Ravens QB Flacco signs NFL’s richest contract

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco signed a new contract Monday worth $120.6 million over six years, making him the highest paid player in NFL history.

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco signed a new contract Monday worth $120.6 million over six years, making him the highest paid player in NFL history.

Manti Te’o gave an interview to ESPN in which the network says he answered questions about the dead girlfriend hoax that exposed the feel-good story of the college football season as a bizarre fabrication, and left many wondering if Notre Dame Heisman Trophy runner-up participated in the scam.

Alabama tailback Eddie Lacy, cornerback Dee Milliner and right tackle D.J. Fluker are entering the NFL draft after helping lead the Crimson Tide to a second straight national title.

Tim Tebow won’t be playing for his hometown team.

LOS ANGELES – The National Football League beat out Bundesliga Football for the honor of being the best attended professional sports league in the world, Sportingintelligence.com reported Friday. The NFL took the top spot with an average of 67,591 fans per game in 2012, an increase from 67,394 a year earlier. Germany’s Bundesliga [...]

Chip Kelly is close to taking his fast-paced offense to the NFL.

Charles Woodson has been cleared to play again, and the Green Bay Packers are counting on the defensive back to provide a lift in Saturday night’s playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings.

Tony Romo sat alone on the Dallas bench, his stare frozen at the ground on a cold night in Washington. Any number of things could have been going through the mind of the Cowboys quarterback in the final minutes of a 28-18 loss to the Redskins on Sunday night – his third playoffs-or-bust failure in five years in a finale against an NFC East rival.

Getting a week off sounds great to the Green Bay Packers. It’s looking even better now, too. The Packers moved up to the No. 2 seed in the NFC on Sunday with their 55-7 thrashing of the Tennessee Titans and Seattle’s victory over San Francisco. Beat the Minnesota Vikings next weekend, and the Packers (11-4) can spend the first week of the playoffs parked on the couch.

Andrew Luck has broken the NFL rookie record for yards passing, and rookie kicker Blair Walsh has broken the league mark for 50-yard plus field goals in a season.

The San Francisco 49ers earned a playoff berth by withstanding a stunning comeback by New England from a 28-point deficit to beat the Patriots 41-34 on Sunday night in the rain.
Countless Filipinos in the Pacific and Mountain Time zones would still watch the National Football League’s Super Bowl on Sunday, February 5 (Monday in the Philippines).

Sports broadcaster ESPN is pulling its signature song from this week’s Monday NFL broadcast after a US country singer used an analogy about Adolf Hitler in talking about President Barack Obama.