If you listened to this week’s podcast, you know that we promised you some visual accompaniment for the winner of our “7th Grade Dance Most Awkward Hug” Award. (And you haven’t listened, you should.) At any rate, here you have it: Roger Goodell and Dontari Poe engaged in a warm, passionate embrace after Poe’s name [...]

As I promised on this week’s podcast, here is the clip of Skip Bayless interviewing Steelers safety Ryan Clark on First Take on Tuesday:   Notice how Clark handles himself with aplomb and offers a completely logical and acceptable explanation for his controversial Tweet, whereas Bayless takes turns playing the roles of a shouting, bumbling 9-year-old [...]

As I discussed in the most recent podcast, the results are in regarding the effect of the new kickoff rule on concussions. I fired these numbers out pretty quickly on the air, and I may or may not have a super annoying voice, so I’ve summed up some of the more relevant figures here for [...]

Umm…sooooo…Ben Roethlisberger lost a bet, right? Like one of his jerkoff buddies said, “Hey Ben, if you guys lose to the shitty Broncos, you have to wear this stupid little hat that I stole from Tom Brady at the post-game presser.” And Ben was like, “Well, there’s no way we underperform in a game where [...]

Hope you are all having a special day after, Lunatics! The Ranter and I are both wrapped up in the reality of the holidays (i.e., Ranter ate too much pie and needed emergency liposuction and The Danchise has been drunk on egg nof for 4 consecutive days), so we’re running the website a little lean [...]

We have been getting an uptick in new traffic around these parts, so I thought it best to clue our audience in on how things work around here. Before we get down to the nitty gritty, it would be rude to not introduce ourselves. Who are we? The team known collectively as “Football Ranters” is [...]

Welcome back, Lunatics.br /br /The NFL is at it again, forcing a href=”http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=6247029″unnecessary rule changes/a in the name of player safety that don’t make a lasting impact on player safety.nbsp; In case you missed it, the NFL made a number of rule changes yesterday, the most prominent of which was to move kickoffs from the [...]