Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

I'll go decade by decade as I see it. 1940s: I look at 1940 as a monumental year with the introduction of the revamped T-formation which would sweep across the league, placing the quarterback as the single most important position on offenses. 1950s: In '49 the free substitution rule further solidifi...

Daisy, daisy, give me your answer doooooooo

I'm just thinking KC's luck has to run out at SOME point. Look, the breaks go both ways over time. Maybe this SB is the one where the punt bounces off of Nikko's leg? Maybe Sunday Travis is the one who drops the well drawn up 2 pt conversion? (A man can dream, can't he?) Or the 4th down spot of the ...

What about the telecast? Have you made this report after having seen a copy?

He had to be held in the grasp. If contact was made and the ball carrier fell without being in the grasp, he could get up and continue.

NFL Films bought the Tel Ra pro football back catalogue around 1980. I think they paid $20K? This is why in the '80s we started to see those 1950s player profiles that pulled extensively from the Tel Ra footage. I don't remember the Cachiotti story about retrieving Tel Ra reels from the dumpster. If...

Kicking FGs with a groin pull sounds like a challenging endeavor, yet Vince kept sending him out there.

Schenkel was good on golf and bowling, the whispering sports. He had a hard time turning the knob up to 10 for football when it was needed.
Tended to sound like he was sitting back in an easy chair instead of on the edge of his seat. I thought Marty Glickman's energy was more suited for football.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t punting in the 1930’s used very differently than it is now? Oh, yeah. It was often used as an offensive weapon, because in those days field position could be more important than possession of the ball. The football itself was bigger and harder to handle, so fumbl...

It still amazes me that broadcasts of the 1961 NFL Title Game and 1962 AFL Title Games, for example, are in circulation but we still can't get a complete film of the first Super Bowl, which came five years later. Film? You mean tape? NFL Films put together a nice complete game film synched to the r...