Quirky Research

By next year, it might not be the worst Jets offensive game ever. www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/19...

The "Who's the real Dan Reeves" Bowl.

Maybe an 8 on the Golota scale.

Brock Purdy is the first player to throw 3 interceptions in the first half and lead at halftime since Lamar Jackson did so against the Browns in 2021. www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/20...

The story of the game was Plunkett running for his life (he was sacked 8 times) and Art Shell tipping off the defense like he was Jawaan Taylor. There wasn't much immediate blame of Plunkett himself.

On this date in 1943, Texas used 4'11" waterboy Billy Andrews to dropkick the final three extra points of its 46-7 win over TCU.

The only 5-3 game in NFL history, Yellowjackets-Giants 1925, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer the following day:

"The last hope of New York had gone a glimmering, cascading to the limbo of blasted hopes, and never-to-be-realized dreams."

Before this past offseason, none of Glenn Dobbs's safeties would have been considered NFL ones - all 4 of his seasons were in the AAFC.

That was the 7th time Aaron Rodgers has been safetied in his career, moving him into a tie with Vinny Testaverde, Steve DeBerg, and Glenn Dobbs for second-most in NFL history (Jeff George is first with 9.)

refs.ws/safety

We're missing small portions of three other 1977 games where gamebooks can't be found and the video either runs out early or was showing other things at the time.

All of them.

If Marcedes Lewis plays for the Broncos today, the only four NFL franchises (Bengals, Bills, Broncos, Steelers) that had never used a 40+ year-old player before this season all will have in 2025 (Flacco, Prater, Lewis, Rodgers).

The Halloween Monday Night Football game.

I've transcribed many games off home VHS recordings (and 3 off home RADIO recordings).

That was never official.

At this point, it's a question of how much missing data is acceptable - there's a 1977 Cardinals-Giants game we still can't get our hands on, and that will just get more common as we keep going back.

Agreed.

Happy Halloween to all.

The New York Times does not recognize the existence of Manfredball.

Roy Green's wedding party included Ottis, Theotis, and Leotis.

1992 Florida State-Miami for me.

Chimere Dike already has more kickoff returns in a season than any NFL player since 2019 and is on pace to fall just short of Martay Jenkins's once-untouchable records for kickoff returns (82) and kickoff return yardage (2186).

The last NFL team to win by at least 87 points in any kind of football game was the 1936 Brooklyn Dodgers, who beat the semipro St. Louis Terriers 100-0 in an exhibition game a week after the NFL season had ended.

Sorry, that's March 1984.

Evening Gazette in this case.

May 1984: Brian Kelly named head softball coach after a year as an assistant.

"We were very disciplined, very organized and everything came neturally under Brian. This year we were a bunch of helter-skelters thrown on the field with no discipline. She didn't have the knowledge or the enthusiasm to dedicate herself to us and it showed."

Punt, punt, downs, punt, downs, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, missed FG, half, punt, punt, interception, missed FG, punt, downs, punt, interception, blocked FG, interception, game.

Wisconsin just scored a touchdown on a drive in which their quarterback fumbled three separate times.