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The Pros, by Robert Riger and Tex Maule

On Sunday 9/12, the Chargers travel east to open the 2021 season against the Washington Football Team. The last time that happened was in 1973, when a washed up Johnny Unitas made his debut as a Charger at on opening day RFK Stadium, and it looked strange to everyone seeing him in a different unifor...

These are very cool NFL history Facebook pages...lots of great pictures.

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Otto Graham was the perfect example of the 1952 number standardization. Went from #60 to #14.

When Joe Thomas took over the 49ers, one of the first things he did was burn all of their memorabilia. Tragic.

Give Walt Kiesling at least a little credit for his time as a coach. After all, he was brilliant enough to recognize Johnny Unitas wasn't good enough to play for the 1955 Steelers!

Easy answer for a Redskin fan if you have a good way-back machine. Wayne Milner is hands-down among the least deserving players in the Hall of Fame.

There's no way Jim Covert should be in over Joe Jacoby. Same with Harold Carmichael over Cliff Branch.

1967 Redskins. Charley Taylor, Bobby Mitchell and Jerry Smith finished 1, 2 and 5 in the league in receiving, and Sonny Jurgensen had a then NFL record passing season, but they had no running game or defense, and finished 5-6-3.

I agree there's probably not much the Bears can do about it, and that it's lame to go back on your word and unretire a number. The Redskins have a good system. Their only retired number is Sammy Baugh (33), but they work very hard to avoid giving out the numbers of iconic players like Darrell Green ...