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What if Johnny Unitas had played until he was 75 without losing any of his skills?

I am a Steelers and Yankees fan. So was my mom. I heard a story about how she abused the TV after Maz's HR in 1960. She was a big Steeler fan when I was growing up, but she wasn't as much into baseball (although I remember watching some of the Pirates' and Pens early-90's playoffs with her). It see...

Neft-Cohen's Pro Football: The Early Years lists all NFL players and their years of military service (pp. 160-161). Here are the totals by year: 1941--44 (we tend to forget that the draft started in late 1940) 1942--202 1943--376 1944--418 1945--358 How many of those were stateside and still played...

Neft-Cohen's Pro Football: The Early Years lists all NFL players and their years of military service (pp. 160-161).

Here are the totals by year:
1941--44 (we tend to forget that the draft started in late 1940)
1942--202
1943--376
1944--418
1945--358

Here's a 1946 postcard of City Stadium. If you look closely, you can see the offset.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/109704940901796831/

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/