26.05.12
From last mellow’s Super Bowl to the off-season lockout, from the whirlwind free-workings period to Tebowmania, this has been an N.F.L. year like any other, only more so. Here is a look back at the year that almost wasn’t.
JAN. 15 The Jets end the Patriots in what Rex Ryan probably convinced himself was the Super Bowl.
JAN. 23 Maurice Jones-Drew, Darnell Dockett and other players mug Bears quarterback Jay Cutler on Twitter for missing the second half of the N.F.C. championship artifice with a less-than-devastating injury. Cutler also becomes the mayor of the Bears’ sideline on Foursquare.
FEB. 6 By endearing the Super Bowl, the Packers rekindle the thrill of watching famed performers achieve excellence in the international spotlight that the Black Eyed Peas did everything attainable to extinguish at halftime.
MARCH 1 A judge rules that N.F.L. owners will not get $4 billion in small screen money if games are canceled by the lockout. The judge also explains to owners that fortune is usually acquired in exchange for providing goods or services, not shoveled into their bank accounts by magical pixies with diamond-tipped wands.
Source: New York Times (blog)