[eflfanatic]

The teams that dominated the 30's were the Packers, Giants, and Bears. My biggest disappointment has been the Bears with the backfield of Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski. They haven't performed well at all. The Packers strength has been running which should have been passing with the Hall of Fame receiver Don Hutson. Since the offenses I am running do favor the run (the Single and Double Wings) this has not really been suprising. I am going to reevaluate my system before I play the Championship game and make this game as fair and realistic as possible and then rework each team to get all the players at least performing to an acceptabe level before continuing to the next season. I am thinking about doing some other teams for the next season such as replacing the Detroit Lions with the Portsmouth Spartans for one season. The Spartans played in 1933 before becoming the Lions in '34. Also will replace the Cleveland Rams with the Cincinnatti Reds for at least one season. The Reds played in the NFL in '33 and '34 before being replaced by the St. Louis Gunners for the last 3 games of '34. So I will have a team of St. Louis Gunners at some point. Will probably recreate the 1936 AFL at some point and play simultaneous NFL and AFL games for one season.

But to me that is the joy of solitaire, you can do so many things to keep it interesting and I love recreating the teams from the past. The 30's and 40's is really when pro football began to separate itself from the college game with different rules and more innovative play. But mostly I am just having fun playing the game right now which is what solitaire is all about.