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I can't help but wonder if Devon Wylie could be related to Joe Wylie, an Oklahoma RB during 1970-72 when OU put in the wishbone. Joe Wylie had excellent speed. I recall him returning a punt for a TD in the 1972 Sugar Bowl. Joe Wylie's best Oklahoma year was as a sophomore in 1970. He was...

The NFL Network is showing this game again Saturday night at 8pm ET. It repeats at 12am and Sunday morning at 8am.

Goetz received the Zimmerman treatment in that even after a grand jury refused to indict him, the Manhattan DA kept trying to find a way to prosecute him. Goetz was completely unrepenant for what he did and made no apology whatsoever. Ron Kuby finally won a huge civil judgement against Goetz...

I first started watching pro football on TV every week in 1958, age 8. One thing about the TV coverage in those days, you hardly noticed the announcers. They were low-key, didn't get in the way and were easy on the ears. This is something else I miss about football. I can recall seeing the...

Yes, we want to support Bernhard Goetz. He was hailed as a hero by most people. I saw him on a Biography Channel program several months ago, and Goetz is doing well.

The NFL Network has a list of the Top 10 Things We Miss About Football: 1. Well Dressed Coaches 2. The NFL In LA 3. QB's Calling Own Plays 4. Real Fullbacks 5. Goalposts On Goal Line 6. Nicknames 7. Real Grass 8. Angry Opponent 9. Barefoot Kickers 10. Stickum Regarding Stickum, a current...

And just what is your point? I followed the Goetz Affair when it happened and at no time did the MSM refer to him as Jewish. They described him as white and nothing else.

Get over it. Goetz was treated by the MSM as a white man throughout the whole affair.

Funny thing, Goetz would have gotten clean away with it if he hadn't turned himself in after going to New Hampshire. After the shooting, Goetz got off the subway car, went up to the street, and took a cab to his apartment. Nobody could have identified him as the shooter if he hadn't turned...

There is a long thread going on this book at the Pro Football Research Association (PFRA) Forum. Brian Tuohy has joined in the posting. As Forum members know, I am a skeptic concerning vast fixed game conspiracies. I don't have any respect for Tuohy's fantasies either. He thinks Peyton Manning...

There were several news stories critical of this list, mainly for having Tim Tebow on it and ranking him ahead of Earl Campbell and Marcus Allen in particular. There was also criticism for including Cam Newton after only one season.

1. Barry Sanders 2. Roger Staubach 3. O.J. Simpson 4. Paul Hornung 5. Charles Woodson 6. Tony Dorsett 7. Tim Tebow 8. Earl Campbell 9. Marcus Allen 10. Cam Newton The names on this list were chosen for impact and publicity to a large extent.

Tonight at 8pm ET, the NFL Network premieres the Top 10 Heisman Winners in the NFL. These are the most successful Heisman Trophy winners in NFL history.

Agreed.

Don made this same point several years ago on the Forum in reference to running backs. He wrote that the assumption held by almost everyone was that the slowest, stiffest black RB was faster and more elusive than the most athletic white RB prospect in the United States.

I've observed football for over 50 years. Comparing Riggins and Payton, Riggins had more straight ahead speed than Payton ever would before a knee injury in 1972, and still might have later on. I first saw Riggins play as a Kansas sophomore in 1968. Even as something of a plowhorse type in Super...

I saw an interview with Alworth a year or so ago. He said he dropped 3 passes in a game in his rookie year and didn't do it again. Yes, stickum wouldn't help near as much as the gloves receivers use now, which are specially made for the job.

Yes, Biletnikoff used stickum which Berry and Largent didn't. I was struck by the films of Carter making catches with tailor-made gloves while the announcer said he had the best "hands" of all time.

I might have posted this previously, but the NFL Network ran it again Sunday night. 1. Cris Carter 2. Raymond Berry 3. Steve Largent 4. Larry Fitzgerald 5. Fred Biletnikoff 6. Kellen Winslow 7. Jerry Rice 8. Sterling Sharpe 9. Lynn Swann 10. Marvin Harrison None of the "expert" commentators...

What do you mean by "they didn't pass a lot?" Did you ever see the Jets play between 1965-69 when they had Namath throwing to Maynard and George Sauer?

Absolutely. Something many posters on this Forum don't grasp is that things were very different 50-60 years ago. One, white players weren't shut out then. Two, black athletes were as Don says, modest and well-spoken, Ollie Matson and Joe Perry for example. It sure changed from 1965 on. White...

Very true.

As usual, Don is on target. Tebow isn't yet a Super Bowl QB off his performance last season.

These are the biggest suspensions since Hornung and Karras in 1963. By the way, I've read that bounties of this kind are sometimes used in black college football. I wonder if Williams (and Payton) was doing it as a way of "relating to players," something that a coach in the modern NFL has to do.

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