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I know you guys don't agree. but the 96 Pack were an overrated team (although slightly better than the 97 version). Denver and Jacksonville would have defeated them, and the Pats could have as well if Parcells' heart was in it (a Pat fan on Reddit said that he may have threw that SB. He had one foo...

Most of us are pikers compared to Brian--he's on the cusp of cranking out 4,000 posts. He's already got a freezer full of PFRA kielbasa. Don't know about the Labatts; seems more like a Johnny Walker Black guy to me. Anyway, I think the Lions, after a slow start, will be a 10-7 or 11-6 team this year...

....my 1,000th post. Took me 5 years to get here. I was gonna save it for when the Lions won the Super Bowl, but cemetery officials have assured me you can't post when you're six feet under. Anyway, woo-hoo. I assume the traditional 10 double-rings of kielbasa (fresh, not smoked) and case of Labatts...

I think if they had met in a Super Bowl...they'd both lose.

In my own head, not necessarily for historic purposes, I have it as follows. 1978-81: NFL as I experienced it first-hand as a kid. No franchise moves, just one stadium change (Rams to Anaheim). What I didn’t understand at the time was the rule change that helped define the era. Reasonable parity wi...

I generally think of the first and last years of the 1950s and '60s as convenient bookends to certain eras: In 1950 you have the absorption of the AAFC into the NFL, and from 1951 through 1959 the league settles into a 12-team/12-game pattern. NFL starts to take off thanks to TV and integrated roste...

Sounds interesting. I'm curious whether the University of Chicago Press passed on it or you thought Nebraska was a better fit?

Speaking of Schmidt, I enjoy seeing him as the LIons HC in the film "Paper Lion". Joe is/was a great subject for a biography. He was a natural leader and had a great dry wit and played during the best era in football (as he often said). At one point I was thinking of approaching him about...

Looking at PFR, I see that in 1971 Bob Lee started 4 games at QB for the Vikes (threw 90 passes for the season) and led the NFL with 89 punts.

Tupa never was a full-time punter or QB at the same time. He was either one or the other.

Lem Barney comes to mind. He was the Lions' regular punter in 1969 while also making 1st Team All-Pro at CB. Also returned a punt for a TD that year. Somewhere on this site (too lazy to find it) somebody started a similar thread. I brought up Jim O'Brien of the Cols and Lions of the early '70s, and ...