via Sports Logos.net About logos 1940NFLDraft Previous SeasonNext Season League Champion:Chicago Bears Passing Leader:Sammy Baugh, 1367 Yds Rushing Leader:Whizzer White, 514 Yds Receiving Leader:Don Looney, 707 Yds
Draft year: 1940 Team: Chicago Cardinals Birthplace: Whipple, West Virginia, West Virginia Position: Running back, Quarterback Also ranks #26 on The Best Tennessee Volunteers Quarterbacks of All Time Also ranks #34 on The Best University of Tennessee Football Players Ever Also ranks #55 on...
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The Patriots were bad both on and off of the football field. During the 1990 season, they scored just 181 points total while giving up 446 points. It was the worst point differential in the NFL during the 1990s. And as if that wasn't bad enough, they also managed to spoil the one w...
earned two NFL MVPs and led the league in receiving touchdowns nine times, receiving yards eight times and receptions seven times. Oh, he was also the co-interception leader in 1940. Our favorite stat, however, is Hutson becoming the first wide receiver with a 1,000-yard season (1,211)...
"Patriot Way," but it hasn't been the same without him. If Belichick returns to coaching, he is just 26 regular-season wins from surpassing Don Shula as the winningest regular-season coach of all time. If you count playoff and regular-season wins, Belichick trails Shula by just 14 ...
While Washington’s football team was on the winning side in the highest-scoring regular season game of all time, they were on the wrong side of the highest-scoring NFL playoff game ever. And the funny thing is, they actually didn’t even score any points on that forgettable day. Almost...
The next step is to incorporate the league average interception rate for each season. To do this, I used all seasons from 1940-2021 and found the three-year rolling average, with each given year in the middle (So 2017 would include the average of seasons 2016-2018). Then, I found three...
running game. In 1972 ten NFL runners gained more than 1,000 yards in one season for the first time in history. During the next season, Buffalo Bills running back O. J. Simpson rushed for more than 2,000 yards, the first time a player had gained that many yards in a single season....
He was also part of The Hawaiians of the World Football League (WFL). He played for the team for one season. 6. Matt Birk Matt Birk went to Harvard University, where he earned a degree in economics, before playing for the Minnesota Vikings in the NFL as a center. ...