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Sam Rutigliano, after nearly seven seasons in Cleveland, went to Liberty five years later, where he stayed for 11 seasons. Joe Walton, after seven seasons with the Jets, went to Robert Morris, where he stayed for 20 seasons. Both Rutigliano and Walton started the football programs at Liberty and Rob...

Jim Tunney, a three-time Super Bowl referee and perennial Hall of Fame nominee, known simply as "the Dean of Referees," died December 12 at the age of 95. https://www.footballzebras.com/2024/12/jim-tunney-the-dean-of-referees-dies-at-95/ Tunney is still my all-time favorite referee. He al...

Joe Theismann and Jim Plunkett should make the list, although I don’t think they are HOF worthy, they were popular as players and should have a case for the HOVG.

I never knew that Bussey played at Oklahoma. I always read that he went to Texas-Arlington.

He was a solid, if unspectacular player for the Lions. seemed too have faded when Billy Sims came, but he still hanged on until 1984.

Not a prediction per se, but every season I like to see undrafted players from lower division schools (like the Jets' Xavier Gipson last year) make a big play in the opening game

Bryan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2024 2:12 pm The closest I could find off-hand was looking up one of my least favorite RBs of all-time...Raymont Harris. He had 114 receptions and 1 TD.

Another Bear, Roland Harper, caught 128 receptions with only 3 TDs.

Gerald Riggs caught 201 passes, with no one going for a TD.

For me, XX Patriots-Bears and XXIV Broncos-49ers (inspite of the scoring and the players) were boring blowouts. I remember in both games stop watching. On a side note, I consider that the NFL Films highlights of Super Bowl XX were the worst produced of any of the first 25 Super Bowls by far. Very du...

Brant's drafts definitely went south after the draft was moved to April in 1976. Here are the second rounders: 1976: RB Jim Jensen (solid player) and OG Jim Eidson 1977: Quarterback Glenn Carano 1978: FB Todd Christensen - Hall of the Very Good 1979: DB Aaron Mitchell 1980: No pick - trade for John...

1980- Traded 1st round to Baltimore for John Dutton Turned out to work out wonders for Dallas Others have commented on this, but in fairness to Dallas, their backs against the wall. They felt they were still in Super Bowl window and saw Larry Bethea was not going to fill Too Tall's shoes. So, Dutto...

Dutton gave the Cowboys some solid play but "didn't work wonders for Dallas", Robert. Yeah, I think Dutton was considered a flop in Dallas. Usually the Cowboys were always able to unload their garbage to other teams and pick up high draft picks, and this was like the first time the Cowboy...