Only three games remain in the 2021 NFL season. The Super Bowl will close the house down on Feb. 13, but the party begins Sunday with the AFC and NFC Championship Games. It’s been a fun ride. And this Championship Sunday is unusual for this reason: For the first time...
Lawdy, what a weekend of football. Four intense walk-off jobs that raised the blood pressure, messed with emotions, and reminded us why the NFL is the most popular viewing sport in the nation. The four games were decided by a total of 15 points. Pints were lifted in...
I’m looking forward to the four games that will set the field for the AFC and NFC conference championship matchups next weekend. Here’s my analysis of each contest, and I’ll include my pick at the end for entertainment purposes only – comedy, as you laugh at my...
This weekend eight NFL teams will compete in the conference semifinals in the march to the Super Bowl. Last week’s wild-card round wasn’t very interesting, with only two of the six games providing any suspense in the form of close-call finishes. Cincinnati defeated...
A fresh and spicy gumbo of opinions, leftover after watching six NFL postseason games over the weekend: 1) The Dallas Cowboys Are Frauds: This was supposed to be the year that the Boys lived up to the breathless hype and legitimized the media slobbering by winning a...
Six NFL playoff games are on the docket this weekend. A three-day festival of football, fun, snacks and potential investments. Six games, six packs, food spreads, point spreads. I like it. I’m in. And if that isn’t enough there’s a forecast of snowy weather for The...
The Armed Forces Bowl is a lose-lose proposition for Missouri, which faces a knotty matchup with Army on Wednesday night in Fort Worth. The reaction if Mizzou defeats Army: big deal. Always nice to win, but c’mon … the Tigers beat a service-academy team that came into...
BERNIE BITS Good afternoon. Warm Up Note: Good luck to Blues goaltender Charlie Lindgren who will make his first start in the NHL since March 7, 2020 for Montreal. Lindgren isn’t a an emergency goalie guy. He hasn’t been driving a truck, or tending bar,...
The St. Louis BattleHawks live on through their third-string quarterback, Taylor Heinicke. Sunday he led the Washington Football Team on a late drive for the game-winning field goal and a 17-15 victory at Vegas. Washington has won four in a row to move to 6-6 and into...