Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

What is needed is a one announcer game. Play by Play only, no "color". Also, if MLS can broadcast games with no commercials during a half, no reason why the NFL cant at least try it once. Actually, NBC followed up its "Silence Bowl" with a one announcer game on December 12, 1981...

Forty years ago today, on a Friday evening on June 22, 1979, Bob Carroll and five other pro football historians gathered at the Hall of Fame in Canton to form the Professional Football Researchers Association. In the upcoming Coffin Corner, there's an interview with one of those six founders, Joe Ho...

Tanks, pardon the pun when I say "tanks very much" for bringing it to our attention that we didn't have a listing for the Pre-NFL Committee (BTW, my son and I visited Ironton and Portsmouth quite a few times last year when he was living near Ashland KY). Roy confirmed that he's still the c...

A friend from another site mentioned we used to have a pre-NFL committee headed up by Roy Sye. Does anyone have any info on this? Could he be mistaken? If not, was whatever used to be up on the site archived? Thanks. http://www.profootballresearchers.org/pfra-committees.htm I'm not sure what happen...

Maybe in 1976 putting the Bucs in the East, and moving Baltimore or maybe Buffalo to the Central might make better sense. This way, Miami and Tampa Bay would have a geographic rivalry. Miami managed to have good rivalries with the Bills, Jets and Patriots despite the fact they're all over 1,000 mil...

What most current fans don't remember is that during their first year (1976), the Seahawks were in the NFC. And until they went back to the NFC, the Seahawks used to be the answer to a trivia question-- "What NFC team never lost to an AFC team?" While in the NFC in '76, they played agains...

wow. The subject of what those other alignment plans looked like has always been of interest to me. So, to sum up, if the Cardinals agreed to the above plan, this would have happened? What was their opposition to it? And also, why was the agreed upon plan SO far out of whack geographically? (Cowboy...

A lot of us know the story about how Pete Rozelle's secretary, Thelma Elkjer, helped determine the NFL's alignment for the next 30 years by pulling a number out of a vase. The 13 NFC owners had been gone for almost three days trying to agree on who went to which division, before Rozelle settled the ...

I have "tracked" 927 blocked XP kicks from 1920-2017. I saw your post earlier in the thread for the period from 1994 to 2014 (103 blocked during that 21 season period of a little more than 5,000 games, a little less than 1 out of every 50 games). I'm not sure if I've got my arithmetic rig...

I'd add that this is probably one of the many instances where nobody has done any tracking-- not yet, anyway. One thing about researching pro football history (as opposed to, say, baseball history) is that there's still a lot of stuff out there that hasn't been researched. It may be an exaggeration ...