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Didn't Jones drop at least one very catchable pass? It's too bad Nelson couldn't catch the last one which would have made the score 35-25. It might well have made him the game's MVP.Edited by: sport historian

Cold Hard Football Facts just called Jordy Nelson "the Son of Max McGee."

After the last pass to Jordy Nelson missed before the FG, the blogger for Cold Hard Football Facts wrote "another drop for Butterfingers Nelson."

Yes, USC had a lot invested in Sanchez. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office dismissed the case because it was a "He said she said." A guilty verdict would have been impossible. The story broke in 2006 at the same time as the Duke Lacrosse affair. Sanchez's arrest received very...

It's funny that Bigunreal wails about "the idiotic jock sniffers and DWFs with no sense of history" when he complains about Dan Hampton not being in the HOF, when Hampton is in fact in the Hall. Jerry Kramer is a good choice as a senior, but he has been kept out for decades. One reason is...

They never seem to consider the situation they will run into on some teams.

Les Richter had a tremendous reputation as a middle linebacker from 1954-62. He also did some placekicking and could fill in on the offensive line. The LA Rams traded 11 players to the Dallas Texans (later the Colts) for him in 1952. They did this even though Richter had a two-year military...

Back in the first 15 years or so of the Super Bowl era, when a player came in either controversial or criticized, he would have a big game. I'll admit it if I turn out to be wrong, but I have a feeling Big Ben will do well this Sunday, even if his team loses.

Sometime in the 1970's, I saw a quote from Gil Brandt, then the Cowboys personnel director. Brandt said that there was no such thing as a 4.3 40, and almost no 4.4 forty.

The article claims too much for the AFL. Most of the top performances of the 60's, rushing and passing, were by NFL players (Brown, Taylor, Unitas, Tittle, Jurgensen). Some AFL teams threw the ball a lot, the two-time champion Buffalo Bills were mainly a ball control team with a good defense...

A few days ago, Jason Whitlock wrote a column titled "Big Ben's Just a Pawn for Goodell." He writes that Goodell is coming down hard on Big Ben for about the same reasons we have given in this Forum.

The NFL Network is running the live broadcast of Super bowl XIV at 1am ET tonight. The Rams won 7 straight divisional titles from 1973-79, but 1979 was the only year they made the Super Bowl. Oddly, the weakest team of the seven made the big game. In the regular season that year the Rams lost...

Some years ago, ESPN Classic ran every episode of this show.

The NFL Network is repeating this program, the live broadcast of Super Bowl XIII at 1am ET Monday night.

Because of the Packer-Steeler Super Bowl, the NFL Network is showing programs on the two teams. On Monday morning, the America's Game episodes on the 1966 and 1967 Green Bay Packers are on at 7am ET and 8am ET respectively. Later in the day, episodes on the Steelers will be shown.

The Jim Brown vs Franco Harris event took place in January 1985 when Harris was 34 and Brown was a month shy of his 49th birthday. It was the ultimate TrashSport, but was unique, according to the 1989 book, The Pro Football Chronicle. Brown and Harris competed in four events over two...

From 1958-63, the NY Giants were 9-3-1 against the Cleveland Browns. This includes the 1958 Divisional playoff game in which Jim Brown had a net of 8 yards in 7 carries. In the 3 games the Browns won and the tie, Jim Brown went over 100 yards in each. Brown had 6 100-yards games out of 13...

I saw a news item that said Cutler was sacked 57 times this year.

Thanks. That is the one I was thinking of.

I would rather Roethlisberger make the Super Bowl. The MSM certainly likes Sanchez more than Ben.

Yep, we've seen this many times. Didn't somebody lose a playoff game some years ago when a DB didn't just knock down a 4th down pass?

Giving up a cheap TD is just what you don't want to do.

Urlacher's interception kept the Bears in the game. They've just scored to make it a one TD game.

I recall one writer, whose name I forget, disputed the article somewhat. He asked why SI didn't write about teams where black and white players got along well, mentioning the Packers, Rams, and others. I listened to St. Louis radio station KMOX in those days and was able to follow the...

The Cardinals, while in Chicago in the 1950's, had Ollie Matson and other black players in the "speed positions." Both in Chicago and in St. Louis from 1960, the Cardinals had their share of black players on the team. The charge was that the Cardinals' white players were a bunch of racists...