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When the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers meet on the football field this weekend, the Eagles will be looking to strengthen their playoff position while the 49ers are trying to stay in the hunt for a playoff bid. In the current decade, the Eagles have made seven playoff appearances, played in five NFC Championship Games and reached Super Bowl XXXIX.á Conversely, the San Francisco 49ers have not ...

Boy, there seems to be a lot of sports news these days about players, coaches, and owners who seem to think they are exempt from the laws of common sense to which the rest of us must live. Of course, when our own Congress doesnÆt seem to understand where sports should be among our national priorities, how can you expect anyone else to understand? Goodbye, NFL Glory Days ...

With 10 weeks of the NFL season now in the books, here are 10 observations about what we have seen so far and what we could see over the final seven weeks of the 2009 NFL regular season. á Big Happenings in the Big Easy The New Orleans Saints arenÆt just the most explosive and exciting team in the NFL; they may also be the best team. Without question, the Saints have an ...

Like the proverbial question about the sound of a tree in the forest, I have a similar question about the NFL. If they play an NFL game in prime time and half the people in the country canÆt watch, is it still considered an NFL game? That is my question following the game Thursday night between the Chicago Bears and San Francisco 49ers, which was broadcast on the ...

Each week, Sports Then and Now picks one NFL matchup and looks through the history books to find an intriguing past meeting between the two teams. We recap the game and hopefully help reintroduce (or introduce for you younger readers) you to some of the greats (and in some cases not-so-greats) from the history of professional football. Since their first meeting during the 1934 season when the Redskins still called ...

Word came out earlier this week that Junior Seau is still interested in playing in the NFL again and now it looks like Bill Belichick and the Patriots may be interested in adding the 40-year linebacker to shore up their depleted defense.á It sure seems like Seau has retired more times than Brett Favre. Yet every year he ends up back on the field at some point. Last year he ...

It was about a year ago that I first learned about Twitter and started my own personal Twitter account (dhprguy). At the time I was working for a public relations firm and it was pretty obvious that gaining an understanding of the power of social networks was essential for people in the public relations field. As a networking tool, IÆm still not sold on Twitter. Most of the people ...

There was a time in the not-so-distant past when the biggest things a rookie NFL quarterback had to worry about on game day were wearing a cool baseball cap and keeping track of his clipboard.Current rookies Matt Stafford and Mark Sanchez are just the latest reminder that times have certainly changed, at least for top draft picks.Instead of carrying clipboards and wearing baseball caps, today's highly-drafted rookie quarterbacks usually don't ...