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I think the 75th Anniversary Team was pretty well done. This team looks like it was generated by AI.

I'd say no on Watters and I think there's a better methodology here than who showed up on the most ballots. What if you weighted it so a 1st place vote was worth 5 points, a 2nd 3 points, and a 3rd 1 point? Or you could do something fancier like a Borda count. Also, I couldn't get the numbers to add...

Wishlist

Wistert
Gradishar
Lewis or Craig

Prediction

Sharpe
McMichael
Jacoby

Brian wolf wrote:He associated with the wrong people. I believe he was murdered.

Reminds me of Sonny Liston.

JohnTurney wrote:my preference is that both get in.

+1 for both. It's too bad the centennial class got out of kilter (imo) with players from the 1980s etc. I'd be a fan of every 5 years or so focussing on something - so there could be a year where they focussed on the '20s.

Thanks Cliff. Really appreciate your posting this. It was a great read - really persuasive. I'd be happy to see Lewellen in the HOF, but I have Dilweg higher in my personal rankings partly because when I look at things by position, I think of him and Chamberlin, so he's essentially one of the first ...

The photo shoot for the '64 Philadelphia Gum Cleveland Browns cards feature Jim Brown's Cadillac in the background.

George Blanda comes to mind. Good one Jay. I should have thought of him. Frank Tripucka did that -- NFL from 1949-52 and AFL from 1960-63 or so, with a long stretch in Canada in between. Yes! Thanks Bob. This was the one I was looking for. I knew there was a player who had a 1950 Bowman football ca...

John, thanks for the insight on Wistert/Belichick and the Centennial class.

Personally, I don't have Emerson and Lewellen even with the others, although I like them for the HOF. I still go by this:
Wistert would be great, but learned not to get hopes up.

Both teams couldn't run Not trying to derail this - hopefully someone answers the main question, but the part I quoted stood out to me because I recalled James Wilder being a productive back. Stats in PFR didn't support my recollection as they show he was a FB his first 3 seasons then in his 4th se...