In an edition of The Sporting News after the season and I am looking for it they wrote an article about how weird it was for Moseley to be named MVP in a 9 game season much less any season.
So later, after this article and I believe after a month later and after the AP awards and when SN normally gave their awards, SN DID name Moseley as MVP and Joe Gibbs as coach of the year alongside another article stating because of the absurdity of those awards they WOULD NOT name an ALL PRO team that year because of that and the strike shortened season. Their own form of parody.
Interesting and I bet if I can not find that article I can find a copy on e-bay and get it.
But it does exist and SN was known be the anti establishment, anti big $$ east coast dominance in media.
This is all very interesting, but again I will remind you.
Nobody named Archie Manning the NFL MVP of any year. That simply did not happen. You are simply incorrect when you continue to say that.
Furthermore, it is very unlikely that anybody but the sports trivia buffs would really know who Archie Manning is/was if he didn't have 2 sons who are successful NFL quarterbacks.
*EVERYBODY* knows the names of the quarterbacks who went to the Superbowl that year. Even my wife knows those names. So any assertion on your part that Archie Manning was somehow THE quarterback of that year only shows that you know fuckall about 1978. Trust me, I was there. It was about Bradshaw/Staubach.
Archie Manning was a very famous QB, even before his kids, but nice try. He played for the Aints. He was a big talent on a team that was destine to stink, they compared him with Maravich of the New Orleans Jazz, two superstars stuck in NO, it was sports purgatory at the time.