Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

I have just been looking at the Gamebook for the Dolphins @ Browns game from this weekend. Specifically the penalties. I believe there is an error. The gamebook reports the penalties for Cleveland to be 9 for 84 yards. When I add their penalties up I get it to be 9 for 94 yards. It appears the issu...

The PFRA linescores (and Neft's totals) were cobbled together decades ago when there were very limited resources - newspapers, gamebooks, official game-by-game stats - so they are not going to be 100% accurate.
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So that's how they won the Super Bowl - by playing a bunch of sub .500 teams in the playoffs!

Here are the minor league (NFL Europe, XFL, UFL, etc.) players from the current era who have played in the Super Bowl: Keith Adams David Akers Chris Akins Jay Alford Willie Andrews Joe Andruzzi Brendon Ayanbadejo Remi Ayodele Oliver Barnett Vic Beasley Ken Bell Atari Bigby Diyral Briggs Gregg Briggs...

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 C...

Here's a list of former semi-pro players who went on to play or coach in the Super Bowl. I compiled it for my Semi-Pro Football History FB group, and thought it might interest this audience too. Semi-pro records are spotty at best, so I'd be interested to hear any errors or omissions. Mike Bass (De...

It's well worth the investment and of course they should charge for it. I agree 1000% with that though I do bemoan that many libraries seem to be getting rid of old microfilm and microfiche. I used to get old SF Chronicles (40's and 50's) on microfilm from the OSU library in the 90's, now it's gone...

Thanks for the all kinds words about the Archives. I hope to make an announcement in the near future about what will happen to my data. It does NOT involve reviving the Archives web site.

Yes, I have permanently shut down the Pro Football Archives website.

This is significant and someone else will have to answer. In the early 2010s the NFL eliminated miscellaneous yardage ... it all has to be accounted for. It cost one gay a sack because of a FF and where it was recovered ... past the LOS. For some reason it was not able to be accounted for. I never ...