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Richard Sherman went off at length a few years ago about how impossible it is for players to be physically ready to play Thursday after a Sunday game. Even for the most finely conditioned athletes in the world, the aches and bruises from the previous game are still healing. Throw in how dire the Thu...

That 2010 GB-NE Sunday nighter is the game I always think of whenever anyone claims that there's no such thing as moral victories. The trouble is that most moral victories can’t be recognized as such until well after the fact. But if you ask the players on almost any Super Bowl champion team, they p...

Yep. It's been established previously, but never made more clear: It was a fantastically lucky play, but not the least bit illegal.

(Keep in mind the Giants were also 10-6 and they didn’t play each other, so why didn’t SF get the tiebreaker)? I presume it's because they had the better conference record (8-4 vs. 7-5). San Francisco held the advantage in both points for/against and record against common opponents, but I believe t...

During the last decade of his career, Earl Morrall was 33-4-1 (.892) as a starter.

The last time a field goal attempt of less than 20 yards was missed in an NFL game was Dec. 29, 2002, when a 19-yard try by Houston’s Kris Brown was blocked by Tennessee’s Tank Williams.

Some sportswriter referred to Cousins as "the Costco hot dog of NFL quarterbacks," meaning tasty in the moment but no good for you in the long run. I can't disagree. It's hard to know who to compare him to when looking for a historical antecedent, because most QBs of his caliber from earli...

If there are such things as make-up calls, the Cousins one was to compensate Chicago for the earlier reversal of the fumble/backward pass recovery.

49ers punter Jim McCann was born in 1949, as I imagine a few of his teammates were. The actor Ed O'Neill worked in a steel mill before being signed as a free agent by the Steelers (he never played for them). If any players of native descent played for Washington, I haven't been able to find them. I ...

The Giants, at 14-18 the two years after 1990, might belong in the discussion.