With 7 teams fighting for 4 playoff spots and with 3 divisions still to be locked in, you knew this was going to be a wild Week 16, and...

Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Charlotte get much needed wins. San Diego, Texas, Washington, and Memphis get tough losses as...

Charlotte switches quarterbacks and snaps their 6-game losing streak. LA shuts down Texas and strengthens their playoff position....

Week 13 opened with a huge showdown game in LA as the Express edged the Invaders for our game of the week. We also saw Baltimore pull...

We have our first playoff team locked in.  Arizona got the W they needed, though not as easy as they had hoped, to push themselves from...

The Playoff picture is staying tight as division leaders fall in Week 11. Arizona (and 2nd place Texas) both suffer defeats, as does NE...

Injuries cropped up as a big story in Week 10 as Las Vegas lost their QB, Jacksonville lost their best pass rusher, and New Orleans lost...

The USFL entered the second half of the season with a couple of divisional matchups that proved to be among the year’s best as Michigan...

We reach the midway point of the season with quite a few surprises all across the league. From Arizona’s offensive explosion to the rise...

Arizona goes down to their archrival, Texas gets upset by a feisty Machine squad, Baltimore stays hot at home, and the Breakers take on...

Baltimore doubles up the Philadelphia Stars, Seattle finally gets in the win column, and Memphis and San Diego battle to see which 4-1...

It was a week that saw Houston drop from the unbeatens, leaving only Arizona without a blemish. Philadelphia lost their second, as did...

We have hit the ¼ mark of the season. Time to assess where our preseason picks may have been a bit off. We know we have to reassess some...

A wild week to be sure as we are still sorting out who may have found a winning formula, who may have slipped from last year, and who may...

A surprisingly slow start to the year for three 2015 playoff teams as St. Louis, New Orleans, and Baltimore all drop to 0-2 after...

Week one saw its share of upsets, big games, and big debuts, but, as we often see in Week 1 of any season, it also saw some sloppy play,...

Breaking Through: New Orleans Wins First USFL Title   A Summer Bowl that required overtime saw Quincy Carter become the unlikely star as...

It will be the Breakers and the Wranglers facing off in Los Angeles for Summer Bowl 2015.  That is the news out of this week as New...

Four teams remain in the 2015 USFL Playoffs after four huge divisional games gave us our Conference Championship matchups.  This week we...

Playoff football, is there anything better?  The Drama, the pressure, the big plays, and the surprises.  Well, we had ourselves a great...

The final film in the 2016 parade of Hollywood road & football movies is the lighthearted jab at the 1987 NFL strike, a film about the...

A holiday classic and one of the funniest road movies of all time, 1987's :John Hughes classic features the comedic pairing of John Candy...

A football movie for all of us who like to think of ourselves as members of the player personnel teams, criticizing our favorite team's...

Road movies tend to be either action thrillers or comedies tied to unlikely pairings of personality, but this week's selection, 1986's...

This one is a tough watch, especially if you are one of those men who insists that men should never cry. the story of Bears' halfbacks...

What list of road movies could be complete without a Burt Reynolds film? We initially thought of Cannonball Run, but could not deny the...

Back to a story based on true life, when a horrific plane crash all but ends football at Marshall University, it is up to the college...

Just when you thought we could not come up with a weirder interpretation of a "road movie" we throw Pee Wee Herman at you. But, while...

What can we say about this Denzel vehicle that has not already been said? A classic story of race, understanding, and football, An...

One of the great road comedies, National Lampoon follows up Animal House with the 1983 family misadventure of the Griswolds. Starring...

Burt Reynolds stars in a movie that uses football to talk about corruption and injustice in the penal system. OK, it also has a lot of...

Perhaps not a classic road movie, but you cannot deny that the trip that Tallahassee, Columbus, Wichita and Little Rock make is in many...

Perhaps the first movie to both celebrate and lampoon the NFL at the same time, "North Dallas Forty" may be about a fictional team in a...

The post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max, where gasoline is a cherished commodity and both heroes and villains race across the desert in...

The first football movie to be highlighted on the road to Hollywood is a perfect fit for the week of the underdogs. "Rudy" tells the...

Our Road & Football film series kicks off with a classic rebel road movie, "Easy Rider". The 1969 film starring Peter Fond and Dennis...

Heartbreak for the Texas Outlaws, Jubilation for the Baltimore Blitz as a once-in-a-lifetime play gives Baltimore a stunning victory in...

We will have a first time USFL Champion.  That is the result when you have two first time franchises battling it out in the Summer Bowl,...

A six seed makes it to the Conference Title Game, a 1 seed is eliminated, and two players prove just how valuable a franchise quarterback...

This weekend proved to be a tale of two very different days.  On Saturday both 6 seeds won on the road, knocking the 3rd seeded division...

The final week of the season sees 4 teams lock up playoff berths, 5 teams nab division titles, and two very disappointed squads miss out...

Fifteen weeks down, only one to go and we still don’t know who the top seeds in either conference will be. The injuries to Culpepper and...

Week 14 saw some huge performances, tight games, tough losses, and big wins.  It saw the first club in the West lock up a  playoff spot,...

Four teams locked in playoff berths this week, all from the Eastern Conference. We also saw a change at the top of the NE Division, where...

Huge games across the league as we saw division foes square off in San Antonio, Philadelphia, and Seattle.  The Monarchs and Dragons...

It was a week defined by upsets of the two frontrunners in the league. Divisional foes Denver and Atlanta took it to the Outlaws and the...

A good week for the favorites as 11 of 14 favorites got the W they sought.  That said, the three upsets are where the excitement was as...

Philadelphia drops their second in a row as Baltimore downs a Stars team missing two of their key offensive weapons.  Tampa Bay and Texas...

We have reached the midway point of the USFL season and what do we know?  We know parity is very real, but that at least 3 teams have...

Call it Desperation Week as teams at or near the bottom of the standings, knowing there backs were against the wall, stood up and took a...