RichardBak wrote:Brian wolf wrote:I still dont understand why Brown wasnt eligible against GB in the playoff game ?
NFL by-laws at the time didn't allow any player who wasn't on the active roster the last 2 weeks of the season to play in the postseason. I remember that game so well, with Tom Matte wearing that "peep sheet" on his wrist (first time I'd ever seen such a thing) and Chandler's controversial kick in OT. Bob Boyd was the back-up QB should Matte get injured. Boyd had played QB at Oklahoma.
Man, the Colts were snake-bit throughout the 1960s---'64, '65, '67, and of course '68.
I had the wrong George H. George Harold was a DB. George Haffner was the 3rd stringer on the taxi squad. The Colts were able to activate him for week 14 as they did with Ed Brown. Haffner did not play.
I do think the waiving of Brown in week 14 is suspicious. Even if he was 3rd string on the worst team in the NFL. Maybe because he was 3rd string on the worst team in the NFL. So I don't feel bad about the controversial FG now.
There was a lot that changed in a couple of years. Goalposts raised, taxi squad rules changed, and the 1965 playoff never happens because the Packers already beat the Colts twice.
Those other games were blowouts, and didn't make a lot of sense. Especially 1964. The Browns defense was nothing special.