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The Football 101

Countdown of the 101 greatest players in pro football history

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There’s a moment in the 2008 AFC Championship Game between Pittsburgh and Baltimore that might explain, just a little bit, what it means to play modern…
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We continue with our roundups of the next players in the Football 101. Thanks for reading, and for those who aren’t subscribers, I hope you’ll consider…
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Beginning this week, we will have a Friday roundup of players in the Football 101 — there’s simply too much else going on here at Joe Blogs for me to c…
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Julius Peppers might be the greatest athlete to play in the NFL. Then again, Bobby Bell might be the greatest athlete to play in the NFL. It probably d…
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When I started this crazy project, you could have given me 500 guesses at the first African-American player elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, a…
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So here’s my favorite thing about the great Raymond Berry: He was said to have invented 88 different wide receiver moves. It’s the specificity of the n…
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From what I can find in the newspapers, the first shutdown corner in pro football history was a two-time Pro Bowler named Eric Davis … or a Hall of Fam…
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