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Otto Graham - Y.A. Tittle 1948 for a short time. Y.A. Tittle was signed by the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Conference. The AAFC commisioner came up with the idea that the top teams help the bottom teams out by giving them players. Cleveland was forced to give Tittle and tackle Ernie Blandon ...

Thanks. I could not find anything about it. I wonder how long it was before Allen traded away that undisclosed draft pick? Allen did indeed trade the draft choice, a #3 pick in the 1969 draft, away to Atlanta for Frank Marchlewski. Atlanta used that pick for guard Jon Sandstrom, who never played in...

For what it is worth, I like Ernie Green for the HOVG. Green was overshadowed by first Jim Brown and then Leroy Kelly, but he fit in pretty well with Brown and Kelly, being a tremendous blocker. Also, his rushing stats were good as well and he was a very good receiver. In 1967, he led Cleveland in r...

Bruce Anderson was a rookie DE for the Los Angeles Rams in 1966. In 1967, Bruce played for the New York Giants. I was wondering how he ended up with the New York Giants in 1967. Was he waived by the Rams, or was he traded. Los Angeles received an "undisclosed" draft pick (Great Bend Tribu...

Bruce Anderson was a rookie DE for the Los Angeles Rams in 1966. In 1967, Bruce played for the New York Giants. I was wondering how he ended up with the New York Giants in 1967. Was he waived by the Rams, or was he traded. I suspect that he was traded with George Allen as the Rams coach at the time....

How about Jarrin Chick Jagade. Jarrin Chick would often knock over players who were trying to tackle him. He would run hard and Paul Brown noticed him when he played for Baltimore in the AAFC in 1949. Brown said that he liked Jagade's reckless style of running. Jagade missed the 1950 season due to a...

I was very impressed tonight with the Patriots rookie quarterback Mac Jones. Not saying here that he is the second coming of Tom Brady, but Jones looked pretty good to me. Looking forward to see how he does going forward.

I'm always fascinated by names of guys that have the same name as other guys. Like two mid 90s running backs named James Stewart, Mark Clayton/Mark Clayton, Curt/Kurt Warner. I also like those. Others that I remember are Michael Jackson (one LB for the Seahawks, the other WR for the Browns and Rave...

But how would that apply to a brand new playoff alignment ? The Rams got screwed ... Even John Unitas felt the teams should have played again the following week, unaware of how the points tie-breaker worked ... I have sometimes wondered if Pete Rozelle rewarded the Green Bay Packers for winning the...

I still dont understand why an 12-1-1 Ram team had to go to a 9-4-1 Packer team in Milwaukee of all places, in 1967 ? Back in the day, the home field advantage was determined by a rotation system instead of the best record. For instance, in 1951, the 11-1 Cleveland Browns had to play the championsh...