“A Football Life,” NFL Films’ groundbreaking, Emmy-nominated documentary series about the trials and tribulations surrounding the careers of some of the sport’s greatest players, takes a look next week at a man who was taken much too soon from a …
Posted: October 22nd, 2012
‘NFL Films Presents: Tecmo Bowl’
If you are between the ages of 25 and 45, chances are the first football video game you played was Nintendo’s Tecmo
Bowl. It was Madden before Madden, a chance to play as your favorite team and players. Everyone I …
Posted: February 8th, 2012
This Day in Football: February 8
On this day in 2000, Hall-of-Famer and former Chiefs linebacker Derrick Thomas died from injuries sustained in a car accident. Thomas was one of the premiere pass-rushers in the history of the NFL, and was elected to the Hall of …
Posted: November 11th, 2011
This Day in Football: November 11
The late Kansas City great Derrick Thomas broke the record for most sacks in a game on this day in 1990, with seven against the Seahawks. However, on the last and most important play of the game, Thomas was unable …