The NFL Conference Championships are in the books and the final game of the season is set:  It will be the Denver Broncos taking on the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50.  As I write this, the sportsbooks favor the Panthers with the betting line ranging from 4½ to 6 points, but the only one that knows the actual outcome of the game for sure is Biff Tannen.

This month’s football calendar features an eye-pleasing panoramic view of Levi’s Stadium, home of Super Bowl 50.  It will be a great venue for America’s newest, albeit unofficial, national holiday.

Football Weblog’s calendar comes in two different formats.  The first is designed to print on standard 8½ x 11 sheets of paper.  The second is formatted for 11 x 17 paper.  Select your preference from the links below.

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Whatever kind of fantasy football contest you’re still in for the Super Bowl, I hope our rankings help!  Good luck, and have fun!

Click HERE for Football Weblog’s Free Fantasy Football Cheatsheet for Super Bowl 50.

Welcome to round one of Football Weblog’s 3rd Annual Clash of the Pro Bowl Cheerleaders!

‘Clash of the Pro Bowl Cheerleaders’ is a bracketed tournament that features Pro Bowl cheerleaders battling each other in head-to-head competition.  You, the discriminating Football Weblog readers, determine the winner in each match with your astute voting.  The tournament culminates after five frenzied rounds – each lasting a week – with the crowning of Football Weblog’s 2016 Champion.

Cheerleaders are seeded based on the final regular season standing of the team they represent, and are segregated by conferences so that an AFC representative will meet an NFC counterpart in the championship — a Clash of the Pro Bowl Cheerleaders Super Bowl, if you will.  (Click HERE to see the full bracket.)

The pictures for the first round matches are shown below. Scroll down to vote for your favorite in each of the nine bouts. The cheerleader in each match that garners the most votes advances to the next round. Polls for round one will remain open through Sunday, January 31.

Have fun!

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This week we head into the 2015-16 Conference Championships.  Only four teams remain with a chance to bring home the Lombardi Trophy — 12½ percent of the league.  But which fantasy football players will shine?  Check out Football Weblog’s Free Fantasy Football Cheatsheet to find out!

Click HERE for Football Weblog’s Free Fantasy Football Cheatsheet for the 2015-16 Conference Championships.

 

Sam, our 2015 Champion

Sam, our 2015 Champion

The 3rd Annual Clash of the Pro Bowl Cheerleaders is scheduled to begin on Monday, January 25th.  Let this post be your official ‘heads up’!

The Clash of the Pro Bowl Cheerleaders is a tournament that features pictures of the Pro Bowl cheerleaders battling it out in head-to-head competition.  You, the discriminating Football Weblog readers, determine the winner in each matchup with your astute voting.  The tournament culminates after five frenzied rounds – each round lasting a week – with the crowning of Football Weblog’s 2016 Champion.  Make sure you check back next Monday to join the fun and cast your votes for round one.  Let’s make Zuckerberg proud!

 

Post0147_PicIt was a different football landscape when the Green Bay Packers met the Kansas City Chiefs in the first Super Bowl in 1967. Professional football was less popular than baseball, boxing, and even college football. Originally called the “First AFL-NFL Championship Game”, Super Bowl I wasn’t even a sellout. Far from it. In fact, 33,000 tickets went unsold. The game was deemed so unimportant that both networks which broadcast the game – CBS and NBC – reused the game tapes to record soap operas. Footage of Super Bowl I was thought to be lost forever. According to an announcement from the NFL on January 11th, however, that is no longer the case.

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Looking for help with your fantasy lineup for the AFC-NFC Divisional Playoffs?  Look no further!  Check out Football Weblog’s Free Fantasy Football Cheatsheet!

Click HERE for Football Weblog’s Free Fantasy Football Cheatsheet for the 2015-16 AFC-NFC Divisional Playoffs.

 

If you are looking for fantasy football player rankings for the NFL playoffs, you’ll find them here at Football Weblog.  Let us help you pulverize your competition!

Click HERE for Football Weblog’s free fantasy football cheatsheet for the 2015-16 AFC and NFC Wild Card Playoffs.

The NFL regular season is in the books, and Football Weblog presents the 2015 Final Printable Standings neatly arranged for your visual enjoyment.  The only thing that would make it better is if it included a picture of Nina Agdal.  Oh well.  It doesn’t.

Football Weblog’s Nina-less Printable Standings come in two versions: PDF and PNG. The PDF is formatted to print on 8-1/2″ x 11″ paper.  The PNG is ready to be saved as the wallpaper image on your computer background.  Enjoy it the best you can — without Nina.

January 4 Printable Standings (PDF)
January 4 Standings Wallpaper (4096 x 3072 PNG)

The dinner, airing of grievances, feats of strength, and Festivus miracles are all but fond memories as we ring in another year.  Though the holidays are behind us, we still have the best football of the season yet to be played.  Why not celebrate this fact by printing out and hanging up Football Weblog’s January 2016 calendar?  It’s a great way to show you’re a football fan and beats the heck out of a Smileyberg State Bank calendar with a picture of a kitten.

Football Weblog’s calendar comes in two different formats.  The first is ready to print on two standard 8½ x 11 sheets of paper.  Once printed, just display the papers taped or pinned together.  The second format is for those of you that own a printer that supports 11 x 17 paper.  The entire month — picture and calendar — fits neatly on one tabloid-sized paper.  Select the format you’d prefer from the links below.

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Only one week left to play in the NFL regular season and electricity is in the air.  It’s nitty-gritty time as teams fight for either a playoff spot or home field advantage.  Unless your team has been eliminated from playoff contention, it’s the best time of the year to be a football fan.

Follow along with all the drama with Football Weblog’s Printable Standings.  They come in two versions: PDF and PNG. The PDF is formatted to print on 8-1/2″ x 11″ paper.  The PNG is ready to be saved as the wallpaper image on your computer background.  Enjoy!

December 29 Printable Standings (PDF)
December 29 Standings Wallpaper (4096 x 3072 PNG)

Do you play in a league that bucks the norm and still hosts their championship game in week 17?  You’ve come to the right place!  Use Football Weblog’s Free Fantasy Football Cheatsheet to help determine your starters and bring home the championship cup!

Click HERE for Football Weblog’s free fantasy football cheatsheet for week 17 2015 to see player rankings for the upcoming week 17 games.

 

The NFL uses “flexible scheduling” on Sundays in Weeks 11-17. This gives them an opportunity to reschedule games that promise more dramatic interest into primetime television slots. The NFL recently announced the following January 3rd flexible schedule change for week 17:

  • The Minnesota Vikings will play the Green Bay Packers at 8:30 PM ET instead of 1:00 PM ET.

I’ve updated the Football Weblog One Page 2015 Schedule to include this change. The links to the ready-to-print PDF forms are below. Enjoy!
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If your fantasy football league is like most leagues, week 16 is the week when the championship game is played.  I hope you’re in it!  Use Football Weblog’s Free Fantasy Football Cheatsheet to help you decide your starters and kick some royal tuckus!

Click HERE for Football Weblog’s free fantasy football cheatsheet for week 16 2015 to see player rankings for the upcoming week 16 games.

Probably the most painful loss in fantasy football occurs when you drop your first game of the regular season.  The second most painful is a playoff loss that ends your season.  (Don’t ask me why.  You’d think it would be the other way around.)  Regardless, this week was the end of the road for my fantasy team.  I simply needed a nice game from Calvin Johnson to pull out a win, which seemed especially do-able against the porous Saints defense, but it was not to be.  Johnson finished the night with a measly 1 catch, 19 yard performance.  Pffft!  Now might be a good time for me to give one of those one-week games a try…FanDuel, DraftKings, etc.

Despite the poor outing for Johnson, the Lions pulled out a 35-27 win and moved into 3rd place in the NFC North.  Follow along with all the NFL teams as they make their playoff runs with Football Weblog’s Printable Standings.  Displaying the colorful standings is a great way to show you’re an NFL fan!

Football Weblog’s Printable Standings come in two versions: PDF and PNG.  The PDF is formatted to print on 8-1/2″ x 11″ paper.  The PNG is to be saved as the wallpaper image on your computer background.  Enjoy!

December 22 Printable Standings (PDF)
December 22 Standings Wallpaper (4096 x 3072 PNG)