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In Davis' 60s and 70s offense, Gerhart would have played FB and had thousand yard seasons.

According to the latest reports, Roethlisberger talked to local police that night. He told them that he did not have sexual intercourse with the accuser, but did have "consensual contact." Roethlisberger had two Pittsburgh area off duty cops with him, but even this couldn't keep him out of...

It was said that Pete Maravich talked like Joe Namath. I thought the same when I heard Maravich interviewed. It seems that someone from Western PA (both Namath and Maravich) who spends time in the South has this strange accent.

Forty years ago, the NFL had what was called the "Most Courageous Player" award. For 1969, it went to Gale Sayers, who received it because he led the league in rushing a year after a serious knee injury. When accepting the award, Sayers announced that he would give it to Brian Piccolo, who was...

I am watching HLN and they are covering this story all out. Roethlisberger has no one to blame but himself.

The film with Eastwood was Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974). I also liked Against All Odds (1984) In that one, Bridges played a pro football wide receiver.

A few years ago, Roethlisberger almost got himself killed in a motorcycle accident because he wouldn't wear a helmet. In the previous sexual accusation, Roethlisberger admitted he had sex with the woman (whom he didn't know). Doesn't he know he has to be 100% careful? And why is a 28-year...

I once glanced at a track site where our friend Brutal posts. The posters said that even though whites hold the records for strength and weight lifting, it is only because they have "shorter arms," which gives an advantage in lifting. They said that blacks really are stronger and more athletic...

I saw a New York times article in which Rolle was compared to the late Supreme Court Justice Byron "Whizzer" White as a scholar-athlete. White was famous as a Rhodes Scholar who was an All-American at Colorado in 1937 before a big contract (for the time) with Pittsburgh before going to study in...

You see this a lot. Obama is having to bend over backward to appease white voters. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is crying the same tune.

Back around 1991, former Oklahoma and later Dallas Cowboy coach Barry Switzer said "blacks don't need them." He was referring to PED's. Switzer claimed blacks were such superior athletes that whites had to use drugs in order to compete.

In the early 1960's, results were what counted. There was little if any preoccupation with the "40 time."

I remember him well. He was the QB and John Riggins a soph FB on Kansas' 1968 Orange Bowl team. Douglass was given plenty of chances but never became an effective QB.

4.53 or 4.58 is more than enough speed for a 230 pound back with good running instincts. This is faster than Earl Campbell, for example.

As I posted earlier today, the actual 40 times are usually slower than expected.

The 40 times bandied about for a player are almost always faster than they really are. This includes the players this site roots for.

There is a website called ColdHardFootballFacts.com. On July 13, 2009, it ran an article titled, "Don't Drink the AFL Kool-Aid." The theme was that the NFL, not the AFL, had the most exciting players of the 1960's. In recent years, AFL partisans have claimed the new league played more wide-open...

From time to time, I'll post a thread on this subject. As you point out, there were 26 teams in 1973. Thirteen of them started a white running back. One correction. There were five who led their teams in rushing. Ed Podolak of Kansas City was the fifth. The other eight were Walt Garrison, Norm...

Just for the fun of it, I looked up how many white starting running backs there were in the NFL in 1973. This was the year O.J. Simpson ran for 2003 yards. In 1973, there were 13 white RBs who started most of the time, four (Csonka, Hubbard, Anderson, and Fred Willis) led their teams in rushing...

The IRS worker killed was a 61-year old black man who was a Vietnam veteran.