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Quirky Research
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Football (and other) marginalia.
The 2025 Saints can break the record for time spent trailing if they fall behind with 5:00 left in the 1st quarter of each of their remaining games and never come back.

1981 Colts (44:38 per game)
1986 Colts (43:45)
2025 SAINTS (43:15)
1998 Bengals (42:43)
2012 Chiefs (42:32)
December 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
4 turnovers in 3 plays, Redskins-Raiders 1989.
December 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
By next year, it might not be the worst Jets offensive game ever. www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/19...
December 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The "Who's the real Dan Reeves" Bowl.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Maybe an 8 on the Golota scale.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
The story of the game was Plunkett running for his life (he was sacked 8 times) and Art Shell tipping off the defense like he was Jawaan Taylor. There wasn't much immediate blame of Plunkett himself.
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Before this past offseason, none of Glenn Dobbs's safeties would have been considered NFL ones - all 4 of his seasons were in the AAFC.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
We're missing small portions of three other 1977 games where gamebooks can't be found and the video either runs out early or was showing other things at the time.
November 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
All of them.
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The Halloween Monday Night Football game.
November 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I've transcribed many games off home VHS recordings (and 3 off home RADIO recordings).
November 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
That was never official.

At this point, it's a question of how much missing data is acceptable - there's a 1977 Cardinals-Giants game we still can't get our hands on, and that will just get more common as we keep going back.
November 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Agreed.
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM