NFL offseason thread

No shit?

I didn’t need a Ph.D. to figure that out.

 

Yes! I was at that game! It was 1973, Raiders ended the Dolphins' unbeaten streak.

 

The Jets will be so bad, I'm giving them a loss during the bye week.

 

Baseball used to cause all kinds of oddities when teams in shared stadiums made the postseason. The Vikings played a home game at the U of M's Memorial Stadium in 1969 because the Twins were in the ALCS. The 1973 Jets ended up opening the season with six straight road games due to the Mets' playoff run.

 

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I believe the Eagles and Cowboys switched home games in 1980, because the Phillies needed Veterans Stadium for the World Series in October. That game, originally scheduled in Philly, was moved to Texas Stadium, and they played in Philadelphia for the regular-season ender that year.

 

Vikings "host" Giants at Ford Field - ProFootballTalk

 

Same thing happened to the Raiders during the A's run in the 70s. Games at Cal already noted, buy there was one year where they had one game at the Coliseum in the first half of the season, then seven of the last eight at home.

And to think they both may be gone soon.

 

Which was still about 7000 above the Pats’ season average. Pro football in Massachusetts was a dead fish for a long, long while.

 

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It is hard to believe that the Patriots became the sport's historic dynasty considering the first 40-plus years of their existence. My first year on the beat I spent a day shuttling between three different federal bankruptcy court hearings involving either the team or the Sullivan family owners, all on the same floor of Boston's federal building. Three years later, the attendance for a Saturday game in a December rainstorm for the 1-15 team of 1990 was a snappy 19,000. One of my columns at the time said Pats fans were more logical/intelligent than Red Sox fans because when the team sucked, they didn't give it their money.