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The latest book in the PFRA’s “Great Teams in Pro Football” series, The 1951 Los Angeles Rams, is now available for order:

https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the- ... eles-rams/

https://mcfarlandbooks.com/imprint/grea ... l-history/

For those of you who haven't downloaded the PDF version from the Members Only section of the website, there's an updated schedule of the Coffin Corner for this year on page 4 of issue #1, which is at the printer now. Below is a copy of the schedule: Volume 44, Number 1 To the Printer: April 25 To Me...

First of all, I share everyone's frustration with the long delay in receiving the last issue of 2021. Some of this is explained in the “Team Fumbles” section of Vol. 43, No. 6, but for those who have not downloaded the PDF yet, there were some family matters I was dealing with at the end of last yea...

Here's an image of the shirt:

Now's the time to get your Hall of Very Good nominations in to Andy Piascik at this email address: andypiascik@yahoo.com You can also mail them to his physical address: Andy Piascik 25 Cartright Street, PH-C Bridgeport, CT 06604 You are permitted up to five nominations. Any player who last played in...

I hope everyone is staying safe and well during this time. This year has been a challenging one, in ways we never expected here at the Coffin Corner. To start 2020, we phased out the page layout program I had been using at work to produce the magazine and I was forced to find a version of it that wa...

Deadline for nominations is usually April 30th if memory serves me right. Are we still on track for that this year now with The Virus among us? Just curious. That's right, April 30th is still the deadline for HOVG nominations, to be sent to Andy Piascik. There's a notice about it in this issue. Sta...

In a strange bit of coincidence, McFarland & Company, the PFRA's publishing partner, is also celebrating it's 40th anniversary -- both were started in 1979. From now until the end of the June, you can receive a 25% discount on any McFarland book. So if you don't have either of the books in the P...

... but I'm not sure why. I had run across this post about the first NFL draft on the Sports Illustrated website some time ago: https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/02/20/draft-1936-first-draft-owners-bill-polian-lamar-jackson-quenton-nelson The article mentions Football Illustrated ’s 1936 annual and states...

Like they say in baseball... "He's outta there!" (Roger Craig, that is.) UPDATED LIST (21 total): Lyle Alzado Dick Anderson Houston Antwine Charley Brock Joey Browner Deron Cherry George Christensen Earl Faison Abe Gibron Ken Gray Ace Gutowsky Jim Hart Lee Roy Jordan Tony Latone Warren Lah...