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I was four years old in 1963 so I never saw Fleming play. In fact, I never heard of him until several years ago when a buddy of mine asked me a trivia question that Fleming was the answer to. I think he asked me what Blue Bomber led the CFL in scoring in 1963. What??? Who the heck is George Fleming...

Very interesting stuff. A few observations from the 1960-79 list: - Pete Gogolak kicked a 57 yard FG in his first pro (exhibition) game on 8/8/64, but finished 1/18 lifetime from 50+ (beginners luck?) - Curt Knight only 2/14 from 50+ but hit a big one in the '72 NFC title game - Fred Cox only 2/24 f...

Overall I think it's a pretty good list (1-3 are no-brainers). Elway and Aaron Rodgers are very close. Elway gets the nod for now with 2 Super bowl wins and a record of 5-1 in conference championship games. Panelists received an information packet with stats and career accolades I would be curious t...

Bump ... I read this NFL.com article a couple days ago and found it somewhat interesting - even though the author used an "AP Only" approach. His claim that Jerry Rice never won an NFL MVP award really took the cake. Rice was the consensus MVP in '87 (ditto for Sanders in '97). He totally ...

Pioneer Bernie Custis, pro football's first designated starting black quarterback passed away yesterday at age 88. Custis started every game at QB for Hamilton in 1951 and led them to the IRFU Finals. https://www.thestar.com/sports/football/2017/02/23/trailblazing-black-quarterback-bernie-custis-dea...

I remember watching it when it premiered on TNT...just a wonderful documentary. Very well presented. I loved Joe Namath in it, just how expressive and passionate he was. Describing his contract negotiations...when he gave his salary demand and asked for a new car and the two Cardinals representativ...

There was no scheduling change made. The 12/27/77 Dallas Morning News said that the Broncos-Raiders game would be played starting at noon because "the NFL feared extremely low temperatures as well as snow and wind might become too great a factor with a late game at Mile High Stadium." The...

John Grasso wrote:The other night the MLB network had the 20 greatest games in MLB history and the earliest
was in 1975. Apparently if color videotape doesn't exist of a game it never happened.

How could they not include Game 7 of the 1960 World Series? Unreal.

I thought the more recent scan of the '62 Patriots highlight film answered this question. I wasn't aware of the film scan/screenshot. Until yesterday I had never seen any film or photo proof that confirmed the exact color of the logo. I'll have to go back and re-watch the '62 Patriots HL, though I ...

I just found this today, though photo confirmation concerning the exact color of the short-lived 1962 Broncos blue horse helmet logo was announced back in April (I seem to remember a thread about this in the old PFRA forum): http://www.denverbroncos.com/news-and-blogs/article-1/Uncovering-the-rare-1...