by Mitch Albom | Feb 13, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
GLENDALE, Ariz. — With less than three minutes to go in a Super Bowl that was tied, Patrick Mahomes dropped back, surveyed the field, and did the last thing anyone who has ever had a high ankle injury thinks of doing. He took off running. He darted left, cut right,...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 14, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — He began the day as a climber, but he finished it on the mountaintop. After 12 years in the NFL with a bumbling franchise that never sniffed greatness, Matthew Stafford went west, as young men in America used to do when pursuing their dreams. And...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 8, 2021 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Youth will be served — but not this year. With a 43-year-old quarterback, a 68-year-old coach, and a tight end who came out of retirement, Super Bowl 55 could have been brought to you by AARP. And that’s the winning team. You read that right. The Tampa Bay...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 3, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — I’m not certain what destiny looks like in person. But I think we just saw it in the Super Bowl. In the fourth quarter of a game that was clearly tilting to the San Francisco 49ers, on a night when he did not at all look like the superstar...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Feb 26, 2019 | News
Finalists in the Michigan Associated Press Media Editors 2018 newspaper contest were announced today. The top three places — the awards in order of finish — will be announced at the annual awards banquet in Lansing on April 28. Mitch Albom’s column in the...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 4, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
ATLANTA — They were coming, the Rams, like kids running down a hill, giddy with their speed, going faster in the fourth quarter than they had all night. Jared Goff, who’d been terribly out of sync, was momentarily sharp, Clark Kent in a phone booth, and he moved his...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 3, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Don’t ask us. That’s my stock answer to The Tom Brady Question. True, he played college ball right down the road at Michigan. And true, when someone becomes the greatest NFL quarterback of all time — and if Brady leads the New England Patriots to a sixth Super Bowl...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 5, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
MINNEAPOLIS — Cheesesteaks for everyone. Hoagies on every plate. It’s the City of Brotherly Shove now — defensive end Brandon Graham shoving the throwing arm of the great Tom Brady and popping the ball loose for the most unlikely conclusion to the most explosive Super...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 8, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – In the closing minutes, Von Miller, who would soon become the Most Valuable Player of the Super Bowl, came charging toward the Most Valuable Player of the league, Cam Newton, and grabbed his arm with his left hand as Newton tried to pass. The...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 7, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
For the Lions, here’s a rhyme, for anyone who’s reading this wintertime ’Tis Super Bowl morning The world’s biggest game But Detroit is silent It’s always the same. For 50 years running We’ve listened to screams Of Super Bowl battles Between other teams. *...
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