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"Football Monday's Comin' to Your Town on Monday Night," My Attempt at a New Monday Night Football Song, by Cullen Crawford

by | March 4th, 2013

Dear Sirs or Madames at ESPN,

With the NFL season over I think it may be time to reconsider your approach to branding Monday Night Football. Simply put, America misses the dancing and singing Guitarman who announces the things that will happen in the upcoming game while wearing sunglasses. I understand your probable reticence, as your last Guitarman was a hateful monster.  Which is why I’m writing you to offer my service as America’s new Monday Night Football Song and Dance Man. I assure you I hate no one but myself and am very good at predicting the happenings of a typical Monday Night Football evening. Please find my [...]

Dudes

The League: One NFL Lockout Away from Being Television’s Best Comedy

by | October 5th, 2011

Season Two of The League ends in an ominous darkness. Ruxon (Nick Kroll) won the league and blacked out the Sun. Holding the Shiva over his head, he taunts the losers with his masturbation fantasies. Taco (Jon Lajoie) cries out, “The league is doomed.” This could have meant a myriad of things but at the time it felt like an allusion to the looming NFL Lockout. Tomorrow night, The League is set to premiere its third season with the NFL season very much happening; however, I can’t help but think about how great the show would be if it wasn’t.

Quicklink

Yoni Brenner Brings Football Humor to the New Yorker with Trick Plays

by | September 27th, 2010

In this week's New Yorker, Yoni Brenner brings some high-minded sports humor to Shouts and Murmurs with Trick Plays: "Double Trick Inside Stunt: Essentially, a well-disguised variation on the strong-side blitz. For the first trick, the strong-side linebacker 'stunts' inside the defensive tackle to confuse the blockers. The other trick is that they’re all on steroids."

Promos

Get Comfortable with These 7 Promos for 'The League'

by | September 11th, 2012

How did your fantasy team do last weekend? What's that? You lost? Sorr– Your opponent had Julio Jones? Yeah, he killed i– Oh, and you started Fred Jackson? I mean, come on, you can’t be too surprised when Fred Jackson gets injur– Sorry, I forgot this isn't Offsider.com, the Internet's premiere comedic fantasy football blog. Speaking of comedic fantasy football, watch the rest of the promos after the jump.

Web Video

Funny or Die Gives NFL Players Something to Do During the Lockout

by | July 6th, 2011

As of right now, there's no football season happening this Fall. That could change any day due to ongoing negotiations, but really, who knows? But Funny or Die was nice enough to give a dozen or so players some work during their unexpected downtime. Also, Taylor Lautner.

The new short, directed by former full-time Funny or Dier Eric Appel and written by Alex Fernie and Ryan Perez, also stars Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert, Kevin Costner and NFL Network talking heads Rich Eisen and Marshall Faulk. Meanwhile, Tom Brady is somewhere shooting commercials for Uggs.

Good Sports

Rob Riggle Set to Make Football Jokes as Fox's NFL Pregame Comic Relief

by | August 27th, 2012

Finally a reason to watch sports (J. Kidding we love watching people throw around the ol' skinned pig): next season, Rob Riggle will do funny things during Fox's Sunday pregame coverage. It was a role previously held by Frank Caliendo doing impersonations of John Madden and the like. Rob isn't so sure what he's going to do with the postion. He told USAToday: "[impressions] aren't in my wheelhouse. So what is my wheelhouse? We'll discover that along the way." Maybe each week he can demonstrate new endzone dance handshakes like this:

Movies

Will Ferrell And Mark Wahlberg To Throw Around The Ol' Pigskin, Shriek At Each Other in Turkey Bowl

by | May 18th, 2011

Nascar. Basketball. Ice Skating. Soccer. The never-ending battle for hearts of the American public. Will Ferrell has dominated every sport he's set his mind to, so of course it was only a matter of time before he took on football. Ferrell joins Wahlberg in Warner Bros' Turkey Bowl, which stars The Other Guys duo as "guys from football-obsessed towns who lead rival teams in an annual tackle football game for bragging and trash-talking rights." I don't know about you, but I've really missed Rage Ferrell, and I'm looking forward to a lot of red-faced meltdowns in his future. Alec Baldwin is already set to play Mark Wahlberg's [...]

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