Recent content by sport historian

CMAC might well make it without a Super Bowl, but it would take longer after he retires.

To make the HOF CMAC needs to be on a Super Bowl winner and have a big game in it.

Interesting statistics. Thanks for your work.

We've seen black DBs make interceptions often when knocking the ball down would have given them 40 or so yards in field position. My view is they didn't realize what they were doing.

In the 1960s, there were what were called "Negro comedians." Dick Gregory was the most famous.

I remember Jackie Smith. I just watched his highlights on Youtube.

As Forum members have undoubtedly assumed, I am a so-called "Boomer," a term I hate. I believe a higher percentage of the 1946-64 age group are "race realists" than the current generation. The period up to 1964 was not unlike the 50s, from 1965 things began to change. The number of leftist...

On Thursday, December 4, TCM is showing a series of Sports movies starting at 6 a,m, ET with The Bob Mathias Story (1954). It is followed by Crazylegs (1953), The Babe Ruth Story, The Jackie Robinson Story, Knute Rockne All-American, Jim Thorpe All American. The Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson...

Trump probably sees sports the same way as a typical DWF.

The Pro Football Journal has a good entry on Keith Lincoln by Jeffrey J. Miller.

When Trump announced in 2015, some people on this Forum said, "I hope Trump gets tough with Israel," or "comes down on the Jews." The fact is Trump has more business and family connections with Jews than any President in history.

According to the reviews, it deals with an American psychiatrist and highest ranking defendant Herman Goring. a lot of footage of the death camps is shown. Goring (portrayed by Russell Crowe) made the prosecutors look bad at times. This is the third major film about the Nuremberg trials.

The media didn't pay any attention to the scrimmage yards record with McCaffrey. FWIW Marshall Faulk, counting playoffs had the most yards from scrimmage counting playoffs after the 1999 season. But the playoff yards weren't counted with Faulk either. Source: Pro Football Reference

A 100-yard game in the playoffs has never been counted with those in the regular season. Nor are other statistics. Playoff statistics are separate. Or have been. Last year Saquon Barkley's regular season and playoff rushing and receiving yards were added together for a new yardage from...

Manny Fernandez was one of the Dolphins on the NFL Network's 1972 America's Game episode. He said the Dolphins were interested in him because of Miami's Cuban population, but said, "I don't speak a word of Spanish." Fernandez is very articulate. When the 1972 Dolphins were invited to the White...