Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Football League lore

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. - Bobet 13:10, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] National Football League lore

Even if this were referenced, which it isn't, would an encyclopedia be the place for a collection of what is essentially fan trivia? Surely there must be a sister project or some other home where the verifiability and neutrality issues of uncited fan trivial lists would not be such a problem as they are here? Guy 22:00, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Delete, Why Make a special page for several Trivial events when we can just add them to team's history section? POV is another issue, as different fans have different views towards an event and its significance. --ShadowJester07 01:21, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Keep the nice thing about this article is that there are a bunch of trivial events in one article. There are votes to add events to the list. There's a bunch of information in this that link to different pages that are significant to the NFL, specific pages like "The Drive" which isn't even linked in the Denver Broncos page. I'd hate to see this article go, it was a great article to read as a football fan. Thanks for taking the fun out of wikipedia guys.--Aviper2k7 01:38, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - hopelessly POV. Many people (myself included) have agonized over which events to put in it, which to remove, etc. It's a crazy hodgepodge of things now. Kirjtc2 01:39, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, though maybe with a new title like Notable Games in NFL History. It's a good listing of memorable games, with many events linking to a larger page. I don't feel that verifiability will be a problem given the numerous resources about the NFL. This needs cleanup, not deletion. SliceNYC 12:20, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, granted it can be POV but there is a general concensus that games that are given "nicknames" are considered lore, while a fan of a team that scored 20 points and came back to win would think that it deserved to be here. The article should be cleaned up and refer only to games with nicknames. BrianZ^(talk) 21:33, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Aviper2k7 Calwatch 09:01, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep per SliceNYC Coasttocoast 19:44, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep ... I agree with BrianZ there. Clean up what doesn't need to be there, but I love this article and I think it should stay. --Smoke Rulz 21:33, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per SliceNYC. Enough of these moments are linkless that it would be a shame to lose them altogether. TrinityClare 06:41, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep football is part of American culture, and these moments help illustrate why --Alcuin 21:55, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I got to the page through the link on Holy Roller, and I had to read the deletion template twice before I believed it. This is an excellent example of a list worth having; the category doesn't present the events chronologically or with summaries (to search within the page for that play with the name you can't quite recall), so this article really adds something useful. [I signed this later than added it, sorry.] --CalculatinAvatar^(C-T) 00:07, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.