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Ronfitch wrote: Library ... pishaw ...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Microfiche-Rea ... Swa81aE0Yv

Good one. I have to say, though, the new microfilm readers at our university have a pretty nice feature: scan to PDF and save to a thumb drive.

Average game attendance started near 20,000 week 1 and now it’s down to less than 10,000.

https://www.nfldraftdiamonds.com/2019/0 ... ndance-15/

Thirty million dollars per franchise, for eight minor league football teams... none of which are located in North Carolina. Oh well, it was his money. The NFL is giving the AAF a lot of exposure through NFL Network, and some people looking at the situation feel it's a given that the NFL will purcha...

The AAF's game book page now includes flip cards for the games.

https://shop.aaf.com/gamedata/

Citizen wrote:And in a nice bit of poetic justice, the team that beat the Vikings in their last Super Bowl appearance was the one that took their place in the 11th hour, the Raiders.

Yup, but from a business standpoint, it made much more sense to compete directly with Green Bay and Chicago, for fan interest.

"And we voted, not without controversy, to let them withdraw and actually refunded their $25,000" -- which, I believe, was the fee each owner put up right at the beginning. Somebody else mentions that in 1961 when the losses were still mounting, Billy Sullivan of the Patriots suggested tr...

Somehow, after the first AFL draft, Max Winter wriggled out of his financial obligations to the AFL, which opened the door for he and Ole Haugsrud to secure an NFL expansion franchise. Has anyone ever read how he managed to do that? All the way through the AFL draft, Winter was playing both sides, t...

Andrew McKillop wrote:It's an awesome collection of raw football footage

Thank you for the heads up. It's great to be able to see full (or nearly) full formations on both sides of the ball in coach's film (broadcasts cut off the defense too often).

Mark L. Ford wrote: Interesting to watch, though it's odd that no team will have 7 points at any point in the game.

I was thinking about that oddity, too. There should be fewer odd numbers in game scores from this league.

This was posted in a Facebook group with the claim it is John Henry Johnson from the 50s.