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Michael Weinreb is a writer and journalist and the author of Throwbacks, a bestselling Substack newsletter about sports, culture and history.
February 6, 2026
How Super Bowl XLIX Still Haunts Sunday’s Rematch Years removed from the worst moment of his otherwise stellar NFL career, Marshawn Lynch was still trying to process what the hell happened during Super Bowl XLIX. In 2023, Lynch sat on a leather couch in front of a roaring fireplace, drinking cognac alongside former tight end […]
February 4, 2026
In a way, you could argue that none of this was Sam Darnold’s fault. It was not his choice, after all, to get drafted third overall in 2018 by the New York Jets, the most hapless franchise in modern football. For a quarterback like Darnold, becoming a top-five pick was the spiritual equivalent of winning […]
January 28, 2026
Inside Football’s Most Unpredictable Season in Years It’s easy to forget that just a year ago, enough people believed the Super Bowl was rigged that it became an actual thing that demanded actual answers from the actual people in charge. In early February of 2025, in the weeks leading up to Super Bowl LIX, this […]