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I think you’re being charitable about the “popularity” of the USFL. It was a novelty, and the ‘82 strike helped it in some markets, but it never reached mass popularity or even came close. Not so much that it got super popular but was enough of a force to disrupt a few key NFL drafts and effect tha...

To me I feel like the period from 1980 to 1983 is a forgotten and overlooked little dark ages of NFL history where for some reason a lot of great games, players, teams, moments, etc just aren't remembered or romanticized as much as the 70's before or the rest of the 80's after. Something about it, ...

I think you’re being charitable about the “popularity” of the USFL. It was a novelty, and the ‘82 strike helped it in some markets, but it never reached mass popularity or even came close. Not so much that it got super popular but was enough of a force to disrupt a few key NFL drafts and effect tha...

To me I feel like the period from 1980 to 1983 is a forgotten and overlooked little dark ages of NFL history where for some reason a lot of great games, players, teams, moments, etc just aren't remembered or romanticized as much as the 70's before or the rest of the 80's after. Something about it, a...

Going back to my interest of the 1945 season, it's been a while since that year caught my eye and I looked into it. I dove into it again this morning and it really is one of the stand out seasons of the first 30 years of NFL history for me(1920 to 1949, legalizing plastic helmets and unlimited subst...

Also love the post above pointing out the coaching transition the 94-95 Cowboys went through. I've always found the 95 Cowboys squad to be pretty underrated, to me I felt like they played the toughest schedule out of the 3 Super Bowl teams, plus had a prime Larry Allen and Deion 2 big elements there...

Seems like a repeat of the previous season Super Bowl matchup wise. Interesting to think about it though the Colts would have indeed been huge underdogs with truly nothing to lose, against that Dallas team. I never really thought about it until skipping past this thread. Good stuff. We were super cl...

The Sun Devil Stadium Super Bowl in 95-96(XXX) always seemed super odd and a bit suspicious to me. I believe they awarded that to Arizona during the Cowboys ascent to the top of the NFL in 92-93? So lets put a Super Bowl in the desert in a rickety old metal stadium, but just so happens to be in the ...

The oddball anomaly seasons are always interesting to me too, 1999 and 2008 were strange NFL seasons.

Not an oddball like those but I have been watching a lot of games from 1998 this Summer and that was indeed a good one(I missed it in real time).

1975 was a decade before I was born but I can't help but feel like that was a goldilocks sweet spot in NFL history there. This was the last year before they added more teams, more games, and changed the rules. All necessary changes that were good, but still can't help but look back at that smaller t...