Posts belonging to Category Great Games
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Steve Grogan was drafted by the New England Patriots in the fifth round of the 1975 NFL Draft. He played 16 seasons in the NFL, all of them with the Patriots. He was a fan favorite in a lot of ways and had a very productive career. What are Steve Grogan’s greatest [...]
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Dan Marino is one of the best quarterbacks to ever play football in the National Football League. He has not only gone down in history as a favorite among Miami Dolphins fans, but of NFL fans around the world.
He burst onto the scene as a rookie in 1983 and within a year was leading [...]
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The Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins have had a long history featuring some great games. How each team was doing didn’t seem to matter as a Dolphins team going through a down year could still beat a Bills team that was riding high, and vice versa. In September of 1991, the Buffalo Bills [...]
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The 2009 NFL season opened tonight with the Tennessee Titans traveling to Pittsburgh to face the Steelers. Pittsburgh pulled out a 13-10 overtime victory in what was a great start to the season. Being as it was the first game of the year, there was a whole lot of 2009 firsts tonight. [...]
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Tags: 2009 NFL Season, Firsts, Steelers, Titans |
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On October 22nd, 2000 Cincinnati Bengals running back Corey Dillon had one of the greatest games ever when he racked up 278 rushing yards in a victory over the Denver Broncos. This set the record for most rushing yards in a game until three years later when Baltimore’s Jamal Lewis would run for an [...]
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1985 Bears Dominate The Patriots
Here is a stat showing how badly the 1985 Chicago Bears dominated the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. In the entire first half, the Patriots ran 21 offensive plays. They only gained positive yardage on four of those 21 plays. 17 plays were run in the [...]
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Great Games – Jack Youngblood
Jack Youngblood is a hall-of-fame defensive end who played his entire career for the Los Angeles Rams. One of the things he is famous for is playing through the entire 1979/80 playoffs (including the Super Bowl loss to the Rams) with a fractured left fibula… yeah, it’s safe to say [...]
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