The 1995 expansion were also by far the friendliest of of the 4 modern NFL expansion drafts. A lot of people see the 1995 expansion draft as an overcorrection to the dreadful results of the 1976 expansion draft. The Buccaneers of course went winless in their first season and the Seahawks only...
The Bucs made it to the NFC Championship game in their 4th season, which is practically an eternity compared to 1 or 2 seasons. Only 2 players from the expansion draft were still in Tampa by then. By 1979 the Bucs were able to have four years of draft picks, trades, and waiver wire hunting to...
Expansion teams are designed to be bad. Owners wouldn't allow expansion in the first place if they weren't guaranteed to be a punching bag to start off with. Expansion drafts exist to give teams filler players that they can have to merely survive the season without being blown out of the water...
Gruden was a good fit for Favre. He was on Holmgren's offensive staff in the 90's. He left before the Packers won Super Bowl XXXI but Gruden was around to help develop Favre. I think they would mesh very well together. Favre was still very good until he tore his bicep, assuming that doesn't...
Largent wasn't even drafted by Seattle, the Oilers took him and was a training camp roster cut and the Seahawks took him off a scrap heap. Largent greatly benefited from being on a terrible expansion team with little established stars to get immediate playing time and volume. Even with the...
James v New England is a landmark National Football League (NFL) Officiating Court case in which the Referee Association set thresholds on when a receiver catching a ball becomes a “runner” as defined by the NFL rulebook. The 6-3 ruling set an important precedent for NFL referees when...
We're back for round to of "March Madness but it's the Champions League
The 2022 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Champions League Tournament, also branded as March Madness, is a tournament to determine the men’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championship for the...
The 2000 Interdimensional Golf Open was the inaugural event of its kind, held on November 23-26, 2000 at the Pebble Beach Golf Links Course on Earth US6-0001298. 156 golfers qualified for the tournament through interworld and sectional tournaments of which 79 made the 2nd round cut, though the...
15 seeded Toledo upset 2 seed Duke in the first round, but then lost to Duke in the Sweet 16, and then a 1 seeded Duke went on to win the tournament? None of that makes any sense, Duke would have to be a 1, 2, and 3 seed all at the same time
Using red for the Republicans and a slightly different red for the Socialists with various shadings for percentages makes these maps very, very hard to read.