Another four weeks into the 2016 NFL season and things are slowly beginning to take shape with regard to the post-season but, before we get into that, the latest issue of Gridiron brings you another #embracedebate edition… After initiating discussion about Movers & Shakers and Cool Dudes in previous issues, this time around we home in on the wideout spot, …
It’s hard to believe that we are already six weeks into the 2016 NFL campaign but, as the season flies by, there’s still a chance to take time out with the latest issue of Gridiron… The first third of the regular season has been about quarterbacks – from veterans like Tom Brady and Sam Bradford to rookies like Carson Wentz and …
NFL football is back. Of all the sentences you can type, that might be the sweetest. For they say good things come to those who wait and, as a football fan, you spend half of your life doing just that… waiting. By the time the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers do battle on September 9, it will have been nearly seven …
For general managers, it’s a period that brings success or unemployment. For players, it’s the time years of blood and sweat finally yield unparalleled financial reward. For fans, it’s the weirdest of spectator events, with several days spent staring at people walking onto and leaving a stage. Whatever the draft means to those following it closely, its impact is unquestionable. …
In the aftermath of Super Bowl 50 it’s hard not to think back to the significance of events that took place two years ago in New York. It was there that Denver Broncos general manager John Elway, coming off a humbling Super Bowl drumming at the hands of the Seattle Seahawks, began to plot. His team had been the toast …
If Peyton Manning-Tom Brady XVII was the final meeting of the NFL’s legendary recent leading lights then Super Bowl 50 promises to be a changing of the guard. From lining up against his fellow near-40-year-old, Manning must now drag his ailing body onto the Santa Clara turf to face his antithesis in Cam Newton. Where Manning runs like a man …
Across America, and a growing part of the UK, the outside world will soon be shut out for the holiday feast of football. But just how did such fanaticism come to pass? We’ve trawled back through the archives, deep into the annals of pro- football history, to serve up an edition so delicious it will take away that yearning for …
Even in the midst of another fascinating season, the spectre of concussions continues to loom over the NFL. We’re just a month away from a significant moment in the growing story of this inflammatory issue as it reaches popular culture with the release of the movie Concussion, starring Will Smith. But just how did we get to the point where …
If you love your college football fun, the Pac-12 definitely delivers it. And now, you’ve got a home to watch it! We’ve teamed up with EverSport to bring you the Pac-12 player, delivering college football – as well as other sports – from the most exciting conference in college sports. The words “fun college football” couldn’t apply better to conference, …
The Kansas City Chiefs head to London this week ailing at 2-5, even after their victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. And yet there’s hope in the form of Justin Houston, a beastly defender so good that he’s evoking memories of the great Derrick Thomas. In Issue XVII of Gridiron, we give you a rare insight into a man …
We’re calling it the Gridiron International Issue. We’ve travelled far and wide to bring you these 64 pages, from Odessa, Texas all the way to New York. The international theme, though, begins on these shores as we offer up some cracking features on the two teams heading across the pond for the opening International Series game. The first of those takes us to …
Who will be the defining figures of the 2015? That’s the question we attempt to answer in the Gridiron Bumper Season Preview. Our panel of experts – including the Sky Sports’ delightful duo of Neil Reynolds and Jeff Reinebold – have chosen their figures of fascination, and they’ve been put together over 31 stunningly-designed pages. Our list, though, is one with …
