If it's happened before (most references to it say it hasn't happened since the NFL/AFL merger), why has no one ever mentioned the QB that did it before 1970?
I'm starting to think that it's actually never happened before. . . .
I always thought it was odd that they picked 60 yards, then I found out it ws because Steve Young had >400 passing and something like 57 yards rushing.
I don't know about olden days, but Fran Tarkington passed for 407 yards in a game in 1965, and that season he rushed for over 25 yards a game, so in a wild 42-41 game like that one he might have had 60 rushing yards. (the team had 154)
It has not happened since the merger. Steve Young and Rich Gannon were the two closest behind him thats what was shown the following week on the TV. Young had 57 rushing yards and Gannon the 60 yards rushing but was just short on the passing.
It has not happened since the merger. Steve Young and Rich Gannon were the two closest behind him thats what was shown the following week on the TV. Young had 57 rushing yards and Gannon the 60 yards rushing but was just short on the passing.
But that's my point--if they say it's the first time it's happened since the merger, rather than the first time in NFL history, doesn't that imply that it happened before the merger as well? But, if that's the case, why has no one ever said "This is the guy who did it?" [BTW--as an interesting stat, Cassel's second 400-yard game marked the 200th time a QB accomplished that feat in the regular season.]
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