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Yikes. For a second I thought he had passed away :o Cousins did exactly how I thought he would in Minnesota. A good to sometimes very good QB who will have great games here and there. Over the course of a season he will a player who makes the team better, win more games than he loses (50-37-1) and h...

The other candidate for worst MNF game at that point would have been 1975 Jets at Chargers. Namath is benched for JJ Jones for partying too much and the 1-11 Chargers beat the 3-9 Jets 24-16. I humbly submit last night's Bears-Vikings game for consideration as worst MNF game ever. https://www.pro-f...

To me NBC will always be the AFC channel and CBS the NFC channel. You knew FOX was gonna cartoon things up when they got the NFC package and go overboard with the graphics, forced comedic skits, over the top personalities and Hollywood nonsense. Even without Madden I can't see FOX not succeeding. Th...

The end goal, probably, is an 18-game schedule with two bye weeks and a game on every night of the week. I'm sure a scheduling wizard could see to it that no team has fewer than six days' rest between games. It would destroy the rhythm of a football season that we've known for a century, but big de...

He was this big burly guy who came across as goofy and harmless...a bit of an oddball but in an endearing way. He did go over the top and play up that Madden cartoon character personality much like Terry Bradshaw did when going from CBS to FOX. He always seemed to have funny and sometimes bizarre ra...

Neil O'Donoghue did it in that very year, 1983, in a Monday Night Football game, Cardinals vs. Giants. Thanks. That's pretty incredible, although not surprising that O'Donoghue is the guy who 'achieved' it. I think if someone is keeping track of most game-winning FGs, missed, career.....then O'Dono...

CSKreager wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 6:11 pm How did SF get the 2 seed over PHI?

Both were 10-6 and didn’t play each other that year

Imagine if SF had to go into the FOG and the Eagles instead got to host Minnesota

I think it was because SF had a better record vs. common opponents

RRMarshall wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 6:01 pm I still want to know who threw the orange on the field after the play. Everyone watching on TV thought it was a penalty flag!

There was also a liquor bottle thrown from the stands that knocked out an official once Minnesota got the ball back. Not sure if that guy was ever identified either

What went wrong for SF in 1985? Again when you go from #1 scoring defense to #2 that shouldn’t mean a 5 win dropoff! They had some very uncharacteristic early season losses. Opening week to Minnesota where they turned it over like 7 or 8 times. A 3 point loss to a bad Saints team and a 2 point loss...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpHNK2GJpPY

Here it is if anyone wants to check it out

Yea I never know that ball...looks like it goes off Wright's left hip as he's airborn