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I found one game where Blanda (and Don Truitt) didn't do a great job avoiding sacks. Against the Pats on 11/29/64, they had "63 yards in losses on attempted pass plays." Interestingly, I found an 11/7/65 game between the Packers and Lions that was won by the Lions (12-7) where Bart Starr ...

Did Blanda have an exceptionally good offensive line? This would show up in postseason superlative selections such as All AFL and All Star teams. Was he known for having a quick release like Dan Marino (who was good at avoiding sacks) was? I've never read about this in stories about Blanda. One of ...

Did Blanda have an exceptionally good offensive line? This would show up in postseason superlative selections such as All AFL and All Star teams. It appears so: G Bob Talamini: 6/6/allAFL T Al Jamison: 3/2/none C Bob Schmidt: 0/3/none T Rich Michael: 0/2/none How much faith do you put in these team...

Even then it wouldn't show much of anything, since statistically speaking sacks are fairly meaningless and have little to no correlation to anything of substance It's actually the opposite; sacks have one of the higher correlations, especially compared to something like interceptions. Dan Marino le...

I recently looked at deriving sack data for the years 1960 to 1968 -- I will be posting about it later this week on my site. But when crunching the numbers, wow, Blanda really stands out. Did he have a reputation for this? Among all players in both leagues with at least 100 pass attempts, he ranked ...

Thanks, guys.

I think Bud Grant got fined by Pete Rozelle for saying that the Cowboys were "in bed" with the Seahawks. Did the Cowboys make the deal before they knew that Dorsett would be available at #2? Or was it public knowledge that the Bucs were going to take Ricky Bell at #1? John McKay said publ...

Looking through the AP voting, Seau seemingly was always chosen as the ILB on the AP teams in the mid-'90s, but wasn't he an OLB? According to PFR, Seau was the RLB for most of his time in San Diego. Now Seau played RILB his first two years while SD was in a 3-4, but he was listed as a ROLB beginnin...

I remember that Sporting News published this guide back then. Hopefully someone could upload the data to the web. http://www.houston-gamblers.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/Publications/.pond/85usflguide.JPG.w180h274.jpg Interesting. I wonder if anyone has any contacts at TSN that could...

Reaser wrote:http://usflrevisited.webs.com/84wk01act.htm

http://www.oursportscentral.com/usfl/1983season.php

Awesome, thanks! Figured you guys would know where to look.