God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary . . . .

Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad.