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What happens to the longsuffering Detroit Lions fan if the team starts winning?

John Fea   |  September 6, 2023

I am not a Detroit Lions fan, but I have a future son-in-law who lives and dies with the team. Over the last couple of years I have watched him as the Lions lose yet another game on a last-second...

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The Author’s Corner with Robert Mann

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 5, 2023

Robert Mann holds the Manship Endowed Chair in Journalism at Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication. This interview is based on his new book, Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU (LSU Press, 2023). JF: What led you to...

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What it was like to be a Black man playing for the Kansas City Chiefs in the 1960s?

John Fea   |  February 10, 2023

Here is Mark Dent at The Washington Post: When Mike Garrett, a Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Southern California, was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in 1966, the only thing he knew about his new home was the...

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Do American football players need more than prayers?

John Fea   |  January 11, 2023

The nation was shocked when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed during a recent Monday night football game. For several days the Hamlin story shared top billing in the American news cycle with Kevin McCarthy’s bid for Speaker of the...

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Evangelical roundup: Damar Hamlin and Speaker of the House edition

John Fea   |  January 4, 2023

Here is what evangelical Christians are saying about Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin and the drama that took place today in the House of Representatives: On Hamlin: This is becoming a popular position on the MAGA-loving Christian Right: Lance Wallnau:...

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What happened to the Rose Bowl?

John Fea   |  December 27, 2022

According to California writer Joe Mathews, the Rose Bowl football game is dead. It died from “two chronic diseases–greed and our winner-take-all culture.” Here is a taste of Mathews’s piece at Zocalo: But the Rose Bowl itself—a post-season football game...

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Sports video of the day

John Fea   |  December 21, 2022

RIP Franco Harris....

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The “Immaculate Reception” at 50

John Fea   |  October 16, 2022

Current editor Eric Miller will appreciate this post. The Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh is celebrating the history of Franco Harris’s “Immaculate Reception.” Here is a taste of WPXI’s coverage: This December marks 50 years since the greatest play in...

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What the six California Super Bowl stadiums tell us about The Golden State

John Fea   |  February 2, 2022

The Super Bowl has been (or will be) held in: SoFi Stadium (2022) Levi’s Stadium (2016) Stanford Stadium (1985) The Rose Bowl (1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1993) Jack Murphy Stadium (1988, 1998, 2003) Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1967, 1973) Here...

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She is a Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader and a Temple University Ph.D student in American history

John Fea   |  January 15, 2022

Shelby Carr has an M.A. history (with specializations in public history and historic preservation) from the University of Colorado and is currently a first-year Ph.D student at Temple. She is also an Eagles cheerleader. She is featured in a recent...

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Big Ben’s Redemption

John Fea   |  January 15, 2022

I grew up a Miami Dolphins fan. (How a kid raised in the New York metropolitan area became a Dolphins fan is a long story, but there are a lot of us out there.) I thus despised the Steelers. As...

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If you watched Sunday night’s Raiders-Chargers game you now know that “football culture is not rational”

John Fea   |  January 11, 2022

On Sunday night I was sitting in a hotel room in New Orleans watching one of the strangest–and most entertaining–football games I have ever seen. I don’t think I have been this riveted to an NFL game since Don Strock’s...

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My first John Madden memory

John Fea   |  December 29, 2021

As a kid I was a diehard Miami Dolphins fan. It is thus tough for me, over 46 years later, to post this highlight video from the 1974 AFC Divisional Playoff: To this day I cannot hear the names Ken...

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Nick Saban rips on “self absorbed” Alabama fans

John Fea   |  November 25, 2021

In case you haven’t seen this yet: Saban is probably right. But as far as “self-absorption” in college sports is concerned, I think there is enough to go around right now....

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Why do the Detroit Lions always play on Thanksgiving?

John Fea   |  November 25, 2021

It’s a Thanksgiving tradition. This year the woeful Detroit Lions are looking for their first win of the season. Here is James Dator at SBNATION: When the Lions moved to Detroit in 1934, owner G.A. Richards was hellbent on starting...

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Kareem Abdul Jabbar blasts Aaron Rodgers

John Fea   |  November 10, 2021

The hoops legend pulls no punches on the former Cal-Berkeley student: Professional athletes have come so far from the dark days when the public saw them as perpetually partying adolescents, mean-spirited bullies, and worse: dim-wits one step above tackling dummies...

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Trump supporter Tom Brady jokes with Biden: “4o percent of people still don’t think we won”… the Super Bowl

John Fea   |  July 20, 2021

When you lose Tom Brady: Jonathan Chait tells us what this means here....

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Brady and Brees

John Fea   |  January 18, 2021

Two great quarterbacks met on the field after last night’s divisional playoff game. There are reports that Brees will retire during the off-season....

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New England Patriots football coach Bill Belichick will not accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday

John Fea   |  January 12, 2021

John F. Kennedy gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to E.B. White, Thornton Wilder, Felix Frankfurter, and Marion Anderson, among others. Lyndon Johnson list of medal honorees included on John F. Kennedy, Walt Disney, Aaron Copland, T.S. Eliot, John Lewis,...

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An important message for the readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog

John Fea   |  November 6, 2020

November is finally here. I have seen a lot of hate spewed in recent months about a man who is a constant winner and overachiever, and that’s what the people who support him like about him. Yes, he’s been caught […]

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