Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
The phrase 'NFL combine' always sounds redundant, because the league is a combine harvester, reaping and threshing everything in its path. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
'Hard Knocks' seems to have done for the self-serious NFL what the witch did for Rapunzel: persuaded it, somehow, to let its… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
If Charlie Sheen is the 21st century figure most closely associated with 'Winning,' it is perhaps time to consider an alternative to… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Once upon a time in America, people aspired to party like a rock star. Now, rock stars aspire to party like a… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
I can enjoy an Arsenal-Chelsea match without having to worry about getting exclusive quotes afterwards from one of the participants as he… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
“There is an irresistible impulse among the boys of suburban Minneapolis to kick a football as far as they possibly can. Even… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
As good as NFL Films is at making players human, it's even better at making players superhuman. No Hollywood studio has made… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
I've always had an irrational fear - it's really not an irrational fear, I think - whenever I've been standing at a… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter,… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
Because I'm a bald, dim-witted writer, people think I couldn't possibly be her husband, so they occasionally confuse me for someone more glamorous. At… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
As good as NFL Films is at making players human, it's even better at making players superhuman. No Hollywood studio has made movies that… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
I'm an unabashed sports photo fanboy, the kind of weirdo who seeks out the infinitesimal picture credits. — Steve Rushin Copy Share
I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer. — Steve Rushin Copy Share
Scarcity drives up demand, and the short golf season in Minnesota makes residents of that state mad for the sport. It's the same reason… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
The Metrodome was built for football. Fans seated down the third-base line at a baseball game faced centerfield, so that they had to turn… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57.… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
“At that hour, a shaft of sunlight shone through stained glass. Which is to say, windows whose glass was comprehensively stained—by a double-glazing of… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
Headline writers love the phrase 'Power Grab,' but you can't really grab it, can you? Power is a greased watermelon, a wisp of smoke,… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us… — Steve Rushin Copy Share
“Madman Muntz was a wildly successful automobile salesman who had pioneered the loud television hard sell to move cars off his lot.” — Steve Rushin Copy Share
