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If 1971 was..."weak", which I'm not sure I feel that way about, then the year before was well weaker thus should be the season this thread is based on instead. The only team in 1970 that was championship-caliber-enough going into those playoffs was Minnesota. But they had their flaws as w...

I was at that Colts-Broncos game. It was 45-10 at halftime. My buddy and I, HS-aged, were contemplating a record point total. The funniest thing about that game came late when Denver tried an onside kick for reasons only they could explain in a 55-23 game. Colts tight end Pat Beach recovered the kic...

I split the baby on some of this. The 1991 team was a well-oiled machine and was never really challenged. Not Washington’s fault that they stood well above the rest. The 1982, and especially, the 1987 teams do deserve a bit of an asterisk. No way to truly compare either one of those seasons to any o...

I have the image of Ray Stachowicz getting a punt blocked at Shea burned into my mind as part of the Packers’ demise.

The 2003 Packers definitely had that look, starting with the memorable win at Oakland after Favre's dad died. Then came the Nate Poole miracle in Arizona that gave them the division, then the Al Harris pick-six to win the wild card playoff against Seattle. All that was dashed on the rocks thanks to...

It's worthwhile to learn more about the "Native American Guardians Association," especially when people are trying to use its words to prop up an argument in favor of the name Redskins . It's a lobbying group founded less than a decade ago for the express purpose of "protecting"...

Agree with the sentiment but their skin color wasn't red. Red referred to their war paint Not to be argumentative but how do you know that? Is there evidence contemporary to the naming that would show that to be the case? How do I know their skin wasn't red and that they wore red war paint? Those a...

The whole Redskins name change deal. Yeah it was a pretty bad word at one time under a certain context. Things change over time. The word gay does not mean the same thing that it did back then either, you don't see people running around talking about man I feel so gay right now like they did in the...

But, no, that's not kept. You'd have to go through game books, and even then you'll miss some. The St. Louis playoff game, for instance, saw Lewis originally credited with one of each until the Packers looked at the film and saw he deflected two other FG attempts. Deflected kicks do NOT count as bl...

Luck is just a function of how you performed against your score differential, right? Or is there more to it? I’m sure as heck not going to do it, but it would be interesting to see how coaches rate in “luck”. I see the early 90s Colts high on the list, so Ted Marchibroda would score high for that era.