Second graders correct NFL player Chris Culliver’s tweets

To say that you love football because it is primal and vicious and visceral is to say that you are in favor of early Alzheimer’s, or constant and debilitating headaches, or severe depression, or even suicide.

Buzz Bissinger writes on Junior Seau’s death, the media scrum outside his house, and that regardless of how little we know for what led to his suicide by gunshot to the chest, the man was a ferocious warrior in a vicious game.

Them thar some thick necks!

TIL: Saints fans buy 520 Crawfish pies, 645 Shrimp platters, 750 Alligator sausages, and 2,500 orders of jambalaya at the Superdome during home games.

[Newsweek Infographic by Liz Meyer; See it full-size here.]

What’s really going on in that photo TheTickr tumblr just posted: Jimmy Graham and Jo-Lonn Dunbar of the New Orleans Saints are under attack by the vicious and notorious rope-ta-pus! Aaaaah!

Chad Ochocinco:

“I understand where the NFL is coming from, I understand where [Bengals Coach Marvin Lewis] is coming from. But uh, again I have not been a distraction with Twitter or Ustream, and I have not hurt anyone. … I mean losing my Twitter and losing my Ustream … it’s just as tough and emotional for me as losing my Johnson.”