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In your opinion Tanks&Spartans, did you feel Dunn was a HOF caliber player or strictly HOVG ? Even if he has a case, it would be hard to put him in over Dilweg and Lewellen but also preceding Herber, who I believe is underrated, while others like Isbell for the HOF despite too short a career. P...

The Pats are scary right now, because they're the only team with any consistency. Bill might be flipping the script in the narrative of him against Brady, although TB isn't really regressing.

How has no one mentioned Whitney Mercilus?

The first publication was called "The Sports Encyclopedia: Pro Football: The Early Years." (It cuts off at 1959, and was followed by another volume that went on from there.) That came out around 1982. But about a decade later the two books were combined into one volume that covered the en...

I would like to continue this project. Can someone drop me a link to the source where David Neft originally published his 1920s NFL stats? I will need access to the precise data on complete and incomplete games found in that primary source.

I really wish both teams had scored an extra field goal

I just stumbled back upon Jim Hardy's extremely bizarre start to the 1950 season; 1 TD and 8 interceptions in week 1, an NFL record that still stands alone, followed by 6 TDs and 2 INTs in week 2... and then he never had more than 2 of each in any game the rest of the season. I was wondering if ther...

I think I may have been selling Red Dunn too short. He and his teams almost singlehandedly denied Friedman a championship at the height of his powers. There has to be a lot said for such an impressive game of keep-away, especially since Dunn seemed to be capable of matching Friedman almost blow for ...

rhickok1109 wrote:Johnny Blood told me that every time the Packers played the Giants, Red Dunn outperformed Friedman.

You actually talked to him, like, personally, before he died? That's awesome!

It is true that Dunn's Packers won all three of those rings from 1929-31...

Hopefully someone can help with specifics, as I'm no expert on the evolution of the football itself or rules, but the ball is something Murray talks a lot about in Friedman's bio. I recall it being described as big, fat, rugby-like, etc. I think by '37, Baugh would have had a ball to throw that was...