Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

Just going with Super Bowls here (XXVI was a great example already given): Super Bowl XXXI: Green Bay dominated the last three quarters of that game, but only won by 14. They missed a field goal that would have covered the spread, and they ended the game in field goal range. Watching the game again ...

1989 or 1991. In 1989, the 49ers were so much better than everyone else that the playoffs proved to be little more than a formality, not to mention the entire AFC being a joke. In 1991, many of the playoff games were blowouts, and there was never really any question that Washington would win it all....

With the Cowboys starting their 2011 season with a 7-4 record, the Giants had to find a way to stay with them or miss the playoffs. Manning steps to the plate and beats them twice, the second time to win the division at 9-7 before the Giants sweep the table. Had the Cowboys won that final game, Aar...

They should have just cancelled the AFC tournament and awarded the Super Bowl to the NFC champion automatically. When the second wild card in the NFC would get the #1 seed in the AFC, then a bloodbath in the Super Bowl was just waiting to happen. The eighth-best team in the NFC would be top-three in...

What are your opinions on overtime and its current format? How would you change it? I'd like it to go back to sudden death. If the "Greatest Game Ever Played" had it, then it should still be the standard. But as these new current playoff overtime rules are set up, I have an unorthodox stra...

1983 Cowboys-Redskins Week 1. Washington trailed 31-23 and scored a last-second touchdown which turned out to be meaningless. Mark Moseley, 1982 MVP, earlier missed and it came back to haunt the 'Skins. Of course, that game is better known as the game Howard Cosell said something bad.

I will be there! I live just outside of Pittsburgh, so this one's right in my backyard. My dad is coming with me (he's just a fan, not a researcher). I'll be at all the events, as long as nothing goes wrong. Really looking forward to this! (And since I won't be staying in a hotel, hopefully I won't ...

*Chuck Howley really did deserve the MVP. He was making plays the entire game. He tripped up Unitas on the play in which Unitas fumbled, and he wasn't fooled by the 4th down goal line pass and tied up Tom Mitchell at the LOS. Both of these were big plays. Who wins MVP if it was given to the winning...

Cowboys-Chargers, XXIX, because if that had happened, the Cowboys would have 4 straight Super Bowl wins and all us non-Cowboys fans would never hear the end of it. But seriously speaking... Cowboys-Colts, XXX, because not even Barry Switzer would have been able to hold the Cowboys back from winning ...

10 wins regular season? 1988 San Francisco 49ers (10-6). One of those losses (against Phoenix) came in a game they should have easily won and just blew a big lead. They still had the whole gang that went on to dominate in 1989 & 1990. And they won the Super Bowl. Or do you mean 10 wins + the pla...