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- Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:51 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: '68 Packers expectations
- Replies: 31
- Views: 78420
Re: '68 Packers expectations
He may also have led them to a better record but we'll never know. I would never underestimate St. Vincent, though. He wasn't really St. Vincent yet, but NFL Films was working on it. They and the NFL decided to canonize him after his death. Funny thing, St. Vincent was enraged at Jim Taylor for pla...
- Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:38 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: NFL goal posts location
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9716
Re: NFL goal posts location
Johnny Blood, Ole Haugsrud, and Ernie Nevers all (but separately) told me a story about a 1926 Duluth Eskimos' game in Providence in which there were four officials. In those days, the home team paid the officials and I doubt that any team would have paid for more officials than required by the rules.
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:19 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Seahawks trade WR Percy Harvin to the Jets
- Replies: 8
- Views: 23961
Re: Seahawks trade WR Percy Harvin to the Jets
Funny that just a couple of days earlier, Carroll said they have to get the ball to Harvin more often. But coaches say things like that
- Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:07 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Kicking is just too easy
- Replies: 26
- Views: 57572
Re: Kicking is just too easy
I still like the horizontal top bar idea, a bar on top of the goal post, and it has to go inside the rectangle to be good. It may be apocryphal, but I read a story about Efren Herrera, who was a soccer player at UCLA when he was asked to try out as a placekicker for the football team. In the tryout...
- Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:49 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: 1950's Detroit Lions
- Replies: 78
- Views: 130063
Re: 1950's Detroit Lions
Parker and Layne invented the two-minute drill at Detroit.
- Tue Oct 14, 2014 5:23 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Reconciling the whole Browns/Ravens issue
- Replies: 12
- Views: 36393
Re: Reconciling the whole Browns/Ravens issue
I'm in complete agreement with you. What the NFL did amounts to falsifying history.
- Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:15 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: NFL to test extra point kicks from the 20 during preseason
- Replies: 5
- Views: 17301
Re: NFL to test extra point kicks from the 20 during preseas
It seems to me that increasing the distance is the equivalent of throwing dice. Why not just have a captain of the scoring team throw three dice and, if three 1s come up, the extra point is no good?
Much better to do away with it than to have a game decided by what amounts to a random outcome.
Much better to do away with it than to have a game decided by what amounts to a random outcome.