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- Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:37 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Goal Posts
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16431
Re: Goal Posts
Former Cardinals owner Bill Bidwell had a reputation for being tight with a dollar so it wouldn't suprise me if your guess is on track. My initial thought was that Bidwell probably didn't want to spend the extra money to upgrade to the new "Tele-Goal" style posts. The Cards had just switc...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:34 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: NFL MVP's who didn't deserve to win
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4544
Re: NFL MVP's who didn't deserve to win
Holy cow, re-litigating a 32-year-old MVP vote? Even Barry Foster doesn't care anymore.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: NIL and the NFL draft
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1767
Re: NIL and the NFL draft
Obviously, you always run the risk of career-ending injury or a sub-par extra year that actually HURTS your draft stock, but at least you're not then stuck with no pro career and no money. (Not everyone who comes back for their senior year finds it to be a great career move. Matt Leinart comes to mi...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:28 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Bates' UFL field goal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 908
Re: Bates' UFL field goal
Can anyone think of another place kicker whose first professional field goal attempt was a successful 64-yarder? Or longer? I can't think of one. Considering no one hit a 64-yarder until 2021, probably not. Incidentally, I like this site: http://www.luckyshow.org/football/field%20goals%20of%2060%20...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:40 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: More fodder. . .
- Replies: 24
- Views: 23150
Re: More fodder. . .
Quarterbacks are the most important players and there aren't 32 good ones, obviously. You'd want to protect them, too. It's just good business. This insistence on bloodlust from longtime fans just baffles me. What, not enough people get decapitated anymore for your liking? Not enough guys unable to ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:33 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Pittsburgh Steelers in 1957
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12907
Re: Pittsburgh Steelers in 1957
That's not quite the way it happened. Parker stunned the crowd at a "Meet the Lions" banquet on August 10 by announcing that he was resigning because, he said, he couldn't handle the players. There was a gap of a little more than two weeks before he signed with Pittsburgh. August 12, appa...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: NYG under Ray Perkins, 1979-thru-'82
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7752
Re: NYG under Ray Perkins, 1979-thru-'82
They didn't list one officially in 1983 or 1984 before Belichick was named there in 1985.74_75_78_79_ wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:10 am PS - who was, officially, the G-men's DC in Bill Parcells' first two seasons as HC? Thanks in-advance.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Obscure trivia
- Replies: 156
- Views: 104892
Re: Obscure trivia
These are just guesses, but I don't remember Curt Warner or James Wilder having great OLs in front of them. In 1984, arguably Wilder's best season, the Bucs' usual starters on the line were LT Gene Sanders (one of the worst players in NFL history - you had to see him to believe how bad he was), LG ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Teams that didn't play on MNF the entire season but "should" have
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22279
Re: Teams that didn't play on MNF the entire season but "should" have
ABC didn't base its programming decisions on who deserved to be there based on almost making the playoffs, or on rewarding anyone. They based them on who they thought would draw eyeballs. (And, of course, ABC didn't do this in a vacuum, the league had the ability to help shape things as well.) And e...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:30 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: A question about NFL Recordkeeping
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19923
Re: A question about NFL Recordkeeping
What I was curious about is if totals for the number of punts that each team forced on defense in 1939 and 1940 exist. They apparently do not. In the absence of original scoresheets, and with a paucity of re-created gamebooks/statistics from 1939/1940, you're left with contemporaneous newspaper acc...