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I remember thinking, at the time, that with Anderson and Calvin Thomas in the backfield the Bears might be OK when Walter Payton retired.
Turned out they were pretty good but, of course, there was only one Sweetness.

Here is the complete list of nominees:* Ki Aldrich William Andrews George Andrie Houston Antwine Bill Arnsparger Bubba Baker Jim Bakken Gary Barbaro Steve Bartkowski Bob Baumhower Les Bingaman Al Blozis Bill Bradley Charley Brock Dave Brown Jerome Brown Kenny Burrough Earnest Byner Billy Cannon Geor...

Based on the recently completed vote of the Hall of Very Good Committee, these are the 20 finalists for this year's HOVG from which PFRA members will now choose: Bubba Baker Les Bingaman Charley Brock George Christensen Randy Cross Red Dunn Henry Ellard Chris Hinton Kent Hull Joe Kopcha Jim Lachey A...

Reminder: today is the last day for nominations to the Hall of Very Good. Current members of the PFRA may send up to 5 nominations to Andy Piascik at: andypiascik@yahoo.com You must email your nominations to Andy. Nominations listed in the forum only will not be counted. Any timetable on when we ge...

I was looking up info on Kopcha and found an old Coffin Corner article: https://profootballresearchers.com/archives/Website_Files/Coffin_Corner/08-07-275.pdf I laughed out loud when I read the last part... "If you were to visit his home, he'd proudly show you his well-equipped printing shop whe...

Reminder: today is the last day for nominations to the Hall of Very Good.
Current members of the PFRA may send up to 5 nominations to Andy Piascik at: andypiascik@yahoo.com

You must email your nominations to Andy.
Nominations listed in the forum only will not be counted.

To his credit, Walker had 8 seasons with 100% XP conversions and a career 98.3% rate on extra points. As Nick said in the initial post, one might think that smaller roster size had something to do with non-specialist kickers. Paul Hornung actually had a lower career extra point percentage than Walke...

At a team reunion we have every year to watch the Super Bowl an old teammate brought his son and his son's friend, who played college ball and coached in a youth league. The young man was a "die hard, knowledgeable" Chargers fan... who had no idea who John Hadl or Lance Alworth were (and I...

I came away a huge fan of Henry Ellard as he was absolutely brilliant all game. He's a guy who still doesn't get the credit he deserves for a magnificent career. I agree about Ellard and just to remind, he is eligible for the HOVG for the first time this year (and he is pretty deserving). He led th...