Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

Teo wrote:Off the top of my head I remember Sam Baker, the old K/P from the 50s and 60s who had the récord for years for the most Games played without a playoff appearence. But he may have hade a winning season.

He actually had four: as a rookie with the Redskins (53), both years with the Browns (60-61) and 1966 with the Eagles--when they went to the worthless Playoff Bowl. The Skins were 6-6 in 1956.

Finding good players who never, even once, experienced so much as a .500 season is pretty difficult.

Several years back on the old forum I proposed the category of "Best Players Never to Play in a Postseason Game" (Playoff and Pro Bowls excepted). That discussion came up with names like Butkus, Sayers, Manning, Wilson, and Nobis.