting). On the heels of another fourth quarter comeback, let's take a look at ten of the best moments ...

There's at least one community of people not sad to hear about Plaxico Burress starting his two year prison sentence for a gun charge. They're the Hard Luck All-Stars, ex-football players and current inmates of the American prison system. Parole might not be a possibility, but a shot at the Sing-Sing Championship Crown (sponsored by Nissan) still is. These guys understand what Burress has been through, know what's in his heart; but most ...

A disclaimer: I acknowledge that arguing for Peyton Manning as the best quarterback in the NFL might be a complete no-brainer.  After all, the stats are there. I'm not the first to say it. And his only realistic competition for the title would be Tom Brady, who probably either repulses you on a personal level, or concerns you on a purely practical one post-injury. Or there's Eli Manning, which, well, too ...

Ladainian Tomlinson once said that the stiff arm was his "revenge" on the defense, his only chance at hitting back after getting hit all day. After all, today's running back has only so many defenses at his disposal, and the juke move, though effective, has yet to actually break someone's ankles. But when properly deployed, the stiff arm can be frustrating, crippling, and, for the best, lethal. On that note, here are, in ...