Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

The PFRA is launching a new initiative called the “Biography Project.” The intention of the project is to engage PFRA members to write biographies of former professional football players, head coaches, owners, founders, or commissioners from the pre-NFL, AAFC, and AFL/NFL.

Our initial focus will be on the 1960’s Buffalo Bills, but we are open to members writing biographies on any players, head coaches, owners, founders, or commissioners from any pre-NFL, AAFC, and AFL/NFL teams they are interested to do.

The PFRA website will store and display the biographies for members to utilize in their research or just for their pleasure. The project aligns well with the mission of the PFRA to continue to capture and disseminate the history of professional football.

The project will be overseen by a small Biography Committee that includes George Bozeka, Jeff Miller, and Greg Tranter.

We have developed guidelines for the biographies so there is some degree of consistency across all of them. See Authors’ Guidelines for PFRA Biography Project on the PFRA website (Biography Committee page). We will also utilize the PFRA Publications Author Guidelines to guide our work. This is also on the PFRA website's Biography Committee page.

We are excited to introduce this new project and encourage all members to participate.

This will be an ongoing project.

If you are interested in writing a biography on a Buffalo Bills player, head coach, owner or founder from the AFL or any other professional football players, head coaches, owners, founders, or commissioners please contact Greg Tranter at gtranter@townisp.com.

Link to the Biography Committee page on the PFRA website: http://profootballresearchers.com/biogr ... ittee.html

I apologize, most of the questions I asked are answered in the material Ken linked to his announcement.
(Always read the fine print, Jay)

But it still might be advisable to coordinate between committees.
It'd be bad if there was a contradiction between biographies...


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Might one ask how this is going to mesh with the Hall of (the) Very Good biographies?
Should (for example) Ron McDole be elected to the HoVG this year which committee will write his biography?

Will the biographies be identical?
Or will there be different biographies with different word counts and objectives?

I am not criticizing (I think this is a great project!)...
I'm just wondering how we might coordinate between committees if necessary.

JuggernautJ wrote:I apologize, most of the questions I asked are answered in the material Ken linked to his announcement.
(Always read the fine print, Jay)

But it still might be advisable to coordinate between committees.
It'd be bad if there was a contradiction between biographies...


Old:
Might one ask how this is going to mesh with the Hall of (the) Very Good biographies?
Should (for example) Ron McDole be elected to the HoVG this year which committee will write his biography?

Will the biographies be identical?
Or will there be different biographies with different word counts and objectives?

I am not criticizing (I think this is a great project!)...
I'm just wondering how we might coordinate between committees if necessary.

HOVG bios are much shorter than the bios for the Biography committee.

My suggestion is that both committees should talk to each other to ensure that there is not a duplication of effort. a HOVG bio would be a good stepping stone for a longer bio. Similarly, a bio from the Biography committee can be condensed to a HOVG bio.