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The first player I know of that was insured was Davey O'Brien by Bert Bell through Lloyd's of London. That is per Upton Bell, Bert Bell's son. There may have been somebody before that, but Upton has always insisted that was a first.

KC Buffalo likely was the most exciting playoff game so far. I like both championship game matchups - I think they both could be great games. Curious to see how Goff does. Chiefs / Ravens could be a sensational game - a very good matchup. Buffalo seems like the Red Sox of days gone by. Losing in ver...

FWIW, some highlights exist (though, sadly, not of the fateful play that provided the eventual winning margin.) https://youtu.be/WIvaEXPgw5g There used to be a B/W video of the play on YouTube but it's apparently taken down. Here's a link to a 17-minute video of the game which might have it - I hav...

Love throw = 2009 Brett Favre I'm sure I might draw some ire for this comment. But I gotta point out that LaFleur basically put his QB in a position to fail there. On the int, I took a photo of the screen when they showed the wide-angle replay and they had two receivers running to the EXACT same sp...

National Weather Service says 8 was the high in Cleveland on Dec 16, 1945, -3 was the low:

https://www.weather.gov/wrh/climate?wfo=cle

Click on "Clevleand Area" then "Daily Almanac" and choose the date. You can do this for pretty much any game in history on the site.

This game was sort of incredible. The Packers got some contributions from players who missed a lot of games this year. But Jayden Reed didn't even catch a pass. What an egg lay by the Cowboys. Perhaps unrivaled in playoff history. I tried to come up with a game that was this bad, by a home team. A ...

Probably more than we could count. The Cowboys get a lot more publicity and focus than most teams. I remember KC had a couple of 13-3 teams that lost immediately in the playoffs. And for quite a while, there was at least one team that got the bye week and came out flat, sometimes losing. There was t...

Windchill factor was a brand new concept in 1945 and wasn't well known. There might be some recording of it or estimation on the National Weather Service site, but it likely wasn't considered when the game was played.

Don't forget that the first NFL championship game was played indoors.

I know it's a baseball book, but Lords of the Realm taught me more about how labor negotiations in the NFL work and how the CBA truly affects the game. Highly recommend. Even though it's about baseball, it's so good that it gives you a great perspective of football history as well. Great insight on ...