COFFIN CORNER VOLUME 44 NUMBER 6
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2023 11:36 pm
The latest issue of the Coffin Corner is now available for immediate download from the PFRA website. The issue contains the following:
PFRA-ternizing. An announcement on three speakers added to the 2023 Pittsburgh Convention and an update on The Official PFRA Podcast.
The Trade That Kept On Giving: Tarkenton to Giants Built a Powerhouse by Stew Thornley. The Viking odyssey of Hall of Fame quarterback Fran Tarkenton, who was selected by Minnesota in 1961 in its inaugural NFL season, traded away to New York in 1967, only to return to Minneapolis in 1972 to find a much better team than the one he left. The reason they were much improved? The two trades of Tarkenton himself.
1972 Through the Eyes of This Week in Pro Football by Jeff Eby. A week-by-week chronology of the 1972 NFL regular season as witnessed by TWIPF co-hosts Tom Brookshier and Pat Summerall, TV viewers from fifty years ago, and our very own time-traveling author, who covers the historical, the trivial and other random moments from that year.
Warren Heller and the Reading Keystones by Gordon Dedman. Warren Heller was a unanimous All-American halfback at the University of Pittsburgh who held all the Panthers rushing records until Tony Dorsett came along. Heller would eventually go on to play for the NFL’s Pirates (as the Steelers were known as then) for three mostly uneventful seasons. Between those two stints, he would star for the Reading (PA) Keystones of the Interstate League.
No Bark and No Bite: The 1949 New York Bulldogs by Matthew Keddie. New York City. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, or so they say. If you can’t, well, you may be the Bulldogs, quite possibly the worst pro football team to call the Big Apple home. This is the story of their ignoble 1949 season, after they were the Boston Yanks, and before they became the New York Yanks, where they managed a 1–10–1 record, worst in the NFL.
PFRA-ternizing. An announcement on three speakers added to the 2023 Pittsburgh Convention and an update on The Official PFRA Podcast.
The Trade That Kept On Giving: Tarkenton to Giants Built a Powerhouse by Stew Thornley. The Viking odyssey of Hall of Fame quarterback Fran Tarkenton, who was selected by Minnesota in 1961 in its inaugural NFL season, traded away to New York in 1967, only to return to Minneapolis in 1972 to find a much better team than the one he left. The reason they were much improved? The two trades of Tarkenton himself.
1972 Through the Eyes of This Week in Pro Football by Jeff Eby. A week-by-week chronology of the 1972 NFL regular season as witnessed by TWIPF co-hosts Tom Brookshier and Pat Summerall, TV viewers from fifty years ago, and our very own time-traveling author, who covers the historical, the trivial and other random moments from that year.
Warren Heller and the Reading Keystones by Gordon Dedman. Warren Heller was a unanimous All-American halfback at the University of Pittsburgh who held all the Panthers rushing records until Tony Dorsett came along. Heller would eventually go on to play for the NFL’s Pirates (as the Steelers were known as then) for three mostly uneventful seasons. Between those two stints, he would star for the Reading (PA) Keystones of the Interstate League.
No Bark and No Bite: The 1949 New York Bulldogs by Matthew Keddie. New York City. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, or so they say. If you can’t, well, you may be the Bulldogs, quite possibly the worst pro football team to call the Big Apple home. This is the story of their ignoble 1949 season, after they were the Boston Yanks, and before they became the New York Yanks, where they managed a 1–10–1 record, worst in the NFL.