Mike Taliaferro, who won the New York Jets quarterback sweepstakes, was able to complete only four of 22 passes in a 27-21 loss at Houston Sunday as the American Football League completed its first week of regular season action.
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In pursuit of the perfect replay
Wow, only four of 22? How is the Oiler secondary rated? Are you using APBA’s early rule for the AFL that states only six points needed to reduce a long-pass grade and 12 points to reduce a short-pass grade, or are you sticking with the eight/16 rules?
The four of 22 was his actual stats from the game. The brief description and boxscores posted are the actual accounts of the game played in 1965. To review the APBA replay, one must click on the hyperlink underneath. During the replay, Taliaferro was 12-28-131-0/3, still not very good.