The NFL Season Begins! (And Gets Overshadowed By the Ray Rice Video) — Papa’s Football Podcast, Week 1

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If you missed TMZ's video of Ray Rice smashing his woman's jaw, this is about what it looked like.

If you missed TMZ’s video of Ray Rice smashing his woman’s jaw, this is about what it looked like.

The 2014 NFL regular season began with much fanfare…that was immediately obliterated by TMZ releasing a video of Ray Rice decking his chick with the speed of Floyd Mayweather. If you want to hear discussion of the video, you can click here for that, but we keep the football show about on-the-field football talk, so this episode will delve into what games we loved from the weekend, what we’re looking forward to this week, and get thoughts from Cleveland Browns superfan Josh Burns on the first of our “Fan In Focus” segments.

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The NFL Is Back! — Papa’s Football Podcast Week 0

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It's been far, far too long, my love. (I'll leave you to guess whether it's the me or the NFL that plays Rachel McAdams in this little scenario.)

It’s been far, far too long, my love. (I’ll leave you to guess whether it’s the me or the NFL that plays Rachel McAdams in this little scenario.)

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Tonight, life will have meaning once more. Not even The Fappening could distract NFL fiends from their all-consuming need to have the game of (concussed) kings back in their lives. There’s a lot of ground to cover in 60 minutes after an entire season off, but we manage to get in all the greatest hits: The Ray Rice beating his then-fiancee unconscious, Wes Welker getting suspended for taking Molly cut with amphetamines at the Kentucky Derby, the entire Michael Sam saga that just landed him with the Dallas Cowboys and Don Van Natta, Jr’s excellent article on Jerry Jones. There’s also a preview of this week’s action. If you like football and you like bad words, this is the show for you.

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Hall of Fame Podcast (RB Edition): Jerome Bettis and the Ricky Williams’ Line

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Listen to Howard’s first ever solo podcast. He talks about Jerome Bettis’ place among the greatest running back of all-time, and the reason why Ricky Williams’ career numbers should be the measuring stick for other NFL running backs who become eligible for Hall of Fame in the coming years.

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Michael Sam Comes Out On Papa’s Basement (Not Really)

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Michael Scott sounds similar enough to Michael Sam that this is okay.

Michael Scott sounds similar enough to Michael Sam that this is okay.

Normally I link the Papa’s Football Podcast posts over on Papa’s Basement to give PFPod a bit of a boost. This time, the shoe is on the other foot as I spent a ton of time yapping with my radio mentor and friend Bill Rohland (click that link to see his Twitter profile and give it a follow) about Michael Sam, the SEC defensive player of the year, coming out as gay before the NFL draft. Click here to go to the episode’s post on Papa’s Basement, where you can give it a listen. Enjoy!

Michael Sam: The “Jackie Robinson” of Gay Male Pro Athletes?

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Michael Sam, SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Year, has made headlines with his public announcement on ESPN that he is gay. Some commentators are already trying to downplay the significance of Sam’s announcement, which comes less than three months before the NFL Draft. True, Sam may not be the first gay athlete to play in one of the four major American professional sports. But no one can change the fact that, in 2014, Michael Sam will become the first male athlete to play his entire career in a major American pro sport while being openly gay.

Jason Collins may have technically beat Sam to the punch of announcing publicly that he is gay; however, Collins’ decade-long career as an NBA benchwarmer was effectively finished when he made his nationally televised announcement in 2013. For DE Michael Sam, he will play his entire NFL career with some of the pressure that followed Jackie Robinson after he integrated Major League Baseball. Sure, Sam won’t suffer many of the indignities that Robinson did, such as the prejudice of many white baseball fans and players who ignorantly proclaimed that black players were not “intelligent” enough to play baseball (yes, America was that ignorant in 1947). But Sam will share in the burden of representing an entire class of disadvantage minorities for the entirety of his pro career, in a place where no gay man has ever felt comfortable being entirely himself. Stay tuned for the April 2014 NFL Draft and beyond– we will all have to wait and see where Michael Sam goes from this day forward.

Super Bowl XLVIII and the Seahawks’ Future — Papa’s Football Podcast

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Papa’s Football Podcast sums up Super Bowl XLVIII (whata hunk o’shit) and talks the future of its champions, the Seattle Seahawks.

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Super Bowl Preview – Papa’s Football Podcast

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Jim Irsay looks like a less-sober Dr. House.

Jim Irsay looks like a less-sober Dr. House.

Enjoy the latest episode of Papa’s Football Podcast where we pick the Super Bowl winner, wonder what would have been if Jim Irsay taken his nose out of the cereal bowl of scotch he eats for breakfast long enough to use the first pick in the 2012 NFL draft to build around of Peyton Manning instead of replace him, and fix the Pro Bowl. You heard me: We fix the Pro Bowl. How did we do it? You’re going to have to listen. It’s honestly a really good idea, though. I’m not just tugging your tits to get you to click. Honest injun’.

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Richard Sherman Might Be Wising Up

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It'll make sense when you click the link.

It’ll make sense when you click the link.

In his weekly Monday Morning Quarterback article, Richard Sherman mentions receiving a Tweet after his trash talking of Michael Crabtree that reminded him of the Irvin Himmel quote “No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is” and how it profoundly affected him. I’m happy that the guy seems to be wising up, because a lot of the hate directed at him was quite n-bomb laden, and I was starting to feel guilty by association even though my dislike of the guy was due entirely to shitty sportsmanship and a general loathing of anything related to the Seahawks. To close this post with another piece of profound wisdom, “What the Hell kind of country is this where I can only hate a man if he’s white?”

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Richard Sherman Is An Idiot–Papa’s Football Podcast

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Howie loves Richard Sherman, but Howie also doesn’t post the episodes we record, so guess who gets to name them? This guy. I’m sick of Richard Sherman and the vaunted intellect he apparently possesses for attending Stanford (so did Andrew Luck, yet I don’t hear it mentioned in conjunction with the guy being anointed as Einstein, Jr. every five seconds). We also break down the Patriots – Broncos game and discuss whether or not Colin Kaepernick did indeed cost his team the game. Listen, share and enjoy. (Hell, I’ll settle for you doing two out of the three.)

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