After Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte' Stallworth received his sentence in court on Tuesday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has acted swiftly to hand down his own sentence. Goodell suspended Stallworth indefinitely, with the suspension coming into effect immediately. Excerpts from Goodell's letter to Stallworth are available in a release on the NFL's official website, and they convey just how disappointed, to say the least, that Goodell is with the latest and most tragic instance of one of his ...Read More

Michael Vick was one of the NFL's most popular players before he went to jail for dog fighting charges in 2007. It's hard to believe how fall he's fallen. Can you believe there was once a time when kids from all over the nation, who cheered for teams other than the Atlanta Falcons, were wearing Vick's number seven jersey? He is expected to be released from prison as early as today or tomorrow, Wednesday, May 20. There is no doubt what ...Read More

About two months ago, Commissioner Roger Goodell proposed an expansion of the NFL's regular season from 16 games to 17 or 18, eliminating two preseason games in the process. "There's a very strongly held view, internally and I believe with our fans, that they don't believe the pre-season games are up to our standards," he told reporters in March. "By modifying the 20-game structure and swapping pre-season games for regular-season games, that's a very positive change for our fans and improves the ...Read More

Last summer, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he was open to having a rookie salary cap put in place so the NFL Draft doesn't churn out record-setting contracts every year. The day before last weekend's draft, he reaffirmed his stance on implementing a cap. "(The money) needs to go to the players who play well and are successful on the NFL level," Goodell said. To give you an idea why the argument for a cap exists, here are the rookie contracts for #1 ...Read More

Commissioner Roger Goodell is continuing to clean-up player conduct in the NFL. Yesterday, multiple media outlets reported that the league and "experts" have been reviewing tapes of celebrations where players made possible gang signs with their hands. The experts they hired are supposedly knowledgeable on gang signs and activity. "There have been some suspected things we've seen," said NFL V.P. of Security Milt Ahlerich to the L.A. Times. "When we see it, we quietly jump on it immediately, directly with the ...Read More

Okay, it’s tough to really get into training camp and preseason in the NFL. Most of the time, preseason games feature late round draft picks and desperate free agents fighting it out for the last spot on the roster. For a football enthusiast, it’s a blast to watch this competitive battle, but for a casual fan, watching paint dry on the wall is much better. In order to liven-up this year’s training camp and preseason, I have created a list ...Read More

NFL commish Roger Goodell doesn't think rookies should be given big-money deals when they haven't proved themselves in the NFL, and Matt Gentile agrees, as you can read inside.

Yesterday, I went down the road of nostalgia all the way back to 1978 (seven years before I was born), to what was going on in the college football world the last time a horse won the Triple Crown. You can find that here. So, what was going on in the pro football world in 1978? - The Dallas Cowboys' Doomsday Defense had led them to a 27-10 victory over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XII in New ...Read More