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Some rivalries are forever: Think Dallas-Washington or Oakland-Denver. Others are short-term wars, inexorably linked to an era in parallel team history. We old guys fondly recall the annual clashes (including six head-to-heads in 1978 and ’79 alone) between those Pittsb ...

Waves from the traumatic injury suffered by Tom Brady in Week 1 continue to reverberate in New England Patriots Land. Always concerned for the psychological warfare of our potential readers in all 32 markets, RealFootball365.com has conducted a semi-scientific study (re ...

In attempting to gauge the New England Patriots’ chances coming out of a bye week after perhaps the single most disastrous performance by the team this decade, we can turn to history; regarding this situation, that can tell us ... um, scarce little. Commentary: The las ...

It’s not quite the end of an era, but it feels like acknowledgment that things are changing in New England. Troy Brown, often dubbed “Mr. Patriot” by the Boston media, retired Thursday amid much fanfare – a nice show for a good guy and fantastic player. Brown wa ...

Mike Reiss, the Boston Globe’s man on all things New England Patriots, reported yesterday that the team had signed wide receiver Maurice Price, recently released by the Kansas City Chiefs. Commentary: Price first entered the Chiefs organization as an undrafted free a ...

It was a matter of time before someone from our instant history age applied superlative status to an off-Sunday. ESPN's Chris Berman proclaimed Monday that this coming weekend marks the most important bye week ever for the New England Patriots. A bit more down to earth ...

After Matt Cassel passed his trial by fire on Sunday, pundits and fans alike praised the New England Patriots as having won in different fashion. However, the methods employed against the Jets in everything from the passing game to the other side of the ball were nothin ...

The continuing story that claims the throat-grabbing attention of every Patriot Nation citizen and many an NFL fan gets a new chapter today, as the New England Patriots announced the re-signing of fullback Kyle Eckel and the release of tight end Stephen Spach. Commenta ...

“The only imperfection in the otherwise flawless game of football, according to [Vince Lombardi], was the excessive importance of the quarterback.” – Bart Starr: When Leadership Mattered</i>">– Bart Starr: When Leadership Mattered. “I still like our chances.� ...

Tom Brady is out, and all the football world has just one question: How low will the New England Patriots fall in 2008? Commentary: Not very. Here’s why. The division. Though this writer is still stunned both by the wholesale acceptance of Jets as playoff team with ...

Sure, the Tom Brady injury has shaken up the entire NFL (as my friend Steve says, “The miracle of the NFL in this decade has been the seven injury-free years of both Brady and Peyton Manning”), but let’s talk about something really important: Namely, your fantasy ...

On behalf of the suspended Kevin Faulk, national marijuana policy reform organization SAFER will today appeal to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell by means of online petition and official letter for changes to the league's marijuana policy. Commentary: Faulk will be sitti ...

The New England Patriots shuffled 21 players – waiving 18 – Sunday in trimming the roster down to its final* 53. (*Please see below entry on Lynch, John.) Though these moves are something of a definitive, if not final, answer, plenty of questions still remain regard ...

Extreme loathing of hyperbole in today’s sportswriting notwithstanding, the 2008 New England Patriots may just have undergone the most-watched preseason in NFL history: Every reported injury was speculated on, every step Tom Brady made scrutinized for a limp, every dr ...

To trim down the roster, the New England Patriots took five players off active duty Tuesday, including a recognizable name or two that’ll shake things up for the on-the-bubble/off-the-bubble Thursday night game against the Philadelphia Eagles. A look at these last twe ...

The positives in the New England Patriots preseason thus far? That’s easy. The list looks something like this: • Randy Moss. • Ah, it’s the preseason. These games don’t count in the final record. And that’s about it, unless you want to statistically leg ...

A classic sportsworld cliché of our time: The only team that can beat [here, the New England Patriots] is themselves. While the snarky may snickeringly retort that a second team can beat these Patriots -- i.e., the New York Giants -- more realistic still is that a thir ...

The most disturbing thing this vacationer saw on his recent sojourn to the East Coast? Brother-in-law Marco’s television set. No, it had nothing to do with the technology itself: The guy had one of those great 50-inch LCD high-definition jobbies on which you could cou ...

It didn't end the way they wanted, but the Patriots are going to commemorate their perfect regular season and AFC championship anyway. Mike Reiss of the Boston Globe writes that Patriots owner Bob Kraft and team president Jonathon Kraft awarded the players of last sea ...

On the eve of voting for the Hall of Fame class of 2008, no less an authority than Eric Dickerson stated that “I think it’s about time Andre Tippett is in the Hall of Fame.” On Saturday, that day arrives; shockingly late, to be sure, but here nonetheless. While t ...