fiction and creative non-fiction from Brennan Quenneville
After Tyrod Taylor was his predictably solid self during Buffalo's 16-10 defeat of Kansas City on Sunday, I was tempted to give this week's Incompetence Trophy to Bills coach Sean McDermott for the second consecutive week because, again, what the hell was he doing starting Nathan Peterman in an NFL game? But McDermott at least [...]
Despite an off-season filled with moves that seemed to indicate that Buffalo's new front office was punting on the present in the hopes of building a better future, the Bills started this year with a surprising 5-2 record. Even after a puzzling loss to the Jets and an absolute thrashing at the hands of the [...]
Thanksgiving isn't until next week but it already feels like Christmas because this Browns season is the gift that keeps on giving. (Keep in mind that I write about NFL incompetence on a weekly basis. For Cleveland fans this season has been a lump of coal dropped in a pile of shit.) After a deadline-day [...]
Everyone in the NFL lost their damn minds this week. The game-time action was beyond bizarre and included a lot of weird shit. I mean, look at this nonsense: An offensive lineman recovered a fumble and then, as he pretended he was a running back, juked his way into another (helicopter) fumble. Blair Walsh damn [...]
Philip Rivers is a national treasure. He put bolo ties on the map, he's got a whole freakin' troupe of children and he makes the best damn faces in all of football, Mannings be damned. Because he's never won, well, anything really and because he plays for a vagabond franchise, he doesn't get the credit [...]
In a week when a player known for doing dumb/dangerous things did a dumb/dangerous thing, when poor grounds management almost blew out some ACLs, and when it took a bizarre weather phenomenon for the NFL to learn where they should put their broadcast cameras, it seems anticlimactic to point to a single play and say, [...]
Stop me if you've heard this before: an NFL team is on its way to a huge win when a goofy rule/blown call/dumb penalty costs said team the game. Always in the most infuriating way imaginable. Sounds familiar, right? Well, if it feels like we're talking about asinine calls having an outside impact on who [...]
Yesterday, Vice President Mike Pence attended an NFL national anthem performance in Indianapolis. Typically, this would imply that he watched the football game that followed but in this ridiculous stupid maddening curious instance it does not. Because, as soon as the anthem - for which several visiting 49ers players kneeled - was over, Pence exited [...]
A week after benefitting from the institutional incompetence of the Detroit Lions[note]And/or the NFL itself, depending on your zeal for conspiracy theories.[/note] the Atlanta Falcons found themselves on the other side of a victory-swinging cock-up against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. When Bills defensive lineman Jerry Hughes tackled Matt Ryan from behind in the third [...]
In a week where the most important NFL action was taking place on the sidelines and where seemingly every game exploded into a cacophony of madness at one point or another, the Detroit Lions elected to spend Sunday afternoon honoring their proud heritage of failure and losing in the most heartbreaking way possible. That the [...]
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