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Maggs44

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While checking the NFL stats this week, I noticed Seattle's Shawn Alexender is on pace to break the all time NFL single season scoring record (points not touchdowns).

Without looking it up, who is the current all time single season points leader?

My humidor is bare, so no prize on this, just for fun.
 
It is probably an older guy back when kickers were also position players. I'll have to think about it but I imagine it will be someone from the 50's or 60's that doubled as a kicker. I know Blanda is near the top for career scoring, he may be a good choice.
 
Most Points, Season
176 Paul Hornung, Green Bay, 1960 (15-td, 41-pat, 15-fg)
164 Gary Anderson, Minnesota, 1998 (59-pat, 35-fg)
163 Jeff Wilkins, St. Louis, 2003 (46-pat, 39-fg)

from NFL.com
 
Lumberg said:
Mark Mosely?
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Nope. He's a utility player from the 60's. I had to look it up but it's pretty amazing that Alexander has a chance to break this record with only touchdown points.
 
Lumberg said:
Most Points, Season
176 Paul Hornung, Green Bay, 1960 (15-td, 41-pat, 15-fg)
164 Gary Anderson, Minnesota, 1998 (59-pat, 35-fg)
163 Jeff Wilkins, St. Louis, 2003 (46-pat, 39-fg)

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Dude, he said without looking it up.
 
slowhand said:
Lumberg said:
Most Points, Season
176 Paul Hornung, Green Bay, 1960 (15-td, 41-pat, 15-fg)
164 Gary Anderson, Minnesota, 1998 (59-pat, 35-fg)
163 Jeff Wilkins, St. Louis, 2003 (46-pat, 39-fg)

from NFL.com
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Dude, he said without looking it up.
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Oh well, cats out of the bag. FYI, I knew the answer without looking it up (I am old enough to remember Paul Hornung, and of course a Packer fan). Hornung scored 176 points in a 12 game season and it is still the record 45 years later.

My point (s) of the question was to raise the issue that it seems in pro football, many in the media think records and stats start with the first Super Bowl. Example: If the Patriots win this year they will be the first to win 3 Super Bowls in a row. Well, the Packers won 3 NFL championships in a row twice (65-67 was the last time). Or the Steelers are the only team to win 4 Super Bowls. The Packers won 5 titles in the 60's alone.

Just because they were not called super bowls, doesnt make the feat any less impressive. If the scoring record would have been broken by say Emmet Smith, many current fans would know it.
 
That's an amazing feat if you can break the scoring record without kicking at all. I think that's the point, right?

Not to take anything away from Paul Hornung, but Sean Alexander is a machine.
 
Lumberg said:
That's an amazing feat if you can break the scoring record without kicking at all.  I think that's the point, right?

Not to take anything away from Paul Hornung, but Sean Alexander is a machine.
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No doubt, I think he is the best back in the NFL for the past couple years. And if he gets to 30, that would be a great feat. But I'd like to see him make 41 pats, etc... esp kicking straight on like they did back then.

Someone here called Hornung a utility player, he was far from that. Led the league in scoring 3 years in a row. He ran (he was best indside the 20), passed (he was the QB at N.D. where he won the Heisman, and of course kicked. He was Slash long before Cordell Stewart was born. Him and Jim Taylor were and still are the best rushing tandum ever.
 
Maggs44 said:
My point (s) of the question was to raise the issue that it seems in pro football, many in the media think records and stats start with the first Super Bowl.
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I agree here with this comment. Last weekend, while watching NFL with a bud, we were talking about the same thing. People think about a team like the Browns and think what a horrible team, yet before the NFL was formed, they were a powerful team with many championships.
 
Maggs44 said:
Someone here called Hornung a utility player, he was far from that. Led the league in scoring 3 years in a row. He ran (he was best indside the 20), passed (he was the QB at N.D. where he won the Heisman, and of course kicked.
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I said that and the underlined words in your post are why I said that. A guy that can run, pass, and kick is a utility player IMO. i.e. He could play anywhere. That's the definition, isn't it?
 
Maggs44 said:
Without looking it up, who is the current all time single season points leader?
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ricmac25 said:
...and I'm gonna be wrong. Just looked it up.
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Lumberg said:
Most Points, Season
176 Paul Hornung, Green Bay, 1960 (15-td, 41-pat, 15-fg)
164 Gary Anderson, Minnesota, 1998 (59-pat, 35-fg)
163 Jeff Wilkins, St. Louis, 2003 (46-pat, 39-fg)

from NFL.com
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What part of "without looking up" did he stutter on? I looked it up, did I post the right answer? NO, I assumed everyone else was capable of using google as well.
 
Da Bears were a powerful team as well before the formation of the NFL, They won 8 championships before the first Super Bowl and are one of only two teams that is still active from the formation of the original Pro football league in 1920. They have only won one Super Bowl---XX. The other active team......Packers or the Giants, I am not sure.
 
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