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I've been meaning to post the question on this forum as to what happened to Bob Scarpitto's career. He didn't last long as a punter, despite leading the league in punting with phenomenal averages in '66 and '67. But Denver got rid of him after that year, and after one more ordinary season with Bosto...

"So, who won the game today? WHAT! Buffalo beat Miami?? You're sick, YOU'RE SICK!"

-Steve Martin, COMEDY IS NOT PRETTY, 1979

The defense was playoff caliber. The offense was quite possibly the worst ever fielded by an NFL team in the sixteen-game season era.

The 1977 San Diego Chargers had an undistinguished 7-7 season, but three of their wins had a significant impact on the playoff picture. Their early 24-3 win over the Bengals potentially eventually cost Cincinnati a divisional title and allowed Pittsburgh to steal the AFC Central. Their 14-13 squeake...

Oddity about the Seahawks-Patriots rivalry: from 1980-1993, the two teams met each other twelve times in those fourteen years. But they never played again in the eight following years they both shared a conference, and their next meeting was 2004, post-realignment, after Seattle defected to the NFC.

Mirer also set a record for passng yards by a rookie quarterback at the time. In 1994, the Seahawks started 3-1, including impressive routs of the Raiders and Steelers, and Mirer was looking every bit like a maturing NFL quarterback. Then, for some reason, the roof fell in on him.

In the third week of the 1992 season, Dick MacPherson's Patriots met Tom Flores' Seahawks in Foxboro. At the time, both teams probably didn't realize that they were going to finish the season as the league's two worst teams, although all the signs were there even this early. You wouldn't expect a ga...

Well, that was quick. I'll see if I can come up with something tougher.

I'm thinking of a team which lost to just one other team all season long (including the postseason) and yet failed to make the Super Bowl. Which squad and year am I thinking of?

Well, I can eliminate Harvey Johnson right away.