Football

The NFL season is moving along quickly, entering week 14 already. This week, we honed in on a matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and Atlanta Falcons, who meet on this week’s schedule, to find a game to highlight for Throwback Thursday. It was the NFC Championship game for the 1998 season, played on January 7, … Read More

The Dallas Cowboys versus the New York Giants. A classic NFC East matchup that will be renewed this weekend on the NFL schedule. This week for our Throwback Thursday feature, we’ll go back almost exactly 10 years, to a prime time Sunday night battle played on November 23, 2014, between these 2 clubs. They entered … Read More

Two NFL rivals who have battled each other over the decades, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns, face off on the week 12 schedule, and our featured Throwback Thursday contest, played between these clubs on September 10, 1989, was an anomaly as far as the way most games went when these AFC rivals met. It … Read More

It was perhaps the most important game in pro football history – Super Bowl III in Miami between the AFL’s New York Jets and NFL powerhouse Baltimore Colts, and with those 2 clubs meeting on this week’s schedule, it is an obvious pick to be chosen as this week’s throwback feature. I have featured this … Read More

It’s already week 10 of the NFL season, and on this week’s slate of games there is a matchup of a pair of old American Football League rivals, the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos. Our Throwback Thursday time machine will travel back to October 29, 1967 for this week’s TBT feature, when these Western … Read More

There is a matchup of the Chicago Bears and Arizona Cardinals on this week’s NFL schedule, and our Throwback Thursday time machine will take us back to November 29, 1959 for a game between these 2 old franchises. The Bears were an NFL powerhouse in the 1940s but despite declining on the field in the … Read More

On November 10, 1963 the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers hooked up in a contest at San Francisco’s Kezar Stadium. With the Cowboys and Niners matched up on this week’s NFL schedule, that’s the game we’ll highlight for this week’s Throwback Thursday post. Both clubs were in the midst of dismal losing seasons as … Read More

A pair of old NFL and NFC East opponents, the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles, square off on the league’s week 7 schedule, and we’ll harken back to a game played between these 2 rivals on November 26, 1972, at Yankee Stadium. It was a clash of 2 clubs at opposite ends of the … Read More

On December 6, 1987, a game was played between 2 clubs who meet on this week’s NFL schedule – the New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That game will be our feature for this week’s Throwback Thursday. Coach Jim Mora’s Saints, at 8-3, were fighting for a playoff spot while the Bucs were languishing … Read More

The Buffalo Bills travel to Houston this Sunday to take on the Texans, and this week’s Throwback Thursday feature is from a game played between these 2 teams just a few years ago, on January 4, 2020. It was an AFC Wild Card game set at Houston’s NRG Stadium, with the Texans being AFC South … Read More