Dawgs By Nature
As the Browns season is basically over and we wait during the bye week, some thoughts and jots around football
There are odd circumstances that occur in the universe of professional football. My opinion needs to come and mention and/or discuss some of these things. Hopefully you will be entertained.
1. The Washington Commanders are having a really good year. Their head coach Dan Quinn is an excellent defensive mind. This Sunday they host the Pittsburgh Steelers. Both clubs are leading their respective divisions so it should be a marquee game. There is a problem looming for the home stadium though. A lot of Steelers fans live in close proximity of the stadium and the Commanders are concerned that with all the yellow Terrible Towels that it will look like a Steelers home game. How the Washington brass decided to remedy this is a simple idea: issue maroon towels to the home crowd. The idea came from a fan.
The team is set to give away 50,000 maroon towels this Sunday that are imprinted, “Fight for old DC” with the Commanders “W” logo and their sponsor name. The thought process is that the television audience will view a sea of yellow and maroon towels throughout the stadium, which just happens to be Washington’s team colors. By the way, “Fight for old DC” was part of their “Hail to the Redskins” song, but the original words were “Hail to old Dixie” which would later be deemed racist and changed. The story is in the link below in a story I did years ago.
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2. Still think the 2-7-0 Cleveland Browns have a shot at this year’s playoffs? Their post-season hopes in the AFC are now at .05%. Only the New England Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Las Vegas Raiders have the worst probabilities. The loss to the Los Angeles Chargers decimated any chance of a playoff berth.
3. The Kansas City Chiefs remain undefeated at 8-0-0. The 1972 Miami Dolphins are known for being the only NFL club to go unbeaten and untied. There are several reasons to think about this. There have been two handfuls of NFL teams that ended their season unbeaten but had ties. Back in the day, a tie game wasn’t worth any points in the standings and the league did not count them. The first NFL champion was the Akron Pros which went 8-0-3.
The Canton Bulldogs put in two consecutive undefeated years from 1922-1923 going 10-0-2 and 11-0-1, respectively. Again, the tie games are the hang-up with the Dolphins’ claim to being the only undefeated/untied team in the NFL. The portion “in the NFL” is also part of their claim. Many pro football clubs have finished a season unbeaten and untied, just in other leagues and not in the NFL. The first team ever was the Los Angeles Bulldogs of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League in 1937 with a record of 16-0-0. The 1948 Cleveland Browns went...
