Posts from the Pro Football in the 1970s podcast.
During the first half of the 1970s, the Miami Dolphins had a couple of starting safeties who brought their own distinctive talents to the team’s defense. That unit was called the “No-Name Defense,” and appropriately so. If you asked anyone today “…who were the starting safeties in Miami during their championship years of the early … Read more
By the time of the 1972 NFL Player Draft, the Green Bay Packers, in particular their head coach Dan Devine, had had enough. Divine’s first year at the helm of the Packers would end up with a poor 4-8-2 record. There were plenty of reasons for this, one of the most prominent of which came … Read more
If you were to mention the name of Vernon Perry to a typical pro football fan today, they would probably look at you with a very quizzical expression. “Vernon Who?” might be a common response that you would hear from them. But when you talk about pro football during the 1970s, and specifically when you … Read more
During the 1970s, there were several outstanding rookie running backs whose first year in the NFL were extraordinary. Any one of the following six players would have been a great addition to any team. Some of them were famous from their college days. Others gained national attention only when they produced in the pros. John … Read more
The decade of the 1970s had numerous great plays in the NFL. Now this is not an exact science. I won’t be trying to list every single great play of the decade, because there were so many of them, and because I didn’t want to leave any out if I could help it. But I … Read more