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- Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: 2023 - 24 season first round playoff schedule
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9510
Re: 2023 - 24 season first round playoff schedule
Though I want Houston to win, feel the Networks want Flacco and the Browns in Baltimore What do you mean by that? Are you insinuating some stuff is rigged? Not to mention surely the networks would want the Cowboys to be in more championships and Super Bowls. I've seen some people who cite the simil...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: The five "best" books about pro football history
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3939
The five "best" books about pro football history
People from a website called Shepherd approached me a while back and asked me if I would put together a list of the five best books about pro football history. I generally dislike the five best or 10 best or whatever best approach to anything but I agreed to do it (partly, I admit, because it also g...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 3:42 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Neutral? Hah!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5012
Re: Neutral? Hah!
I'm sure there may be some minor advantages in playing on your home field, but isn't the chief advantage that it's filled with your fans? You don't get that in the Super Bowl because each team is allotted the same nu9mber of tickets. Exactly right. I've always equated Super Bowl crowds with a lot o...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:05 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Neutral? Hah!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5012
Re: Neutral? Hah!
I'm sure there may be some minor advantages in playing on your home field, but isn't the chief advantage that it's filled with your fans?
You don't get that in the Super Bowl because each team is allotted the same nu9mber of tickets.
You don't get that in the Super Bowl because each team is allotted the same nu9mber of tickets.
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:32 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Why did Sam Wyche fare so poorly in Tampa?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8807
Re: Why did Sam Wyche fare so poorly in Tampa?
You have to remember, though, that they had Hugh Culverhouse as owner. He was incompetent times 20. Oh, I've never forgotten it. I was there. It wasn't JUST him, as he did handle coach hires (mostly bad, or bizarre), but McKay's hubris and the others who scouted players who thought Booker Reese cou...
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:29 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Do non-CFP bowls matter?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6027
Re: Do non-CFP bowls matter?
When Paul Hornung was asked if he should make so much money for playing a game, he replied, "I love football and I play for free, but they have to pay me to practice."
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:27 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: 2023 DPOY --- hard to gauge this one
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2831
Re: 2023 DPOY --- hard to gauge this one
I can't see Hamlin as comeback player of the year. To me, that award goes to a guy who was pretty good at some point in the past, went through a fairly long down period (meaning a season or more), and then returned to his "pretty goodness" for the season in question. Hamlin was okay in 202...
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 10:24 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Bill McColl gone
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1412
Re: Bill McColl gone
He was a lot like Boyd Dowler...very big for his time with great hands and a terrific downfield blocker. He wesn't quite as fast as Dowler, though.
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 10:18 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Hard To Find Info Online
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7167
Re: Hard To Find Info Online
That's not unfortunate! That's some of the best money I spend every year! :) Ha, Ha - same here. I resisted subscribing for years thinking they were overcharging for something that should be free, but as the actual free sources started drying up, I gave in and now I look at it the same way. I get m...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:24 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: The N.F.L. now embracing Xmas. . .
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3770
Re: The N.F.L. now embracing Xmas. . .
I wonder if the NBA's success with Christmas Day games had anything to do with the NFL decision.
The NBA embraced Christmas a game day right from the beginning, with 3 games in 1947 and 5 in 1948.
The NBA embraced Christmas a game day right from the beginning, with 3 games in 1947 and 5 in 1948.