football

The Agony and the Lack of Ecstasy of Rooting for the Bills

What Did Buffalo Ever Do to Earn the Wrath of the Sporting Gods?

This coming weekend will be thrilling—and potentially heartbreaking—for fans of the Baltimore Ravens, New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers, and Atlanta Falcons, the four teams vying to advance to Super Bowl XLVII, which will be played on February 3 in New Orleans.

As for me, I haven’t had a thrilling football weekend this millennium. See, I’m a Buffalo Bills fan, so the excitement is all vicarious. The Bills haven’t made the playoffs since 1999, the longest drought of any team in the National Football League. I might as well be living …

by Eyal Press |

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L.A. Welcomes You, NFL

But Only If You Win

The NFL will return to Los Angeles. This was the prediction of a panel of football notables, including Hall of Fame quarterback and UCLA alumnus Troy Aikman, at an event …

If We Name It, Will They Come?

Zócalo’s Readers On What To Call L.A.’s Arriving-Soon-Honest-Any-Minute-Now NFL Team

 

What’s in a name? A lot, apparently. Zócalo has been deluged with proposals for naming a future Los Angeles NFL team that we do not have but that may be …

Root For the Los Angeles (Insert Name Here)!

Please Send Us Your Ideas: What Would You Name Southern California’s Next NFL Team?

by Zócalo Staff |

It was hard to watch last night’s riveting duel between Tom Brady and Eli Manning without wanting to get back in the game. Enough already. The National Football League needs …

We Were

Penn State Bolstered My Sense of Identity, Under False Pretenses

by Torie Bosch |

Since I graduated from college in 2006, my winter weekend errands-and-lounging outfit has remained grubbily uniform: out-of-style jeans, sneakers, Penn State sweatshirt. The outfit is comfortable, and I am a …

Back to High School at Age 66

An Education Writer Returns to His Alma Mater to Find Things Have Changed-For the Better

by Jay Mathews |

This summer I moved back to my boyhood house in San Mateo, California, after 48 years living elsewhere, mostly on the east coast and in China. My California-born wife and …


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