The air is getting cooler, pumpkin spice lattes are back and Labor Day has passed. Folks, fall football season is here. The NFL kicks things off Thursday, Sept. 5, with a matchup between the Baltimore ...

Dr. James Andrews, the legendary orthopedic surgeon who has treated scores of NFL players, believes football would be outlawed if someone invented the sport today, he told SI's Greg Bishop and Michael ...

Developments within the rule book and off the field mean that players today are taking part in a very different sport than their predecessors It’s often said that football wasn’t invented in 1992, ...

Professional football is America's real pastime. The 2013 Super Bowl was the third-most-watched piece of television in recorded history. The first- and second-most-watched? The previous two Super ...

Who invented the turducken? How John Madden popularized the dish on Thanksgiving, 'Monday Night Football' broadcasts ...

A legendary native of Monongahela and an NFL icon, Fred Cox, died Wednesday in Minnesota from complications due to kidney failure. Cox, 80, had been in hospice care in his home in Monticello for some ...

Fred Cox, a former kicker for the Minnesota Vikings and the co-inventor of the Nerf football, died on Wednesday, the Vikings announced. He was 80. The football team announced the news in a statement ...