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Former Cardinals owner Bill Bidwell had a reputation for being tight with a dollar so it wouldn't suprise me if your guess is on track. My initial thought was that Bidwell probably didn't want to spend the extra money to upgrade to the new "Tele-Goal" style posts. The Cards had just switc...

Holy cow, re-litigating a 32-year-old MVP vote? Even Barry Foster doesn't care anymore.

Obviously, you always run the risk of career-ending injury or a sub-par extra year that actually HURTS your draft stock, but at least you're not then stuck with no pro career and no money. (Not everyone who comes back for their senior year finds it to be a great career move. Matt Leinart comes to mi...

Can anyone think of another place kicker whose first professional field goal attempt was a successful 64-yarder? Or longer? I can't think of one. Considering no one hit a 64-yarder until 2021, probably not. Incidentally, I like this site: http://www.luckyshow.org/football/field%20goals%20of%2060%20...

Quarterbacks are the most important players and there aren't 32 good ones, obviously. You'd want to protect them, too. It's just good business. This insistence on bloodlust from longtime fans just baffles me. What, not enough people get decapitated anymore for your liking? Not enough guys unable to ...

That's not quite the way it happened. Parker stunned the crowd at a "Meet the Lions" banquet on August 10 by announcing that he was resigning because, he said, he couldn't handle the players. There was a gap of a little more than two weeks before he signed with Pittsburgh. August 12, appa...

74_75_78_79_ wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:10 am PS - who was, officially, the G-men's DC in Bill Parcells' first two seasons as HC? Thanks in-advance.

They didn't list one officially in 1983 or 1984 before Belichick was named there in 1985.

These are just guesses, but I don't remember Curt Warner or James Wilder having great OLs in front of them. In 1984, arguably Wilder's best season, the Bucs' usual starters on the line were LT Gene Sanders (one of the worst players in NFL history - you had to see him to believe how bad he was), LG ...

ABC didn't base its programming decisions on who deserved to be there based on almost making the playoffs, or on rewarding anyone. They based them on who they thought would draw eyeballs. (And, of course, ABC didn't do this in a vacuum, the league had the ability to help shape things as well.) And e...

What I was curious about is if totals for the number of punts that each team forced on defense in 1939 and 1940 exist. They apparently do not. In the absence of original scoresheets, and with a paucity of re-created gamebooks/statistics from 1939/1940, you're left with contemporaneous newspaper acc...