Tonight, Josh Allen will debut the first of nine New Era hats created by patients at the Oishei Children's Hospital in Buffalo.
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) September 7, 2025
After each Bills home game, the caps will be auctioned off to benefit the Patricia Allen fund. pic.twitter.com/C30mvyEled
The Green Bay Packers drop their throwback uniforms for the 2025 season featuring a leather-look helmet 🥶
— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) July 24, 2025
(via @packers ) pic.twitter.com/6OiSzzKNAE
A work of art@amfam pic.twitter.com/WS7oHFV4G3
— Green Bay Packers Football Club (@packers) July 24, 2025
Jim Trotter for The Athletic:
[He] may well be the person to take the union wherever it wants to go, but the players will have no one to blame but themselves if he fails. Through apathy and/or blind trust, they allowed union president [] to drive a selection process unlike any that had ever preceded it.
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Whatever the reason, it helps explains how you get a selection process like we just witnessed. As far back as March, players were privately expressing concerns to me about what was taking place. The expectation then was that a vote would take place that month at the union meeting in Hawaii. When it didn’t happen, some players essentially checked out and left the process to [the union president] and the executive committee — which makes the scheduling of this week’s vote more curious.
[The union president] spent eight seasons as an NFL offensive lineman. He knows the players get only one time each year to be completely off the books, that from early June to mid-July they schedule family vacations and international travel. So why would he hold a vote at a time when he knows turnout is likely to be low?
ESPN has a new article suggesting he resigned shortly after they started asking him about billing strip club visits to the union.
really good schedule art
— Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) May 15, 2025
(a 🧵 by @nba_paint)
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week 1 vs. dolphins pic.twitter.com/Y0LCq6ry7w
week 5 vs. raiders pic.twitter.com/NU7Z72NQiA
— Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) May 15, 2025
week 13 vs. texans pic.twitter.com/AlpcbFlVr0
— Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) May 15, 2025
week 17 vs. jaguars pic.twitter.com/GUHNGhXRWC
— Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) May 15, 2025
An article from August headlined, "Why did NFL stars gather in June to play chess? It all began with Amari Cooper’s vision":
When Cooper first drove his Lamborghini into a suburban townhouse complex in 2020, a 14-year-old’s parents were wary.
Was a Cowboys player 12 years their son’s senior really just driving him to … the neighborhood Barnes & Noble for chess lessons?
Deviprasath, then a ninth grader on the verge of attaining chess’s expert “national master” rating, told his mother he was going to coach Cooper.
“So first she Googles him and tries to understand,” Deviprasath said. “She honestly wasn’t believing him. Like — how does this happen?”
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They met each Monday night for two to three hours at the Barnes & Noble near Deviprasath’s townhouse.
Four years later, lessons continue.
They’ve outlasted the Barnes & Noble, which closed in May 2023, and Cooper’s Cowboys tenure, which wrapped March 2022 when Dallas traded him to the Browns for a fifth-round draft pick as his salary outgrew their interest. Deviprasath worried then that the lessons and friendship had run their course.
Instead, he and Cooper began FaceTiming each Monday night as Deviprasath shared his screen.
“Then he came back to Dallas [each offseason] and it was almost like no difference,” Deviprasath said. “Our chess lessons have grown over the years.”
FSO:
Quarterback Jalen Hurts ($13.5 million) and running back Saquon Barkley ($3.8 million) teamed up amid a 12-3 season to give their linemen personalized golf carts donning their names and numbers. Both Barkley and Hurts’ personal logos are on the back of each cart.
Lil’Jordan Humphrey’s name is somewhat of a contradiction. At 6-foot-4-inches, 222 pounds, he is not what most would call “little,” but as a compromise for his older brother — who wanted him to be named ‘Michael’ for Michael Jordan — his mother went with “Lil’Jordan ... Humphrey started playing football when he was 4 years old ... was a running back his entire career but is now playing receiver at Texas.
I guess I’ll call these…the Emerald City Kyler Murray Vapor Edge Dunks 🤷🏻♂️ Made for Quincy Williams with 864 hand placed emerald rhinestones #nyjets pic.twitter.com/Tba5HLS1kO
— Mike Jordan (@mikejordan_art) September 19, 2024
.@quincywilliams_’ cleats thooo 👀 pic.twitter.com/c3Pe9wLSR0
— New York Jets (@nyjets) September 19, 2024
The Jets messed up in two ways with Aaron Rodgers:
Last October, Sportico first reported that the Jets declined to purchase insurance on Rodgers' contract to protect the team if he missed games for injury or illness. The Jets missed out on recouping up to $22 million in insurance proceeds by not purchasing one of several policies ranging in price from $1 million to $4 million, per the report.
Not mentioned was the biggest loss the Jets suffered by forgoing insurance, the very reason that [one expert] calls this a tragedy: the corresponding salary cap relief.
The CBA labels insurance proceeds as a "refund from the player," which qualifies the amount as a cap credit for the club for the following season. In the simplest terms, if a player who eats up a significant portion of a club's salary cap misses significant time with injury or illness, a club doesn't have to take it as a total loss, but can recover space for the following year. Plus, insurance premium payments don't count against the salary cap.
(The long article is mostly about the salary cap loophole)
Came out of retirement for this one. https://t.co/IELFlIVZeg pic.twitter.com/iVrg3QgCvh
— The Big Guy (@TSSteinbacher) September 11, 2024
It's one fabulous quote after another, but this is my favorite:
Harbaugh said every person who came off the elevator was sweating, except for Herbert, and some of the players had removed their shirts.
“Justin Herbert, his hair was a little wet, but his shirt was completely dry,” Harbaugh said. “That was another thing that blew me away. The guy is just a beast.”
FOS (he's a New York lawyer who was given temporary permission to practice in Mississippi):
“The most recent actions and filings by counsel appear to have been designed to be dilatory and not necessary for the representation of his client,” [the trial judge] wrote. “The motions presented herein were deliberately and tacitly designed to undermine the authority of the Court and demonstrate either a misunderstanding of the proper procedures and processes of the rules and the laws of the State of Mississippi or an effort to manufacture issues with the Judiciary.”
should we REALLY make our schedule release video in the sims?
— Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) May 16, 2024
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Harrison Butker in the kitchen. 💀 https://t.co/kVhddCwyYQ pic.twitter.com/nMFrLAU1Hs
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) May 16, 2024
Specifically, the fact that certain results and performance were leaked publicly last year demonstrates that there truly is no confidentiality with these tests.
The test, which replaced the Wonderlic for NFL testing, "scientifically measures an athlete's game-speed cognitive abilities down to a millisecond level."[C.J.] Stroud took the test multiple times and scored the lowest of the 2023 quarterback prospects, with 18 percent out of 100. The low score could be a red flag to some teams as they finalize their draft board and may lead to some questioning whether to take the prospect.Stroud responded to the criticism after participating in the NFL Play Football clinic, defending himself and his abilities on the field."I'm a football player. ... I'm not an S2 taker,"