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I think there's a site called Pro Sports Transactions. Pro Football Reference has transactions going back to 1994 or so. Both of these sites may be incomplete. Depends what you are looking for, regular season or pre-season. Trades, players moving on or off inactive lists. Pre-season rosters would b...

I'm curious (and too lazy to do the research) - when's the last time all 3 so-called New York teams won on the same weekend in 4 of the 1st 6 games in the NFL season? I finally did the research to answer my question - In the 62 1/2 seasons from 1960-2022 that all 3 teams played - there were only 64...

I think of Trippi every time I visit my daughter - on route 23 in Oneonta there's a Charles Tripp Auto Sales.
He was one of my first football cards in 1950.
R.I.P. Charley.

I'm curious (and too lazy to do the research) - when's the last time all 3 so-called New York teams
won on the same weekend in 4 of the 1st 6 games in the NFL season?

Another so-called “record” that isn’t worthy of being in a record book. The APBR forum has a thread called "Gotta Love these curios" that featured all sorts of manufactured stat combinations that were found in print such as: "Jaylen Brown is the 11th player to have 22+ pts, 7+ reb, 2...

Has there been any plans for the 2023 Convention? Dates, site?

Jay Z wrote:Bears 3rd string QB in 1972-1973 was Zeke Bratkowski! .

He was at our meeting in Green Bay a few years ago. I asked him for an autograph
but he wanted my autograph first!
(I was treasurer of PFRA then and wrote him a check for his travel expenses.)

George Fant, now with the Jets was a top basketball player at Western IKentucky who didn't
play much football in college.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fa ... _football)

RichardBak wrote:Wow, Zora Folley...you're definitely an old-timer if you remember that name.

Yup, born in 1943,, first boxing match I saw was in September 1950 on our one-month old Philco TV was
Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles. My father let me stay up late to see it.

I, of course, wasn't around for it. Those who were around obviously have a better take on it such as my parents who were sent home from school on that Friday afternoon. I was a senior in college and ironically researching obituaries in the school library for an assignment, when I heard that the pre...