Andrew McGuinness
The Boys of Fall
The great Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote in The Cure at Troy of a belief that “hope and history rhyme.” For every time that immortal line...
Andrew McGuinness
- Aug 31, 2020
- 6 min
Monsters of the Midway
Football, like life, is littered with instances of what ifs. In the 2017 NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears surprised everyone by trading up...
Andrew McGuinness
- Aug 29, 2020
- 4 min
‘Enough Is Enough!’
Last weekend in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the latest instance of police racially profiling and shooting a Black person took place. 29-year-old...
Andrew McGuinness
- Aug 24, 2020
- 4 min
The Mile High Club
Against the Cleveland Browns in the 1986 AFC Championship game, Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway led a game-winning drive. The play...
Andrew McGuinness
- Aug 20, 2020
- 4 min
‘One Person Can Bring the Whole Thing Down’
Professional rugby made its comeback in England last weekend. It returns to Ireland on Saturday. Ireland’s premier professional clubs...
Andrew McGuinness
- Aug 17, 2020
- 5 min
Golden God Establishes College Trust Fund
Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper built his Wall Street hedge fund from the ground up. In this world, Tepper was regarded as a deal...
Andrew McGuinness
- Aug 10, 2020
- 6 min
Lake Street Blues
One of the worst incidents to ever occur during an NFL game took place in November 2019. The Cleveland Browns were losing with the clock...
Andrew McGuinness
- Aug 3, 2020
- 6 min
L.A. Rampage
The Los Angeles Rams are going into the 2020 season entering a new, state of the art stadium, and welcoming new senior coaches to head...
Andrew McGuinness
- Jul 27, 2020
- 5 min
The Bolting Horse
On the night of March 29, 1984, a fleet of 15 trucks moved, under the cover of darkness, along the highway from Baltimore, Maryland to...
Andrew McGuinness
- Jul 20, 2020
- 5 min
The Education of the Coach's Son
Explaining his central purpose as a young coach in 2006, Kyle Shanahan matter-of-factly outlined why being across the fundamentals was...
Andrew McGuinness
- Jul 13, 2020
- 6 min
In Place of Strife
It’s incredible how an organization can hold onto the racial slur explicitly in its name through decades of social and racial change in...
Andrew McGuinness
- Jul 6, 2020
- 5 min
Meet The Bills
Welcome to An Irishman on Football Pre-Season Series. Today, I'm kicking off the first in a series of blogs focusing on AFC and NFC teams...
Andrew McGuinness
- Jun 29, 2020
- 5 min
Only College Can Run This Offense
Lincoln Riley is a man in demand. The 36-year-old Oklahoma Sooners college football head coach is a highly desired NFL head coaching...
Andrew McGuinness
- Jun 22, 2020
- 5 min
Beast-Quake in Seattle
It’s the fourth quarter of the 2010 NFL Playoffs. The Seattle Seahawks host the reigning Super Bowl champions, the New Orleans Saints....
Andrew McGuinness
- Jun 15, 2020
- 6 min
Your Football Summer Reading List
I’m prescribing a list of summer reading books for those fortunate to get away, whether you make it to the North Beach in Rush, Co....
Andrew McGuinness
- Jun 8, 2020
- 4 min
The NFL's Long Walk
A week is a long time in the NFL. This week has felt longer than most. I finished this blog post on Friday afternoon and had to rip it up...
Andrew McGuinness
- Jun 1, 2020
- 3 min
Amusing Ourselves to Death
You don’t make the timeline, the virus makes the timeline. — Dr. Anthony Fauci The stadium gates open at 9.00am EST on Sunday, 13...
Andrew McGuinness
- May 26, 2020
- 3 min
The Alex Smith Story
Today’s post is a story featuring the kind of heartbreak and anguish thankfully precious few athletes will ever know. It also shows the...
Andrew McGuinness
- May 18, 2020
- 4 min
The Revolution Will Be Televised
The setting is the Carolina Panthers sports facility. Star quarterback Cam Newton is fielding questions from the media. A reporter,...
