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My query from PFR was apparently only for players who didn't play for ANY team during the regular season in question. Tod's list includes players who played in the regular season for one (or more) teams, then in the post season for a different team without playing any regular season games for that ...

Here is my list. 141 times (not 114) by 140 players. Darin Jordan did it twice. David Arkin 2014 IND Rodney Austin 2014 DET Steve Avery 1993 PIT Jason Babin 2015 ARI De'Vante Bausby 2021 NE Vance Bedford 1982 STL Michael Bennett 2008 SD David Binn 2011 DEN Michael Blair 1998 GB Breon Borders 2017 BU...

JohnTurney wrote:

Jay Z wrote:There are at least 68 instances of a player not playing in the regular season for a team, but playing in the playoffs.

Wow, 68, how does one find this list----would be great to see. I thought it was 16 based on a Tweet....

My database shows 114!

According to Wooster he never played football at Wooster.

https://www.woosterathletics.com/w_asso ... ollis.html

Doing research on the Ohio League prior to 1920, I'm aware that the first African American to play Pro Football was Charles Follis who played for the Shelby Blues starting in 1902. But in 1901, while attending the College of Wooster (or Wooster University as it was then called ) he starred at varsi...

RichardBak wrote:

TodMaher wrote: Of course, we will never know where the errors/discrepancies are because the NFL will probably never release the official game-by-game totals.

I'm curious--why is that?

Because the NFL just doesn't care about its history.

Great info, Tod. My edition of Neft is from 1994, so it precedes that release date by just a bit. I suppose this means that, even for the complete games, Neft's stats for 1920-31 may contain the same margin of error from what "really" happened as found between the official stats in 1932 a...

So I guess I'll go with what PFR has. Any idea why Neft calculated the stats so differently, even in cases where all games are marked complete (e.g. Herber)? As I said, Neft went by what was available at the time (1970s and 1980s) which was next to nothing so he had to recreate it from the newspape...

So I've come across a problem in some of the research I'm doing that I couldn't have foreseen. PFR considers 1932 to be the first officially statted NFL season, whereas David Neft considers it the last unofficial season, and I have no idea who's right. Normally, I would just assume Neft accidentall...

Lionel Antoine, former tackle with the Chicago Bears died on December 14th, at the age of 71: https://www.chicagobears.com/news/former-bears-tackle-antoine-passes-away He actually died on December 7th. His death was reported on December 11th. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/biloxi-lose...