Talk:Dan Fouts

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National Anthem

He is also infamous for his blatant disrespect for the National Anthem and the musicians performing it in a satellite feed that was leaked out to YouTube

Need a reference to the observations here of him being "infamous" and "blatant disrepect" to avoid original research or issues of neutral point of view. Bagumba (talk) 03:34, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

All-Decade Team?

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Under the career highlights section, "NFL 1980's All-Decade Team" is listed, and yet when you click on the link to the article, you don't see Fouts listed on the team. Is there something I'm not getting? 96.33.135.84 (talk) 03:18, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Somebody incorrectly changed Fouts to Marino.—Bagumba (talk) 18:30, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I didn't even think about that. But now I remember hearing that Dan Marino never made an All-Decade team. It was probably a Dolphins fan that changed it. haha 96.33.135.84 (talk) 01:24, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Retired number and Chargers HOF

Per prior consensus at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Football_League/Archive_15#Are_numbers_retired_by_the_current_team,_or_by_the_team_they_played_for?, this should be listed as an honor from the current team, the Los Angeles Chargers, as opposed to the city at the time, San Diego.—Bagumba (talk) 06:40, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is also echoed at WP:NFLINFOBOX.—Bagumba (talk) 01:10, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This 'fact' from the article is absolute nonsense

So the article states:

"It is believed the defense had little opportunity to improve as the offense often scored quickly, leaving the defense to spend far too much time on the field.[citation needed]"

If ever there was a 'citation needed', here's the case. This sounds like some personal deduction, that some slob in a smelly T-shirt, in Tulsa just slapped into the article. So I guess the defense didn't have time to get better, because they spent TOO MUCH time on the field??? Isn't this just more practice time, and experience to play as a unit, that should inherently lead to improvement? You could make the argument that they would tire out, but NOT that they wouldn't have the opportunity to improve. NONSENSE! This should be stricken from the record! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaytrox (talk • contribs) 03:22, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

After reading the terms for tagging and/or removing unverified material, it states that any comment that can affect the reputation of a living person, should be removed, and not simply tagged. So this statement is not beneficial to any player who may have played on the Charger's team, during that period. Since the comment has no source, and one is not likely to be able to found, even though I really don't see it as my place, I am about to remove the offending 'opinion'.