John Teti

This is PLAYOFF Doink-O-Rama, John Teti's column about pro football. For the Doink-O-Rama Super Bowl preview, I once again enlisted our anonymous ad-industry executive, "Ad Man X," a longtime creative director who has written and produced a number of Super Bowl ads himself—although he does

This is PLAYOFF Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. I concluded the opening paragraphs of last week’s Doink-O-Rama with the comment that the divisional round would “henceforth to be known as Super-Duper Divisional Super Week-Super-End, which will never let us down.” And while the NFL may not

This is PLAYOFF Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. In the last installment of Doink-O-Rama, I looked askance at the league’s choice of the name “Super Wild Card Weekend” for the first round of this year’s playoffs. The Super Bowl is one of the all-time great,

This is PLAYOFF Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. What makes Super Wild Card Weekend so super? Attention readers: The weekend formerly known as Wild Card Weekend is now, for this year’s playoffs, known as Super Wild Card Weekend. Update your leather-bound pocket calendars accordingly. Super Wild

This is Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. Football TV’s most prominent innovation of the 2021 season is the Monday Night Football “Manningcast,” a recurring feature on ESPN2 that airs alongside Monday Night Football (the shambling corpse thereof) on ESPN proper. The concept behind the Manningcast is

This is Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. We head straight to the picks this week, friends, as I require a little breather from the full column before the stretch run. But in the Christmas spirit, I rifled through the many (too many) video clips I’ve obsessively

This is Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. Keep an eye on the Detroit Lions. That has been my directive every football Sunday for the past couple of months—not because the Lions are such a great team, quite the opposite. Coming into their Week 13 matchup last

This is Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. Week 13 Most Unwatchable Game preview: Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Los Angeles Rams The TV coverage maps at 506sports.com [https://506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2021&wk=13] provide a snapshot in time of a team’s national appeal,

This is Doink-O-Rama, John Teti’s column about pro football. Holiday shopping is a more fraught experience than ever this year, as the collapse of the global supply chain means that any gifts you order will take an especially long time to arrive, if in fact they arrive at all.

The end of Week 9 officially marked the halfway point of the NFL season, a tidy mathematical truth that we shouldn’t take for granted. In 2021, the league expanded the season from 16 to 17 games, which, once you add in each team’s bye week, makes for an