When the Super Bowl was played three weeks ago, the media continuously reminded football fans that this was the last football they could see for a while.  Only now is everyone starting to fully appreciate what that could mean.  THE END OF FOOTBALL AS WE KNOW IT.  FOREVER…or until September, whichever...

Throughout an NFL season, even the best teams can have one of those “off weeks” where nothing seems to go right.  But these weeks are rare and when put in the perspective of a winning season, they’re easy to forget about.  On the other hand, in a losing season, winning weeks are seen similarly,...

After this weekend’s assortment of brutal helmet-to-helmet collisions in the NFL and the horrific injury in college football that left Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand paralyzed from the neck down, there is a pertinent and necessary question for the NFL to address and Pittsburgh Steelers safety...

Since the season ended for the Cleveland Browns (Like, actually ended.  Not to be confused with week one when they didn't know who would start at quarterback) there has been some speculation about return specialist / wide receiver Josh Cribbs' future with the team.    To explain the situation Cribbs...

Welcome to THE WEEKLY JOCK-SCRAP: a collection of pics and videos from around TheJockosphere.  Throughout the week, I'll be rounding up the best-of-the-best, the strangest-of-the-strange (and sometimes the worst-of-the-worst) to create a weekly "Jock Scrapbook" (now the name makes sense, right?) of...

A restless Kassim Osgood tweets: I wish the game was tonite so we xan hurry up and get the heck out of here. Tired of this hotel! Some players like to get massages the night before a game. Some like to play video games,  and some like to watch movies or TV to pass the time. Not Mr. Osgood. When he’s...

This morning the self-proclaimed: "4th largest media market in the world" and "second most powerful person in America," and our favorite most overly-self-promoting football player, Ocho Cinco, woke with an idea of a new product he could endorse. Ocho Cinco condoms (they'll catch everything yo Johnson...

It's not a good time to be a Cleveland Brown.  Not that there has ever really been a good time.  The Browns don't have haven't named a starting QB (again), coaches are getting fined for not filling out injury reports, players are getting fined $1701 for taking a $3 bottle of hotel water,  there are...

Betty Grable insured her legs for $1 million.  Dolly Parton insured her breasts for $600,000.  And it is rumored that Tom Jones insured his chest hair for $7 million.   According to the NFL, Browns cornerback, Eric Wright's knees are worth about 5K.  Well not just Eric Wright, but all NFL players. ...

If you've been anywhere on this series of tubes we call the internet in the past two days you've undoubtedly run into some kind of mention of Kanye "George Bush doesn't care about black people" West stealing the stage from Taylor Swift at the VMA's.  Everyone from President Obama (link to audio), to...