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by Sonny9
Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:05 pm
Forum: Football Talk
Topic: NFL "what-if" scenarios thread
Replies: 136
Views: 177840

Re: NFL "what-if" scenarios thread

I guess they weren't both starters but Van Brocklin/Jurgensen on the 1960 Eagles weren't too bad a pair. I'm sure others can think of other great pairs (although the ones you mentioned were superlative). I don't recall any real animosity in the Young/Walsh relationship. Yes, Young wanted to start. ...
by Sonny9
Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:03 am
Forum: Football Talk
Topic: NFL "what-if" scenarios thread
Replies: 136
Views: 177840

Re: NFL "what-if" scenarios thread

What if Cookie Gilchrist signed with the Browns?
by Sonny9
Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:06 pm
Forum: Football Talk
Topic: Ranking all NFLCG winners, '33 thru '65
Replies: 10
Views: 13007

Re: Ranking all NFLCG winners, '33 thru '65

Neft-Cohen's Pro Football: The Early Years lists all NFL players and their years of military service (pp. 160-161). Here are the totals by year: 1941--44 (we tend to forget that the draft started in late 1940) 1942--202 1943--376 1944--418 1945--358 How many of those were stateside and still played?
by Sonny9
Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:21 pm
Forum: Football Talk
Topic: Obscure trivia
Replies: 153
Views: 94594

Re: Obscure trivia

Name the two players. My last year was his first year and we played on the same team. That team is not the team we are known to play for. The team we are known to play for, is the same team. We each played over 15 seasons. We are not skill position players. added - Although tall for our position, w...
by Sonny9
Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:53 pm
Forum: Football Talk
Topic: Ranking all NFLCG winners, '33 thru '65
Replies: 10
Views: 13007

Re: Ranking all NFLCG winners, '33 thru '65

I think the '65 Packers are rated too high. the good The pass defense is what makes their team successful imo. 27 ints with 4 pick sixes. +24 in turnovers. 19 less penalties than their opponents and 148 less penalty yards the bad Out gained by 368 yards. Returned 22 punts of 60 punts for a 3.0 avg w...
by Sonny9
Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:18 am
Forum: Football Talk
Topic: Obscure trivia
Replies: 153
Views: 94594

Re: Obscure trivia

Name the two players. My last year was his first year and we played on the same team. That team is not the team we are known to play for. The team we are known to play for, is the same team. We each played over 15 seasons. We are not skill position players. added - Although tall for our position, we...
by Sonny9
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:42 pm
Forum: Football Talk
Topic: Goal Posts
Replies: 17
Views: 15035

Re: Goal Posts

Stadiums used them later ... the offset legs. The rule you are talking about is the invention of the Y-shape (one leg) rather than the H-shape. There were offset H-shapes in the NFL way before 1966. The rule you are talking about also made them yellow --- they were white before. Others can fill in ...
by Sonny9
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:21 pm
Forum: Football Talk
Topic: Goal Posts
Replies: 17
Views: 15035

Goal Posts

"Not much changed for the next 33 years until 1966 when a resolution was adopted by the NFL owners that required the goal posts to be offset from the goal line and should extend 20 feet in the air." 1939 Championship game. The goal posts are offset. I wonder why it didn't kick in to keep ...
by Sonny9
Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:37 pm
Forum: Football Talk
Topic: More fodder. . .
Replies: 24
Views: 21795

Re: More fodder. . .

I was just looking at some pix from SABR's analytics conference. I don't think I could spot one presenter or attendee who looked to be older than 30. And to be honest, most of them looked like the kind of guys who always got picked last on the playground, if they played at all. They're into the gee...
by Sonny9
Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:21 pm
Forum: Football Talk
Topic: More fodder. . .
Replies: 24
Views: 21795

Re: More fodder. . .

Longer season and Thursday games play into the injuries