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lastcat3 wrote:

Also what other former NFL players ended up making a far bigger impact as an actor than they did in football?

The first one that comes to mind is Woody Strode. The second is Herm Wedemeyer (AAFC).

Who were the players involved in Ben Dreith's famous "giving him the business" penalty call?
And could either of them qualify for this thread?

College Football does quite well with non-student attendance filling up over 100 stadiums every Saturday, just as the NFL does in 16 stadiums every Sunday. I know the owners will argue their slice of the pie will get smaller but they are overlooking the fact that the pie is also getting larger at t...

In another thread (The year the Packers didn't play) the subject of small towns came up. Now Guilford, NY (home of PFRA) is definitely a small town. - no traffic lights, no businesses (the local convenience store closed recently), just a few antique stores that are only open occasionally but there i...

The first misspelling on a team uniform that I remember was Ted Kluszewski with the White Sox in either 1959 or 1960. The Z was backwards - not sure if it was intentional or not though. Bill Veeck had just become the team's owner. My alltime favorite misspelling of an athlete's name was heavyweight ...

TanksAndSpartans wrote:Has anyone received this one in the mail yet? Thanks.

I received mine today here in upstate New York.

How many of you know that there was an NFL coach who compiled a winning percentage of .737 over his 2 years in the league. He has the top winning percentage for all coaches in his franchise. In college he played four sports - football, basketball, swimming and water polo and was a ICAAAA backstroke ...

What would really be appreciated would be a commercial-less game.
Even watching in person you are bombarded with commercials at the stadium.

JuggernautJ wrote:Right now the NFL channel is replaying the 2016 Draft, round one! woo hoo...
There's some scintillating NFL history for you...

I saw that listed and wondered why anyone would want to rewatch a draft.

Their QB that day was Frank Tripucka. It was the last season of a not very successful NFL career for him, but he came out of retirement 8 years later to become the Denver Broncos' first QB. They also had two notable black players, Buddy Young and George Taliaferro. With Young (listed at 5'4") ...