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1999 Elway’s retirement made 3peat talk for DEN impossible The Falcons seemed to have “yeah but” one hit wonder vibes Safe to say the Rams were the longest of longshots This was ESPN's predictions for 1999 in form of power rankings; https://a.espncdn.com/nfl/preview99/rankings.html They had Jackson...

You are what your record says you are.

I would say 1987 is the one season in which this rule didn't apply.

That's an interesting final outcome for the NFC West they have there. Two 8-8s and two 7-9s.

I'm currently reading "The Sunday Game" by Keith McClellan and came across and interesting rule from the pre-APFA/NFL days that I've never heard of before. Instead of attempting an extra point from where the ball crossed the goal line for the touchdown (which may be from a bad angle) the t...

and their three-year run may have been assisted by NBC

What?

Is there any chance the committee's vote to trim the list of nominees down to 20 would be made public? If not, no big deal. I'm only curious. Chris, not sure I fully understand your question, but allow me to shed some light. Over the past 2-3 years, we've received over 100 nominees each year from t...

Is there any chance the committee's vote to trim the list of nominees down to 20 would be made public? If not, no big deal. I'm only curious.

Their postseason opponents were definitely on the less challenging side of things (Atlanta and Detroit in 1991 show up as fairly average teams statistically, but with better records than their stats, and the Bills team they faced was arguably the weakest of the four Super Bowl Bills teams), they al...

Really quick guesses...
3. 2004 (Manning, Rivers, Roethlisberger)
5. 1985 (Rice, Reed)

I've voted for him when he made the ballot not too long ago. Honestly I am surprised he is not in the HOVG. I agree that Stratton was pretty good. He was also on the two Bills' AFL title winning teams - 1964 & 1965. I usually nominate him year after year unless someone beats me to him. Stratton...