I would like to see a meme in which every NFL and FBS team logo are all together on one screen.
The caption: “Did your defense get at least one interception this year?”
Every team logo except the Jets is circled in green with the words: “Of course! It’s a long season!”
And the Jets are circled in red with the word, “No.”
This is beyond the ability of me to do with my phone.
Thanks in advance!
Wow. I had not been aware of that. I’m kind of surprised to see this has never been done before in NFL history, even in the days when they played fewer games and rarely attempted passes. Congratulations?
Sounds like a good task for AI.
(This from someone who doesn’t know much about AI.)
The NFL only started tracking interceptions in their statistics in 1933 (the league was founded in 1920), but even so, it was still absolutely a run-first league up through the '50s and '60s.
Yes, teams passed less often back then, but when they did pass, it was typically longer passes, and interception rates, generally, were a lot higher than they are today.
And, yes, it’s true, no team since 1933 had gone an entire season without making an interception, until now.
Not even in the strike-shortened 1982 season of only 9 games. The Jets also set a record with only 4 defensive turnovers for the season.
Indeed; even in that season, the lowest number was 3 (Houston).