Giants No. 1 ... with a bullet
The G-Men remain No. 1 in our rankings, with or without their Super Bowl hero/nightclub zero of a wideout. Elsewhere, the Steelers rise on the strength of their dominating defense, while the Jets crash and burn after a loss to the schizo Broncos.
A Romosexual comes out of the closet
Cowboys QB Tony Romo is more than just a hottie-dating, pretty-face party boy. He's also a legit candidate for MVP, argues CHFF reader and fact-filled emailer David Hickey. Romo puts up big-time numbers and makes the Cowboys better everywhere when he plays, writes Hickey.
Week 13 winners & losers
Our over-magnified, jump-the-gun conclusions on six big winners and six big losers from Week 13 includes a point-counterpoint look at the state of Indy's defense, Buffalo's uniforms and 1-AA quarterbacks. We also lament the end of the NFC East race and the functional end of Jim Haslett's head coaching career.
More winners and losers!
Here are even more over-magnified, jump-the-gun conclusions on the big winners and big losers from Week 13, focusing mostly on the late Sunday games. We learn that Merril Hoge must be very happy, we look for a deal on sousaphones in New England and wonder if the Bears are reconsidering the Devin Hester experiment.
Monday Morning Hangover
If our Hangover is a little later than usual, we have a perfectly good excuse (if a four-day booze binge is a good excuse). We had the big Pigskin Gala that kicked off at 6 a.m. Thanksgiving, followed by the Chief Troll's 20th HS reunion and so much football over four days that even we need a break from watching TV.
Pigskin picks: Turkey Week edition
If there was a Thanksgiving dinner party of pigskin prognosticators, we'd be sitting at the kids' table this year, courtesy of our pint-sized 83-88-5 mark against the spread. But that's O.K., because our picks are for entertainment purposes only. Of course, you already knew that.
This Week in Football
Our round-up of the holiday week-that-was for the Cold, Hard Football Facts is highlighted by Brett Favre's record accuracy rate and statistical revival, a trip down memory lane for Tom Brady fans, and the historical ineptitude of the Lions, who are even worse than you think.
Congrats! You live in golden age of passing
Matt Ryan is a poster child for the Golden Age of the Passing Game: a player with no NFL experience who can quickly come in and play at a high level. Give credit to decades of rule changes and tactical innovation that have made life for young QBs like Ryan and Matt Cassel so much easier than it was in the past.
Joe Paterno, by the numbers
Penn State locked up an 11-1 record and a trip to the Rose Bowl Saturday with its 49-18 deconstruction of Michigan State. Not bad for a team led by a wounded 81-year-old coach most said was washed up. But count CHFF among JoePa's biggest admirers.
A safe haven for our oft-neglected Mail Pouch
Our precious Mail Pouch gets neglected so badly that one of our readers tried to drop it off at a safe haven hospital in Nebraska the other day.
The niftiest pigskin nicknames
Earlier this year we entered the realm of pigskin minutiae and trivia with a look at our favorite football nicknames: here they are, from the King to the Catawba Claw.
Only a flake would doubt the Curse of Flutie
Cowboys coach Wade Phillips sealed his fate, and the fate of any team that employs him, when he benched Doug Flutie in favor of that joker Rob Johnson before the 1999 playoffs.
CHFF classic: Brady and the Top 10 QBs in history
This CHFF classic from January 2008 got so much attention from the media we confused it with a Britney Spears-Lindsay Lohan coke binge. Come, our little friends, and admire the definitive list of best quarterbacks ever.
The Roethlisburger
Here it is folks, Peppi's original Roethlisburger. The Chief Troll stopped in Pittsburgh for one on the way out to the Michigan-Ohio State game last year and suffered cardiac arrest by the time he reached the Ohio border.
Beef on weck: Buffalo's other tailgate specialty
If all you know about Buffalo is its famous wings, you're missing out on one of America's great regional specialties: rare roast beef piled high on a kummelweck bun.
Shula's steak seasoning
The Cold, Hard Football Facts met the Shulas at one of their new steakhouses and we hit them up for their steak-seasoning recipe.
If you're not familiar with JoeSportsFan, it's consistently one of the most creative sites on the web. They're now diving into video with one of their recurring characters, Softball Guy, who visits the EA Sports motion capture studio. (Some f-bombs and NSFW language.)
Giants No. 1 ... with a bullet 
