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Week 12 NFL news & notes
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A quick statistical zip around pro football, courtesy of the NFL: New England’s Tom Brady and Tennessee’s Chris Johnson can join short lists of record-setting performers this week, while BrettFavre, yes, BRETTFAVRE!, is on pace to post the best TD-to-INT ratio in...
The Ombudsdouche is in rare form
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The Cold, Hard Football Facts out-house critic, the Ombudsdouche, is in rare form this week. He attacks our definition of parity, tackles the innocent Basement Boy and calls one CHFF staple a "cliche-ridden, formulaic bore." Other than that, he’s quite happy once again. ....
Real and spectacular (and belated) Week 12 picks
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Our real and spectacular picks continue to live up to the bountiful example set by the gluttony of the Thanksgiving holiday and by Ms. Hatcher’s curvaceous bosoms. The playoff races snap into a higher gear this week with big battles in Houston, Baltimore and New Orleans.
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The QB throwdown: even losers get lucky some time
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Losing takes a toll on the Throwdown’s best friends, the quarterbacks. When all you do is lose, winning is like walking through the wardrobe into a whole new world. Just ask loser-turned-winner Matt Stafford and, conversely, winner-turned-loser Mark Sanchez. ....
BrettFavre: 40 and fabulous
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BrettFavre continues to channel the legacy of George Blanda, playing the best football of his career here at the dawn of his fifth decade on earth. BrettFavre fans are demanding an apology from a cynical CHFF. You’ll get it at the end of season ... maybe. ....
Sunday storylines: record day for Stafford, Peyton, BrettFavre, TO, Welker
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The offensive fireworks continued in Week 11, with record-setting passing and receiving performances from one end of the NFL to the other, from 40-year-old dinosaurs like BrettFavre to young rookie pups like Matt Stafford. ....
First-response team: politically incorrect analysis
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This week, we take a politically incorrect look at NFL action, offending pretty much everybody along the way. Send your angry, self-righteous emails to somebody else. ’Cause we don’t give a sh*t what you think unless it’s accompanied by spreadsheets of...
The Ombudsdouche: forgeries and frauds
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The raging Ombudsdouche this week labels the Cold, Hard Football Facts hype-meisters, frauds, forgers, plagiarists, a Judas to our friends and among America’s dumbest criminals. Other than that, he’s pretty happy with our work this week. ....
Real and spectacular Week 11 picks
9 days ago by
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We continue to beat the spread as if it were Tom Cable’s ex-wife: 9-6 straight up last week and 10-5 ATS, giving us eight winning weeks in 10 opportunities this year. So stuff that between Teri Hatcher’s ample bosom and motorboat it. BTW, the game that&rsquo...
Real and spectacular Week 11 picks
9 days ago by
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The Cold, Hard Football Facts continue to beat the spread as if it were Tom Cable’s ex-wife. We went 9-6 straight up last week and 10-5 against the spread, giving us eight winning weeks in 10 opportunities this year. So stuff that between Teri Hatcher’s ample bosom...
Peyton: better than ever
10 days ago by
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Peyton Manning was already a sure-fire first-ballot Hall of Famer. But the 2009 version of Manning is better than any that’s come before. He’s spitting in the face of statistical convention, and doing the little things that separate pass-happy stat monsters from...
The QB throwdown: everything old is good
10 days ago by
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Gone are the days of gushing over the NFL’s next hot quarterback. Throughout most of the 2009 season, the NFL’s old guns have ruled the league. And Week 10 was no exception, as CHFF old hand Jeremy Gottlieb shows in his latest QB throwdown.....
4th-and-2-Gate fallout
12 days ago by
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It was open season on Bill Belichick Monday, as the tired old mainstream media unleashed a toxic personal assault on the coach everybody loves to hate. Naturally, only CHFF sees the big picture problems in New England. And, naturally, the mainstream media hacks were upstaged by the...
Belichick's mojo kicked in the nuts
13 days ago by
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Bill Belichick’s reputation wasn’t dealt a mortal death blow Sunday might when he opted to go for it on 4th and 2 from his own 28 with just 2 minutes to play in the game. Belichick’s rep was dealt a mortal death blow when, once again, one of his defense...
First-response team: Newtonian physics of phootball
13 days ago by
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(The CHFF first-response team races to the resuce with its initial equal-and-opposite reaction to the NFL’s Sunday afternoon on-the-field action. We’ll keep updating this section throughout Sunday evening and Monday morning, so....
Ombudsdouche: Berman the AC/DC of announcing
15 days ago by
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The Cold, Hard Football Facts are among the long list of stupid and/or jaded knuckleheads who criticize ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman. The truth is that Boomer is the AC/DC of sports announcing: he owes his longevity to unwavering, superior delivery of fundamentals. ....
Our real and spectacular Week 10 picks
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The competitive, big-game NFL we all know and love returns this week after more than a month of mongrels on the schedule. The Patriots-Colts Sunday night donnybrook is just one of four big games this week with national interest and playoff implications.
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A Patriots-Colts cornucopia
17 days ago by
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Cornucopia is the ancient symbol of autumnal abundance and it’s only fitting that we have a an overflowing bounty of stats, data, streaks and records surrounding yet another New England-Indy epic this Sunday.....
The QB throwdown: soaps & sitcoms
18 days ago by
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When a QB gets the job done on Sunday, they’re as beloved as Luke & Laura on their wedding day. Blow the game, and they feel worse than J.R. Ewing after he was nearly knocked off by his whorey sister in law. These are the QBs on each side of ledger following their Week 9 efforts. ....
Move over, AP, make room for Chris Johnson
19 days ago by
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Pigskin "pundits" always need time to catch up with reality when they don’t have the compass called hype to guide them. So it will take time for them to realize that Tennessee’s Chris Johnson is a more dangerous ball carrier than Minnesota’s...
Pittsburgh-Denver: the AFC showdown
19 days ago by
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We promised to publish our Monday Night Football pick on Monday, rather than on Friday, which we normally do. Blame our affinity for the Penn State ladies. In any case, here’s our fact-filled look at the game. For an onslaught of hype rather than data, might we suggest a...
The CHFF Week 9 first-response team
20 days ago by
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The Penn State road trip put our entire schedule out of whack, but here’s our short and belated Week 9 first response. We’ll be updating and adding to the first response throughout the day, so keep checking back.....
Quality Standings: Colts, Patriots still unproven
20 days ago by
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The CHFF crew is still recovering from the big Penn State road trip. But we have plenty of tasty data for you this morning, including the NFL’s winners and losers through Week 9, as measured by our Quality Standings. Conveniently, the Mighty Mighty Colts and the Mighty, Mighty...
The Ombudsdouche: Parity, we hardly missed ye
22 days ago by
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The Cold, Hard Football Facts ombudsdouche lashes out this week out our brilliant look at the death of parity, arguing that the piece was either a success (if the goal was buzz) or a failure (if it was to prove their point).....
Real & spectacular Week 9 picks: Penn State edition
23 days ago by
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Our real and spectacular picks flopped last week like Teri Hatcher’s bountiful bosom in about 30 years. We hope to rebound this week, with picks posted on the road to State College, PA for the big Ohio State-Penn State game Saturday. If you see us rolling, point and laugh...
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