This is the place for NFL American Football fans world wide, looking at every aspect of the gridiron.
There are featured topics and in-depth articles that will look at classic games, legendary players and important times from all eras of NFL history in our On The Sidelines section. While our From The Podium section will feature pieces that are more opinion on all matters NFL.
Over time as the site develops it will contain the statistics, records, results and everything else from the world of Pro Football, that will make Beyond The Gameplan a "Digital Opus" to Pro Football, and in particular, the National Football League.
This site is the place to learn about the history - TV broadcast and otherwise - of the NFL and its ultimate worldwide journey, prominently through the United Kingdom, from 1982 on Channel 4 to the present day with regular season games at Wembley Stadium. In our Whys, Wheres and Whens section you will find condensed version of several chapters of an upcoming book published by this site looking at the unique journey the NFL has made in expanding beyond its borders. You will be able to purchase e-versions and mail order print copies of this book very soon right here on Beyond The Gameplan and updates of its progress and release dates will be here first. You will also find several articles in this section that look at the very beginnings of pro-football right the way up to the modern era.
Check out some of our recent articles below, and use the side panels to navigate the site.
There are featured topics and in-depth articles that will look at classic games, legendary players and important times from all eras of NFL history in our On The Sidelines section. While our From The Podium section will feature pieces that are more opinion on all matters NFL.
Over time as the site develops it will contain the statistics, records, results and everything else from the world of Pro Football, that will make Beyond The Gameplan a "Digital Opus" to Pro Football, and in particular, the National Football League.
This site is the place to learn about the history - TV broadcast and otherwise - of the NFL and its ultimate worldwide journey, prominently through the United Kingdom, from 1982 on Channel 4 to the present day with regular season games at Wembley Stadium. In our Whys, Wheres and Whens section you will find condensed version of several chapters of an upcoming book published by this site looking at the unique journey the NFL has made in expanding beyond its borders. You will be able to purchase e-versions and mail order print copies of this book very soon right here on Beyond The Gameplan and updates of its progress and release dates will be here first. You will also find several articles in this section that look at the very beginnings of pro-football right the way up to the modern era.
Check out some of our recent articles below, and use the side panels to navigate the site.
Recent Featured Articles
THE MAD GENIUS OF JIMMY MAC AND THE MANY REASONS DITKA'S BEARS ONLY WON ONE SUPER BOWL
In The Mad Genius Of Jimmy Mac And The Many Reasons Ditka's Bears Only Won One Super Bowl we look at just how good was Jim Mc Mahon, and why didn't the Chicago Bears manage tow in another Super Bowl following their pounding of the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX?
RIGGINS, THEISMANN AND THE '83 REDSKINS
We take a look at whether the early 1980s Washington Redskins teams have been short-changed somewhat in terms of their place in history in Riggins, Theismann, The 1983 Redskins And The Sunday Afternoon That Ruined Their Legacy our On The Sidelines featured article.
THE QUARTERBACK DUEL THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN
The Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns share two distinct pieces of NFL history in the twenty-first century. They have both managed to make it through an entire sixteen-game NFL season without winning a single game (Detroit in 2008, Cleveland in 2016), and on an unsuspecting Sunday afternoon in Detroit, Michigan, on 22nd November 2009, they faced off against each other in a unsuspecting classic...
HOW MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL TRANSCENDED SPORTS
When Monday Night Football began in September 1970, it quickly became so much more than just a sports contest. Suddenly a pastime reserved only for Sunday afternoons, and after church at that, was now breaking into weeknights, and in the prime-time viewing slot of the early evening.