Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

Why is it automatically assumed that Dallas will or should be in the NFC East? The Cowboys don't belong in the East any more than the Colts belonged in the West Division back in the sixties. I get sick of seeing the NFL cater to the Cowboys in everything. The Dallas Cowboys are not America's Team b...

While I don't think they're going to change any divisions under the current format, I do think that the idea of realigning divisions is important, should the league expand again. Logistically, it would make sense to grow by four teams. (I know, I know, bad QB play, not enough players... just work wi...

To everything there are pros and cons. Personally, I'm glad that the so-called "Football Bowl Subdivision" (FBS) is moving to a 12-team playoff to determine the national champion. If you're gonna determine a national champion in something you SHOULD have it played on the field and include...

The 1987 MVP race was a classic case of the Ross Perot effect. Jerry Rice and Joe Montana were so outstanding that voters didn't know which one to give the award to. They got 48 combined votes, whereas John Elway got the remaining 36. Rice, who set the NFL record for receiving TDs in a season despit...

John Madden's greatest legacy is the video game. By putting his name on the video game, he legitimized it, while forcing EA Sports to have 11 players per team or else he wasn't doing it. The video game exploded in popularity, and now (even with the annual cries of how the game stinks) it is a cultur...

The Packers and Lions are playing each other on Thursday for a second time this season. Has this ever happened before, where two teams met on Thursdays twice in the same season? Or have two teams met on Monday night twice in the same year?

As an aside, I think the hardest score possible in football is 10-1. That requires a one-point defensive safety (which would never realistically happen) and then it would require two more safeties for the leading team without any other points. You could simulate a million games and that score wouldn...

As a follower of the whole Scorigami craze, I noticed that there is just one game in NFL history where a team scored exactly 4 points. Racine Legion 10, Chicago Cardinals 4. And it happened exactly 100 years ago next week. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/192311250crd.htm Believe it ...

It seemed that back then once a team fell behind in the SB they would panic and wilt. I remembered someone saying then that if teams would treat it more like a regular season game and not get into the hype they would be better off. I wonder if teams have made a point to take that approach in the pa...

They've had some memorable moments in recent years, too. I think it was 2007 where the game came down to a field goal with :00 left in overtime? [Edit: Nope, 2003.] And then 2011 had Victor Cruz's 99-yd reception that turned around that game and got the Giants to 8-7, and of course they won the Supe...