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Kerry J. Byrne created the revolutionary Cold, Hard Football Facts concept and is the nation's foremost authority on the "gridiron lifestyle" of beer, food & football. He's also food and drinks writer for The Boston Herald and has spent much of his "career" traveling around the beer-making capitals of the U.S. and Europe while writing for Esquire, Yankee Magazine, Penthouse (yes, that Penthouse), Cargo, America Online, Epicurious.com, Boston Magazine, All About Beer and many other newspapers and magazines, most of them highly disreputable.

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The Wildcat offense brings excitement — but not much else
11/04/09 07:53 EST
The Cold, Hard Football Facts, if they had emotion, would love Miami’s Wildcat offense. It’s the best thing to happen to the NFL since the advent of (take your pick) the 4-3 defense, the deep-fried turkey or the Dallas Cowboys cheerleader — a titillating sensory marvel for hard-core pro football fans and bloodthirsty shut-ins. The Wildcat brings a sense of college-style creativity to the cold, corporate, copycat No Fun League. In college ball, you might see on any given Saturday a team such as Air Force that uses the wishbone and considers the forward pass an affront to the gridiron Gods, or a team like Texas Tech that throws the ball on almost every play and acts as if the forward pass was banned with the leather helmet. Hell, the Cold, Hard Football Facts still love the well-orchestrated staple of Marshfield High School football, the 1930s vintage wing-T. In the NFL, sadly, virtually every offense looks the same and the only thing that changes is the
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Taking The Pulse Of The Pats At The Bye
10/27/09 09:15 EST
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So, what do you think? Back in the summer, would you have taken a 5-2 record seven games into the season, as Tom Brady attempted to get his sea legs under him? Would you have felt good about wins over then-unbeaten Baltimore and Atlanta? Would you have lived with close losses in the Meadowlands and at Mile High? Yeah, you would’ve. So far, the season has unfolded fairly well for the Patriots, given the challenges posed by big changes in the coaching staff, a quarterback trying to overcome a devastating injury and loads of turnover on the defense. The 5-2 record feels just about right. The most encouraging part is that the Patriots have already faced the toughest part of their schedule. In fact, they’ve faced just two bottom feeders so far — the Titans and Bucs over the past two weeks — and those games were gruesome bloodbaths befitting the Halloween season. How about these Cold, Hard Football Facts? The Patriots held the Titans and Bucs to the
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That's Cold: Brady Best in Winter Weather
10/21/09 06:25 EST
A few questions about the Patriots as we contemplate the Zen of 59-0 and consider the severity of the international thrashing the winless Buccaneers are going to suffer in London on Sunday: Question 1: Is Tom Brady the best cold-weather quarterback of all time? With all due respect to Cold, Hard Football Facts favorite Bart Starr, the answer is yes, absolutely. Admittedly, answering this question with truly empirical data is probably impossible — there are no official records of any kind in this category, other than the kickoff temperatures that appear in NFL game books, and those only go back to 2001. But let’s just say there’s a preponderance of evidence in Brady’s favor, and Sunday’s snowy six-touchdown performance against the embarrassment called the Titans is just the latest example. The first piece of evidence is that Brady’s 93.3 career passer rating is the fourth-best mark in history — and easily the best of any cold-weather
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Patriots Failing the Passing Test: Secondary a Primary Concern
10/13/09 10:37 EST
The local pigskin punditry is twisting itself into logistical knots trying to come up with the reasons for New England’s inconsistent 3-2 start. Let me put an end to the mystery. The problems with the Patriots can be summed with six words: Bill Belichick has lost his mojo. Even worse? The whole league knows it — as the Broncos proved on Sunday. It’s not politically correct in pigskin circles to declare Belichick’s mojo a vestige of a glorious earlier era of the NFL, like Sammy Baugh’s leather helmet or Johnny Unitas’ black high-tops. It’s certainly not welcome among Patriots fans. But the blasphemy of the claim doesn’t make it any less true. It’s been years — five to be exact — since teams feared facing a Belichick defense or quarterbacks feared staring into the blinding maelstrom of a Belichick scheme. It’s been five years, not too coincidentally, since the Patriots hoisted the Lombardi Trophy. In
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