- trevorreznik
- Apr 22, 2023
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Part of the reason I like Scorigami isn't so much when a new game gets a Scorigami, but finding out interesting stuff about football gone by.
19-8 happened twice: last night, and a game played exactly to the day, October 12th, 1927 between the New York (Football) Yankees and Buffalo Bison. The Yankees share no lineage with the Giants who were also in the league by then.
Since record keeping was pretty sparse back then and only started getting consistently thorough and retained in the Super Bowl era, we're left with the game being played in Buffalo in front of presumably 3,500 fans: Here's the box score:
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The Yankees to move to 3-0 and the Bison to 0-3.
The Yankees would finish 7-8-1 for the season, good for 6th in the league. They would fold after an unremarkable 4-8-1 1928 season.
The Bison would go on to an 0-5 record before suspending operations until 1929, which would be their final season. In those 5 games, this was the only game where they scored points, having been outscored by a combined 123-8. Their final 2 games would be back-to-back losses to the Frankford Yellow Jackets by a combined 77-0. Both of those games were played on back-to-back days, and 3 games in 5 days counting the Yankees game. Things were just different back then.
The Bison had a strange history, that included renaming the team in 1926 to the Buffalo Rangers, after the infamous Texas state law enforcement agency. They would hire players mostly from Texas and Oklahoma. Part of the reasoning was that it was believed if you bring in players from outside the area, they would be more inclined to focus on football with less outside distractions. They finished the year a middling 4-4-2. Their coach that put the team together, Jim Hendrick, would leave after this season for the New York Giants. Most of the players left as well, citing it just being too drat cold.
Jim Kendrick and the New York Giants would go on to win the 1927 NFL Championship.
This rules, I love seeing that Red Grange had the first TD and then some guy with the name 'Wild Bill.'
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- trevorreznik
- Apr 22, 2023
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I mean, if you have the option to show either Taylor Swift or the 2023 Denver Broncos, the choice is pretty obvious.
She's been featured when the camera could otherwise be on the : Chicago Bears, NY Jets, or Broncos. Of course they don't want to show those teams
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- trevorreznik
- Apr 22, 2023
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Chicago is the solitary basement rat
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