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The 1984 tiebreakers were head-to-head, conference W-L, common games W-L, net points in conference games, net points in all games, strength of schedule, and net touchdowns. With no H2H, the conference win percentage became the tiebreaker. Here are the tiebreakers broken down by years: https://www.qu...

When the NFL canceled the Bills-Chiefs game last year, the gamebook was actually published. A day or so after, they wiped all the stats off the GSIS and deleted the gamebook. I tried looking for any link to the old gamebook or reconstructing the URL, and have come up empty. I checked the 2022 PFRA g...

Regarding intercity rivalries in the same division or conference. This was addressed when there was a 3-team sweepstakes for a shared venue in the L.A. market between St. Louis, San Diego, and Oakland. It was essentially a guaranteed win for the Rams, because there was talk about a realignment if th...

The rule changed slightly right after the 1954 NFLCG (well, not counting the Pro Bowl). It still was not down by contact, as a grasp was required, but didn't require the grasp to be held through to the ground. So 7-7-1-1 (a) (3) and (4) were replaced with the following: (3) Touches ground with any p...

This dumb rule was actually pushed to the Competition Committee from the players. It is another rule to legislate out hits that would have a decade-plus ago been featured on a Jacked Up segment. What the rule aims to address is an intentional collision against the flow of the play that a player woul...

R 56 Norm Schachter U 15 Ralph Morcroft HL 4 Bruce Finlayson LJ 24 Bruce Alford FJ 32 Jim Tunney BJ 14 Frank Luzar It was the field judge, Jim Tunney, who ruled on the field goal. He was in his 6th season that year and was promoted to referee in 1967. He retired in 1991, his 31th season, tied for 2n...

Rule 7-7-1 (1950): Item 1. An Official shall declare dead ball and down ended when a runner ... : (1) Is out of bounds or cries "down"; (2) Is so held or otherwise restrained that his forward progress ends; (3) Touches the ground with any part of his body, except his hands or feet, while h...

Here is the list of offensive linemen who have passed, rushed, or received since 1950:

https://www.quirkyresearch.com/2022/11/ ... -received/

The "slide rule" relating to the tackling of quarterbacks should  applies to receivers and running backs.  In addition to the prevention of injuries, clock management  is the big reason.  Things may change in the last five minutes of a half or game.  Before that a general rule is this;  i...

Of course the quirkiest was Milwaukee County Stadium, which had the 6-foot endline stripe go under the left-field wall, players overshooting the opposite end zone wound up in the dugout, and the benches were on the same side of the field with the chains operating from the other.