We can't get a blogroll working right now (someday), so here's the next best thing. Here are my 15 favorite NFL team blogs that I try to visit as often as possible. General NFL blogs don't apply. I'll get some flak for concentrating on mainstream media, but I'm a news junkie. I like information first, inside analysis next. Quality and quantity are both important, but highly inconsistent posters generally were overlooked. The ranking isn't that important; I just wanted to get the links out to everyone still hungry after visiting Rotoworld. Let's go...

15. Bucs Report on the Tampa Tribune

14. Mason's Morsels on DenverBroncos.com is one of two team website blogs to make the list. Consistent and often breaking information.

13. The Blue Screen - The NY Daily News' Giants blog. The amount of New York team blogs makes them hard to separate (Newsday is also solid), but this one stands out.

12. Palm Beach Post's Dolphins blog - Like the New York blogs, It's hard to seperate the multiple solid Dolphins blogs ( The South Florida Sun-Sentinel is great too), but this one goes the extra mile with live practice blogs and tape analysis.

11. The best blog on a team website is Inside the Bills by Chris Brown. Very consistent year-round.

10. Ravens Central - Not a huge volume of material, but the analysis from Mike Preston especially is excellent.

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Posted by Gregg Rosenthal at 11:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (8)

I might be the only person in the country that watched Sportscenter this weekend because of Who's Now. The segments have received such uniformly disastrous reviews that I thought it would be worth a look, sorta like renting the DVD of Battlefield Earth. (A highly underrated experience)

Sitting down on Saturday, I got to thinking when the last time I watched half of a Sportscenter episode that didn't follow the Patriots or Red Sox winning the championship. The best I could come up with was about nine years ago, towards the end of college. I had assumed most big sports fans had done the same. With ESPNews and satellite cable available, there are always actual sports (or highlights) on television, rather than the talk and features format Sportscenter now favors.

All the outrage, especially from the blogosphere, helped me realize I was probably wrong about Sportscenter. People over 18 are still watching.

Who's Now didn't disappoint. Poor Steve Berthiaume (I believe) looked like he wanted to cry while introducing the segment. I listened to Kirk Herbstreit argue that Vince Young perhaps was more Next than Now. It was as ridiculous and meaningless as expected.

Now I don't have to watch for another nine years.

Posted by Gregg Rosenthal at 10:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)