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ShinobiMusashi wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2026 11:35 am I stand by my opinion that the 91 Redskins were better than any Super Bowl champ that followed them

Whuck?

Look, I'm a numbers guy, but I cannot imagine caring enough about tackles to track down every tackle. What's a good number of tackles for a season? No one even has a working definition, which is one reason it's never been an official statistic. Someone had 125 one year, okay, that' s good, I guess. ...

RichardBak wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2026 10:15 am Obviously the only way to settle this once and for all is to ask Mike-Mayer himself. It can't be that hard to get hold of the guy.

Yeah, it can.

The guy's 78 years old. It's not like he's been highly visible for the last 40 years or so.

Doesn't NFL Films have film of this game? Maybe Chris Willis could track this down for us...? Highlights were literally posted in this thread, but whatever happened, it was not in there. They should have just about every play from every game going back a long time in Laurel, just a question of exhu...

This could be definitive enough, from the 1980 NFL Media Information Book:

And the NFL Game of the Week did not deem whatever happened necessary for their highlights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVyWo5Q1Uc

If you can't find video, check out Baltimore's 1980 guide. Sounds like the kind of arcana that usually appears in the player's notes or in the game recaps. It is not in Mike-Mayer's profile in Baltimore's 1980 media guide, and the recap of the game in that book is terribly done. It only lists the o...

Ooof.

Thank you, Lee! You have been a wonderful steward of this organization that we all care about deeply. Enjoy retirement and all that comes with it!

More on Danowski (and the 1938 Giants) is here: https://youtu.be/eGQeWtF6DGI.