Sports Reference yesterday launched an Immaculate Grid for football, an enjoyable quiz requiring amateur sports researchers to dig deep within the recesses of their brains for long-forgotten information, or make use of pro-football-reference.com, among other resources, to learn some new things. Today's grid was challenging, with an average score of just 5.6 as of this post, but research in pursuit of a high score can uncover some of those forgotten bits of trivia. In pursuit of a perfect score in today's game, one might find, as this blogger did, that in 2020 Adrian Peterson was Detroit's rushing leader with 604 yards on the ground, and that Terrell Owens was the top receiver for Buffalo in 2009. Regrettably, Owens was never a member of the Cardinals, Lions, or Jets, any of which would have filled a square on the left third of today's grid. There are far more simple ways to fill in the grid than guess and check, but where's the fun in that? Front Office Sports' David Rumsey writes that Sports Reference will add to its collection of games with more Immaculate Grids in the near future, and one can't help but imagine how much fun a college football or professional basketball version of the game might be.
