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- Sun May 12, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Good interconf games missed due to '5th place schedule'
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13640
Re: Good interconf games missed due to '5th place schedule'
Some considerations: 1979: Tampa Bay vs. Miami 1981: Jets vs. Dallas 1986: Chiefs vs. Giants 1991: Denver vs. Atlanta 1992: San Diego vs. Dallas Those '86 Chiefs...yes, they didn't have to play against those World Champs-to-be nor 12-4 Washington. Mackovic vs his mentor, Landry, didn't happen eithe...
- Thu May 09, 2024 5:26 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Hypothetical post merger Playoff Bowls
- Replies: 12
- Views: 419
Re: Hypothetical post merger Playoff Bowls
Nice list! And time put into it! The problem with the 'Playoff Bowl' was you could never be sure if the winner won it because they were actually better or because the losing team simply wasn't motivated enough. We all know how Vince felt about the event. Playing for a bronze medal in the Olympics or...
- Sun May 05, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Teams that benefited from the 2002 realignment
- Replies: 2
- Views: 168
Teams that benefited from the 2002 realignment
I've opined this a few times already my always wishing that each conference would have stayed at three divisions apiece (whilst, of course, having never added an extra playoff team per conference in 2020). And keep the Colts, Hawks, Cards, and Bucs with their division foes regardless of geography wi...
- Sun May 05, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Packers Saints rivalry
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1952
Re: Packers Saints rivalry
1983 - no, both teams didn't play against each other, but both were still in the playoff race going into Week #16. The 8-7 Saints, who already had a better conference record over GB at 7-4 to 6-5, needed to beat the also 8-7 Rams at home to clinch the final WC spot thus a date at Dallas the followin...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: The best Buck Shaw HC'd squad?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 326
The best Buck Shaw HC'd squad?
The first of the obvious candidates I'll mention is his actual NFL World Championship with Philly in 1960. But being that GB was still a year away - already a pretty good team, but they got to the LCG basically by default - Buck's '48 & '49 SF teams may actually be stronger considering the obvio...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:02 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: 1936 NFL season
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1017
Re: 1936 NFL season
Great responses as always! I guess you can say that the '36 Redskins are like the '68 Vikings. Mediocre but get eliminated by a juggernaut (Colts in Minny's case) by not as bad a margin as you'd think. And then the following year they're championship-caliber, Washington winning-it-all in their case....
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Two receiver seasons with a parallel; 70 years apart
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1327
Re: Two receiver seasons with a parallel; 70 years apart
There are two receiver seasons that I have been noticing a parallel about lately: Cooper Kupp in 2021, and Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch in 1951. Both players played for the Rams in Los Angeles. Both players were named a pro bowl and first team all pro in their season. Both players led the lea...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: 1936 NFL season
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1017
1936 NFL season
Of course this was the first NFL season ever in which no franchise folded nor a new one debuted and, also, ALL teams playing the same amount of games, at 12 each. So much for "back in the old days they'd never cancel a game no matter the weather". The year before, the Boston at Philly game...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:41 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Obscure trivia
- Replies: 153
- Views: 89111
Re: Obscure trivia
Here's another... Two of the HCs who I played for in my career are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The very first HC whom I played for would go on to muster a career total W-L %age at just above-300. The first 2 TDs that I'd throw in my second-last season would be in a game against the team that'...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Stram and Ditka's stints as Saints' HC
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1467
Stram and Ditka's stints as Saints' HC
Dick Nolan and Bum Phillips, two HCs who led each of their previous teams to multiple playoff appearances (2 back-to-back CCGs each), failed to do so in each stint in the Big Easy. The same goes for both SB-winning HCs, Hank Stram and Mike Ditka. Both failed to lead the Saints to the playoffs when i...