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Re:Behind the making of the NFL schedule by elchief on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:06PM (#14196343)
Fun fact: The New York Jets have never beaten the Philadelphia Eagles
Re:Behind the making of the NFL schedule by acemarke on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:17PM (#14196467)
Well, they presumably only play once every four years.

And also... it's the Jets :)

Re:Behind the making of the NFL schedule by jessriedel on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:18PM (#14197072)
Yea, it's only been 10 games. Even for perfectly random coin tosses, the chance that you get the same result 9 times as the result of the first toss is 1 in 2^9 = 512. With lots of potential team pairings, and the obvious fact that teams can be above/below average over 4+ years (correlating the outcomes), this isn't that crazy.

http://www.footballdb.com/teams/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/team...

Re:Behind the making of the NFL schedule by maxerickson on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:46PM (#14197828)
There's only 496 pairings with 32 teams.

The number of pairings between teams that play infrequently will be quite a bit smaller.

Re:Behind the making of the NFL schedule by elchief on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @05:01PM (#14197974)
And never played in the Super Bowl...because Eagles :)
Re:Behind the making of the NFL schedule by s73ver on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @05:21PM (#14198162)
Brett Favre and Peyton Manning are the only quarterbacks to have beaten all 32 NFL teams.
Re:Behind the making of the NFL schedule by 91bananas on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:40PM (#14196706)
Had to google to see this in real internet life. It is true. Insane.
Re:Behind the making of the NFL schedule by self-diversity on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:16PM (#14197060)
I'm an Eagles fan and I did not know this. I used to end up spending time with an amazingly annoying Jets fan, this would have been a fun tidbit to bring up repeatedly.