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I also brought up Gowdy's "real SB" take beginning of the AFCCG. Miami and Minnesota should have been seen by most as the top-two teams in the league going into that very game. Vikes 12-2, just beat Cowboys in Big D, 27-10, they did beat Oakland in the opener... PS - Yeah, perhaps on that ...

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Pretty exciting development on pro-football-reference.com, they now have posted individual sack totals dating back to 1960. Bob Lilly, Deacon Jones, Joe Greene, and so on, sacks are now included in their stats. Awesome. I am so glad to see that those old players will finally get the credit for thei...

Raiders blew the game without a doubt. Needed to run Dixon, Banazak or Hubbard more but hindsight is 20/20. Aaron Brown and Jerry Mays had monster games. I still cant believe Marsalis, a rookie, shut down Biletnikoff ? Lamonica's injuries in this game and the 70 AFC Championship, might have cost hi...

When GB hired LaFleur I said that within a couple of years they'll be trading Rodgers for picks. Especially after Clay Matthews was told "there wasn't any room" for him on the team anymore. I based my projection on the theory that coaches usually want their own era with their own quarterb...

1985 49ers brought everyone back on offense and added Jerry Rice! 60 sacks! Veteran defensive backfield by that time, which is intact. Hacksaw retired, but he was ancient anyways and didn't do any pass coverage. Run defense was good still, avoided giving up TDs, but couldn't get off the field to an...

TanksAndSpartans wrote:I think CTE has been driving them in the opposite direction - I don't think they would go back to the 1990s let alone the 1890s.

So much for caring of the long-term effects of CTE.

That other thread ("How playoff home field was determined pre-1966") inspired this one. My understanding is that the playoff rotation from 1970 - 4 was pre-determined. I'm not sure why the N.F.L. decided to do things in that way in those years, but it did. It wasn't until 1975 that "...

Chuck Howley

I subscribe to Newspapers.com to read the Chicago Tribune but has anyone tried these archives?

https://newspaperarchive.com/free-newsp ... s-history/

I'm curious if this is a better route than reading an individual newspaper.