Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

Broncos vs. Redskins Super Bowl XXVI. That would have been another disaster for Denver.

I am surprised that this factoid is so obscure, considering Fraser predated the Gogolak's. I found a photo of Fraser soccer-styling a kickoff in 1962; but I did not know he did this until you mentioned it just now. Even in my Barely Audible book which details the AFL Denver Broncos and has a profil...

the PFWA-NY's Kapp in 69 and Alworth in 65, shows a bit of a different take. Those type of selections make things interesting. In addition to Kapp's N.Y. Chapter award and Detroit News POY honor, I have him down for these: *1969 NFL Player of the Year* Touchdown Club of Utica, NY Pro Football Guide...

I stand corrected. It's been a long time since I looked and forgot - when they announced the PFWA All-Pro team they named Starr MVP, Roland ROY and Landry Coach. If I'd have just looked at the spreadsheet, I'd have known . . . so both the NY chapter and the PFWA as a whole had awards. So I need to ...

That's interesting, thanks for checking. At this point I'm leaning toward N.Y. Chapter award only. Also, if they want to get technical---didn't become MVP until 1969. Was POY before that, but it is my view that the terms were interchangeable then. I don't think UPI was NOT choosing the MVP by desig...

1. When the winners were announced in 1966 it was "by the New York Chapter of the Pro Football Writers' Association." 2. If they have information that says it was by the PFWA as a whole, I am not aware of it. It's possible they have internal files that show it was an association-wide awar...

Question: Was Bart Starr's 1966 PFWA MVP selection a N.Y. Chapter award only or was it a vote of the full membership? The PFWA website lists Starr as their first MVP winner in 1966 (none of the N.Y. Chapter award winners are credited): https://www.profootballwriters.org/on-field-awards/pfwa-nfl-most...

The hits keep coming, thanks John. There's alot there to chew on, particularly the Miami TD Club POY awards; 1969 Calvin Hill - NFL Rookie of the Year plus POY over Roman Gabriel 1972 Larry Csonka - His only regular season POY award (that I know of) ... Probably the only accolade that Larry Brown di...

JohnTurney wrote: Bradshaw also won Miami Touchdown Club Award.

Thanks for that. I've never seen a list of Miami TD winners (Namath in '68 where he made his famous guarantee). I'll have to re-check your Modern Years All- Pro book. Blanda's 1970 trophy was auctioned off a few years ago.

These minor awards are interesting. I first took notice when going through old media guides. They would mention the postseason honors of a player and if a guy didn't get many - maybe one from a small club I'd want the whole list and go down that rabbit hole on microfilm. With the Long Island club t...