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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.  …

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 …

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 …