Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

I own and still play Strat-O-Matic and Paydirt/BowlBound. All great games. Two things: 1. Wish I had more time to enjoy 2. Always looking for a better way to play solo Football Strategy by Avalon Hill was a matrix based game that is simple, but very underrated. Can be played quickly and really offe...

I worked with some people about ten years back who were trying to new create Paydirt charts for the 30 best teams of the Super Bowl era. We never got very far, as we were disagreeing over the type of charts we should use. There were three different designs for Paydirt charts, which is one reason wh...

Paper and cards. I loved Stats Pro Football by Avalon Hill. I'm also a board game guy. Off the top of my head, I have APBA, Strat-O-Matic, Statis Pro, TSG1, T.H.E., Paydirt/SI Pro Football, Fran Tarkenton's Game/Vince Lombardi's Game/Be A Pro Quarterback (different editions of the same game but the...

Otto Graham to me is the best QB EVER! Ten years of playing professional football and going to the Title/Championship game all ten years and going 7-3 in said games. Better than both Manning & Brady in my opinion. The closest we have seen and probably ever will see was Kelly quarterbacking the ...

I think he definitely gets in. Gonzales was a WR at the TE position. Gates is closer to Gonzales than Witten. Witten does it all, and does it all exceptionally well. He's a great blocker and an excellent receiver, even if Gonzales and Gates are better in the latter department. The funniest thing I e...

Congrats to all!

Both teams were on the down-swing in 1979 but I think Dallas fell a bit farther that season than Pittsburgh did. That is especially true defensively. Could they have won? Yes--but they also could have won in 1975 and/or 1978. In fact, 1978 was probably their best team and their best chance to beat P...

I will include the pass interference called on Benny Barnes over Lynn Swann in Super Bowl XIII. Even Pete Rozelle siad afterwards that it was a bad call by field judge Fred Swearingen. Definitely. I don't buy the "Rozell was close friends with Tex Schramm" stuff. Swearingon made a horribl...

They show some of the pages from each book on the site, so you can see what you get. I asked for and received a copy of the Table of Contents for the Browns edition and it has 8 games covered from their AAFC years. It also includes an article announcing Sam Rutigliano as the new Head Coach in 1977 a...

Some pretty cool histories from the LA Times and The Washington Post. I noticed the Browns history (WP) goes all the way back to the 1946 AAFC. http://www.simplypersonalized.com/washington-post-football-books/ http://www.simplypersonalized.com/la-times-football-books/ These would be handy research t...