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

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees.

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

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.

There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.