Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

I think the list is much better than I expected. The major surprise to me is no quarterbacks on the list. I was a bit puzzled by Donnie Shell, who made the top 15 list in the HOF balloting one time, as opposed to LC Greenwood, who twice was a finalist; I don't think either of them would have had muc...

Another death of a football related figure who had a motion picture made about him - Coach Herman Boone, the legendary Virginia high school football coach portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Remember the Titans", has passed away at the age of 84: https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/...

Hirsch also had the longest catch--which was on of the "categories" in the record book then a quintuple crown Hirsch also led the league in Points Scored with 102, Yards from Scrimmage with 1,498 yards , and he also scored at least a touchdown in every game during the season except for th...

Is Hirsch the only player in NFL history to lead in receptions, receiving yards, receiving TDs and yards per catch in the same season? No, Hutson also led in all four in 1936. I was curious about that myself and checked into that when I was compiling the 1951 Rams superlatives for the book and poin...

I don't have a good case for him either, I just never really questioned the "wisdom of crowds" view, although I agree on his PFR page, its mostly the one season that jumps out. I believe similar has been said about Warfield and the defense for him was pretty strong. Is there anyone who wi...

Now that I think about it, near the end of the ESPN Monday Night Pregame show last night, Suzy Kolber mentioned that Moss was on of the NFL 100 team, so apparently the names had already been leaked, or maybe they were announced during the ESPN pregame show. I just caught the last 20 minutes or so.

There was that early 90's Bruce Willis film "The Last Boy Scout" which opened with a drugged up running back sneaking a loaded pistol onto the field during a professional football game and shooting all the defenders who were trying to tackle him as he was running down the field with the b...

I would take off Berry, Crazylegs, and Harrison. I would replace them with Swann, Stallworth, and Steve Smith. As a Steelers fan, even I can't agree with that. If forced to choose between Swann and Stallworth, it would be a tough choice but I would choose Stallworth. Both were tremendous postseason...

There was that early 90's Bruce Willis film "The Last Boy Scout" which opened with a drugged up running back sneaking a loaded pistol onto the field during a professional football game and shooting all the defenders who were trying to tackle him as he was running down the field with the ba...

I brought that topic up in my book, the sudden leap in league rushing average between 2017 and 2018, where it increased a third of a yard from 4.084 YPC in 2017 to 4.416 in 2018. In 2019, after 14 weeks, it has dropped a little, to 4.305. I mentioned the pretty steady increase between 1994 and 2012,...