Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

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 ...

Starting the very year of Lombardi's first World Champion squad, and ending with that infamous 'dead-ball' year - which ended with the first Super Bowl under a Dome - and all the seasons in-between, who are YOUR Top 10 teams? And your WORST 10 teams? Teams that didn't win a title can be included on ...

Contrary to what SO MANY people who know me who know that I'm a Steelers-fan, I am NOT a Penguins-fan; nor Pirates-fan either. I'm still traumatized over 1960 despite the event being more than a decade before my birth! And does 'A Bronx Tale' EVER so remind me!! I am a Steelers and Yankees fan. Some...

What's ur take on Bananas', 74_75_78_79? Lost his desire? Not the same after injuries, or simply one of the first 90s players to check out after a big payday? Many free agents would follow the same example ... All I know is, end of day, he was a one-year-and-change-wonder. Just the same, not just a...

Good discussion on 1992. I felt Sharpe in GB carried his team as much as Foster in Pitts. Smith and Young had great seasons as well but when a QB leads a team to 14 wins, he will usually get more attention ... Foster had that great season but after two more injury plagued seasons, was out of footba...