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    The Boys of Fall
    Andrew McGuinness
    • Sep 8, 2020
    • 4 min

    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...
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    Monsters of the Midway
    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...
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    ‘Enough Is Enough!’
    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...
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    The Mile High Club
    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...
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    ‘One Person Can Bring the Whole Thing Down’
    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...
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    Golden God Establishes College Trust Fund
    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...
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    Lake Street Blues
    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...
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    L.A. Rampage
    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...
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    The Bolting Horse
    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...
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    The Education of the Coach's Son
    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...
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    In Place of Strife
    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...
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    Meet The Bills
    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...
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    Only College Can Run This Offense
    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...
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    Beast-Quake in Seattle
    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....
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    Your Football Summer Reading List
    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....
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    The NFL's Long Walk
    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...
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    Amusing Ourselves to Death
    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...
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    The Alex Smith Story
    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...
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    The Revolution Will Be Televised
    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,...
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    Tompa Bay
    Andrew McGuinness
    • May 11, 2020
    • 4 min

    Tompa Bay

    “Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Dylan Thomas What motivates Tom Brady to keep...
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