Weird NFL Facts

#51
#51
During their 17-0 1972 season, the Dolphins were trying to be the first team to have two players rush for 1000 yards. But Mercury Morris fell 9 yards short at 991 yards. Magically, a few days after regular season ended, the league found that a fumbled laterally (as officially ruled by the scorekeeper) fallen on by Morris had lost exactly nine yards. They declared it should have been an incomplete pass and officially changed the scorebook. Nine yards added to Morris’s total. Officially now a 1000 yard rusher. I’ve never seen the actual film of the play to know if it really was forward.
 
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#53
#53
orangepridenation said:
The Jets were the first ever team to have a 4000 yard passer (Namath in 1967) and have not had a single one since.

Even crazier is that he did it in 14 games.
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The AFL at the time was the more passing heavy league. I believe the first player with 100 receptions in a season played in the AFL. Lionel Taylor had 100 in 1961 and Charley Henigan had 101 in 1964. It was 1984 before another player would have over 100 receptions in a season.
 
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#54
#54
The 1989 Pittsburgh Steelers were the last team to finish last in total offense and still make the playoffs.

This feat has been accomplished only 3 times. All in the decade of the 1980s.

1989 Pittsburgh Steelers
1986 Kansas City Chiefs
1981 New York Giants

All 3 finished last in total yards on offense and still made the playoffs.
 
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peaygolf said:
Kinda NFL..........

Who caught the FIRST pass in WFL history in 1974???









Vince Papale..........Invincible
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I like that movie but it annoyed me a bit how they left out that before he tried out for Eagles he played for the Philadelphia Bell of the WFL for 2 years and that's what got him a tryout with the Eagles. Still a cool story but not exactly the "bum out of the bar" the movie made him out to be.

Then again movies tend to do that with these type of sports movies. The Blind Side made it seem like Michael Oher didn't know what a football was before he moved in with the Tuohy's.
 
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#57
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VolsSportsFan said:
I like that movie but it annoyed me a bit how they left out that before he tried out for Eagles he played for the Philadelphia Bell of the WFL for 2 years and that's what got him a tryout with the Eagles. Still a cool story but not exactly the "bum out of the bar" the movie made him out to be.

Then again movies tend to do that with these type of sports movies. The Blind Side made it seem like Michael Oher didn't know what a football was before he moved in with the Tuohy's.
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And Remember the Titans made it seem like they were the only high school in Virginia that had to deal with integration.
 
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mad4vols said:
Stop living in the past, my grandparents weren’t even born it’s been that long ago.
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At least we have a past worth a damn unlike certain teams *cough* Lions. :p
Beat 'em twice that year. They were one of the shutouts that year, 45-0. It was something like 41-10 in the NFCCG.
 
#61
#61
YankeeVol said:
At least we have a past worth a damn unlike certain teams *cough* Lions. :p
Beat 'em twice that year. They were one of the shutouts that year, 45-0. It was something like 41-10 in the NFCCG.
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Detroit made the NFCCG, you don’t hear that everyday.
 
#63
#63
Most sports movies/shows suck and it's because they aren't made for real sports fans. They are usually made for kids or a general audience by people who don't know as much about sports as they think they do. That's why they cast Tim Robbins as a pitcher who can't throw. That's why Sunshine's major hurdle is he can't pitch the ball to the RB (something nearly anybody with a pulse can do 9 out of 10 times but he can't even miss by just a little bit). That's why Odessa recovers an onside kick at their own 25. If Hustle were real, Kermit and Bo Cruz wouldn't have met until draft day and yet they play each other 2-3x leading up to the draft. If it's real, Kermit is only doing private individual workouts for the teams with the top 3 picks. And so on.

Almost every sports movie is filled with this stuff, and they usually take me completely out of the experience.
 
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#69
n_huffhines said:
I've never understood why it's royal blue trim and numbers on the white jerseys. WTF is that?
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That and their home pants are different than their road pants.
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mad4vols said:
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I stand corrected.

Although if I remember, the Cowboys actually started out wearing blue at home and the then Tex Schramm decided that it would be better if they wore white so the fans could see different uniforms every home game instead of the same home wearing blue and the visitor wearing white. Which for then with most people probably still having black and white TVs and games not being televised as much was actually a good idea since most fans would probably never see the visiting teams' "home" uniforms.
 
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