Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

Benny Friedman sounds like a goldmine of quotability btw. Anywhere one can find a repository of Bennyisms? There's a nice book called "Pro Football's Rag Days," by Bob Curran, which appeared in the late 1960s or early '70s. It's nothing but interviews with a bunch of players from the earl...

I have the Panthers media guides on pdf from 2011 forward. If you can find pdfs online, please let me know as I am compiling a library of media guides, otherwise, you might want to go to the Ebay or the Amazon.

I agree there's probably not much the Bears can do about it, and that it's lame to go back on your word and unretire a number. The Redskins have a good system. Their only retired number is Sammy Baugh (33), but they work very hard to avoid giving out the numbers of iconic players like Darrell Green...

Has the NFL ever un-retired a number before? I don't think so. The NFL doesn't retire numbers; it actually discourages teams from doing so. The only team I can remember un-retiring a number is Demver with #18. Frank Tripucka gave his blessing for Peyton Manning to wear it when he signed with the Br...

Number 7 was a pretty obscure (other than Bob Waterfield and Ron Jaworski) number for star quarterbacks to wear until John Elway made it trendy, now it has become (next to 12) the second-biggest quarterback number as Michael Vick, Ben Roethlisberger, Flutie, Randall Cunningham, Esiason, and a bunch...

Love the throwbacks the Bears are wearing tonight that hearken back to the Monsters of Midway years. I know there are probably purists who think the look isn't close to the same as they had during the 30s-40s glory years, but love they're paying homage. Unfortunately, they've also really limited th...

I have a major announcement on the game books, I have just received them but have not really gone thru them yet, but I have the score sheet documents for the Colts from 1953-96, and am waiting to hear back from them on the game books. The guy I talked to at the Colts didn't seem to understand what I...

Seconded. Also one of the funniest plays I've ever watched, and from a guy I'd never expect to do that. Worst comes to worst, just catch the dang ball, Russ. It sorta reminded me of the Garo Yepremian-Mike Bass play in that Yepremian was trying to bat it or something and it went into Bass's hands. ...

anecdotally he was. Honors-wise he was. No punter has more testimonials that I know of. I think the numbers show he was the best of his era, call it the post-1974 rule change era to the time when punters began more placement punting. I think 1985 or so was when that was The numbers show he was ahea...

Lechler 20th in net, 1st in gross. I know there are better ways, but for a thumbnail---his 8.5 difference between gross and net is telling, Also 5 blocks is not awful, about average .35% but 7 TDs isnt great His average return was 11 yards when league average was 8 or so That's the problem I always...