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This will help for most of it. I have the entire list of players through and including 2013 - reformatted so you can read it: I.E. last, first, team, year - unlike the format otherwise available. If you want a copy, ask. Remember to ask nicely. In the meantime, you can see if this helps. === It is ...

Thanx guys -- that book looks very interesting! And I'll have to dust off my copy of Neft!

Are there any books about the 1987 strike season, and in particular, lists of replacement players by team?

Yes, you can browse; just enter the URL with the date appended, thus:

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1963/11/23/

http://archives.chicagotribune.com

From the FAQ, the archives date back to 1849. For now, the (beta) archives are free. But that will change when the production version finally goes live -- so use it now while you can!

Forgive me if I've posted this before -- I can't recall what I posted on the old forum. If anyone can help identify some of these old coaches, I'm sure the host (Andrew Dart) would appreciate it:

http://www.akdart.com/vtr/vtr0.html

Have you guys seen this?

http://www.nfl.com/historyofscouting

I'm sure many of you already know these stories, but it was an eye opener for me. I agree scouts s/b in the HOF. And the closing Dick Donlin story is priceless!

Did the Rams have QB issues? Sure, but they always did. Nothing new there. Defensively, the Rams gave up fewer points than Dallas that year (309 to 313), but more important, their DPR was 64.7 to Dallas's 72.5. Sure, the game was in Dallas, but the Rams beat the Cowboys in Dallas in the 1976 playof...

And we're off... The Verdict Ford accomplished two things with these books: he wrote the first major work about the preseason and he managed to make it interesting. You will be both informed and entertained by reading them. A superior work of history, craft, and presentation, they will likely sit o...

Typo: the NFL ball was the F-1100, not F-100

And here is the direct link to the article about teh AFL ball:

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/06/17/nfl-histo ... lding-j5v/