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Reaser wrote:

Teo wrote:IIRC in 1983 and/or 1984 they changed from 45 to 49 players, then returned to 45 by 1985 or so. Anyone remembers why?

edit: Looks like it moved up from 45 to 49 after the strike.

Probably due to the existence of the USFL.

Here are the final 1947 AAFC sacks totals. Unfortunately, a handful of games are incomplete due to missing pages in the official scoresheets, so no complete individual totals for Chicago, Cleveland and New York. Team Player TS YL BAL Wilson Schwenk 40 319 BAL Ernie Case 1 13 BAL Billy Hillenbrand 1 ...

Which hasn't happened in over 30 years. Statisticians guide aside, the practice is to call those team sacks, you'll note John and I independently arrived at the same place. Yes, but as far as I am aware that is not the "practice." Ir that were the case tehn there would at least a dozen or...

This is another in the list of things that makes the historical sack stats difficult to chronicle. Prior to 1982, it wasn't infrequent to list three tacklers on a PBP on a sack, after the first season, 1982, the scorers started listing only two, nowadays a sack with 3+ players all getting there at ...

I'm always shocked when I get any of these predictions things right.

sacks were not kept, and prior to 1952 yardage was not kept, sacks then were handled they way college still does it, they are lumped in with running plays. Team sack yardage totals are available starting in 1949 for the NFL. Individual totals for the passers in 1947 for the NFL. And they kept the t...

Only in this day and age is a game played on a Saturday night called "Thursday Night Football."

Two good reasons for player movement during the 1950s: The move from playing both offense and to defense to the era of specialization. The Korean War and the military draft - which required draftees to serve two years. Towards the end of the 1950s it was changed to a six-month stint which most profe...

Now... a suggestion: Why not contact Ken and ask him to help you " pin " this thread (as he did in the old forum) I took a look through the moderation options for threads and "pinning a thread" does not appear to be one of the options on this board. PHP uses the term sticky not ...