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Growing up in the Philadelphia area, I remember watching this slop fest in Joe Kuharich's last season. Joe must go was the watchword. Going into the game, the Eagles were the only winless team in pro football and headed the field in the race for the bottom to snag OJ Simpson with the top pick of the...

John Steffenhagen is the grandson of Leo Lyons and the inheritor of a great deal of Leo's memorabilia, stories and lore. His co-author of this book is Jeff Miller. As you would expect with a book by Jeff Miller, this volume is informative and entertaining. The research is impeccable and the writing ...

Landry moved Renfro to halfback and redid his offense for 1966 with the idea of injecting more speed to the attack. Renfro hurt his ankle, I believe at the end of preseason, so second year man Dan Reeves was made the starter. Reeves started playing like Paul Hornung: nifty running, great at catching...

Jeff would know since he has a terrific book coming out this year on Lyons, a sadly forgotten figure from the NFL's early days when he rubbed elbows with Thorpe and Halas and Ralph Hay et. al.

The '36 Giants lost two of their best players to the AFL, Harry Newman and Ken Strong, although Ed Danowski was an able replacement for Newman and rookie Tuffy Leemans stepped in for Strong. Overall, the team's talent base had declined. However, in 1937 the Giants had an amazing rookie haul that wou...

Here is a complete list of minor league players from the 1961-1971 era who played in then Super Bowl: Bobby Bryant Dick Capp Earl Christy Jim Clack John Dockery Jack Dolbin Jim Duncan Frank Gallagher Cornelius Johnson Curt Knight Bob Kuechenberg Charlie Leigh Bob Lurtsema Dave Manders Carl McAdams ...

Also, is anyone going to the screening of the SB I broadcast today?

https://www.paleycenter.org/events/2024 ... uper-bowl/

Bob Brown Packers, Wheeling Ironmen

DOH!

RichardBak wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:21 pm Karl Sweetan's very first NFL TD pass was a 99-yarder to Pat Studstill at Baltimore in 1966.

It was all downhill from there....

It was not his first NFL pass, but it was his first NFL TD pass. Came in his second appearance.