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Anecdotally...I remember once reading somewhere (maybe an article from the '30s or '40s) that the reason the NFL didn't move the posts to the back of the EZ (as college teams had, evidently sometime in the '20s) was because it wanted to cut down on the number of tie games. Placekicking being what i...

Tony Canadeo Good one. I think he's the most obscure 1,000-yard rusher from the days when that was still a rare accomplishment -- i.e., before Jim Brown and Jim Taylor. Feathers is remembered because he was the first; Spec Sanders because he was the first to average 100 yards per game; Van Buren wa...

I have Lowe as being 29 at the start of the 1965 season, so I don't have him on my list. But perhaps that's a technicality. According to pro-football-reference, Lowe turned 30 in September 1966, so calling him 29 in 1965 doesn't seem like a technicality. I thought of Dick Bass and Floyd Little, but...

Name the player... - I played for exactly 2 teams in my 9 year career. Both teams from the same division. - My team won the league championship 3 times. - I was a player on offense. - I was a teammate of two Hall of Fame quarterbacks - I was a teammate of one Hall of Fame running back. Bob Talamini...

Philosophically, they did call more groundings but fewer than I saw happen. A QB can fiht, flail, play 100% while a defender who has to go 80% when he gets near a QB so there is a competitive disadvantage to begin with, and if a QB can just flip the ball away inside the pocket like they can now out...

"Eliminating the pocket requirement might help quarterbacks avoid the types of hits that produce injuries." I don't think that's true. It seemed to me that they called intentional ground more last year than any time in the last decade or so (which means like once every two games, but still...

JohnTurney wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:52 pm

Sonny9 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:16 pm Name the players with 4 seasons in a row having at least 800 yards receiving and a 20.0 yard average
I found 2

Stanley Morgan has to be one. Always followed the 20+ yard guys

Yep, 1978-81, exactly 10 years after Garrison did it.

Sonny9 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:16 pm Name the players with 4 seasons in a row having at least 800 yards receiving and a 20.0 yard average
I found 2

One is Gary Garrison, 1968-71. And Buddy Dial (1960-63) just missed, averaging 19.6 one year and 19.8 another.

Paul Warfield would've qualified if he hadn't missed three games in 1970.

Jim Taylor Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's in there. I was going to nominate himself a few posts back, but somehow I got it into my head that the number mentioned in the original question was FORTY rather than 20. I'm sure Taylor hit 20, and probably somebody else did before O.J. too. Sayers or Leroy Ke...

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