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The goalposts in Green Bay's old City Stadium were always offset like that. I saw my first game there in 1946 (I was 7 years old) and I was at every home game from 1947 through 1954.

This thread should have been titled "Get Off My Lawn" ==

This is what Johnny Blood told me about Lewellen: "I still haven't seen anybody who could punt the ball like Lewellen. He kicked it deep and very high, so there was just never any chance for a return. They talk about the kicking game now, but it was even more important in some of those low scor...

About two months before the subject season, Buddy Parker announced he was leaving the Detroit Lions and was headed to the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's not quite the way it happened. Parker stunned the crowd at a "Meet the Lions" banquet on August 10 by announcing that he was resigning beca...

Here's a clipping from the Green Bay Press-Gazette of the same date with a little more detail:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/gree ... 142058295/

One small comment about Lombardi: He doesn't get enough credit for introducing zone blocking into the NFL. Bud Wilkinson created the concept at Oklahoma, Red Blaik copied it at Army, and Lombardi brought it to the Giants. Within a few years, every NFL team was using it and they're still using it.

When Campbell decided to go for it on 4th down the second time, I said to my wife (actually, it was more like I was talking to myself, since she wasn't paying any attention to the game), "If the Lions make it, they'll win. If they don't, the 49ers will win."

Life is short but the NFL record for most wins is (probably) forever. BB is 27 wins away and for someone in a profession where finishing 2nd or 3rd is "never enough" I can't see him voluntarily walking away at this point. Naw, no record lasts forever. As a kid who used to buy the NFL reco...

RichardBak wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:06 pm

Mark wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:20 pm The line is set to get the same number of bettors on each side. That is the reason for the line.

Exactly. It's kind surprising how many folks, including bettors, don't understand this.

Most bettors aren't nearly as smart as they think they are.

No need to start. Conspiracy theorists cling to their theories no matter how absurd they are (see: flat earthers and moon landing deniers) and sensible people know that stuff is all nonsense. Brian is also not some guy who just showed up here and started claiming nonsense, and I think we should wit...