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The next episode is Thursday night at 9pm ET. It will be #20-11. Bronko Nagurski will be on the list.

Will Holmgren draft a RB in the first round next year no matter what Hillis does the rest of the season?Edited by: sport historian

O.J. Simpson was the most obviously guilty suspect in any high profile trial in recent history. Only unserious people or black racists argue otherwise. Since I started the thread and am keeping tabs on the series, KEEP ON THE SUBJECT.

The NFL Network had a show naming its Top 10 Lefty Quarterbacks. 1. Steve Young 2. Ken Stabler 3. Boomer Esiason 4. Frankie Albert 5. Mark Brunell 6. Michael Vick 7. Jim Zorn 8. Bobby Douglass 9. The Field-All left-handed QB's 10. Scott MitchellEdited by: sport historian

Why wasn't it arranged so that Big Ben's replacements would run up big passing stats? Are Vick and the other black QBs on the injured list faking their injuries?

When does Peyton Manning get more money? When he wins, or when he loses? Who decides? Do you think (finally) it's fixed for Michael Vick to win the Super Bowl this year? Why didn't they arrange for Vick to win it all years ago? Why haven't the black QBs been complaining that The Man isn't...

21. Tom Brady 22. Gale Sayers 23. John Elway 24. John Hannah 25. Dan Marino 26. Bob Lilly 27. Merlin Olsen 28. Emmitt Smith 29. Jack Lambert 30. Night Train Lane

The colleges have been recruiting black QBs since the early 1970s. The ratio of black QBs being drafted will stay about the same as now. There will always be a desire for "projects." Hard to say about the spread. Football coaches aren't very smart as a group.

I saw predictions of "in 10 years over half of NFL quarterbacks will be black" as far back as 1974, as I have previously written.

Didn't happen. I saw the game on TV. O.J. went over 2000 before time ran out. The Bills (and O.J. himself) made sure he was over 2000 before the game ended. No post-game adjustment was necessary. Something like this DID happen with Mercury Morris and the 1972 Miami Dolphins. That year Morris...

The next new episode is on Thursday night at 9pm ET. It will have numbers 21-30. Advance reports have Tom Brady at #21.

Padding your stats in garbage time was pioneered by O.J. Simpson back in the 1970's. Does anybody (besides me) remember the 1976 Thanksgiving Day game in Detroit? The Lions led the Bills 10-0 at halftime and 20-0 in the third quarter. Nearly 3 touchdowns behind, the Bills gave O.J. the ball on...

Chris Johnson couldn't do anything against the Steelers.

Yep. I haven't heard him in a while.

I recall seeing Alworth play for Arkansas in the 1961 Cotton Bowl. He ran a punt back for a touchdown, but Duke won 7-6. I saw him throughout his pro career. Alworth could jump in the air and catch the ball with the defenders hanging all over him. If he was close to the sideline, he would do...

I found an item at Associated Content by someone named Gary Davis who is not impressed by Lance Alworth. He writes: "Alworth did not have a huge career, but for the time he played (136 ganes over 11 seasons), he was a major standout. He was known mainly for his speed and was lucky that he...

Yes, I have never heard complaints about punters and especially placekickers being all white, and I have read and heard a lot of complaints by blacks and white sportswriters regarding sports over 50 years. The black schools have kickers, of course, but they aren't drafted, and nobody says...

It airs on the NFL Network Saturday night at 8:30pm ET.

31. Bruce Smith 32. Jim Parker 33. Sid Luckman 34. Deion Sanders 35. Chuck Bednarik 36. Raymond Berry 37. Jim Thorpe 38. Lance Alworth 39. Gino Marchetti 40. O.J. Simpson Raymond Berry at #36 was presented by Frank Deford, who was a bit defensive. Deford said (in so many words)that...

In 1961, the Kennedy administration told Marshall that he would have to sign black players or lose the lease on the new D.C. Stadium. He then traded the draft rights to Ernie Davis to Cleveland for Bobby Mitchell. Marshall wasn't "beaten out of owning that team." He was disabled by a stroke...

On Thursday night at 9pm ET, the NFL Network will show #40-31. A poster at the Pro Football Research Forum said O.J. Simpson will be in this group.

That's also what they say in Knoxville, Tennessee.

It is a bit strange to have a rookie QB make his first start against a team like the Steelers. In the past, I've seen a team give the start in a situation like this to a veteran (who might be on his way out) while holding out the rookie. The theory was that the young QB might have his confidence...

Absolutely. This is one reason Favre can't leave football as it is a kind of permanent childhood. No awareness of the trouble he could get into either.

I am an old-line SEC fan for 50 years and NO blacks, and I mean NO, were allowed to play in the SEC before 1967. I don't know how many times I have to say it. The younger posters apparently find this hard to believe. It helps to live through an era to really know how it was. LSU, by the way...