Soccer chants, kebabs and chicken wings: Inside the NFL’s creation of a Berlin fanbase from the bricks up

BERLIN — Somewhere around the time that a gentleman from the United Kingdom was explaining to me that he loved the Atlanta Falcons because of Wrestlemania, while we stood in a crowded Berlin sports bar watching Arsenal v. Sunderland and Georgia vs. Mississippi State, eating a reasonable facsimile of American chicken wings … I decided … Read more

Fantasy Football: Packers offense has become stale due to Tucker Kraft injury, uninventive play-calling

The Green Bay Packers entered Week 10 and a Monday Night Football island game with their offense under heavy scrutiny. The team was fresh off one of the biggest regular-season upsets in franchise history at the hands of the Carolina Panthers and staring down its first game without Tucker Kraft, who had not-so-quietly been their … Read more