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- Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:02 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: 1936 NFL season
- Replies: 4
- Views: 176
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: 154
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: 176
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: 75208
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: 174
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...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: '41 VS '85 BEARS (for their time)??
- Replies: 2
- Views: 300
Re: '41 VS '85 BEARS (for their time)??
If God came down to Earth and told me that the 1941 Chicago Bears were - for their time, era-for-era, "pound-for-pound", "adjusting inflation", etc - the Number One Professional Football Team of All Time hence better than the 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers, I would be bummed, a little ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Top, and Worst, Ten teams of the 14-game era, '61-thru-'77?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 780
Re: Top, and Worst, Ten teams of the 14-game era, '61-thru-'77?
I think the 66 Giants were worst of the worst. They didn’t have the expansion excuse of Tampa and were a more veteran team than those early Raiders Very good point! No "excuses", but IMO those two early AFL ( new , lesser league at the time) Raider teams mentioned, and of course who I fee...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: '41 VS '85 BEARS (for their time)??
- Replies: 2
- Views: 300
'41 VS '85 BEARS (for their time)??
"Adjusting inflation", as I'd say. It seems to me that it's down to those two as for who the 'Best-EVER' Bears team is! Yes, you got 1963. Superior defense! But, perhaps, can be seen as a 2000 Ravens pre-cursor considering their extreme defense-heavy-ness. '34 & '43 can be seen as 'twi...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: 1974 Dallas Cowboys
- Replies: 6
- Views: 418
Re: 1974 Dallas Cowboys
Down-the-stretch, no, maybe still not as good as the surrounding years, but playoff-caliber by then just the same. But the 1-4 start did them in. Losing at the Vet, MNF? Sort of a bit understandable in that the Eagles started well that year, and they were due to have their way with them if just for ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Top, and Worst, Ten teams of the 14-game era, '61-thru-'77?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 780
Top, and Worst, Ten teams of the 14-game era, '61-thru-'77?
Starting the very year of Lombardi's first World Champion squad, and ending with that infamous 'dead-ball' year - which ended with the first Super Bowl under a Dome - and all the seasons in-between, who are YOUR Top 10 teams? And your WORST 10 teams? Teams that didn't win a title can be included on ...