Stafford's Legendary Tale Gets Re-written by Packers
Cinderella's coach really did turn back into a pumpkin. Hansel and Gretel got caught, after all. None of the pigs got around to building a joint out of brick.John Elway's legend is safe once again. Whoever sculpts those busts for Canton needn't rush out to procure a head shot of Matthew Stafford at his earliest convenience.Cloud Nine just touched down. The bandwagon came to a screeching halt. After one game.If rookie quarterbacks were stock on the New York Exchange, their chart would look like an EKG readout.On Sunday, Stafford won a game for the Lions. Damaged wing and all. Real storybook stuff. Someone dared to disturb Bobby Layne's ghost ov

Thanks!
Time to give thanks. I suppose I can muster up the will to do that. It's only once a year, after all.So, here goes...I'm thankful for Army-Navy, even though I never watch it.I'm thankful for Brandon Inge.I'm thankful that a football is shaped the way it is, because you never know how it's going to bounce. Other balls are so predictable that way.I'm thankful for outdoor stadiums.I'm thankful for the mute button.I'm thankful for the Original Six.I'm thankful for left-handed golfers because they look so cool.I'm thankful for a well-timed 6-4-3.I'm thankful for Nick Lidstrom.

Last Night on "The Knee Jerks": A Football Extravaganza!!
First, a semi-major announcement: “The Knee Jerks” will be moving up a couple of hours! Beginning December 14, you’ll be able to get your jerkosity two hours earlier. The show will debut its new 9:00-11:00 ET time slot, so everyone can get some sleep on Monday nights! The Michigan Wolverines and MSU Spartans just finished their football seasons, so it was the perfect time to do a post-mortem. Our guests were Andy Reid, sports editor of the Michigan Daily (U’M’s student newspaper) and Bleacher Report’s

Tonight on "The Knee Jerks": A Football Frenzy, College AND Pro Style!
It’ll be a cornucopia of football tonight on “The Knee Jerks,” the weekly Blog Talk Radio gabfest I co-host with Big Al Beaton of The Wayne Fontes Experience . Tonight we’ll give post-mortems on the recently completed U-M and MSU football regular seasons, with help from Andy Reid, sports

Let Me Tell You a Story....(Lions Win in Very Un-Lions-Like Fashion)
Someday, they'll have Ford Field's capacity up to a quarter million, for as many people who will claim to have been there. The Cleveland Browns will be defending league champions. Matthew Stafford will have been carried onto the field on a stretcher. Brandon Pettigrew will have one-handed the football, his body parallel to the turf.That will pretty much be the gist of the re-telling of what went on Sunday, several years hence.The Lions beat the Browns, 38-37 in what was deemed to be their last "winnable" game of the season. And we have six weeks of this stuff to go yet.Yes, this was a "winnable" game, alright. Just like how your Lotto ticket is winnable.