TMQ Finds a New Home

Gregg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback column, which delights in poking fun at various on- and off-field NFL-related foibles, has resurfaced at FootballOutsider, at least temporarily. TMQ used to be hosted on ESPN.com's Page 2, before Easterbrook wrote a clumsy piece about the forthcoming Mel Gibson movie The Passion on his New Republic blog. Among other things, Easterbrook called out Disney chief exec Michael Eisner in the piece. Disney owns ESPN, and before you could say "rabid anti-dentite", Easterbrook found himself canned from the sporting press.

TMQ used to be a great, sort of inside jokey counter-cultural look at the NFL. It's devolved over time to take on a more formulaic, know-it-all tone, but Easterbrook is still the smartest person covering football. And more fun, he loves tweaking the powers that be in the No Fun League over issues large (the NFL's insane DirectTV contract) and small (the Buffalo Bills' hideous uniforms, for starters). If he'd just cut the column by 50%, we'd be getting somewhere.