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He may also have led them to a better record but we'll never know. I would never underestimate St. Vincent, though. He wasn't really St. Vincent yet, but NFL Films was working on it. They and the NFL decided to canonize him after his death. Funny thing, St. Vincent was enraged at Jim Taylor for pla...

Johnny Blood, Ole Haugsrud, and Ernie Nevers all (but separately) told me a story about a 1926 Duluth Eskimos' game in Providence in which there were four officials. In those days, the home team paid the officials and I doubt that any team would have paid for more officials than required by the rules.

Funny that just a couple of days earlier, Carroll said they have to get the ball to Harvin more often. But coaches say things like that

I still like the horizontal top bar idea, a bar on top of the goal post, and it has to go inside the rectangle to be good. It may be apocryphal, but I read a story about Efren Herrera, who was a soccer player at UCLA when he was asked to try out as a placekicker for the football team. In the tryout...

Parker and Layne invented the two-minute drill at Detroit.

I'm in complete agreement with you. What the NFL did amounts to falsifying history.

It seems to me that increasing the distance is the equivalent of throwing dice. Why not just have a captain of the scoring team throw three dice and, if three 1s come up, the extra point is no good?

Much better to do away with it than to have a game decided by what amounts to a random outcome.