Web Gems: NFL Offseason Links

By Todd L. Frank | Wednesday, March 09, 2011 | ( 1 )

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Not only is it the NFL offseason, but due to the lockout talks and deadline extensions, all of the NFL free agency news and rumors are on hold and the draft is still six weeks away. So lets take a quick surf around the web (do people still surf the web?) and see what people are writing about the NFL on the internet.

First stop is Toni Monkovic’s interesting angle about what fantasy football tells us about an 19-game season, in the Fifth Down blog for the New York Times.

Perhaps my favorite link of the week is Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi just destroying Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder.

Andrew Brandt blogs for Forbes that mitigating risk is the key to the NFL CBA negotiations, while a former Chair of NLRB clarifies the key issues in the NFL labor battle.

Pro Football Talk has a piece about AEG’s process of launching their plans for building a new stadium in Los Angeles.

Of course, leave to it to the guys at Deadspin to bring us news of this Brett Favre float at Mardi Gras.

If you’re looking to follow someone interesting and often NFL-related on twitter (who’s not just going to re-tweet the news already reported by Adam Schefter), check out CNBC sports business writer Darren Rovell.

Also noticed that Foxsports.com is promoting certain articles with headline tags like “Fox Sports South” or “Sports Southwest” and even “Sports Detroit,” presumably following ESPN’s lead of regionally focused sites within the site, and sports parody site SportsCrab simply mocks ESPN.

Speaking of ESPN, I’m not a fan of Rick Reilly, but he has a nice illustration of just how rich the NFL owners are. It serves as a solid complement to his colleague Bill Simmons’ column that illustrates their pure greed.

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