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Former Packers tackle Steve Wright (who also spent time with the Giants, Redskins, Bears, and Cardinals) died June 1 at age 82.

Fun fact: Wright was the model for the statue that now accompanies the NFL's Man of the Year award.

I was always surprised to read about how bad of a game Super Bowl V supposedly was because growing up watching Super Sunday the NFL Films clip made it out to be a pretty epic game, a Super Bowl comes down to the last second field goal that's pretty high drama. Then the aftermath with Lilly's record...

The Packers had their chances to sneak by Dallas. Stenerud missed a PAT that would have made it 23-20 Dallas early in the 4th quarter, and they ended up chasing that point the rest of the game. In the 3rd, Green Bay had also reached the Dallas 15 and 16, but had to settle for field goals both times.

Dickey's recovery was hampered by a number of factors, some of which were due to the incompetence of the doctors treating him. His injury was horrific, but he shouldn't have been out of commission for two entire years.

My immediate thought was the 1978 Packers … if you don’t count Lynn Dickey, who wasn’t active that season. But I forgot that Bobby Douglass was on that team. Douglass wasn't acquired until the season had already started, so the Packers' quarterbacks going into the first game were Whitehurst (two ca...

I'm eager to hear how a 14-2 team that routed its three playoff opponents by an average score of 34-14 -- and that had playoff wins the season before and the season after -- can be considered a fluke.

Looking into this, I realized that there are a lot more cases than I ever suspected, due in part to how frequently players changed numbers in the NFL’s early years. Some are sort of fluky, such as John Unitas and Lance Alworth both wearing 19 for the Chargers. But even if you restrict it to the numb...

Paul Flatley, wide receiver for the Vikings and Falcons and 1963 NFL Rookie of the Year, died March 15 at 84.

https://www.vikings.com/news/paul-flatl ... f-the-year

The death at age 77 of Al Matthews, safety for the Packers, Seahawks, and 49ers, was announced March 11.

https://www.packers.com/news/former-pac ... dies-at-77

Dan Endy, a founding partner of NFL Films, died Feb. 16 at 95.

https://obituaries.startribune.com/obit ... 1092744612