Jarryd Hayne NFL debut: Guardian’s hilarious Australian live blog – Extra Mustard – SI.com

Former Australian rugby league star Jarryd Hayne made his NFL debut for the 49ers on Monday and thank god we had an Australian there to help us make sense of it all. The Guardian assigned Sydney-based freelancer Matt Cleary to live-blog the game from Levi’s Stadium. “I don’t admit to knowing a motherlode about American football,” Clearly admitted at…

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RGIII Almost Saved Washington, And Then He Didn’t

Black Jesus is dead. Yesterday, the Washington Redskins named backup quarterback Kirk Cousins the starter over Robert Griffin III, finally confirming what Washington fans have felt for weeks and months and years: RGIII’s time in the nation’s capital is up. Barring a unfortunate occurrence, or a few, the QB for whom Dan Snyder mortgaged three…

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RG3 and the Dumbest Team in Football «

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a head coach be as openly hostile to a starting quarterback as Jay Gruden was toward Robert Griffin III in D.C. last year. In the final month of the season, it seemed like there was always another passive-aggressive shot being made. It was all pretty unprofessional, like a Coors Light commercial…

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