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Football (and other) marginalia.
"Hunter, who suffered a slight concussion but returned the next series."
I can't find a picture of "Jimmy G. International DJ's", but I presume they were handsome.
I'd really like to know what the difference between these two passes defensed was and why the 1975 Lions scorer decided to point it out.
Cornell building a human pyramid in failed attempt block a Princeton field goal, 1965.
If the Bears can't build a stadium quickly, the site of the only regular season NFL game in Hammond history is available for play.
The 1976 Packers also had two defenders named Mike McCoy. The scorer distinguished them as "McCoy" and "M.C. McCoy".
It was one of the many rules changes made before the 1978 season.
He didn't. I have no idea how he retroactively determined which catches were Barty and which were Ollie. (Picture is from a 1976 gamebook, but you get the idea.)
#8: The 1977 Rams-Vikings Divisional game was known as the "Mud Bowl", and by the 4th quarter the previously white Vikings jerseys were a solid brown. Good luck reading any of their numbers. youtu.be/V46EFgBB93U?...
#7: With a 4-yard carry on 4&6, Walter Payton broke O.J. Simpson's single-game record by 2 yards. The Bears went on to win the game 10-7. Both the Bears & Vikings finished with 9-5 records. The Vikings won the previous matchup 22-16 & won the head-to-head tiebreaker for the NFC Central by 3 points.
#6: The rules in 1977 made intentional grounding a loss of down and a 15-yard penalty OR half the distance to the goal, whichever was better for the offense, so all intentional groundings from the end zone were half-the-distance penalties, not safeties. youtu.be/2_vuqDMjoY4?...
#5: The Patriots scorer throughout the 70s and 80s awarded the ball carrier the extra yard when a play wound up just short of the sticks. He'd then mark the next play as "2nd and zero" or "2nd and 1/2" and shortchange the next ball carrier out of a yard. The late-70s 49ers scorer also did this.
#3: Inexplicably, the CBS broadcast twice cut to live, not-intended-for-air footage of the NFL Today studio. youtu.be/5V5Lw4wvNAQ?...
#2: Bill Troup was flagged for hurdling an opponent, a penalty that still exists on the high school level.
Answers: #1: For the entire 1977 season, the Packers scorer simply used "Smith" to denote both Barty and Ollie. Barty had all the carries, but both caught passes, making it tough to discern which one was the targeted receiver on incompletions.
No, but that was a another thing that last happened in 1977. (They were ruled incompletions, not penalties.)
"Suffered a knee injury in a toboggan accident and was unable to play."
The Green Bay Packers' 1977 financial report, in honor of National Accounting Day. Adjusted for inflation, the Packers revenue was about 20 times higher in 2025.