Quick Slant: Christmas Day - Sugar Plums, Championship Payouts, and a Bowl Full of Jelly
Ravens @ Texans, Wednesday @ 4:30 PM ‘Twas the ev’ning of Christmas, and through NRG, Rose the smell of Coors, brisket, and cotton candy. The Texans had clinched the AFC South, And next would come nachos, inserted to mouth. ‘Neath this easy feeling, a rumble did stir, Not by indigestion
Quick Slant: Christmas Day - A Wrap on the 2024 Fantasy Season; May All Your Dreams Come True
Chiefs @ Steelers, Wednesday @ 1:00 PM In western Pennsylvania, there are things to remember and forget; Acrisure Stadium stands as a mighty monolith—a den as feared as the wolves within it—and as a filter directing Pittsburghers to know which is which. There, bold as brass against the Allegheny
Quick Slant: MNF - This Momentary Distraction
Saints @ Packers, Monday @ 8:15 PM It is fitting that snow is expected in Green Bay on Monday night; the 2024 Saints are reminiscent of Napoleon’s Grande Armée. They swaggered past Week 2, much like Napoleon cantered towards Moscow. Banners flapping in the wind, drunk on hubris and adrenaline;
Quick Slant: SNF - There Are Worse Things Than Being Left for Dead
Buccaneers @ Cowboys, Sunday @ 8:20 PM In the summer of 1993, Galveston hung in limbo—metastable, uncertain, and unbearably hot. The oppressive heat and humidity clung to everything, and breathing air felt like climbing a mountain. The city, once vibrant, had been battered by oil spills in the late ’80s
Quick Slant: TNF - A Significant Matchup with Little Fantasy Intrigue
Broncos @ Chargers, Thursday @ 8:15 PM Thomas Morstead skittered forward to launch it deep and start the second half, but at the last possible instant, his foot swiped sideways, the ball tumbling end-over-end like a stone skipping across water, catching Colts WR Hank Baskett flat-footed and thrusting 88,000 startled
Quick Slant: MNF - Strong at the Broken Places
Falcons @ Raiders, Monday @ 8:30 PM Antonio Pierce's journey began in Compton, California, where warmth from pink sunsets blankets earnest smiles at the baseball fields of Gonzales Park; people are still outside and no one is a stranger. But Compton is also a place of hardened corners and
Quick Slant: MNF - This Insufferably Long Winter
Bears @ Vikings, Monday @ 8:00 PM A team was born in the dim corners of a Chicago winter beneath the loud churn of whizzing machinery. The year was 1919, and George Halas, who had played college football at Illinois and had a cup of coffee with the New York Yankees
Quick Slant: SNF - All Could Still Be Lost
Packers @ Seahawks, Sunday @ 8:20 PM Seattle’s epicenter cozies down over Puget Sound in gray diffused light—soft and calm, not oppressive. Framed by evergreen trees, its towers loom like jagged teeth over the smell of salt and pine and the surprising echo of nothing for miles around. The