by Neil Zender, Producer
IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW BILL WALSH, think again. More than two decades after his retirement, Walsh still casts a long shadow over the National Football League. Especially at this time of year, as new hires …
Posted: January 16th, 2015
by Neil Zender, Producer
IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW BILL WALSH, think again. More than two decades after his retirement, Walsh still casts a long shadow over the National Football League. Especially at this time of year, as new hires …
Posted: November 21st, 2014
Lyle Alzado was once the most famous product of Yankton College. It was there, on the South Dakota prairie, that he first began to assume mythic qualities. One of Three Mile Lyle’s most legendary exploits was a barroom brawl on …
Posted: November 20th, 2014
by Neil Zender, Co-Producer
Watch the fight – and find out what happened when Lyle Alzado went Pat Benatar on Muhammad Ali – on “Lyle Alzado: A Football Life”, Friday night at 9:00PM /EST on NFL Network.
A lot …
Posted: November 14th, 2014
“Lyle Alzado – A Football Life” premieres Friday, November 21st at 9pm/ET on NFL Network.
by Neil Zender, Co-Producer
HISTORY HAS NOT BEEN KIND TO LYLE ALZADO. He was once one of the brightest stars in the National Football …
Tags: broncos, featured, Football Life, lyle alzado, raiders, three mile lyle
Posted: November 22nd, 2011
What could be more exciting than Sudden Death Overtime on Thanksgiving? When Phil Luckett’s involved – the overtime coin toss.
It was the biggest Turkey Day flip-flop since Franklin Roosevelt tried to reschedule Thanksgiving – and faced a revolt from …
Posted: November 21st, 2011
Football is as much a part of Thanksgiving Day as turkey, cranberry sauce and stuffing. And over the years there’s been a few turkeys and a lot of classics. A lot of which have become so famous, people forget they …
Posted: November 2nd, 2011
Here is the second part of Neil Zender’s producer’s notes for “Tom Landry: A Football Life.” Click here to read the first part.
Another Landry innovation; the Multiple Formation Offense. Every time you see a coach disguising a simple play …
Tags: a football life, neil zender, tom landry
Posted: October 7th, 2011
The 1970’s was “The Me Decade”. The 1980’s, “The Decade of Greed”. But what defined the 1990’s? Seinfeld? Grunge Music? Jean-Claude Van Damme movies? With all due respect to “The Muscles from Brussels”, we say quarterbacks. Marino. Young. Moon. Kelly. …
Posted: October 1st, 2011
Admit it Titletown. If you took a time machine back to 2008, you’d have thought replacing Brett Favre was impossible. He was the NFL’s ultimate ironman. For sixteen consecutive seasons, he’d started every game at quarterback for the Packers. So …
Tags: aaron rodgers, brett favre, top 10
Posted: September 22nd, 2011
Posted by Tiffany…Written by Neil Zender
This week, water cooler talk has been centered around what happened on Monday Night Football when several Giants players allegedly pretended to be hurt in order to slow the Rams’ no-huddle offense. But …
Tags: joe nash