Troll report: O.J. got lucky
An insightful email from CHFF reader Don Lambert in response to our piece on reasons behind various records caused us to re-examine the career of O.J. Simpson. Lambert argues that the hash mark rule change in 1972 saved the fizzling career of the Juice. The Cold, Hard Football Facts seem to agree.
Your friendly neighborhood doctor of footballogy
With so many MEs, MDs and Ph.Ds in the news these days, we asked your local Ph.D of pigskin -- the Cold, Hard Football Facts -- to take the pulse of the most dreadful individual units in the NFL last year and offer a prognosis for the 2009 season.
Pigskin Prophet commands sports media to act
The Pigskin Moses, the Cold, Hard Football Facts, stands atop the Mt. Sinai of analysis and commands the sports media to follow our lead in the 2009 season. We command that they start dutifully reporting the most important stat in football: passing YPA.
CHFF rains on a parade of records
CHFF rains on the parade of several of the NFL's most famous records and milestones, highlighting the extenuating circumstances that made them possible. Actually, it's not quite that dramatic ... but overstating the case for dramatic impact is kind of a CHFF speciality.
CHFF to smash AFL myths on NFL Films
The Cold, Hard Football Facts are heading to NFL Films next month to be part of an upcoming retrospective on the 50th anniversary of the AFL. CHFF will counter many of the myths about the AFL, as we discussed in this conventional-wisdom-shattering opus from March, "Everything you know about the AFL is wrong."
Universal secrets!
CHFF is like the Starship Enterprise, boldly going where no site has gone before. In our latest effort, we unveil a potential new Quality Stat that will help us unlock the secrets of the gridiron universe: Passer Rating Differential.
Hooters Happy Hour
We've studied the factors that distinguish the 43 Super Bowl champions from ordinary teams. In doing so, one result leaped off the spreadsheet like a CHFF reader who was just informed of new Happy Hours at Hooters. (Photo cap tip to SportsByBrooks.com)
The great lost season
Tom Brady's injury 7 minutes and 22 seconds into the 2008 season was more than just physically devastating. The injury at the very height of his powers caused a major disruption in Brady's march toward football immortality, perhaps costing Brady another MVP award and Super Bowl title, and certainly costing him a chance to set a variety of passing records.
New & even more painful: the almost-greatest teams
Some of the best teams ever stubbed their pudgy little pigskin piggies on the way to championship fame and glory, falling painfully short of their date with destiny.
Crow-six-ways from Peking Garden
A true CHFF classic, "Crow-six-ways from Peking Garden" was our wrap-up of the epic Patriots-Colts 2006 AFC title tilt and voted by the Pro Football Writers of America the top game story of 2007.
The Da Vinci of the gridiron
If pro football had its own Da Vinci, the multi-disciplinary master whose greatest genius was his command of so many different skills, it would be Sammy Baugh.
CHFF classic: the NFL's Triple Crown
In both horse racing and baseball, each year brings another failed pursuit of the Triple Crown. But the prolonged droughts in those sports are nothing compared to the one in the NFL, where there hasn't been a Triple Crown winner since Pittsburgh's Bill Dudley, pictured here, pulled off the remarkable feat in 1946.
We've been on something of a Foreigner kick lately. You kind of forget that they really rocked and this one might be their rockingest ... especially when the crashing guitars kick in for the first time. Sadly, though, "standing in the rain with his head hung low" reminds us of all the chicks who laughed at us in high school and drove away splashing us with dirty puddle water. So we got that going for us.
Troll report: O.J. got lucky 
