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Neft-Cohen's Pro Football: The Early Years lists all NFL players and their years of military service (pp. 160-161). Here are the totals by year: 1941--44 (we tend to forget that the draft started in late 1940) 1942--202 1943--376 1944--418 1945--358 How many of those were stateside and still played?

Name the two players. My last year was his first year and we played on the same team. That team is not the team we are known to play for. The team we are known to play for, is the same team. We each played over 15 seasons. We are not skill position players. added - Although tall for our position, w...

I think the '65 Packers are rated too high. the good The pass defense is what makes their team successful imo. 27 ints with 4 pick sixes. +24 in turnovers. 19 less penalties than their opponents and 148 less penalty yards the bad Out gained by 368 yards. Returned 22 punts of 60 punts for a 3.0 avg w...

Name the two players. My last year was his first year and we played on the same team. That team is not the team we are known to play for. The team we are known to play for, is the same team. We each played over 15 seasons. We are not skill position players. added - Although tall for our position, we...

Stadiums used them later ... the offset legs. The rule you are talking about is the invention of the Y-shape (one leg) rather than the H-shape. There were offset H-shapes in the NFL way before 1966. The rule you are talking about also made them yellow --- they were white before. Others can fill in ...

"Not much changed for the next 33 years until 1966 when a resolution was adopted by the NFL owners that required the goal posts to be offset from the goal line and should extend 20 feet in the air." 1939 Championship game. The goal posts are offset. I wonder why it didn't kick in to keep ...

I was just looking at some pix from SABR's analytics conference. I don't think I could spot one presenter or attendee who looked to be older than 30. And to be honest, most of them looked like the kind of guys who always got picked last on the playground, if they played at all. They're into the gee...

Longer season and Thursday games play into the injuries

I forgot that Steve Freeman was a VIking. Was he a replacement player? Otto Graham made a lot of questionable decisions, but trading away Krause may have been his worst. Does anyone know the circumstances of why the Redskins sent him to Minnesota? Apparently, Redskins’ defensive backfield coach Ed ...

NYJ safety Marcus Maye, 104 yds vs. Denver 2018. Last play of the game. He zig-zagged all over the field and was finally tackled at the 1-yd line, so he probably actually ran 150 yds. Correct and it was one hecka of a hustle play by Sutton to bring him down I'm still waiting on my prize (case of La...