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…
Doink-O-Rama is John Teti’s column about pro football. Among the major American sports, football is the most intensely team-oriented game. To have a chance at success on a given play, a team has to synchronize the physical efforts and thought processes of 11 players with ferocious intensity but also…
Doink-O-Rama is John Teti’s column about pro football. Friends, the full Doink-O-Rama column is on a bye this week, but because a space robot never needs to sleep, we still bring you the DORPFASTCALC picks. Plus, I added a few stray notes here and there, because once my typing…
Doink-O-Rama is John Teti’s column about pro football. Inside Inside The NFL There is a quaintness to Inside The NFL, the long-running chat-and-highlights show that is now in its 44th season. The title makes an antique promise to pull back the curtain on pro football’s remote inner workings,…
Doink-O-Rama is John Teti’s column about pro football. Ad Man X on finding just the right ding For behind-the-scenes industry insight on the ads you’ve been forced to watch a hundred times, we visit once again with my friend Ad Man X. Of course, "Ad Man X&…
Doink-O-Rama is John Teti’s column about pro football. On Sunday night, midway through the first quarter, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady was 28 yards away from breaking Drew Brees’ NFL record for career passing yards. When Brady connected with wide receiver Mike Evans for a big gain, it…
The score bar at the bottom of the screen during a football game has an obvious function: It tells you how many points a team has scored. In some cases, such as the 2021 Chicago Bears, this function is ceremonial. Nonetheless, we primarily use the score bar as an information…
