{"id":34176,"date":"2025-08-13T07:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34176"},"modified":"2025-08-11T20:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:01:57","slug":"someones-understanding-of-football-history-is-zero-of-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/someones-understanding-of-football-history-is-zero-of-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone&#8217;s Understanding Of Football History Is Zero Of One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/travishunter.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Or even <em>contemporary football<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Bay Packers have a player who&#8217;s both a cornerback and a receiver (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45494234\/nfl-green-bay-packers-bo-melton-max-cornerback-receiver-minicamp\" target=\"_new\">Is he a WR or CB? Packers&#8217; Bo Melton could answer yes to both<\/a>), although he&#8217;s mostly a cornerback now since the Packers are stuffed with receivers this year.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, the Packers have had two way players in recent memory (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spencer_Havner\" target=\"_new\">Spencer Havner<\/a> was both a linebacker and a fullback).<\/p>\n<p>In the old days, they did not have special teams.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/K\/KramJe00.htm\" target=\"_new\">Jerry Kramer<\/a> played both right guard and place kicker and returned a kickoff.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/H\/HornPa00.htm\" target=\"_new\">Paul Hornung<\/a> was both halfback and place kicker (and held the Packers points scored record for a long time).<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I guess these are all Packers, but <em>Packers history is NFL history<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But, whatever, sportsbook marketing intern.  You do you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or even contemporary football. The Green Bay Packers have a player who&#8217;s both a cornerback and a receiver (Is he a WR or CB? Packers&#8217; Bo Melton could answer yes to both), although he&#8217;s mostly a cornerback now since the Packers are stuffed with receivers this year. I mean, the Packers have had two way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-bay-packers","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34178,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34176\/revisions\/34178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}