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FWIW, This is what the spreadsheets I have look like, which is very close but not identical to the PBP on PF-R. Again, I don't know where I got these, exactly, or who did them (surely someone here did), but consistency would be something to consider. Screenshot 2025-04-08 120249.png That looks the ...

https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-s-official-records-to-finally-incorporate-all-america-football-conference-statistics Is this an April Fool's Joke? That's what I thought, too. I'm holding my breath before breaking out the champagne. Although the NFL doesn't really have a sense of humor... What's next? ...

ChrisBabcock wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 1:20 pm https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-s-official ... statistics

Is this an April Fool's Joke?

Well, my memory isn''t what it used to be. I looked on the Internet Wayback Machine and found the old website for The Football Project and it says was founded in 1998 by Sean Lahman and Todd Grenier. I think Patrick Gilligan was involved at some point and created the software for entering the play-b...

I thought they had wanted to do it years ago but didn't have enough volunteers to do it. Maybe I am thinking of something else though...I just know it had to do with play by play or gamebooks. It was called the Football Project and was run by Patrick Gilligan was now runs the Football Database webs...

I have just been looking at the Gamebook for the Dolphins @ Browns game from this weekend. Specifically the penalties. I believe there is an error. The gamebook reports the penalties for Cleveland to be 9 for 84 yards. When I add their penalties up I get it to be 9 for 94 yards. It appears the issu...

The PFRA linescores (and Neft's totals) were cobbled together decades ago when there were very limited resources - newspapers, gamebooks, official game-by-game stats - so they are not going to be 100% accurate.
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So that's how they won the Super Bowl - by playing a bunch of sub .500 teams in the playoffs!

Here are the minor league (NFL Europe, XFL, UFL, etc.) players from the current era who have played in the Super Bowl: Keith Adams David Akers Chris Akins Jay Alford Willie Andrews Joe Andruzzi Brendon Ayanbadejo Remi Ayodele Oliver Barnett Vic Beasley Ken Bell Atari Bigby Diyral Briggs Gregg Briggs...

Here is a complete list of minor league players from the 1961-1971 era who played in then Super Bowl: Bobby Bryant Dick Capp Earl Christy Jim Clack John Dockery Jack Dolbin Jim Duncan Frank Gallagher Cornelius Johnson Curt Knight Bob Kuechenberg Charlie Leigh Bob Lurtsema Dave Manders Carl McAdams C...