I launched Football for Breakfast one year ago today.

At first it was a bad Drudge Report ripoff tailored to the world of professional football. Still, it was effective in serving up daily news for all 32 NFL teams focusing on local hometown newspapers and blogs instead of the ubiquitous national feeds.

I then added a weekly column, Fourth and Long, patterned after Peter King’s SI.com column. To my surprise, it was very well-received — by the two dozen or so people who read it every week.

In January, I shifted the website into its current blog format and found myself, unsuccessfully, trying to jam my weekly column into a series of daily blog posts.

When February rolled around, a little burned out from the grind, I cut back to daily NFL news posts, planning to resume my column when time and mood allowed.

Now five months later, I’ve come to the realization that a weekly column doesn’t really work in this world of daily, even hourly sports analysis. That said, I think there was some pretty good writing in those columns. You can see some of the better ones I wrote here: McNabb’s Failure to Communicate (9/26); Bad Karma in San Diego (10/3); Schadenfreude (10/10); Rivers of Courage (1/22); The Impossible Accomplished (2/4).

So in the past week, I started dabbling with something new — short daily commentary and abbreviated daily news. And to my surprise, traffic is up significantly.

So get ready for the new Football for Breakfast. More short daily commentary, abbreviated daily news from hometown newspapers and hopefully a little more fun.

And since I do have comments turned on, do me a favor and let me know how I’m doing.

DiG…

P.S. And let’s not forget about the news. Apparently Brett Favre is contemplating a comeback!

Brett Favre News
Packers: Favre Breaks His Silence (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Packers: Favre Suggests Packers Haven’t Been Telling the Truth (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
Packers: Bond Between Favre, Packers Seems Beyond Repair (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
Ravens: Source: Favre Doesn’t Fit into Ravens Plans (Baltimore Sun)
Redskins: A Vision of Favre in Burgundy (Washington Times)
Buccaneers: Should Bucs Go for Favre? (Tampa Tribune)
Buccaneers: Tampa Bay May Not Be High on Favre’s List (St. Petersburg Times)
Vikings: Tarvaris Jackson Not Bothered by Brett Favre Rumors (St. Paul Pioneer Press)

AFC News Sans Favre
Colts: Manning Has Knee Surgery, Questionable for Opener (Indianapolis Star)
Titans: Haynesworth Decision Due Today (Tennessean)
Steelers: Steelers Situation ‘Inevitable’ (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Chargers: Pass-Rush Specialist Fred Dean Named to Bolts’ Hall (San Diego Union-Tribune)

NFC News Sans Favre
Giants: Ahmad Bradshaw Completes 30-Day Prison Sentence, NFL Investigates (Daily News)
Redskins: Colt Brennan Agrees to Deal with Redskins (Washington Post)
Eagles: Retiring QB Sagas Aren’t Unique to Green Bay (Philadelphia Daily News)
Cardinals: Dansby Unlikely to Get Long-Term Deal from Cards (East Valley Tribune)
Rams: Rams Not for Sale (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)