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Hello. Can someone tell me why the NFC Championship Game for the 1982 season was played on a Saturday? For some reason I had always thought the strike had something to do with it but I cannot think of why...

1990 was the first year for byes

1993 was the year of two byes

In 1940 both Redskin-Giant games were 21-7 and in 1942 both were 14-7. In both cases however there was a different winner.

[ Minny scored a late TD to cut it to the final margin of three. Malinchak's block came early, though he also recovered a fumbled kickoff return that set up that clinching Washington TD.[/quote] The Vikings out-gained the Redskins 382 yards to 203. That game was featured in the book "Braves on ...

Thanks very much, that worked.

I have a question about newspapers.com. I joined and i=used the "save page" option. Today when i tried to pull up some of the pages I saved it made me login to see them. Right now I am a member but i I discontinue then how can I save those pages so that I may still view them? I tried to sa...

In the NFL films show "Glory Year" about Sammy Baugh's great season of 1943 they show a clip from a game in which Baugh passes for a TD of about 25 yards or so in the snow to a #28 whom I assume is Bones Taylor. I've been interested in identifying that TD. I know it snowed in 1949 at NYG. ...

Earnest Byner and for Mike Oliphant was weird in that it was so lopsided. [I'm assuming my memory is correct that it was one player for one player]

What has always confounded me about the barefoot kickers is that they appeared to be a coming trend in the 80's, and all of a sudden, they became totally extinct and never returned. It was as if the soccer style kickers totally vanished after the 1969 season and the species were never seen again in...

The Redskins have never played the Cowboys, the Seahawks, nor the Texans in the preseason. I think they have played everyone else.