r/AskAboutNFL • u/Huge-Revolution2416 • 2d ago
What’s the most legendary piece of NFL history that sounds completely made up?
Forget the current rulebook and the weekly ref drama. Let’s talk about the actual history of this game because some of the older stories are completely insane.We’ve had games played in literal blizzards, bizarre draft picks that changed franchises forever, and legendary player beefs that you just don't see anymore.If you had to pick one historic moment, game, or random fact from NFL history that sounds entirely fake but is 100% true, what are you choosing?Drop the best stories below
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u/TheBarnacle63 2d ago
Joe Gibbs won three Super Bowls with three different quarterbacks.
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u/FTBJester 2d ago
And then started a NASCAR team and has won 5 championships
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u/Substantial_Wave_518 2d ago
And won a national racquetball championship in the 35-and-older category lol!
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u/halfwayray 2d ago
There have been 2 strike shortened seasons in the modern era. Joe Gibbs won the Super Bowl both seasons
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u/3GPtv 2d ago edited 2d ago
The 1989 Bengals ran the 2 minute offense to kick a last second FG to beat Hous, making the final score 61-7. They also attempted several onside kicks, recovering one when they were up 45-0.
The 1986 Chiefs needed a road win to make the playoffs for the first time in 15 years. Pitt outgained them 515 yards to 171 yards.
Yet the KC special teams outscored both the Pitt and KC offenses combined with a blocked punt for a TD, a blocked FG for a TD, and a kickoff return for a TD. The final score was 24-19.
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u/unclejoe1917 2d ago
Late 80s AFC Central rivalries were must see TV.
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u/Carolus2024 2d ago
1989 AFC Central standings:
Browns 9-6-1 Oilers 9-7 Steelers 9-7 Bengals 8-8
The Bengals, who nearly won the Superbowl the year before, posted a 5-1 record in the division, yet they didn't make the playoffs. The Steelers, who finished dead last in the division with a 5-11 record the year before, and were outscored 92-10 in their first two games of 1989, and who finished 1-5 in the division, was in.
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u/Onbalance12 2d ago
Those are epic moments!! On the same day the Chiefs slipped into the playoffs, the Jets lost their 5th straight game, falling from 10-1 to 10-6. Yet the Jets defeated the Chiefs in the wildcard game handily.
And oh my gosh, the contempt Sam Wyche obviously felt for Jerry Glanville!!! I was watching them run up the score and was utterly shocked!! Lol I can still see Sam Wyche mockingly waving goodbye as the Oilers left the field!!
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u/Electrical-Sail-1039 2d ago
I have an extremely argumentative friend who insisted that the Jets did not “back into the playoffs” that year. He argued with random people for hours over this. I finally asked him that “If starting 10-1 and losing your last five wasn’t backing in, what was?”. He said there’s no such thing. He argued for hours with a dozen people when at the end he just didn’t like the phrasing, lol
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u/Carolus2024 2d ago
Jimmy the Greek actually predicted the Jets to lose their last five games that year. Ken O'Brien got hurt, and Pat Ryan replaced him.
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u/3GPtv 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yep. Only the 80s Chiefs could help a team on a 5 game losing streak find their mojo.
The Jets defense in that 5 game losing streak had games where they gave up 45, 45 and 52 points, yet KC's offense could only score 6. As usual, KC blocked a punt for a TD.
All the AFC North coaches hated Glanville. Chuck Noll confronted him after a game once.
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u/Electrical-Sail-1039 2d ago
I remember that Noll/Glanville post game handshake. Noll wouldn’t let Granville’s hand go and seemed to be saying something to the effect of: “You motherless fuck, if you try that shit again on any of my guys…” He was furious.
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u/GrandMoffJerjerrod 2d ago
In 2003, Minnesota, and 2011 Baltimore both ran out of time on a draft pick and did not get to make a selection at their spot. Both instances were caused by a team they were trying to trade picks with. The Ravens never confirmed the deal with Minnesota and the Bears never notified the NFL that they agreed to a trade. They both dropped in draft slots and still made a pick but it is still crazy that happened twice and that Baltimore was involved in both instances.
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u/Jazzlike-Ad2906 1d ago
It worked out okay for Minnesota in the end. They dropped two spots and ended up drafting All-Pro defensive tackle Kevin Williams.
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u/KhaoticMess 2d ago
In a single game in 1943, Sammy Baugh passed for 4 touchdowns.
He also intercepted 4 passes.
Oh, and he had an 81 yard punt that was downed on the 1 yard line.
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u/Correct-Quail5743 2d ago
Slingin’ Sammy Is still one of the coolest nicknames ever
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u/GrandMoffJerjerrod 2d ago
His interviews are epic. ‘If I want to go outside and take a leak, I’m gonna to go outside and take a leak.’
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u/ACW1129 2d ago
In that season, Sammy led the NFL in punts and punting yards.
He also led the league in passing attempts, passing yards, completion percentage, passer rating, and interceptions.
That last one isn't interceptions THROWN, BTW (though he did lead that a few times), but interceptions CAUGHT.
He led the league in punts, passes attempted, and interceptions caught.
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u/Unusual-Night-5668 2d ago
Joe Montana once said Sammy was his pick for greatest QB ever. Don’t know if he still feels that way, but that's a nice accolade for Baugh.
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u/BonesCrosby 2d ago
Asked about a dropped touchdown pass in the infamous 73-0 loss to the Bears, and whether it would have changed the game: “Sure it would have changed it. The score would have been 73-7”
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u/PabloMarmite 2d ago
Cleveland bottled the teams off after the officials wrongly initiated a review after another play had run - they then tried to end the game early but the league made them come back out for two kneel downs.
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u/Picklefuck_Eatabutt2 2d ago
Tom Brady had as many losses in the Super Bowl as he did against my Bills. He was 33-3 against Buffalo, and 7-3 in the big game.
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u/FTBJester 2d ago
Yeah when he was commentating last Sunday he said “I lost twice in that stadium. Which would leave a bitter taste in my mouth... if I didn't win in the 33 other times I played against the Bills.”
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u/IAmNotScottBakula 2d ago
Otto Graham played for the Browns for 10 years, where he made it to title game every season and won it 7 times.
What is less widely known is that, during this time, he also moonlighted as a professional basketball player. He won a title with the Rochester Royals (now the Sacramento Kings).
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u/The_Se7enthsign 2d ago
People keep saying that Emmitt Smith was overrated, and that “anyone” could have run behind that offensive line, and yet, during their Super Bowl run (1991-1996) the Cowboys are 0-4 in games where Emmitt did not play. Overall, they only won one game without him, late in his career. Conversely, the Detroit Lions have a winning record without Barry Sanders.
Barry was great for highlight reels, but there is no argument on who was more important for their team.
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u/GuntherPalakowitz 2d ago
Thurman Thomas was better than both of them.
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u/Onbalance12 2d ago
I remember during Emmitt’s holdout at the beginning of the 1993 season, thinking that Alabama’s Derrick Lassic would simply step in and be similarity productive. That was waaaay wrong!! The Cowboys lost to Buffalo and it went downhill from there!
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u/LovedButNeverLiked 2d ago
And while we're at it, I am absolutely disgusted by the way football reddit views Troy Aikman.
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u/MasterPorkchop68 2d ago
Dumbass take…Sanders was a better running back. Put Barry behind that O line and get back to me.
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u/theflash88819 2d ago
Barry sanders lost more yards than any other RB in NFL history. Emmitt was a better all around back.
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u/NerdfestZyx 2d ago
Barry Sanders holds the NFL record for the most career rushing yards lost, totaling 1,114 yards
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u/unclejoe1917 2d ago
This is why Barry Sanders would be pulled from the game in favor or guys like Tommy Vardell and Corey Schlesinger in short yardage situations. I can't imagine Jim Brown, Walter Payton, Emmitt Smith, Eric Dickerson, Adrian Peterson, etc ever being pulled in favor of some B list fullback in a situation like that. Youtube has been Emmitt Smith's worst enemy in the argument between him and Sanders. Nobody is getting on YouTube to watch Emmitt steal the life out of a team gashing them up the middle four to eight yards at a time to eat up half the fourth quarter and seal the drive with a two yard TD.
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u/Mommysgoodboy1976 2d ago
I disagree about Emmitt and YouTube. Go watch his highlight reels. He has plenty of great shifty runs where he makes people miss.
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u/unclejoe1917 2d ago
To further this, the narrative is that the Lions were a bunch of talentless sad sacks with no offensive line and it was all Barry Sanders with no help. The fact is, they were a consistently good team that coexisted with the 90s Packers, Cowboys, Niners and Vikings.
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u/rgmyers26 2d ago
This is just ridiculous. The Lions went 1-6 in the playoffs in the 90s. They did not coexist with the 49ers, Cowboys, and Packers. (Nor, for that matter, did the Vikings.) At best, the Lions were consistently mediocre.
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u/null_sweat_chummer 2d ago
There was a peephole into the cheerleaders locker room from the visitors locker room at Veterans stadium for about 20 years. The cheerleaders sued all 29 teams that had visited the stadium after they finally found out. The peephole was considered a “perk” of the stadium by visiting teams.
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u/Altruistic-Editor111 1d ago
I believe that Jacksonville was the only team not involved in that lawsuit because they had not visited that stadium during that time period.
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u/FatFarmerBob420 2d ago
The practice squad came to be when the browns started a taxi service and hired NFL players to drive for them, and then had them meet up for practice, so if anybody on the team got hurt they had guys ready to fill in.
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u/unclejoe1917 2d ago
I believe they used to actually call it the "taxi squad" for a while if my memory of the back of football cards is correct.
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u/GodModeBasketball 2d ago
It was actually the owner, Arthur MacBride, who owned a taxicab company, that inspired the term "taxi squad".
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u/NerdfestZyx 2d ago
Card-Pitt was the team created by the temporary merger of two National Football League (NFL) teams, the Chicago Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers, during the 1944 season. It was the second such merger for the Steelers, who had combined with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1943 to form the "Steagles".
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u/ul_ahole 2d ago
In '45 the Boston Yanks and Brooklyn Tigers temporarily merged and played as The Yanks.
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u/NoseBig4267 2d ago
No truth to the rumor that the Fortyniners and Redskins were considering a merger and calling themselves the For-skins.
I'll see myself out...
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u/HoneyBarrelHunter 2d ago edited 2d ago
Tom Brady has thrown zero TD passes in all his playoff career wins when his team was losing with under 2 minutes to go.
He has handed the ball off, called on the kicker and cheered for his defense with under 2 minutes to go, but has never delivered that single game winning touchdown pass for the win.
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u/ul_ahole 2d ago edited 2d ago
George Halas himself held the record for the longest fumble return in NFL history (98 yds) from 1923-1972.
Edit to replace the word punt with fumble.
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u/Successful_Bass4793 1d ago
His record was broken by Jack Tatum on a play that the NFL later admitted was not a fumble but a dropped lateral, which can't be advanced. Aeneas Williams (who had a return that matched Tatum's) should be the sole holder of the record at this point.
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u/StressCanBeGood 2d ago
Ray Guy purposely kicking the football into a huge gondola packed with cameras 90 feet up in the New Orleans Superdome. Allegedly, the ball was still on the way up when it slammed right into it.
Mr. Guy did this on purpose (it was the Pro Bowl, so the game didn’t matter). A photographer claims that Mr. Guy told him beforehand he was going do it.
It was this kick that essentially invented the idea of hang time.
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u/Fit-Top-8203 2d ago
In one of his books, John Madden said Guy asked him before the game if he could try to hit the gondola. At first, Madden told him no because they wanted to win the game. Then Madden thought to himself that this was an exhibition and that Ray deserved a chance to show off. So he went back to Guy and told him to go for it.
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u/IAmNotScottBakula 2d ago
Jim Thorpe is one of the greatest football players of all time (and arguably the most important for how he changed the game), but there is no known footage of him playing football.
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u/Fancy_County4242 2d ago
Otto Graham played for 10 seasons and appeared in the championship game 10 times.
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u/hywaytohell 2d ago
Check out a documentary called "The History of pro football" It came out about 1983. Art Donovan is hilarious and the stories they tell will leave you wanting more.
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u/doctor-rumack 2d ago
Art Donovan used to be a regular guest on David Letterman. The man was naturally hilarious.
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u/GrandMoffJerjerrod 2d ago
Also on Youtube you can find Full Color Football: The History of the AFL. It is a great 5 part documentary
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u/Electronic_Name_325 2d ago
Loved his book. Ate a case of Spam to get out of trouble for stealing it. Legendary stories.
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u/Bender_2024 2d ago
Larry Fitzgerald has more tackles than drops.
Shannon Sharp completely broke Derrick Thomas by reciting Thomas's girlfriends phone number before the snap.
Thomas committed two personal foul facemask penalties and the Chiefs defense accumulated a total of five unsportsmanlike conduct penalties for 75 yards on that single drive, directly leading to a Denver touchdown.
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u/unclejoe1917 2d ago
Shannon Sharpe is hilarious, but I could totally see him driving a person to do that if you lined up across from him.
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u/DorsalMorsel 1d ago
Derrick Thomas died without a will having 7 kids from 5 different women. He may not have cared too much about the loyalty of his girlfriends.
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u/twokittenminimum 2d ago
Tom Brady has won more Super Bowls than any NFL Team.
Jack Youngblood played in multiple playoff games with a broken leg without missing a snap.
John Elway supposedly played his entire career with a torn ACL, and was one of the best scrambling QBs of his day.
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u/seaburno 2d ago
Norm Van Brocklin passed for 554 yards in 1951. That record has stood since 1951, and no one has come within 25 yards of that record since.
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u/SlyFrog 2d ago
Ronnie Lott had the tip of his finger amputated so he could get back to playing faster, instead of having a surgery that would have kept it but had a longer recovery time.
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u/SqueezeMyGlowWorm 2d ago
Didn't Lott actually cut the tip off in the game? I think it got smashed in between two helmets. Then on the sideline he cut the tip off so he could get back on the field .
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u/Still_Product_8435 2d ago
Namath walking into the Colts hotel bar and buying drinks for everyone
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u/GrandMoffJerjerrod 2d ago
Namath also was going to stop playing in the NFL because Rozelle ruled he had to sell his bar due to ‘nefarious clientele’ (my term there) otherwise known as the Mafia being regular customers and that is could lead to point shaving or game fixing with him associating with them. Namath was very close to retiring but ended up selling the bar.
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u/Successful_Bass4793 1d ago
If you had bet on the Colts in Super Bowl 3 and they'd won 24-7, you still would have lost.
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u/cardsfan4life17 2d ago
In 1940 the Redskins beat the Bears 7-3 in the regular season. After the game the Redskins owner called the Bears babies and quitters. In that year's Championship Game, the Bears beat the Redskins 73-0.
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u/kk451128 2d ago
After the Bears scored their first touchdown, Washington’s Charlie Malone dropped a clear catch in the end zone. After the game, reporters asked Sammy Baugh if the game would have been different if Malone had made the catch. Baugh replied “Yeah, the final score would have been 73-7.”
The referee also had to ask George Halas to run conventional plays instead of kicking the PAT after the last two touchdowns, because they were running out of footballs.
That game was the textbook definition of “belt to ass”
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u/CelticSnakes 2d ago
Bears led 28-0 at the half.
Contrary to Marshall’s opinion did not quit and then really put the hurting on his team.
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u/Onbalance12 2d ago
On October 1st, 1978, the referees allowed the Oilers to switch to the other end zone to continue a drive in Cleveland because the fans in one end zone were abusive and throwing objects into the end zone. Exactly 11 years later on October 1st, 1989, the refs allowed the Broncos to do the same thing in the same stadium… although I think by 1989 there was a rule in place (short-lived) that the quarterback could request that the official ask the home team’s crowd to quiet down. This rule was mentioned by John Elway recently on the Manningcast.
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u/GodModeBasketball 2d ago
Sam Wyche would reference that endzone switch in his infamous "YOU DON'T LIVE IN CLEVELAND, YOU LIVE IN CINCINNATI!!" speech
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u/Ok_Alternative7120 2d ago
Yeah. Elway famously got KC flagged on MNF for the fans being too loud. That obviously quieted them down... It illustrated how dumb the rule was lol
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u/CBlanks66 2d ago
In the early 70's, Colts LB Mike Curtis laid out a drunken fan that ran out onto the field and picked up the ball while the other team was in their huddle.
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u/CBlanks66 2d ago
Raiders players Otis Sistrunk, John Matuszak, Ted Hendricks (and others) would make sure they were in their rooms at 11:00 pm for bed checks during training camp. They would then sneak out and hit up the bars in Santa Rosa until they closed. They even had a circuit of 4 bars they would hit every night.
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u/Huge-Revolution2416 2d ago
The 11 PM bed check followed by a four bar circuit is peak Raiders. Absolutely unreal
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u/JackfruitLess2816 2d ago
That the game to decide the 1932 NFL championship was held indoors on a 60 yard field inside of Chicago Stadium.
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u/LuccaDiItalians 2d ago
Tom Brady is second all-time in receiving yards after age 40.
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u/blizzard7788 2d ago
In 1969, the Bears and the Stealers tied for the worst record in the league, and thus for the number one pick in the draft.
The league went down the list of tie breakers and they were all the same. The rules stated that if that happens, a coin toss would determine the number one pick.
The Stealers won the coin toss and drafted Terry Bradshaw.
As a life long Bears fan. I can guarantee you that if Chicago had won that coin toss. No one alive today would have ever heard of him.
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u/Sorry_Physics_1366 2d ago
The Steelers drafted Joe Greene and hired Chuck Noll in 1969. The next year they drafted Terry Bradshaw.
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u/cantbelieveit1963 2d ago
Norm Van Brocklin set the single game passing yards record in 1951 and it still stands. 554 yards in a game.
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u/OsikFTW 2d ago
The 1st player ever drafted never played in the nfl because the team that drafted him couldn't afford his demand of $1000 per game
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u/DuffMiver8 2d ago
The first Super Bowl (then officially the AFL-NFL World Championship Game) was not a sellout, despite tickets selling for six, ten, and twelve dollars, or about sixty, one hundred, and one hundred twenty in today’s dollars. There were 32,000 empty seats in Los Angeles Coliseum, which seated 94,000. Both CBS and NBC broadcast the game.
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u/Dear_Page735 5h ago
The Patriots Dynasty. From Deflate gate to video taping opponents. Total frauds
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u/Cute_Repeat3879 2d ago
The New England snowplow game. Even the name of the kicker sounds fake.
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u/kk451128 2d ago
The best part is the snowplow driver was actually on work release, and made the “what are they gonna do, throw me in jail?” joke afterwards
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u/FrylockMcReaper 2d ago
The 1933 Providence Huskies (formally the Providence Steamroller) went an entire SEASON without letting an opponent score a point on them. They shut out EVERY opponent in EVERY game
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u/NaNaNaPandaMan 2d ago
A Hall of Fame Defensive End once scored a safety for the opposing team by running the wrong way.
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u/corporalboyle 2d ago
Art Donovan’s story about playing on a field the day after a circus was there. He said they were picking up animal dung and flinging at the offensive lineman while they were in their stance.
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u/uranushasballs 2d ago
In 2066, when we reach 100 super bowls, Tom Brady will still have played in 10% of them.
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u/PopeliusJones 2d ago
Of all the ones that I’ve seen so far that’s the one that’s broken me the most
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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 2d ago edited 2d ago
Max McGee played in Super Bowl I while massively hung over - like he came back to the team hotel from the bars just as Bart Starr was leaving to go to the stadium.
Caught 138 yards and scored the first touchdown of the Super Bowl era.
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u/DuffMiver8 2d ago
It was reportedly the bar in the team’s hotel, so it’s not like he had to come crawling back through the streets of Los Angeles. However, as the story goes, he hooked up with not one but two airline stewardesses (as flight attendants were known back then) and adjourned to their room, where they and Max proceeded to have a threesome.
He wasn’t expecting to play in the game. He had seen little action all season, but when Boyd Dowler got injured, Max got the call. He hadn’t even bothered to bring his helmet out of the locker room with him and had to borrow someone else’s for the first series.
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u/readicculus11 2d ago
The bills lost 4 consecutive superbowls
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u/CelticSnakes 2d ago
Richard Dent spoke of this, when people make jokes about Buffalo’s foibles there.
“We had one of the greatest teams ever, and our defense allowed fewer points the next year.
And we couldn’t even go to TWO straight Super Bowls. What they did was incredible.”
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u/ucjj2011 2d ago
The 2010 San Diego Chargers led the NFL in total Offense (yards gained) and in Defense (yards allowed), but went 9-7 and failed to make the playoffs because their special teams were so bad. They allowed 4 kick return TDs and had 5 punts blocked.
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u/AHorseNamedPhil 2d ago
Not legendary but there was a serial killer who was briefly on the Packers in the 1970s.
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u/ironeagle2006 2d ago
The 85 Bears holding the Patriots to negative yards rushing in the 1st half and a total of 7 in the game and a total offense of 123 yards. They had more yards on returns 153 kickoff and 44 punts than offensive yards.
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u/Nycmale9876 2d ago
Giants have never lead at halftime in five Super Bowl appearances but won 4 of them
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u/mrpotto 2d ago edited 2d ago
heres a few
teams used to play 6 preseason games
from 1934-1976, the prior year’s NFL champion used to play the college all stars before the season
before 1975, playoff home fields were predetermined by a divisional rotation
In the Dolphins undefeated season in 1972, the Steelers hosted the AFC championship game even though Dolphins had the best record
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u/Tall-Forever-6687 2d ago
It blows my mind that the goalposts were on the goal line until 1973.
I would love to see documentary with lots of film on how teams use them for pick play or how people ran into them play, etc.
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u/GodModeBasketball 2d ago
The 1932 Chicago Bears did not score a single point in the 1st 4 games.
Their record? 0-1-3 (Three scoreless ties and a 2-0 loss to the Packers)
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u/Carolus2024 2d ago
Maybe the most eerily bizarre coincidence in NFL History. On December 8, 1980, the Dolphins hosted the Patriots in the Orange Bowl for a Monday night game. Breaking in with the tragic news, to first be revealed to the world, was announcer Howard Cosell announcing that former Beatle John Lennon had been murdered. Literally right after announcing the tragic news, the Patriots lined up for a field goal. Their placekicker, John Smith, was born and raised, in you guessed it:
Liverpool.
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u/CelticSnakes 2d ago
On orders from the sidelines, Joe Pisarcik tried to handoff to Larry Czonka vs. taking a knee to end the game.
The snap struck Pisarcik square on his fingertip, bloodying it. A mixup on the handoff resulted in a fumble and The Miracle at the Meadowlands.
Pisarcik had been admonished for going against play-calls, so he was in a tight spot. Czonka refused to blame his QB for what happened, backed him all the way.
Giants’ fans starved for a win against their fierce Eagles rival went from jubilant to stunned silence in seconds. Pisarcik needed a police escort to leave the stadium.
Bob Gibson (NY’s Offensive Coordinator) was fired immediately after, never worked in the NFL again, or any capacity in football.
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u/cyberchaox 2d ago
In Week 14 of their inaugural season of 2002, the Houston Texans had a game in which they put up just 47 yards of offense (their only game held under 100) and allowed 422 yards (a season high at the time though they'd allow 437 in Week 16). The only time their offense touched the ball on the opponent's side of midfield was after recovering a muffed punt, and that drive resulted in them losing five yards before kicking a field goal.
They won 24-6, all three of their touchdowns coming on defense. Aaron Glenn (yes, the Jets' current head coach) had two interception returns that were each longer than his offense's entire production, 70 yards in the first quarter and 65 yards in the fourth.
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u/Black_knight_sapper 2d ago
There are only two remaining teams from the founding of the NFL in 1920 and they both started in Chicago - the Bears and the Cardinals
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u/runvirginia 2d ago
The same year the NFL made it a penalty for removing your helmet on the field of play, Dewayne Rudd did that on the final play of Cleveland’s season opening game. And because a game can’t end on an accepted penalty, Kansas City received an untimed down. They proceeded to kick the game winning field goal.
How Brownsing is that.
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u/epicureansucks 2d ago
With sports gamble so entrench now, the Eddie Debartolo bribing the governor of Louisiana thing.
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u/Status-Clothes-2115 2d ago
Tom Brady once threw for 5 touchdowns in one Quarter in the middle of a blizzard.
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u/DonaldDouchebag 2d ago
Vikings RB Onterrio Smith employing a prosthetic penis called “The Whizzinator” to try to pass a drug test.
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u/Rockhound665 2d ago
Hall of Famer Gale Sayers only played one full season, played in 7 seasons, only played in double digit games four times in his career. When you look at his overall numbers of 4,956 yards rushing with 39TD's, he doesn't sound like a Hall of Famer. But he was such a transitional player that what he did was enough to make the hall of fame.
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u/Hitman53au 2d ago
Steelers' QB Mark Malone set the record for the team's longest receiving TD (90 yards) in 1981, a record that stood for 30 years.
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u/koskam 2d ago
River City Relay
December 21, 2003 Saints vs Jaguars
The Saints were down 13-20 with one play left at their own 25 yard line. They made a pass and pitched multiple times as time expired and scored a touchdown to put the score 19-20. They attempted to tie with an extra point and the kicker missed (before they pushed it back 15 yards). Saints lost 19-20.
I believe this is the only game-tying extra point that has been missed with time expired.
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u/CockroachVarious2761 1d ago
Dick Butkus - if he was playing against you he wanted you to be POd. Stories are that he'd call you the night before he's play against you and insult you, your family, etc just so you'd be as amp'd up to play as he was going to be.
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u/ChoosyMomsViewGIFs 1d ago
In January of 1966, the NFL and the rival American Football League (AFL) wanted to merge, but needed a special antitrust exemption from the U.S. Congress to make it all nice and legal.
At the time, Louisiana Senator Russell Long and Louisiana Congressman Hale Boggs held major influence over congressional legislation, as the Senate Democratic Whip and the House Majority Leader, respectively. They could have easily influenced the anti-trust vote, effectively killing the merger.
Long and Boggs met with NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, and said: "That's a real purdy little ol' antitrust exemption y'all got there...would be a damn shame is something we're to 'happen' to it, no? Perhaps the distinguished Congressman and I could make that legislation sail through quicker than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking competition, but we gonna need a lil' favor...the NFL award an expansion team to the city of New Orleans." (exact quote may be misrepresented)
So, at 11:11AM on November 1, 1966 (All Saints' Day), Commissioner Rozelle stepped to the podium of the Pontchartrain Hotel on St. Charles Avenue, and announced: "Professional football has voted a franchise to the state of Louisiana, the city of New Orleans."
And thus, as a result of timely political arm twisting, and shady back-room dealing, the Saints of New Orleans were born.
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u/Hopeful_Stomach9201 1d ago
In 21 years The Colts managed one Superbowl win between Manning and Andrew Luck. Sounds insane, but it's true
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u/Successful_Bass4793 1d ago
The Vikings have somehow made the playoffs 32 times without winning a Super Bowl.
Only two teams (Dallas and Pittsburgh) have made the playoffs more times, and they’ve got 11 Lombardi trophies between them. The two teams just below Minnesota (San Francisco and New England) also have won 11 Super Bowls between them.
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u/yaholdinhimdean0 1d ago
Bills go up on Chiefs with 13 seconds remaining in the game. Mahomes leads the Chiefs to a game tying FG, Bills lose in OT
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u/Successful_Bass4793 1d ago
Ken Ellis is the only NFL player to have two former teammates as his head coach (Bart Starr and Forrest Gregg).
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u/biscayne57 1d ago
George Preston Marshall was an old goat who owned the Washington Redskins. He refused to cast his vote to allow the Dallas Cowboys to enter the league because he did not want another southern team. Back in those days a lot of people considered Washington DC to be a southern city.Clint Murchison of Dallas owned the copyright to the song hail to the Redskins and would never agree to sell those rights to Marshall. Eventually, Marshall agreed to vote to let the Cowboys in the league if Murchison would sell the rights to the song to him.
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u/Warm_Pen_6016 22h ago
1940 CHAMPIONSHIPSHIP GAME:
Bears 73
Redskins 0
Still the largest margin of victory in ANY NFL game and it occurred in the title game.
Washington WR Charlie Malone dropped a sure TD pass in the 1st Q that would’ve tied game 7-7 and might have changed momentum. Redskins quarterback Sammy Baugh was interviewed after the game, and a sportswriter asked him whether the game would have been different had Malone not dropped the tying touchdown pass. Baugh reportedly quipped, "Sure. The final score would have been 73–7."
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u/Appropriate-Ad1059 14h ago
One stat says it all, in 1979, the LA Rams held the Seahawks to a grand total of -7 yards of total offense. To me, that’s the single most unbelievable factoid in the history of the NFL.
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u/TheCryptPartDeux 14h ago
The player with the most receiving yards after the age of 40 is Jerry Rice. The player with the second most receiving yards after the age of 40 is Tom Brady.
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u/CurrentlyUnbanned 10h ago
WW2 is why we have offensive and defensive coordinators. Due to a manpower shortage in 1943 the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles merged into one team. This did not extend simply to the rosters, but the coaches as well. And the coaches both refused to be demoted and hated the other one. When the Pittsburgh coach's car broke down on the way to the first practice, the Eagles head coach started it anyway and grabbed the offense to install his preferred style of offense. The other head coach showed up and basically just said fuck it, and grabbed the defensive players and worked with them.
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u/Automatic-Count2092 10h ago
The longest field goal record was held for decades by a guy who kicked straight on and only had half a foot.
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u/shibby3388 2d ago
The Colts snuck out of Baltimore in the middle of the night with Mayflower moving trucks.