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This is PLAYOFF Doink-O-Rama, John Teti's column about pro football. For the Doink-O-Rama Super Bowl preview, I once again enlisted our anonymous ad-industry executive, "Ad Man X," a longtime creative director who has written and produced a number of Super Bowl
This is PLAYOFF Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. I concluded the opening paragraphs of last week’s Doink-O-Rama with the comment that the divisional round would “henceforth to be known as Super-Duper Divisional Super Week-Super-End, which will
This is PLAYOFF Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. In the last installment of Doink-O-Rama, I looked askance at the league’s choice of the name “Super Wild Card Weekend” for the first round of this year’s playoffs.
This is PLAYOFF Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. What makes Super Wild Card Weekend so super? Attention readers: The weekend formerly known as Wild Card Weekend is now, for this year’s playoffs, known as Super Wild Card Weekend. Update your leather-bound
This is Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. Football TV’s most prominent innovation of the 2021 season is the Monday Night Football “Manningcast,” a recurring feature on ESPN2 that airs alongside Monday Night Football (the shambling corpse thereof) on ESPN proper.
This is Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. We head straight to the picks this week, friends, as I require a little breather from the full column before the stretch run. But in the Christmas spirit, I rifled through the many (too many) video clips
This is Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. Keep an eye on the Detroit Lions. That has been my directive every football Sunday for the past couple of months—not because the Lions are such a great team, quite the opposite. Coming into their
This is Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. Week 13 Most Unwatchable Game preview: Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Los Angeles Rams The TV coverage maps at 506sports.com provide a snapshot in time of a team’s national appeal, as judged by network programmers. The
This is Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. Holiday shopping is a more fraught experience than ever this year, as the collapse of the global supply chain means that any gifts you order will take an especially long time to arrive, if in fact they
The end of Week 9 officially marked the halfway point of the NFL season, a tidy mathematical truth that we shouldn’t take for granted. In 2021, the league expanded the season from 16 to 17 games, which, once you add in each team’s bye week, makes
Doink-O-Rama is John Teti’s column about pro football. Among the major American sports, football is the most intensely team-oriented game. To have a chance at success on a given play, a team has to synchronize the physical efforts and thought processes of 11 players with
Doink-O-Rama is John Teti’s column about pro football. Friends, the full Doink-O-Rama column is on a bye this week, but because a space robot never needs to sleep, we still bring you the DORPFASTCALC picks. Plus, I added a few stray notes here and
Doink-O-Rama is John Teti’s column about pro football. Inside Inside The NFL There is a quaintness to Inside The NFL , the long-running chat-and-highlights show that is now in its 44th season . The title makes an antique promise to pull back the curtain on
Doink-O-Rama is John Teti’s column about pro football. Ad Man X on finding just the right ding For behind-the-scenes industry insight on the ads you’ve been forced to watch a hundred times, we visit once again with my friend Ad Man X.
Doink-O-Rama is John Teti’s column about pro football. On Sunday night, midway through the first quarter, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady was 28 yards away from breaking Drew Brees’ NFL record for career passing yards. When Brady connected with wide receiver Mike Evans for