Isn't the "Green Bay prejudice" due in part to the fact that the Green Bay Press Gazette was one of the few sources of All Pro ratings in the early days of the NFL game?
Taking a look at the (more-or-less randomly selected) All Pros from 1925 there are only two sources listed by PFR: Collyers Eye Magazine and The G.B. Post Gazette.
One might conclude that this is a major reason for many of the "homer" choices.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... allpro.htm
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That makes sense at the margins (i.e. who gets the nod Hinkle or Gutowsky?), but none of Svendsen, Goldenberg, Lee, or Letlow actually had significant postseason honors. They seem to have been pulled out of nowhere in '63 or whenever the '30s all-decade team was released by the HOF.JuggernautJ wrote:Isn't the "Green Bay prejudice" due in part to the fact that the Green Bay Press Gazette was one of the few sources of All Pro ratings in the early days of the NFL game?
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The Press-Gazette All-Pro teams were based on a poll of managers and reporters from all the NFL cities.JuggernautJ wrote:Isn't the "Green Bay prejudice" due in part to the fact that the Green Bay Press Gazette was one of the few sources of All Pro ratings in the early days of the NFL game?
Taking a look at the (more-or-less randomly selected) All Pros from 1925 there are only two sources listed by PFR: Collyers Eye Magazine and The G.B. Post Gazette.
One might conclude that this is a major reason for many of the "homer" choices.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... allpro.htm
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Thanks Ralph. I didn't realize that.
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Likewise.
Thank you Ralph, as always, for sharing your knowledge of those times.
Thank you Ralph, as always, for sharing your knowledge of those times.
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There's a problem with T&S's team that I somehow didn't notice on my first pass through this thread. Hutson is wasted if he doesn't have someone to get him the ball, and I don't trust Dutch Clark to do that on a regular basis. So Herber will need to be on the first team, which means someone will need to be moved off, but man, it's so hard to choose one. Definitely not Clark or Blood... probably Battles, unfortunately.
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