MetaFilter posts tagged with football and americanfootball

Who's got the ball?

starman — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:38:42 -0800

(American) Football trick play video roundup: the Statue of Liberty, Fumblerooski (2), the Puntarooski, the Hook and Lateral (2), the Flea Flicker (2), the End Around (2), the Double Pass, the Fake Punt (2) (3), the Fake Field Goal (2) (3), Fake Field Goal/Fake Punt, the Swinging Gate, and the Bouquet Toss. A helpful guide. Wikipedia's take.

Football's Ironman. (Sorry, Cal.)

absalom — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:50:49 -0800

Through alcohol and vicodin addicition, trauma, grief, and loss, Brett Favre has thrown the ball for the largest muncipally-owned professional sports team in the United States. After reinventing himself several times over, and leading his team to an improbable string of wins and accomplishments a year after almost retiring, he is Sport's Illustrated's sportsman of the year.

Live NFL Video

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:00:51 -0800

Streaming NFL Games This was on the front page of Digg last November, so I don't feel I'm allowing any cats out of any bags here.

Every. Football helmet. Ever.

T.D. Strange — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:34:40 -0800

'The Helmet Project web site is an attempt by its creator, a completely amateur graphic artist and a long-time fan of football at all levels, to create and maintain an on-line "catalog" or "atlas" of uniform-sized, accurate, and up-to-date images representing the football helmets worn by college football teams and teams from a few professional leagues in the United States and Canada.'

kirkaracha — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 16:05:14 -0800

There's lots of controversy about Nebraska playing for the national championship in tonight's Rose Bowl because they didn’t win their division or conference and got crushed 63–26 by Colorado in their last game of the season. [more inside]

mrbula — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 07:15:11 -0800

Vikings' Stringer dead after being stricken with heat stroke. For much of Monday and Tuesday just about every Twin Cities media outlet was warning people to stay inside and take it easy. The Vikings decided to go ahead with their summer training anyway.

msacheson — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:17:09 -0800

The players tried to take the field, but the marching band refused to yield. Sounds kinda like the plot of "Revenge of the Nerds", with the jocks led by Ogre and Ted McGinley's character taking on Booger, Poindexter and the rest of the Tri-Lambs. Can't the band and the jocks just get along?