Football Digest articles from August 2001

Football Digest archives from August 2001

A Call to Arms.
August 1, 2001... EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT a quarterback shortage in the NFL. Well, no wonder. When Dan Marino, Steve Young, and Troy Aikman all retire within a span of 12 months, there is bound to be a fallout. The three future Hall-of-Famers combined to throw...

The Fans Speak Out.
August 1, 2001... The best ever? In your June 2001 issue, you rated the top defenses ever ["The Best Ever?"]. While I don't dispute your selection of the "Supreme Six," or the order in which you ranked the teams, I must point out that the famed Minnesota...

The Stat Sheet: Free Agency.
August 1, 2001... (1) "The number of starters the Baltimore Ravens lost to free agency this offseason from their Super Bowl-winning defense. Safety Kim Herring signed with the St. Louis Rams. (85) The number of unrestricted free agents who changed...

School Snapshot: Notre Dame.
August 1, 2001... * Senior offensive lineman Ryan Scarola's father Phil proposed to Ryan's mother Angie at a Notre Dame football game in 1969. * Notre Dame lost the first game it ever played, 8-0 to Michigan in 1887. * Touchdown Jesus is a mural created...

Cleveland Falls Get Their Revenge.
August 1, 2001... AFTER ART MODELL'S UNPOPULAR decision to move his Browns to Baltimore in 1995, fans in Cleveland filed a class-action lawsuit against the team owner. This spring, a Cuyahoga County (Ohio) judge approved a preliminary $3 million settlement of...

On Top of the World.
August 1, 2001... After only two seasons on the job, the coach has reached a legendary status at Oklahoma OKLAHOMA WON THE SEVENTH national championship in its history last January, shocking the college football world by defeating favored Florida State 13-2...

A BEAR MARKET.
August 1, 2001... Free-agent spending slowed to a trickle this year, but some teams still managed to improve themselves NFL TEAMS PULLED IN THE reins in free agency this year. For the first time since free agency was introduced to the NFL in 1993, it was a...

Beyond the Hype.
August 1, 2001... We cut through the bull and give it to you straight: Here's the top talent at every position THE COMMON BELIEF IS that the teams in today's NFL are separated by the slimmest of margins. That got us thinking: Just how slim are those...

ROUGH DRAFT.
August 1, 2001... Although the stories of the NFL's newest crop of players will be rewritten in the coming years, here's a first read on which teams scored and which didn't NO TEAM IS WORSE following the NFL draft Even the ones that don't fill their...

THE BIG UGLIES ARE SITTING PRETTY.
August 1, 2001... The induction ceremonies in August promise to be a celebration of the most overlooked players in the game: offensive linemen Hall of Fame Induction Preview THE FOOTBALL GODS must have hit their heads on a goal post. How else can you...

A RUN FROM THE ROSES.
August 1, 2001... We're predicting that Oklahoma will play Florida for the national title in the... Rose Bowl? That's right--tradition has fallen by the wayside AS PROOF POSITIVE THAT COLLEGE football as you knew it even five years ago is kaput, we offer...

Names and Numbers.
August 1, 2001... NFL Directory NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE 410 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022 (212) 450-2000 ARIZONA CARDINALS PO Box 888 Phoenix, AZ 85001 (602) 379-0101 Dave McGinnis, head coach Sun Devil Stadium 72,273 capacity, grass...

Quick Quiz.
August 1, 2001... 1. Marty Schottenheimer is coaching again after taking a couple of seasons off. Which team did he join? 2. True or false: Curtis Martin holds the single-season rushing record for both the New England Patriots anti the New York Jets. 3....