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8. Oh, I agree. I thought the 14-game season was perfect as the pros are grown men with adult bodies...

Wed Jun 5, 2024, 03:42 PM

Jun 2024

that could withstand the longer season as opposed to the then 10-game high school and college seasons.

The league had come into its own in the national consciousness big-time with Monday Nighf Football, Howard Cosell, Dandy Don and Frank Gifford at the mics. The post-season didn't encroached into the basketball season and baseball spring. training yet.

The Raiders and Gowboys debated as to which was the winningest team in the league.

It wasn't to be so though. Greed of more games and layers of playoffs won out. It will always be thus I'm afraid.

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