Chiefs Historical Question

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by DenverChief

Nice find! I don't understand why the practice squad isn't tracked more accurately like the starting roster - Simply for the stories you can dig up like JJ Birden, Willie Davis and Joe horn type success stories.

Yeah, you gotta think that there are records somewhere. In 1995, organizations certainly had reasonably well-developed computer records, but I bet the backup systems weren't ideal, and the data certainly wasn't networked. I wonder where a place like the transaction database is getting their data. If they're scraping news stories, which seems implausible, they're certainly going to miss transactions, especially minor ones like practice squad moves.

And if they were imperfect in the 1990s, the 1970s and earlier are going to be really spotty. I still chuckle at the story of George Allen trading away a draft pick twice when he was with the Commanderskins, and no one noticed until draft day when two teams tried to pick. They probably kept the records on a cocktail napkin in an ash tray on Pete Rozelle's desk.