Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

The movement of the hashmarks in 1972 was intended to open up the passing game. It was a huge miscalculation which immediately led to the passing game becoming an afterthought as offences quickly discovered that having two wide sides of the field to work with was much more beneficial to the running ...

Former Cardinals owner Bill Bidwell had a reputation for being tight with a dollar so it wouldn't suprise me if your guess is on track. My initial thought was that Bidwell probably didn't want to spend the extra money to upgrade to the new "Tele-Goal" style posts. The Cards had just switc...

Quarterbacks are the most important players and there aren't 32 good ones, obviously. You'd want to protect them, too. It's just good business. This insistence on bloodlust from longtime fans just baffles me. What, not enough people get decapitated anymore for your liking? Not enough guys unable to...

Quarterbacks put themselves at greatest risk when they slide at the last moment. Sliding too late leaves them completely prone to the hits from defenders that have already committed themselves to making the tackle. It’s the most poorly conceived rule in football.

Krause was the final piece of the puzzle for the Purple People Eaters. Their pass defense was impenetrable for the next 10 years after Krause arrived in 1968. It’s a joke that he wasn’t elected to Canton until 1998.

Winnipeg Blue Bombers legends, and Canadian Football Hall of Fame members, Ken Ploen and Gerry James both passed away on February 13th. Both men were four time Grey Cup champions during the Bud Grant era. Ploen, as quarterback of the University of Iowa Hawkeyes, was the 1956 season Big 10 Player of ...

Like I detailed in another post awhile back, these were the quarterbacks for teams that beat Martyball in the postseason ... Marino -- 1985, 90, 94 Elway -- 1986, 87, 97 Moon -- 1988 Kelly -- 1991, 93 Brady -- 2006 All in the HOF but he also lost to QBs, Humphries, Harbaugh and Pennington who had g...

Marty went 101-58-1 in KC but he wasn’t the right guy for the job? Ridiculous! He was the right guy for any coaching job that opened up anywhere in the league as he proved in Cleveland and San Diego and would have proven in Washington. Marty didn’t miss the field goals and commit the fumbles that pl...

This team had the NFC's #1 offense and beat 4 playoff teams but still missed the playoffs because they lost to 3 last place squads. Name the team. The ‘03 Vikings. Wrong 2002 Saints. Seven months later lol. Actually not wrong. The Vikings had the NFL’s #1 offense. They beat four playoff teams; the ...

Both were great in their own way but Dawson should have been named the All-AFL decade QB over Joe.