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Topic: 1988 NFL season


  
  NFL Football Tickets
The NFL season is played during the late summer, through autumn, and into January.
NFL franchises generate huge revenues for host cities, in addition to promoting civic pride and national exposure.
In the 1980s three NFL teams relocated: the Oakland Raiders moved from Oakland, California, to Los Angeles in 1982; the Colts moved from Baltimore, Maryland, to Indianapolis, Indiana, and became the Indianapolis Colts in 1984; and the Cardinals moved from St.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Arizona Cardinals   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The 1988 NFL season was the 69th regular season of the National Football League.
NFL 75th season anniversary logo The 1994 NFL season was the 75th regular season of the National Football League.
The 1947 NFL season was the 28th regular season of the National Football League.
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  1989 NFL season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1989 NFL season was the 70th regular season of the National Football League.
Before the season, NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announced his retirement.
The season ended with Super Bowl XXIV when the 49ers defeated the Denver Broncos.
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 NFL 1988 Football Season Archives
1988 NFL Team Rankings: Computer ranking of all the teams in the NFL based on performance AND strength of schedule and more...
1988 NFL Weekly Matchups: Team matchups, computer predications and results of (scheduled games) for the season from the first game of the regular season through the playoffs.
1988 NFL Scores and Schedules: Complete 1988 NFL team scores and schedules including regular season and playoffs.
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 Detroit Lions Site: Chuck Priefer
KR Darrien Gordon led the AFC and was second in the NFL with a 14.9-yard punt return average.
In 2002, the returner role was handed off to Eddie Drummond as he finished with the NFL’s fourth-best kickoff return average (28.0 yards per return) and highest of rookies, and he returned one punt for a touchdown (73 yards) during the season.
In 2004, Drummond was the NFL’s leader in punt returns with a 13.2 avg (24 PR for 316 yds) and combined kick returns for touchdowns with four (2 PR, 2 KR), and ranked second in kickoff returns with a 26.6 avg (41 KR for 1,092 yds).
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 Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
Midway through the 1986 season, following a two-year hiatus from coaching and one season as the head coach of the Chicago Blitz of the United States Football League, Levy returned to the NFL as head coach of the Bills.
In 1987, his first full season with the Bills, the team returned to respectability with a 7-8 record and were in the playoff hunt throughout most of the season.
From 1988 through 1997, the Bills were first in the AFC in winning percentage and second only to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFL.
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 Coach - Chicago Bears
Smith was named the Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year for 2005 after becoming the fastest head coach in Bears history to lead the team to a division title, doing so in his second campaign while setting a franchise record for victories by a sophomore head coach with 11.
The Bears turned their season around as Smith guided the team to eight consecutive mid-season wins, the third-longest win streak in the NFL in 2005 and the longest by Chicago since the 1985 Super Bowl team won 12 straight to begin the season.
That season Brooks went over 100 tackles and was named to the Pro Bowl for the first time in his career, a pair of streaks that were extended to 10 consecutive in 2005.
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 NJ.com: NFL
Dennis Green will be in his third season with the Cardinals, after leading the club to a disappointing 11-21 mark over the past two campaigns, including a 5-11 mark in 2005.
The once-model NFL franchise suffered its third straight losing season in 2005, as it stumbled to a dismal 4-12 record.
Smith will be the No. 1 QB this season and hopes to improve upon a dreadful rookie season that saw him go just 2-5 as a starter while throwing one touchdown pass and 11 interceptions.
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 ESPN.com: NFL - Amazing season continues for Hearst
To think the 49ers almost had to release Hearst before the season because he had a few incentive clauses in his minimum salary contract of $477,000.
The 49ers drafted Kevan Barlow in the third round and he has the chance to also be a top NFL back.
The most any back or receiver has done in a comeback after two seasons was the 788 yards of receiving produced by Ray Alexander of the Dallas Cowboys in 1988 He missed three seasons because of a two-year stint in the CFL and a broken wrist that sidelined him for the 1987 season.
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 Detroit Lions Site: Mike Martz
Over the past seven seasons, St. Louis is ranked first in net offensive yards-per-game (380.7), net yards-per-offensive play (7.48), scrimmage yards (rushing and gross passing)-per-game (399.1), scrimmage yards-per-combined rushing and passing attempt (8.3), 20+-yard plays (517), gross passing yards-per-game (292.0) and yards-per-pass attempt (8.01).
During his five full seasons (2000-2004) as the Rams head coach, Martz accumulated a record of 51-29 (.638) in the regular season and 54-33 (.621) overall.
His 24 wins during his first two seasons (2000-2001) is the third highest in NFL history, and his 43 regular season wins during his first four seasons as head coach is tied for the third highest in league history.
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 ESPN - Lions send Chiefs to first 11-loss season since 1988 - NFL Football Recap
Detroit also guaranteed it won't be the first NFL team to finish 6-10 after winning six of its first eight games.
The Chiefs also loss for the 11th time this season, the first 11-loss year for the club since 1988.
Huard was 24-of-36 for 305 yards and two TDs, including one to defensive end Jared Allen, who lined up as a tight end and scored for the second time this season.
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 NFL Notebook: It is a painful regular-season finale for a few NFL quarterbacks   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mike Furrey had 11 catches in the season finale to finish with 98, the most by a non-rookie after a season when he had no catches.
Indianapolis was the only team in the NFL to allow all 16 of its opponents to rush for at least 100 yards.
Minnesota missed breaking the Baltimore Ravens' post-merger (since 1970) NFL record for fewest yards rushing allowed in a season by 15 yards when the Vikings allowed 168 to the Rams.
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 Dallas Cowboys Official Website
Collins set an NFL record by becoming the first quarterback in league history to throw every one of his team's passes in two consecutive seasons (2000-2001).
In Payton's three seasons as the offensive coordinator, the Giants' passing attack ranked 13th in the NFL in 2000, tied for eighth in 2001 and then finished sixth in 2002.
In the past four seasons, Amani Toomer caught 311 passes (79 in 1999, 78 in 2000, 72 in 2001 and a club-record 82 in 2002) to become the first player in Giants history to catch at least 70 passes in four seasons.
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 NFL News - Story - Capsule look at Hall of Fame Inductees - Giants.com
In NFL career, completed 3,988 of 6,823 passes for 49,325 yards, 291 touchdowns, 233 interceptions.
Chosen the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1987 and 1998.
NFL, union's motion to dismiss suit involving fraud scheme denied
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 news - NFL: BENGALS: One for the books   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Time to celebrate the Bengals’ return to NFL prominence in a breakout season that featured six of their 11 wins on the road, their most Pro Bowl players in 16 years, their first AFC North title, and the first playoff game in Paul Brown Stadium history.
He may rarely break a long one, but his value is that he was one of four backs in the NFL this season to convert all his third-and-one chances.
He filled a big void for a team that finished in the depths of NFL kick return in 2004 when he set club records for returns and return yards with a 24.4-yard average that was 11th in the league.
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 FOX Sports - NFL - STATS INC: Week 13 pregame notes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Vikings' RB Chester Taylor needs one rushing yard to record his first 1,000-yard rushing season and should become the first Vikings player to rush for 1,000+ yards in his first season with the team.
Jacksonville is just 1-4 on the road this season, recording just three takeaways and seven sacks in those five contests.
He is also one of just two rookies this season to have at least 300 yards rushing and receiving (with Reggie Bush).
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 TSN's Gridiron Greats: San Francisco 49ers
He was named NFL MVP in 1970 and led the team to the NFC title game that season and in 1971.
The high-stepping Craig is the NFL's first player to rush for at least 1,000 yards and top 1,000 yards receiving in the same season (1985).
As a complement to Rice, Taylor had two 1,000-yard seasons, was named to the Pro Bowl twice and was voted All-Pro in 1988.
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 Buccaneers - Coaches Paul Hackett   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In his last 10 seasons as an assistant coach in the NFL (1993-1997, 2001-2005), Hackett has helped lead eight teams to the playoffs to rank tied for first in the NFL among position and head coaches over their last 10 years of service in the league.
Martin led the NFL with a career-high 1,697 rushing yards on 371 carries (4.6 avg.) with 12 touchdowns.
The Jets finished the 2004 season as the 12th-ranked offense in the NFL and the third-best rushing offense in the league.
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 NFL News - Story - Arizona re-signs quarterback Kurt Warner - Giants.com
The deal means the 34-year-old Warner, a two-time NFL Most Valuable Player who started 10 games for the Cardinals in an injury-shortened 2005 season, will enter training camp as the starter.
Though the club struggled to a 5-11 record in Warner's first season, the Cardinals offense finished in the top quarter of the NFL in total offense.
His career completion percentage of 65.7 (1,537-for-2,340) is the highest ever in the NFL, and his lifetime quarterback rating of 94.1 is second to Hall of Famer Steve Young (96.8) among quarterbacks who have thrown at least 1,500 passes.
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 NJ.com: NFL
Kubiak, the first-year Texans head coach, is in season one of what is realistically a multi-year plan to get the Houston franchise out of an expansion mode from which it has yet to fully emerge.
Running the ball figures to be a major struggle for the Texans all season, with the presence of an inexperienced and less-than-talented offensive line, as well as a litany of youngsters and castoffs filling out the depth chart at running back, contributing to that trend.
Defending the pass continues to be a major challenge for the Texans, who rank dead last in the NFL in passing defense (295.2 yards per game).
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 How Does Losman Stack Up? - Buffalo Bills
What's interesting is where some of Losman's numbers in his third NFL season stand with some of the league's current elite as well as some recent Hall of Fame quarterbacks when they were going through their third NFL season as well.
Where Losman's third NFL season currently stands with the seasons each of these three quarterbacks had in their third year under center might surprise you.
And Losman is half a point behind what Brady did in his third NFL season with respect to passer rating.
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 WRAL.com - NFL - Miserable Season Continues For Dolphins   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The setback guaranteed Miami its second 10-loss season since the 1970 merger (6-10, 1988) and only the expansion club of 1966 lost more games in franchise history with a 3-11 mark.
The report stated that Boston, the massive wide receiver acquired by the Dolphins from the Chargers for a sixth-round pick in the off-season, is facing the suspension as a result of testing positive for anabolic steroids.
A five-year veteran from Ohio State, Boston played his first four NFL seasons in Arizona and posted consecutive 1,000-yard seasons in 2000 and '01, when he reached his only Pro Bowl after catching 98 balls for 1,598 yards and eight touchdowns.
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 Turnover-prone Steelers go from NFL champs to chumps   (Site not responding. Last check: )
They also are on track to produce their worst record since the 1970 NFL merger, topping the 1988 team that went 5-11 after a 2-10 start.
The Steelers' 2006 season has been lost in a sea of turnovers; they've committed 24 or one more than they had last season.
The Steelers rank at the bottom of the NFL with a minus-11 differential in turnovers -- they have lost 24 and they've gained 13.
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 NFL Season Opens Tonight with the Giants Hosting the 49ers
The 2002 NFL season kicks off tonight with the league’s first-ever midweek national TV opener when the San Francisco 49ers visit the New York Giants on ESPN at 8:30 PM ET.
The NFL is now divided into two conferences of four four-team divisions each (East, North, South and West).
Last season, Dillion became sixth player in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards in first five seasons……Defense ranked No. 9 overall in NFL for 2001, best since ’89 (No. 7).
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 Philadelphia Eagles 1988 Season   (Site not responding. Last check: )
...Reid was also referring to last season when the Eagles lost some key players down the stretch and wound up.....Do you think the Philadelphia Eagles will advance to the Super Bowl without...
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The Eagles were formed in 1933 and gave the fairly young NFL another major city.
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 OregonLive.com: NFL
Houston, meanwhile, is also in search of its first win of the season this Sunday, after losing the season opener to Philadelphia and last week's contest to Indianapolis.
Streaky QB David Carr was 22-of-26 for 219 yards and threw for three touchdowns last Sunday for the Texans, who have opened the season with two straight losses for the third consecutive year.
Even though Washington is winless on the season, defensive coordinator Gregg Williams isn't phased by the 0-2 mark.
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 The Official Website of the Indianapolis Colts
The Colts were 8th in AFC defense in 2003, 11th in the NFL.
Meeks has coached 16 seasons in the NFL, and this coming season will be his 22nd in coaching.
The Rams ranked 23rd in the NFL defensively in 2000 and 3rd in 2001.
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He spent the 1985 season on the Rams’ developmental squad and played in 15 games in the USFL before his NFL rights were traded from Los Angeles to Chicago midway through the 1986 season.
Flutie’s first tenure with the Patriots (1987-89) was highlighted by a 1988 season during which he started nine games, including a stretch of six wins in an eight-game span, earning him the team’s “unsung hero” award.
In the two seasons in which he was Buffalo’s primary starter (1998-99), he led the Bills to the playoffs twice.
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 NFL top stories - Sports - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: )
James joined a franchise that has produced one winning season since it moved to Phoenix in 1988 and won one playoff game in 58 years.
Culpepper's season was ruined in 2005 by his poor play, a knee injury and "The Love Boat" incident, all of which prompted a move from the Vikings to the Dolphins.
Arrington missed most of the 2004 season because of injuries, had a falling out with Redskins owner Dan Snyder over a disputed bonus and was benched for much of last season.
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