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I Am Watching Football: 2021 NFL Week 5; Bake Off Week 3

I began this column last year (well, Week 17, so not technically) with a discussion of the not-so-subtle racism behind Buffalo’s...

I Am Watching Football: 2021 NFL Week 4; Bake Off Week 2

If there’s one thing the NFL loves it’s dramaaa, and boy did they think they had some of that in store for us this week. The...

I Am Watching Football: 2021 NFL Week 3; Bake Off Week 1

This Sunday I attended in person my first NFL game since I was about 12, and I learned the following: Early fall 1pm games are a fantastic...

I Am Watching Football: 2021 Week 2

Before Monday night’s game between the Packers and the Lions I had prepped the following opening line for this week’s column:...

I Am Watching Football: 2021 Week 1

Well, that was certainly… football. I suppose it’s good to have it back, and looking (rather, more sounding) like the game it...

I Am Watching Football: Inauguration Day

Eight days. That’s it. That’s the schedule. Does that work for trying to cultivate a regular audience? Will it work if I try...

I Am Watching Football: 2021 Democracy Postseason

Hello, and welcome back to I Am Watching Football. Last week’s column was published on a Sunday, having been written in advance of...

I Am Watching Football

Hello, and welcome to I Am Watching Football, a column by me, Nat Burns, about football, ostensibly. Already, I sense you may have several...

Top 5 Movies to watch at Christmas with your In-Laws in Tennessee

For the second consecutive year I spent Christmas with my wife at her parents house in Tennessee.  We stayed for about a week.  It seems...

Marvel Will Ruin the X-Men Movies

It’s looks pretty damn likely that 20th Century Fox is going to merge with Disney, like two super-massive black holes colliding to create...