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@jvanek8512
February 4, 2025 at 6:58 pm
Irony the helmets are the reason concussions are higher.
@user-ow3og9ef9r
February 4, 2025 at 7:01 pm
I was so excited about this until I realized it’s american football and not rest of the world football (soccer for americans). Pt 2?
@aaronolafson1604
February 4, 2025 at 7:03 pm
I’m disappointed he didn’t talk about Canadian football at all when mentioning the origin of the game or when it comes to the field goal posts at the front of the end zone
@scottbrooks711
February 4, 2025 at 7:03 pm
Joe Namath called his win because in order for the AFL to merge and the Super Bowl to be born . So he knew he was going to win . Selling the football as it is today was critical . And a business decision. The hole “sports entertainment” still lingers today .
@FiveFigsDigital
February 4, 2025 at 7:09 pm
How can’t you list the 18-1 Patriots in the best teams of All-Time? Duh!
@jacasoasheland6815
February 4, 2025 at 7:09 pm
I love this stuff
@jflo789
February 4, 2025 at 7:12 pm
As someone who has worked for the company that created the yellow line and player/vehicle tracking technology (including GPS for NASCAR), there are several reasons why GPS is not and cannot be used for this purpose and it has been very heavily investigated and suggested many times. GPS is not accurate enough. Stadiums are giant metal bowls where GPS signals bounce around which causes a reduction in accuracy. Some stadiums are domes, others have only small openings to the sky. GPS antenna are fairly bulky and don’t like to be jostled around. It’s fine for single-point and Differential GPS, but RTK mode (which goes down to 2cm accuracy) loses track quite quickly when bounced around and covered by other objects. What IS being used is a LPS or (Local Position System) through RFID by a company called Zebra. Though this is not used for ball placement because the NFL loves tradition and people like the drama of the chain.
@FiveFigsDigital
February 4, 2025 at 7:16 pm
Favre has the pickled brain to show for it.
@ethannelson1555
February 4, 2025 at 7:17 pm
“Football historian” can’t even tell us the actual origin of the nickname “Americas Team”? Really? Has nothing to do with stats or playoffs, but is just an old reference to an old highlight reel.
@djjoshski
February 4, 2025 at 7:27 pm
actually was hoping for a video like this couldnt not watch this as a big international nfl fan
@southron_d1349
February 4, 2025 at 7:32 pm
Now that gridiron has been more or less covered, other football codes need their turn. Including Australian rules football.
@Todd_Manus
February 4, 2025 at 7:36 pm
Question: How can you answer questions in your life’s study, and be so smug and unhappy in doing so?
@seanj3667
February 4, 2025 at 7:56 pm
28-3
That’s all.
@jameshust8888
February 4, 2025 at 7:58 pm
I personally think the 72 dolphins had the best season ever but not the best team ever just my opinion don’t be upset dolphin fans
@Benjamin-The-Blue
February 4, 2025 at 7:59 pm
“He’s already won 3 super bowls.” at 6:10 talking about Mahomes. Wow, guess it is rigged.
@guilhermearanha5676
February 4, 2025 at 8:03 pm
Wait… So football is called football because before there was the sport, people would refer to all sports as footsports? That is the most american thing I’ve ever heard.
@mrgreen9086
February 4, 2025 at 8:04 pm
Answer to the thumbnail because football 🏈 fans are dumb
@frigginjerk
February 4, 2025 at 8:04 pm
I still say that Otto Graham was the best quarterback ever. Ten seasons, ten championship appearances, seven championship wins. He also still holds the career record for yards per attempt, which says he moved the ball more efficiently, despite playing in an era when you could crash a drumptruck into a receiver and not draw a pass interference penalty.
@adamrakhadifa6933
February 4, 2025 at 8:07 pm
*Handegg historian answers handegg questions*
@tylerperry3453
February 4, 2025 at 8:09 pm
Eli had a shot at the iron man record. But was benched for Geno Smith. Got the HC fired.
@dbii6349
February 4, 2025 at 8:10 pm
Growing up as a kid in the 60’s and 70’s there was no one as cool as Joe Namath. It would take blending Tom Brady with Elvis to equal him.
@normanrodriguez6670
February 4, 2025 at 8:14 pm
Historians have determined the box show Dempsey used had no advantage prior to it being outlawed, but accuracy was even lower than a normal shoe
@wizzelhoart
February 4, 2025 at 8:19 pm
1:00 Football historian thinks 1996 was the early 90s? Or does he actually think the Cowboys haven’t been to the Super Bowl since the early 90s? Whatever you paid him, take it back.
@DonnieH23
February 4, 2025 at 8:20 pm
People asking questions like Google doesn’t exist
@neonhvit
February 4, 2025 at 8:20 pm
American football*
@etrain8885
February 5, 2025 at 1:51 pm
This is a good video, but y’all need to chill in the editing room a little. Like that section about moving the goalposts, you zoom in and out 9 different times. Let the dude just finish a sentence.
@guyfaux3978
February 5, 2025 at 1:55 pm
Will punch-drunkenness kill the NFL? There may be fewer kids playing in years to come (both in never being allowed to play due to schools and pee wee leagues discontinuing programs if they become uninsurable, and kids getting weeded out earlier after head injuries) and thus, the quality of the player pool may suffer, and the NFL might, in theory, become on a par with the UFL talentwise and people might start to lose interest.
@0fficerJimLahey
February 5, 2025 at 1:56 pm
The NFL will never allow VAR or GPS positioning in the ball because they want control when it can go either way. It’s one of the great things about soccer and tennis, there’s no argument. But you can’t gift the chiefs games with VAR
@stationofplay2302
February 5, 2025 at 1:58 pm
Can we stop saying that playing for a long time makes you the best player ever? Per game stats >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> career totals…and no dudes who’ve only played a handful of games don’t count, chill Reddit mods.
@vacantplanet
February 5, 2025 at 2:39 pm
This is not football.
@mikeedelstein3845
February 5, 2025 at 2:42 pm
In 1940, the Chicago Bears beat the Washington Redskins 73–0 in the league’s championship game. I’d argue that 73-point margin of victory in the NFL league championship (Super Bowl) as the record least likely to ever be broken.
@nuoksu
February 5, 2025 at 2:42 pm
Oh, it’s about American handmelon.
@enoraskye6020
February 5, 2025 at 2:43 pm
0:45 – Fan of football for 40 years here. Even during the hype days, I never called or thought of the Cowboys as “America’s Team”. That is some huge BS.
@juhaleskinen7383
February 5, 2025 at 2:46 pm
‘MURICAN FOOTBALL. NOT FOOTBALL, you idiots.
@drewjamila3868
February 5, 2025 at 3:19 pm
Next episode! A professional guitar player like John Mayer or Mark Tremonti to feature here and answer bunch of guitar related questions. That is super cool
@tamudawson
February 5, 2025 at 3:32 pm
Dude pig skin IS leather.
@nborr258
February 5, 2025 at 3:51 pm
The Steelers did play the 72 Dolphins. The Dolphins beat Pittsburgh in the AFC Championship game
@StefveoX
February 5, 2025 at 4:09 pm
5:09 bro was serving
@devilpupbear09
February 5, 2025 at 4:57 pm
Football has a history?
@mopple2780
February 5, 2025 at 5:01 pm
pls stop the zoom cuts to punctuate sentences. not every sentence needs an edit.
@herzogsbuick
February 5, 2025 at 5:25 pm
not a single mention of the CFL. or the Harvard/McGill game in 1874. the questions were subpar for the Tech Support series, too. not good. football’s my favorite sport, too.
@sockhopper
February 5, 2025 at 6:07 pm
Didn’t they also test it out and found out that Dempsey’s square toe cleat actually made it harder to kick, and put him at a disadvantage?
@datsko6339
February 5, 2025 at 6:08 pm
FUN FACT: At 14:42 the player pictured (#24) is Byron “Whizzer” White. Here’s his story, in brief:
He studied law at Oxford University in England after nearly winning the Heisman Trophy at Colorado.
He returned to the US to practice law, but was convinced to play pro football, becoming the highest-paid player in league history – $15,800/year contract!
In his three-year career, he led the league in rushing two times.
He left pro football to serve as an intelligence officer for the Navy in the Pacific during the War.
He returned to Yale Law School after the War and in 1962, President Kennedy appointed him to the Supreme Court
*HE SAT ON THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT FOR OVER 31 YEARS, UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 1993*
@blahdblah0007
February 5, 2025 at 6:13 pm
Here’s one that will never, ever, be broken. In 1943 Redskins QB Sammy Baugh threw for 23 touchdowns and had 11 interceptions.
What?
That’s 11 defensive interceptions.
@ACME_Kinetics
February 5, 2025 at 6:22 pm
GPS or any satnav would be a poor fit for any sport. Too inaccurate without many redundant receivers in the first place, easy to jam or spoof. The NFL needs a localized system somewhat like LORAN (a predecessor of GPS) but optimized to just cover a playing field.
@DarkPuIse
February 5, 2025 at 6:30 pm
As a Bills fan, the Cowboys haven’t been “America’s Team” for me pretty much since I was born (yes, I saw those Super Bowls), and I revel in their absolute quagmire of “minimally exceptional.”
@mercutio24
February 5, 2025 at 6:32 pm
Missed opportunity to discuss why the field is called a “gridiron” at 12:06.
@rdizzy1
February 5, 2025 at 7:07 pm
Lol, look at Anthony Richardsons pass completion percentage in the 11 games he played for the Colts this past season, below 50%.
@masamune2984
February 5, 2025 at 7:14 pm
Mahomes is the currently likely the best QB in NFL history.
Brady is the currently likely the greatest QB in NFL history.
One has potentially the most raw talent ever, the other has an absolute legacy. That’s just my own personal thoughts. 🙂🤙
@abbygailhaineault3453
February 5, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Yall should have robert downey junior and tom holland do a wired Google questions
It would be a good combo
@troubled_envy
February 6, 2025 at 1:55 pm
The changing of the shoe didn’t limit him having a career but it limited him for making 63 yd field goals. 100% obvious advantage.
@troubled_envy
February 6, 2025 at 2:06 pm
11:55 they don’t use GPS because the game would have to be fair. Refs need to be able to get Mahomes to another SB.
@Tadicuslegion78
February 6, 2025 at 2:27 pm
Why Mahomes will never be better than Brady,
28-3
@toddgaak422
February 6, 2025 at 3:25 pm
The only reason the Cowboys still get ratings, is because they are on every single week, and usually the late game or prime time when they’re the only game on. Jerry Jones has WAY to much sway in the NFL. Roger Goodell is a coward and won’t stand up to him.
@bobapjok4241
February 6, 2025 at 3:56 pm
These are grown men, they can make their own decisions about the danger and the desire to play (ie money). As long as they are deciding while not in a state of mental stress, it should just be their decision. Lots of people have dangerous jobs, but they are filled because of the potential to make more money. No one should be able to tell them they cant play if they choose that for themselves.
@DaleStLouis-xb5mx
February 6, 2025 at 4:32 pm
I am not a Tom Brady fan but he’s the undisputed GOAT anyway. I know the Patriots had a lot else going for them: exceptional, proven coach in Bill Belichick, a self-improving dynasty that great players wanted to play for, and various cheats and scandals. But when Brady started all over with a new coach and team in Tampa Bay at age 43 and won his 7th Super Bowl, he proved again he’s the GOAT. Payton Manning won 5 rings with two teams. Mahomes needs four rings and one more team, just to tie Tom Brady.
@scootter2323
February 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Isn’t pigskin a type of leather?
@erakfishfishfish
February 6, 2025 at 5:05 pm
Pig leather does exist, but it was never used for footballs. Cowhide was the only leather used for the balls.
@scootter2323
February 6, 2025 at 5:37 pm
@@erakfishfishfish ah ok, thanks! I didn’t catch the cowhide part.
@adamzandarski8933
February 6, 2025 at 4:38 pm
The browns had an undefeated season, tho it wasn’t in the nfl
@robertott9925
February 6, 2025 at 4:43 pm
78 Steelers best defense
@emem2756
February 6, 2025 at 4:45 pm
Nah, that is about that rugby-styled sport you play with hands.
@garret6464
February 6, 2025 at 4:46 pm
The cowboys are known as Americas team because their quarterback, captain America, was a star player. That’s also why my family is a fan, my great grandfather loved the cowboys after shooting Japanese planes down in WWII.
They also won in the 1995-96 season, which I guess you can call the “early 90s” if you want to be as un-charitable as possible
@geemac7267
February 6, 2025 at 4:50 pm
The NFL doesn’t even talk about GPS technology because they want the unaccountable officials to control the games. Maybe your team has more often than not come out on top of that situation but it’s impossible to argue that having flawed (and sometimes blind) older men making poor calls and even poorer reviews of those calls, is a better way to do it than GPS or any other technology.
@erakfishfishfish
February 6, 2025 at 4:55 pm
I think it’s time to increase the difficulty of field goals again. The success rate of 50+ yarders in the 2024 season was about 75%. That’s double what it was in the 80s. Additionally, 50+ yard attempts are way up compared to the previous few decades. I don’t think a player who’s only on the field for a handful of plays should be that integral to a team’s success.
@Barfyman362.
February 6, 2025 at 4:58 pm
British NPC’s will never be able to get through the first minute.
@joshuabolton3866
February 6, 2025 at 5:05 pm
How do u become a football historian
@lenoxx_s1884
February 6, 2025 at 5:12 pm
Just another Brady glazer
@QuanCena220
February 6, 2025 at 5:30 pm
6:30. The question was better, not greater
@benwinston9195
February 6, 2025 at 5:56 pm
When did 1996 become “the early 90s”?
@OscarOSullivan
February 6, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Green Bay Packers are fascinating to me as a Irish rugby supporter and player that they are a proper community club that started out as an amateur club in which anyone could turn up and play for.
@danielbalboa4537
February 6, 2025 at 6:42 pm
America’s Team is the moniker of the Dallas Cowboys…just like the Steel Curtain of the Pittsburgh Steelers…yes we haven’t won a chip in a minute but we still dem Boyz 👍🇺🇸
@alexanderc.4654
February 6, 2025 at 6:47 pm
I was at the Vikings 33 point comeback back in ’22. It was amazing. My wife and I both caught covid, and it was totally worth the price of admission, lol. SKOL!
@evanpena9721
February 6, 2025 at 6:54 pm
I’m sorry more fans than any other team coupled with the best tv ratings would equal Americas team would it not lol
@NomeDeArte
February 6, 2025 at 7:49 pm
MARADONA
@thomaslewis247
February 6, 2025 at 7:50 pm
6:37 no one else is close is crazy when Brees and him were literally neck and neck. Only reason Tom finished with more was cause he played another 2 years
@MatthewSmith-z7y
February 6, 2025 at 8:03 pm
Hm… Tom Brady threw a pick six and just two touchdowns in Super Bowl 51, while James White tied the all-time scoring record and broke the receptions record (crazy for a running back!). However in that game Brady did achieve the record for the most completed passes in a super bowl, and the record for most yards thrown at the time (he would break it the following year and still lose). Though of course the game going into overtime for the first time ever at the time (only the second one now, but watch it go into OT on Sunday and antiquate my comment lol), did help quite a bit (for Brady and White since White scored his third in OT). It’s a tough choice for sure. But I mean, a pick six feels a little disqualifying right?
@p4z74
February 7, 2025 at 7:52 pm
Nah that name origin is whatever. This foo not ready for that. Americans call it whatever but rugby and football (worldwide sport) have the same origin and it’s documented.
@sparkysjoint1616
February 7, 2025 at 8:07 pm
The reason the goal posts were there is because of Rugby. Rugby still have goal posts on the goal line with world class athletes flying around all over the place. That’s literally why the posts were there. I guess rugby players are just tougher….
@rustyrelicsfarm2406
February 7, 2025 at 8:22 pm
Bart Starrs playoff percentage is still unbroken.
@smokekliffproductions5020
February 7, 2025 at 11:03 pm
Hey buddy watch ur effin mouth talking about AMERICA’S TEAM! 🤨🤫🤐
@larryfine6865
February 8, 2025 at 12:41 am
Easier to fix games with no GPS. NFL & MLB etc… are owned by Gambling industry. Greed Always wins👍🏻
@Aviator27J
February 8, 2025 at 12:48 am
Mahomes being the best today is a stretch. Successful, absolutely. It’s just hard to compare him with Burrow and seriously put his stats and ability heads and tails above. He’s had a good team to allow him to make the SB and then win. Props to him (and the league, refs, etc), but he’s not far and away the best.
@razzle2112
February 8, 2025 at 1:43 am
falcons can’t escape 28-3😂
@Josh-vv9sz
February 8, 2025 at 7:59 am
In terms of CTE, the NFL just needs to start making people sign waivers when they enter the draft or try out for a team. Its high risk, high reward. They can gain generational wealth by risking their body, no different than people joining the military for the benefits.
@incoprea
February 8, 2025 at 10:51 am
No follow up on epstine video then an ‘exclusive’ with a known epstine friend. Sick, sellout, unsibscribed!!!
@marcelescoda7045
February 8, 2025 at 10:58 am
I think that the very first statement is hugely debatable.
@marcelescoda7045
February 8, 2025 at 11:07 am
4:51
@chrish2112
February 8, 2025 at 11:54 am
How does one become a “Football Historian”? Sounds like the best job ever.
@kellybrandon100
February 8, 2025 at 12:22 pm
This guy is clearly a Brady fan…because the greatest game in history ALL time is none other than the Patriots v Giants helmet catch game. Patriots go into the Super Bowl undefeated and lose to the Wild Card Giants.
@VinceLyle2161
February 8, 2025 at 12:50 pm
Not just one 28-3 reference, but two. And the second was that old dagger at the end. 28-3, peace!
@ThouArtOfWar0724
February 8, 2025 at 1:26 pm
Rings in any sport are irrelevant to goat debates because its a team effort. For example no one says Robert horry is better than jordan because he has more rings.
@DougsShack
February 8, 2025 at 1:35 pm
Regarding the goal posts, they were always on the goal line of every football sport. Both rugby sports, association, Australian, Gaelic, even Canadian football.
There wasn’t an end zone back in the day. You touched the ball down somewhere beyond the goal line.
@robfigulski1139
February 8, 2025 at 1:47 pm
A guy LITTERALY messaged you and asked who Vince Lombardi is? WTF?
@NineEyeRon
February 8, 2025 at 3:02 pm
Thinking abut the origin of the name “football” makes Handball a disappointment.
Rugby scoring is a try as you get to try to kick at goal.
@christophercharles9645
February 8, 2025 at 3:53 pm
The technology has certainly improved the health of players at all levels. CTE and other ghastly injuries still occur but can you imagine LT or Ronnie Lott laying out someone wearing wool & horsehair pads and a leather helmet? Ouch.
@cariad4297
February 8, 2025 at 4:26 pm
As the internet is global, maybe state it’s American Football in the title, so the rest of the planet knows to skip this one.
@limitedbom2206
February 8, 2025 at 4:41 pm
That’s exactly why they put football in the title. Why would soccer fans be confused?
@TheReal_CoachCason
February 8, 2025 at 4:57 pm
6:35 Brady is the G.O.A.T because he started as a scrawny kid who had a terrible combine and no wanted him until the Patriots took a chance on him in the 6th round and became a 7x Super Bowl champ and a first ballot-worthy Hall of famer.
@TheReal_CoachCason
February 8, 2025 at 5:02 pm
8:25 Super Bowl 3 is the only Super Bowl matchup that can never happen again thanks to the placement of both teams in the same conference once the NFL-AFL merger was finalized.
@caynine29
February 8, 2025 at 5:39 pm
Tom Brady was ABSOLUTELY the “greatest” QB of all time…
….but the “best”? No. There are quite a few better.
@iconpoet
February 8, 2025 at 6:39 pm
Super Bowl LI…Atlantas defense was terrible and Kyle Shannihan was full of himself…
@iconpoet
February 8, 2025 at 6:47 pm
It was almost like Brett Favre couldn’t feel pain…
@isaiahwakeen3539
February 8, 2025 at 7:35 pm
How does one become a football expert?
@garethashley9128
February 8, 2025 at 9:47 pm
Yeah, ‘Historian’ … I’m having trouble locating his doctoral thesis.
@6oot6a6yHuliGan
February 8, 2025 at 9:50 pm
Tom Brady’s so cool he had to play four years after drew brees just to sniff his balls….but he’s got 7 rings….
@silentm999
February 8, 2025 at 10:32 pm
I read an article a few years ago that said the Packers are really Americas team. That there are more Green Bay fans across the country than Dallas or any other team. But its probably Kansas City today.
@band67
February 8, 2025 at 10:36 pm
Porkspork69 😂😂😂😂
@RibsTouching
February 8, 2025 at 11:39 pm
6:25 never knew the confetti were shaped as The Lombardi trophy
@peoplecallmepeechez
February 9, 2025 at 12:30 am
Why does canadian football have the goalpoast at the goal line then if its condidered so dangerous? Do they have rules that make it safer, or am i mistaken about CFL?
@frederickwilliams9204
February 9, 2025 at 1:19 am
Cowboys are the worlds team. Most valuable franchise in the world. By far
@baxterscientific
February 9, 2025 at 2:19 am
Bet this guy has *SMALL BALLS*
@Mikejones011990
February 9, 2025 at 4:23 am
The falcons had a huge lead in that Superbowl, but I never felt like we were winning. It’s Tom Brady. I think it was Edleman who made that ridiculous pinball catch. That was the turning point. Matt Ryan was underappreciated. There’s never been a tougher human being. Only so much you can do.
@CoxDannyJ
February 9, 2025 at 4:54 am
“Hi, my name is John Eisenberg and I’m here to answer questions that should have been asked to Google.”
@BenonaMission
February 11, 2025 at 4:50 pm
We could have had facts, too.
@teederbialy4540
February 9, 2025 at 10:10 am
Goal posts on goal line. Hmm, makes sense
@cconnon1912
February 9, 2025 at 12:20 pm
Couldn’t stand the arrogance of Cowboys fans calling it America’s team.😅
@oskaveli662
February 9, 2025 at 1:02 pm
Why are the Cowboys called Americas team?
Because they have the biggest fan base in America. That simple
@JesseArt
February 9, 2025 at 9:49 pm
16:44 So, I was 7 in 1992. I was watching the game with my dad, and he said something like “Welp, this game’s over anyway, let’s get you off to bed.” I apparently whipped my head around and said in a very indignant tone something like, “No dad, the Bills are coming back. THEY are gonna win.” He came and got me out of bed for the final few minutes and we tried our best not to wake the rest of the house with our excitement. He still tells this story whenever he has the opportunity. Been a Buffalo Bills fan ever since.
@joshharrison9054
February 10, 2025 at 2:07 am
So a couple things with this video, questions and statements.
1) It’s heavily contested that Americans did not actually invent football, that Canadians did during the 1860’s at McGill and University of Toronto. Is that true? You only ever hear canadians talk about it.
2) What do you think is the superior football, Canadian or American? Take away the money and commercial aspects, how does 3 down football stack up against 4 down football?
3) in the CFL, because of the deeper endzones, our goalposts are at the front of the endzone, similar to what was shown in the video. There is not any significant injuries that occur because of that and doesn’t affect scoring very much. So the whole “it’s for safety” thing is kind of BS.
@SundraTanakoh
February 10, 2025 at 3:25 am
GPS – Rugby players have a GPS module on the upper part of the back of their shirts…..Not sure how that really helps their game, but hey, they got ’em.
@brettjensen5195
February 10, 2025 at 9:21 am
It’s almost as if everything asked here could just be typed into google.
@kens2328
February 10, 2025 at 9:35 am
Because it made a funny “BONG!” sound when players ran into it.
@Daxter250
February 10, 2025 at 3:00 pm
hold on, so its not pig skin… but leather. but leather is skin more or less. you can make leather out of the skin of a pig. so what type of leather is it now?
@BumboRasKlat79
February 10, 2025 at 9:14 pm
Association Football (Soccer)
Rugby Football
Gridiron Football (NFL)
@ricksaint2000
February 10, 2025 at 9:49 pm
Thank you John
@comedousedinmud44
February 11, 2025 at 12:17 pm
“…but the last time they won the Super Bowl was in the early 1990’s, and so we are going back a long way…”
Ouch :/
@TristanLoewen
February 12, 2025 at 2:31 am
Canadians still have the uprights on the goal line. There should be a video on the history of differences and similarities between the NFL and CFL!
@gemboel1332
February 12, 2025 at 7:59 am
Handegg is not football
@CMDRScotty
February 12, 2025 at 8:22 am
You guys have to remake the episode AI Tires 20 jobs. A lot of people are starting to panic now.
@FrankBoston
February 12, 2025 at 10:14 am
Stop that music!!!!!
@Trickaz94
February 12, 2025 at 12:22 pm
Thats not football, that is dumb@ss hand egg
@henryjones6957
February 12, 2025 at 12:51 pm
But the CFL still has the goal posts on the goal line and it’s fine
@KenseiAbbot
February 12, 2025 at 1:57 pm
Awesome video
@aintnoshitway
February 12, 2025 at 4:36 pm
It’s called handegg
@robertmartin1388
February 12, 2025 at 5:11 pm
Ima let you finish, but THE CAROLINA PANTHERS WENT UNDEFEATED AND ARE THE GOAT!!!1!!!
@jmpet7134
February 12, 2025 at 7:36 pm
I was hoping he would answer the question “why half the distance to the goal?” It can unfairly advantage a team depending which way the ball is going.
@RyanNewman-ee3ke
February 13, 2025 at 11:58 am
Never done this before, but gotta say, for an “expert” historian, you missed a couple things:
1. Cowboys won in 95-96 (small thing) but wouldn’t be considered (early 90s)
2. I woulda have explained why the “rugby TD” is called a Tri (original rugby “TD” was 3 points), AND you failed to mention on the topic, that players had to physically touch the ball down in the endzone (kinda explains it better), way back when…if you watch Red Grange U of I highlights (particularly that HC game vs Michigan, you can see him consistently touching the ball down)…not to mention the significance of WHERE you touch the ball down in the tri zone is relevant to rugby’s “XP”, but never was for footballs.
Sorry you did a good job and i only have watched 2:54 of this, but had to call that out
@fastfoodreviewandelvistoo
February 13, 2025 at 2:40 pm
When did the NFL stop putting white circles on the ends of the ball and why isn’t the ball 🏈 light brown? When did it change to a very dark ball?
@MarkSashegyi
February 13, 2025 at 2:47 pm
10:37 1937 LA Bulldogs went 16-0 in the AFL
1948 Cleveland Browns went 14-0 in AAFC
The Browns first 12 seasons are actually insane af, especially considering everything their history since 😅
1946-1949 – won 4 straight AAFC championships
1950 – won NFL championship
1951-1953 – lost 3 straight NFL championships
1954-1955 – back-to-back NFL champs
1956 – losing record
1957 – lost NFL championship
@jaron_a_mo
February 13, 2025 at 3:08 pm
I hate whoever edited this video. So many cuts were so unnecessary. This isn’t an action video
@mityace
February 13, 2025 at 6:51 pm
The one game that Chicago lost in 1985 was to the Miami Dolphins! IIRC The game was in Miami on a Monday night.
@marshallduvall1102
February 13, 2025 at 7:47 pm
If they really wanted to make the game safer, THEY WOULD MAKE THEM WEAR MORE PADDING ! The fact that they don’t, let’s you know they are LYING about safety.