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RichardBak wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:56 am Here in Detroit some Lion players have been caught not telling the truth.....

You win

I assume you're talking about defensive linemen, since Night Train Lane had 14 INTs in his first 12 games.

How about the 1932 team, which went 10-3-1 but finished THIRD, behind the 6-1-6 Bears and the 6-1-4 Spartans? Under today's method of counting ties, they would have won the championship. They had 5 Hall-of-Famers--Herber, Blood, Hinkle, Michalske, and Hubbard, plus two players, Lewellen and Dilweg, ...

Well, this newspaper source says he "does the 100 in 9.8."

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=j ... %2C2516127

The highlights I've seen of McElhenny - he looks like Barry Sanders in the open field. I'm not sure I've been so impressed with someone in terms of their open-field ability. McElhenny was the best open-field runner I ever saw until Sayers came long. He was fast, could cut in either direction on a d...

I saw McElhenny play on TV for the Giants in 1963. In the Week 7 game against the Browns he played a lot, and scored on a screen pass faking several Giants out. In other games you would occasionally see flashes of his old form. In the 1963 championship game against the Bears, McElhenny played almos...

I didn't even know they both still existed

Something else R.C. Owens did in football that is noteworthy... A famous picture of him was shot at the goal post crossbar with Owens using his amazing leaping ability to block a long field goal that would have just cleared the bar had Owens not leapt up and got it at the last second. I believe thi...

The most memorable game in what has been a pretty drab rivalry was probably in week 2/1989, when Green Bay overcame a 21-0 deficit to win, 35-34. Don Majkowski completed 18 straight passes at one point, and during the winning drive, Jeff Query converted on 4th-and-17 with a tiptoe catch at the side...