Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

The Western Conference was better year over year than the Eastern Conference. This year, the West won 13 of the 14 interconference games by a combined score of 437 to 205. The two were pretty evenly matched for years, but all that started to change in 1957. Between then and when the two conferences...

It too frequently gets awarded to the first year coach who improves his team 4-5 games from the previous season and sneaks them into the playoffs. "Coached a team that wasn't as awful as it was the year before" is too often the default rationale for the award. Dan Devine and Lindy Infante...

After some years in the wilderness, the Steelers and Pirates both became contenders at roughly the same time, won championships the same year (1979), and fell off sharply shortly thereafter.

Fourth-best run defense in the league = "garbage." Eleventh-best run offense in the league, even with appalling mediocrities like Levens and Bennett = "garbage." Fifth-best Super Bowl champ of all time, per ESPN = "one of the two worst."

I learn so much here!

What am I bid for the World Champions? Going once, going twice... Let's start a fund! I'm sure that if we all pool our loose change we can make a reasonable offer. (Reminds me of when Lorne Michaels/Saturday Night Live offered the Beatles $3,000 to reunite on their show...) https://www.nfl.com/news...

Yes, I think it was all hands on deck in the early days of NFL Films. You can hear Steve Sabol's distinctive voice as "random guy on the sidelines" in a few of their films. One esoteric note about team yearbooks: The older ones almost always used music from outside houses such as DeWolfe a...

I’ve not seen them all by any means, but the Packers films of my youth are probably funny. I’m sure there’s fawning montages to the coming stardom of Alphonso Carreker and Jessie Clark. Those are pretty great. That's where I learned that Gary Ellerson was "a solid contributor," Randy Wrig...

In a perverse way, some of my favorite ones are those where they go to ridiculous lengths portray something positive about bad teams. The 1977 Saints yearbook employs NFL Films' usual techniques for this (showing touchdowns from multiple angles, framing a late-season win as being far more dramatic t...

Just to note, he was Jim Flanigan, Jr. His son is Jim Flanigan III.

If the telecast of SB2 exists (I don't believe it does) and is in the hands of the league via NFL Films, I would think we'd have known about it by now. Or maybe they're still stung by the reaction to how badly they bungled their presentation of the SB1 telecast before putting out a revised version o...