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Not a streak, and a season before his team would join the NFL, but what runner became the first documented 1,000-yard rusher in pro football history? (may as well include the team and year in your answer) I'll sit this one out, since I'm pretty sure I'm the one who did the documenting. Unless it tu...

Gary Najman wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 10:07 pm
John Brockington was the first to run for 1.000 yards in his first three seasons.

Yeah, he's the one. It was kind of a big deal at the time, but he never came close again and the accomplishment seemed to lose its luster.

I remember that Tony Dorsett was the first to gain 1,000 yardas in his first five seasons, but in the very next season the 1982 strike came and cancelled 7 games, erasing the posiibility for Dorsett to continue the streak and others (like Earl Campbell) to achieving it. I remember the first time so...

I've found a fun trivia question for the casual NFL fan to be: Who was the first player to rush for 1,000 yards? Who was the first to do it twice? Who was the first to do it two years in a row? OK... that's three questions... but five times in a row? I don't know but will look forward to hearing th...

Just thinking about this today, and thought it might make a good question, a two-parter:

1. Who was the first player to run for 1,000 yards five years in a row?

2. Who was the second?

The reason I started thinking about it in the first place: Jim Brown did not do it.

Also, was that from his 1964 autobiography, "I Pass!" or the updated 2009 "Nothing Comes Easy"? Thanks again. "I Pass." I probably wouldn't have remembered that bit about Albert if I hadn't reread it just this summer. It doesn't seem possible, but I guess the previous ...

Was Albert doing this to avoid blocked kicks, because he believed running or passing was a higher percentage play, or was it his showmanship and improvisational style? Does anyone have any insights or context into why Albert took this approach on extra points when he played with such accurate kicke...

-For all the hoopla about San Fran vs Dallas rivalry in the 90's it's forgotten how close Washington was to winning this game. Lets say hypothetically some type of miracle happens and Washington is able to tie it there on their final drive, then they win the overtime coin toss and win it with Chip ...

Of all the forgotten minor league players of the 1960s, two of my favorites are Jay Donovan and Larry Gergley. Neither one ever made an all-star team or made it in the NFL or AFL, but they both played six seasons in the high-level minors, presumably as starters — and they both “knew how to win.” Don...

For a so called classy coach, Gibbs at times ran up the score a lot. 45-0 vs DET, 56-17 vs Atlanta in 91, 51-7 in the 83 playoffs vs LA, 31-0/34-0/41-3 vs Joe Bugel’s Cardinals If I had been in the shoes of those coaches, I wouldn’t have shaken his hand after some of these games where he basically ...