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Excessive Celebration – Football Penalties

Excessive Celebration – Football Penalties In 2017, the NFL (finally!) relaxed the Excessive Celebration penalty. For several years prior to 2017, players could not use the ball as a prop, get on the ground or celebrate as a group in a pre-planned manner. Finally, Roger Goodell made the right call and is allowing some excessive […]

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Football Penalty Illegal Use of Hands

What is Illegal Use of Hands in Football? You might think by watching how tough and aggressive football players are that they can hit, tackle, and otherwise touch each other anyway they want. However, you could not be further from the truth. This particular penalty, illegal use of the hands, occurs on both the offense […]

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Dicks Sporting Good Ads on Youth Sports

Have you seen some of the ads that Dick’s Sporting Goods has about Youth Sports. I think I’ve cried at the end of almost all of them. They are amazing and demonstrate every reason our kids should be involved in some sort of team sport, including our girls! Beyond all the known benefits of what […]

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College Football Bowl Games Audio Cast: Part 3 – The Good Bowls

Here is the 3rd part in our series on the College Football Bowl Games. This one highlights all of the ‘Good Bowls’. These are ones that have some combination of great matchups, great locations, classic names and just generally make sense. We hope you enjoy! Miss Part 1 or 2? Part 1: Overview Part 2: […]

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Flip the Field Audiocast: Part 2 – The Toilet Bowls

Here is part 2 of our 4 part audio cast on the college football bowl games for 2013-14. Each year, there is a long list of bowls that just should not be played. There are bad locations, bad matchups, bad names or a combination of all of these faux pas’s. Here is a sampling of […]

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Flip the Field’s College Football Bowls Audiocast: Part 1

We decided to try something a bit different to give you the run down on the 35 college football bowl games this year. Here is Part 1 of a 4 part series with a little background on the bowls and what we think about how this process works. We hope you enjoy it. College Football […]

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Pickup Lines for Week 12 – Utes, Duke and Drugs

Football is full of great stories but the best are the little one-liners that people say while watching a game. These inspire us to write our own. A mixed bag of pithy sayings and interesting facts and great conversation starters. Look like you know a lot and impress the folks around you. Here are your football […]

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Flip the Field on TV

Flip the Field’s TV Debut

In case you missed it and for those of you not local to Atlanta, here is Flip the Field’s television debut. We had so much fun filming this segment with Fox 5 News Atlanta and greatly appreciate Merissa and Blaine’s time in putting this together. We hope you enjoy this and perhaps you’ll see just […]

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Ohio State Halftime Show

Football is not just about the game…it’s about the halftime show too! This is one of THE all time best college football halftime shows I’ve ever seen. It was performed at Ohio State against Penn State on October 26, 2013. Enjoy your trip to the movies and the Ohio State Halftime Show!!

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