Believe it or not, we have reached the 20th season of Football Moguls! We will cap off the season with Super Bowl XX, but throughout the season, we've enlisted Coif Jenshaw and crew to provide some historical retrospectives of years gone by. We will also memorialize the Football Moguls All Time Team, look back a league legends and more! Keep your eyes on this space for a look back at 20 years of Football Moguls history!

Our first countdown... with all the talk about trades, counting down the 10 best/worst trades of all time! Everyone talks about how teams make big moves to get better, but how many actually pay off and which ones are disastrous? We're counting down the 6 most lopsided trades in Football Moguls history... but first the honorable mentions. These trades were made too recently for their full effect to be quantified, but suffice it to say that by the 30th anniversary, these will probably be up on the list. Starting with...

Honorable Mention 1: The Terra Haute Terror traded QB Wayne Smith to the Colts for three draft picks for two second rounds picks and a first rounder. Smith played 3 seasons for Indy throwing for 36 TDs and 46 INTs. Meanwhile, the three picks turned out to be:

2026 2-21: Robert Clark (RB)
2027 1-4: Steven Bowie (FB)
2027 2-5: David Dean (FS)

Bowie was a Super Bowl hero for Terra Haute and is considered one of the best fullbacks in the league. David Dean has the most knockdowns all time as a DB and is still playing.

Honorable Mention 2: The Houston Golden Dragon trade two firsts and a second to the SF Demons for Frank Johns (WR). Johns has never cracked 1000 yards for Houston/Pennsauken, and has only 27 TDs. Meanwhile, those picks were used on:

2030 2-8: Clint Walter (RB)
2031 1-18: Brian Johnson (DT)
2032 1-5: Donald Gaines (SS)

Gaines was part of the world champion SF Demons defense and looks to be a star for years, so this trade will look worse and worse as time passes. Waller was so good that Pennsauken wound up trading for him costing another 2 second rounders. Johnson hasn’t been a star, but is still in the league playing meaningful minutes.

Honorable Mention 3: The Los Angeles Xtreme trade QB Wayne Smith to the Atlanta Falcons for two second round picks. Smith’s Falcons career totals are 2 TDs and 29 INTs, which is of course, absolutely terrible. And those two second rounders? Los Angles used them to select:

2031 2-3: Ernest Williams (QB)
2032 2-4: Randall Blanton (TE)

Yes, Atlanta traded away the pick that became 2 time MVP Williams as well as one of the top TEs in the NFC, Blanton. 10 years from now, this will definitely be viewed among the most lopsided trades of all time.

But now, we go to the top 6! Stay tuned as we unveil the winners and losers. I'm sure there are some you already can guess, but also others that you may have forgotten about.

Oh, great...

I get to be reminded of the Patrick Spinner trade again... lol

patrick spinner was a legendary qb.

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(Still trying to figure out posting pics on MFN, if anyone knows how to clean up the error.)

(BTW... that third rd pick turned into a solid 2nd string WLB, who lasted 9 seasons...)

Haha. Good find bill. Yes “he garbage”! The legendary QB evaluation skill of billyvan. Good luck Daniel McCrea!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Number 6

The Los Angeles Red Dragon traded a first and two seconds to the Pittsburgh Steelers for CB Craig Ward. Those draft picks would become:

2019 1-31: Charles Webber (TE)
2019 2-31: Joel Jones (RB)
2020 2-15: John Fay (SS)

Webber played 3 seasons with the Steelers and had an average TE career. Jones played only one season and Fay played only one season. Meanwhile, Ward became a Hall of Fame DB for the Red Dragon. We may laugh at all of Billy's draft pick burning trades, but for one time at least, he Billy fleeced Pittsburgh and got the much better end of the deal.

Number 5

The Dallas Cowboys traded a first round pick to the Los Angeles Xtreme to get Jean Figueroa (WR). Figueroa lasted a long time in the league, 13 seasons, but never was particularly good. He never had a 1000 yard season and finished with 35 receiving TDs in his career. Meanwhile, the Xtreme used that pick that turned out to be #7 overall to draft Brett Edmondson (SLB). Edmonson became the anchor of the Xtreme defense for over a decade and is pretty much a surefire hall of famer.

Number 4

The Los Angeles Xtreme traded Eddie Bader (QB) and a second round pick, to the Houston Oilers for Rudy Ayres (CB). The pick would be become: 2026 2-30: Frank Fernandez (RB), Fernandez had 1200 yards rushing... for his career. Bader threw exactly zero passes for Houston. Meanwhile, Ayers finished with the second most INTs all time and was just inducted into the Football Moguls Hall of Fame.

We will be back with #1-3 tomorrow!

i am sad my Craig retired. R.I.P Craig Ward!!