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Howler Website Project

Greetings from our underground bunker in an undisclosed location in the Pacific Northwest. Howler has been in hibernation. The good news is that we are still alive, and this time has been a time of growth, gaining strength and getting hungry. The bad news is the website you are looking at sucks. The plan moving …

A New Direction For Howler Digital

The first week of August we published Georgia Cloepfil’s two–part memoir of a season in South Korea, The Shape of a Dream Can Expand and Shrink. In late June we rain a piece by Jamil Chade on what the World Cup meant in far Siberia. Jules Boykoff’s World Cup All Hair Team piece is the …

This is what Issue 15 looks like.

It is beautifully designed. It features cool art, great photography, and a little bit of humor. It contains some of the best feature writing on our game you will find. Producing it was like preparing for a big game: It took hard work, teamwork, hope, sweat—and time. But we did it. And by we, I mean a …

A Note About the Future.

Friends: Not so long ago, George Quraishi, Howler’s founder and editor, called and asked me if I’d be willing to be the editor of the greatest soccer magazine America has ever known. He’s too humble to have called it that, but when he said “Howler,” that’s what I heard. I thought he was out of …

A note about Howler

Friends, I am writing today with sad but also good news. First, the sad news: I am leaving Howler. This is sad mostly just for me, because I’m finding it a little bit painful to step away from this thing that I built and that I love. And now the good news: Howler will continue …

Howler Book Club: Red, and alive

Introducing Howler Book Club and the brilliant novel that kicks it off Bill Shankly (Shanklyhotel.com) We’re beyond excited to announce the start of Howler Book Club. Each month we’ll select a soccer book—new or not so new—that’s worthy of your time and our spotlight. Throughout the month we’ll have different features on whatahowler.com and the Dummy …

Howler and Dirty Tackle are joining forces

Introducing our new website, whatahowler.com Nationaal Archief We launched Howler in 2012. It was (and still is) a print magazine, so we named our website howlermagazine.com. Made sense at the time. But now it’s 2016, and having a website named after a print mag is no way to run a modern media company! (Or so …

About Dirty Tackle

Football. Culture. Nonsense. Dirty Tackle is an award-winning football blog that was founded in 2008 by Brooks Peck and Carter Daly. From 2010–2014 it was a Yahoo Sports blog, but after regaining its independence, DT has now joined forces with Howler Magazine. DT aims to find and highlight the humor in a sport that is …

The people who make Howler

And the howlers that made them Founder/editor George Quraishi attended seven games at the ’94 World Cup. A month later, his first eye exam confirmed he had seen none of it. Editor and Dirty Tackle founder Brooks Peck was once referred to as “Brook Phelps” by Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore. Editor David Rudin became …