fiction and creative non-fiction from Brennan Quenneville
Former CBS announcer Phil Simms always seemed a little overwhelmed by the idea of talking intelligently about football games. This wouldn't have been a problem had it not been the literal definition of his job. Instead, Simms and the countless other broadcasters and ex-players who get paid thousands of dollars to talk about the football [...]
If you were looking for proof that the beginning of the NFL season is filled with disastrous, sloppy football then by the end of Sunday night you would've had a lot of material to work with: the first full day of the season included blown calls, botched punts and a handful of memorable broken plays. [...]
After bursting on the scene with arguably the greatest debut for a rookie wide receiver in NFL history – 10 catches for 217 yards and two touchdowns against the Detroit Lions – Anquan Boldin spent the next 13 years muscling his way through NFL defenders and into the record books. The sure-handed receiver, who announced his [...]
If you score more points than your opponent, you win. That's how fantasy football works.[note]Unless you play in some bizarro-world league, I guess.[/note] The simplicity of that binary outcome hasn't exactly made assembling your fantasy team a simple process - for the love of God, look at all these draft strategy guides - but it [...]
Sammy, Summer is in full swing. It's the season for barbecues and swimming pools and crazy NBA contracts. I'm guessing you were thinking of that last item when you tweeted this: https://twitter.com/sammywatkins/status/881516252233125888 I get it. NBA players that you've never even heard of are pulling down huge new contracts while players who are adequate but [...]
America is kind of a dumb place right now. We suck at akudemicks school and we keep putting people who seem to be terrible at their jobs in charge of our most cherished institutions. Oh and we elected Donald covfefing Trump as our President too. Not a great run. America likes to see itself as a [...]
Under the best of circumstances it would have been hard to be excited about the fantasy prospects of the New York Jets this year. We are not operating under the best of circumstances. With the news that the Jets are planning to trade or release Eric Decker, the Jets have clearly committed to tanking not [...]
Adrian, Marshawn & Jamaal, Before I get ahead of myself, I want to give you guys some much deserved love. Adrian, you had the best combination of size and speed that I've ever seen at running back. In 2012, you managed to run for 2,097 yards even though running backs were becoming increasingly irrelevant and [...]
Dear Everyone in Bill Belichick's Fantasy Football League, First off, yes. I understand that you're going to pretend that you don't exist. That Bill Belichick - perhaps the greatest coach in NFL history - couldn't possibly have the time or lack of self worth to play fantasy football. I get that you're going to say [...]
Hey Blake, It's been a rough year for you. It wasn't that long ago that you were the next big thing and now, only a few bounced interceptions later, you're having to brush off questions about being out of a job. That's not a great career arc and I can’t imagine that it’s a whole lot [...]
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