You spend your Saturdays glued to your Direct Star TV channels catching any and every football game you can but there’s no doubt you’ve heard about the rash of recent college scandals going down year after year. Here are a few of the most blatant – it’s against the rules, guys!
Cam Newton: Auburn’s star quarterback was dogged his entire senior year by allegations his father attempted to have several SEC schools pay for his placement. Nothing was proven and the charges were Read more »

In 1969, the Pittsburgh Steelers were a struggling franchise at a crossroads. A controversial decision was made to hire a little known assistant coach named Chuck Noll as the new head coach. Noll had previously played in the NFL for the rival Cleveland Browns for six years and had been an assistant with the San Diego Chargers and Baltimore Colts.

Upon taking over the helm, Noll realized that the Steelers needed a defensive approach that could control the line of scrimmage. In his very first draft with the Steelers, Noll Read more »

The Green Bay Pakcers under Vince Lombardi were one of the best football dynasties in NFL history. Winners of the first two Super Bowls, Lombardi installed a smash mouth running style and a will to win. Lombardi use to say, “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.”

Lombardi was known for his elaborate play designs. He would have offensive lineman move from one side of the field to to the other in order to create holes for his running backs. Lombardi used his brilliant play designs to help Paul Hornung Read more »

To the casual football fan, the Detroit Lions and the Cleveland Browns are two teams that are the jokes of the NFL. They seem to never win and rarely make the playoffs. Both of these teams have never won a Super Bowl. Despite having numerous first round picks, they just don’t seem able to compete.

But there was a time when both of these teams were great. This was before the modern era and the Super Bowl. The Browns joined the National Football League in 1950 and won the title Read more »

Many people are aware of the National Football League, but few are aware that there used to be an AFL. But back in 1966 the two rival leagues merged to become one. Let’s take a look at the history between the merger of the AFL and the NFL.

The championship game of the National Football League that was played in 1958 attracted 45 million viewers to network television and ushered in the era of football being a form of entertainment that could Read more »

When the NFL resumes play, one of the latest rules changes will be readily apparent from the beginning of the first game of the season. The kickoff will be moved forward from the defending team’s thirty yard line to the thirty-five. As with most rules changes a balance has been struck between providing an entertaining game and the safety of the players. The kickoff is the one play where players on both offense and defense are moving at full speed by the time they collide downfield, and while the exciting possibility of a Read more »

The answer to the start of gridiron is as debatable as to the question ‘which came first the chicken or the egg’. According to some accounts, the first gridiron game called American football started in Canada at McGill and at Harvard in America around 1869. McGill rules only allowed 11 players of the field from each team at any one time. Teddy Roosevelt is credited with influencing the game around 1903 although no further information appears available.

Thomas Edison is credited with instituting the forward pass during the late 1800s which was not in Read more »