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The first of the obvious candidates I'll mention is his actual NFL World Championship with Philly in 1960. But being that GB was still a year away - already a pretty good team, but they got to the LCG basically by default - Buck's '48 & '49 SF teams may actually be stronger considering the obvio...

Great responses as always! I guess you can say that the '36 Redskins are like the '68 Vikings. Mediocre but get eliminated by a juggernaut (Colts in Minny's case) by not as bad a margin as you'd think. And then the following year they're championship-caliber, Washington winning-it-all in their case....

There are two receiver seasons that I have been noticing a parallel about lately: Cooper Kupp in 2021, and Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch in 1951. Both players played for the Rams in Los Angeles. Both players were named a pro bowl and first team all pro in their season. Both players led the lea...

Of course this was the first NFL season ever in which no franchise folded nor a new one debuted and, also, ALL teams playing the same amount of games, at 12 each. So much for "back in the old days they'd never cancel a game no matter the weather". The year before, the Boston at Philly game...

Here's another... Two of the HCs who I played for in my career are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The very first HC whom I played for would go on to muster a career total W-L %age at just above-300. The first 2 TDs that I'd throw in my second-last season would be in a game against the team that'...

Dick Nolan and Bum Phillips, two HCs who led each of their previous teams to multiple playoff appearances (2 back-to-back CCGs each), failed to do so in each stint in the Big Easy. The same goes for both SB-winning HCs, Hank Stram and Mike Ditka. Both failed to lead the Saints to the playoffs when i...

If God came down to Earth and told me that the 1941 Chicago Bears were - for their time, era-for-era, "pound-for-pound", "adjusting inflation", etc - the Number One Professional Football Team of All Time hence better than the 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers, I would be bummed, a little ...

I think the 66 Giants were worst of the worst. They didn’t have the expansion excuse of Tampa and were a more veteran team than those early Raiders Very good point! No "excuses", but IMO those two early AFL ( new , lesser league at the time) Raider teams mentioned, and of course who I fee...

"Adjusting inflation", as I'd say. It seems to me that it's down to those two as for who the 'Best-EVER' Bears team is! Yes, you got 1963. Superior defense! But, perhaps, can be seen as a 2000 Ravens pre-cursor considering their extreme defense-heavy-ness. '34 & '43 can be seen as 'twi...

Down-the-stretch, no, maybe still not as good as the surrounding years, but playoff-caliber by then just the same. But the 1-4 start did them in. Losing at the Vet, MNF? Sort of a bit understandable in that the Eagles started well that year, and they were due to have their way with them if just for ...