Football sites I’m reading
It’s football season. Hooray. Here’s what I’m reading to keep up with the Pats and the rest of the NFL.
Cold Hard Football Facts is written by a local guy — Kerry Byrne — and is generally vastly entertaining.
National Football Post has Mike Lombardi and a couple of other NFL insiders. They are really strong on the business of football, including the intricacies of working within the salary cap.
Pro Football Talk is another news site. Mike Florio is the resident expert. Insane numbers of Patriot Haters hang out there. Every comments section will include at least one reference to “Belicheat.”
Boston.com/Patriots is the Globe’s hub for Patriots coverage. It’s sad they’ve lost Mike Reiss to ESPN, but it’s still worth checking out.
Christopher Price at WEEI has been doing a great job keeping up with all the Patriots news. You also need to make sure you subscribe to their Patriots podcast (iTunes link) so that you can get their weekly interviews with Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.
Sports Illustrated is pretty reliable. Peter King’s Monday Morning Quarterback and Joe Posnanski’s columns are the most regularly interesting.
ESPN has all you’d expect. I haven’t seen the ESPN Boston site yet, so I can’t comment on how useful that will be.
NFL TV Distribution Maps are fabulous. Here, you can see which parts of the country are getting which games. It’s interesting to see how the networks carve up the country.
I, of course, get all my reading material from the Patriots news page on Serendeputy. But, that’s just me. And you! (Please). I’ve added in a ton of football sites, so there’s undoubtedly lots of good stuff about your favorite team. Just go to the site and do a search.
Ok, so what incredible sites am I missing?


September 10th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
I used to read Gregg Easterbrook on ESPN every Tuesday: http://espn.go.com/espn/columnists/archive/_/name/gregg-easterbrook
I didn’t put much effort into following football last season, though, so I can’t speak to his recent quality.