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- Sat Oct 10, 2015 4:48 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Seeking online sources for newspapers
- Replies: 19
- Views: 30619
Re: Seeking online sources for newspapers
If you go to the site of the Baltimore Public Library you can register for a "card" that allows you access to the Sun going back to the early 1900s if not before. This is different than most libraries, who typically will only grant a card to local residents, but I was able to get one and I...
- Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:18 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Mexico City? That's worse than Foxborough...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22210
Re: Mexico City? That's worse than Foxborough...
Mexico City makes more sense than Europe from a travel logistics standpoint. And as Mark Ford said, they do pack 'em in.
Bigger question may be if Trump is president can teams' travel planes fly high enough to cross the big, beautiful wall he plans to build....?![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Bigger question may be if Trump is president can teams' travel planes fly high enough to cross the big, beautiful wall he plans to build....?
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- Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:28 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Suddenly... It's Gambling!
- Replies: 45
- Views: 65961
Re: Suddenly... It's Gambling!
Sadly, I think I've learned more from the thousands of games I've lost than the thousands of games I've won (as a player and coach). Absolutely. Lessons go both ways. My comment was in the context of "learning what wins football games", which talk is cheap, not sure how talking about &quo...
- Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:40 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Suddenly... It's Gambling!
- Replies: 45
- Views: 65961
Re: Suddenly... It's Gambling!
If you forecast every NFL game against the pointspread for a season or two you will learn something about what wins football games that you can learn in no other way. You learn more about winning football games by winning football games (as a player or as a coach) but sure, not everyone played foot...
- Mon Sep 14, 2015 5:11 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Suddenly... It's Gambling!
- Replies: 45
- Views: 65961
Re: Suddenly... It's Gambling!
Fantasy Sports are considered a skill game and not gambling, which is why it's allowed. If you have money riding on it, picking games against the pointspread is certainly gambling by definition. It also requires a great degree of skill to be successful. Some folks display their knowledge by talking...
- Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:29 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: I'm liking the new extra point
- Replies: 23
- Views: 36612
Re: I'm liking the new extra point
Some of the reaction to this has the air of walking 10 miles to school way back when, uphill both ways. Every generation thinks it corners the market on the "way things should be," myself included. Anything new just can't be good, when in fact, everything was new once and what we prefer to...
- Tue Sep 01, 2015 11:24 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Longest stretch between two teams playing each other
- Replies: 24
- Views: 37716
Re: Longest stretch between two teams playing each other
For more details on these rare matchups, please see the article "Long Time, No See: Rare Meetings in the NFL" in the May/June 2013 issue of the Coffin Corner (Volume 35, Number 3). The article explains the effects of the fifth-place schedule and how it resulted in many scheduling quirks a...
- Mon Aug 31, 2015 4:41 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Longest stretch between two teams playing each other
- Replies: 24
- Views: 37716
Re: Longest stretch between two teams playing each other
Colts at Cards, Jets at Cards, Raiders at Cards, and Jets at Philly also have 25+ year gaps.nicefellow31 wrote:25 years (1979-2004) between appearances for the Green Bay Packers in Washington D.C.
Interesting how the Colts keep showing up on these lists.
- Mon Aug 31, 2015 2:45 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Longest stretch between two teams playing each other
- Replies: 24
- Views: 37716
Re: Longest stretch between two teams playing each other
Vikings went 32 years between road games at Colts (two cities involved)...Jets 28 years between road games at Dallas...Giants 27 years between road games at Colts.
- Mon Aug 31, 2015 1:31 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Longest stretch between two teams playing each other
- Replies: 24
- Views: 37716
Re: Longest stretch between two teams playing each other
I have - 20 years - Chiefs vs. Eagles - 10/22/1972 - 10/11/92 18 years - Cards vs. Jets, already noted 17.8 years - Dolphins vs. Giants - 12/10/1972 - 9/23/90 17.1 years - Seahawks vs. Bucs - 10/16/77 - 11/20/94 13.9 years - Colts vs. 49ers - 11/12/72 - 10/5/1986 Six more matchups of 13-ish years......