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Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar
Are you downplaying a decade of pure domination? This isn’t college. Pro franchises don’t usually just spot a team 16 straight.
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Oh okay, by "almost a decade" you meant Chiefs over Broncos, my mistake. I thought you meant Chiefs vs. the League. Such domination does exist, but it's maybe just 5-6 years.
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Originally Posted by RaidersCellar
But there’s no need to focus on the last decade. KC leads the all-time series by 17. That’s a biiiig number. It ain’t like they’ve been playing since the dawn of time.
Of course, you’re so damaged and insecure you’ll come back with “But…but…not all of those count!! Not in MY book!”
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No no, I definitely DO acknowledge the total numbers, franchise head-ho-head. I just devalue the AFL numbers such that I believe they're not comparable, it wasn't an even playing field.
FIRST OFF: Playing a schedule with 25 other teams stocked with top notch rosters is very different than 7 other teams with good and not-so-good players, plus ....
Here's a good comparison:
For decades the Denver Bears (in their last years "Zephyrs") played baseball in the AAA American Association, as did the Oklahoma City 89ers. In 1991 Denver was awarded a National League franchise the "Colorado Rockies" (
not the NHL Hockey team, they moved from Denver to become the New Jersey Devils eight years earlier in 1983), and for the sake of conformity, let's say it was the same owners, Zephyrs and Rockies.
Then, in say, 1992 or 2002, Oklahoma City was awarded a major league baseball franchise. Would anyone seriously acknowledge their H2H from a different league? Acknowledge, yes.Consider an appropriate evaluation of their historical strength? No.
Forget the difference between AFL and NFL, your own Lamar Hunt was adamant that AFL owners pace themselves, not get into bidding wars with NFL teams unless they knew they could afford to - that the short-term rewards of wins and losses paled in comparison with the long-term reward of MERGER.
Far from hiding Otis Taylor in a series of Dallas hotel rooms until you could sign him, the Phipps Brothers offered only rookie minimum contracts to draftees, and consequently signed a none of them, until a framework for the merger was announced and the leagues drafted in one common draft. Broncos drafted pretty damn well then, too .....
1962-66 Broncos Drafts
* Merlin Olsen
* Kermit Alexander
* Bob Hayes
..Jerry Richardson
* Paul Krause
. Wally Hilgenberg
* Bob Brown
* Willie Brown (CFA)
..Ray Mansfield
* Dick Butkus
..Tom Coughlin
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1967-68
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Floyd Little (
1st common draft,1st signed)
* Curley Culp
* = Hall of Fame
Hmmm... Curly Culp? If we were trading you Hall of Fame talent because we couldn't afford to sign them, does that strike you as an even playing field? NO, I didn't think it would!
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