{"id":7010,"date":"2025-07-01T15:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.2guysgaming.net\/usfldr\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:44:18","slug":"1985-new-orleans-brass-roster-stats-and-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.distantreplaysports.com\/usfldr\/2025\/07\/01\/1985-new-orleans-brass-roster-stats-and-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"1985 New Orleans Brass Roster, Stats, and Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The 1985 season started off with a 6 game losing streak with 5 of those 6 games on the road. They didn’t get their first win until week 7 against the Oakland Invaders. They followed that with thier second win and first shut out at home against the Denver Gold. They followed that with another 5 game losing streak before winning 2 of their last four to finish with a total of 4 wins on the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With little to no run game most games, the brunt of the responsibility fell onto quarterback Rusty Hilger. He threw a staggering 632 times for 25 TDs and 25 Ints. Jerry Parrish and Jamie Harris emerged during the season as his favorite targets. The defense put up big numbers as they spent a majority of time on the field. However, giving up a league high 564 points leaves no question that they were a weak spot as well on the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year showed some promise from some of the players and a potential core to build around. But, overall, the inaugural season is usually one of trials and tribulations and the Brass suffered those in abundance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1985 New Orleans Brass Roster<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pos Player Ageniform Ht Wt College ContractDurValue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WR RET Danny Knight, 9 391
WR KR Jamie Wisham, 10- 558
WR KR Victor Harrison, 10 1573
WR KR Jamie Harris, 10 1737
WR KR Jerry Parrish, 10 1947
WR Lerot Campbell, 9 350
WR Bobby Leach, 6- 515
TE KR Frank,John 23 86 6-3 225 Ohio State 10- 640
TE Witte,Mark 26 85 6-3 236 North Texas 10- 570
TE Jim Brown, 3 350
T Reimers,Bruce 25 75 6-7 285 Iowa State 9- 350
T Sanders,Gene 29 74 6-3 273 Texas A&M 1- 350
S KR Lyday,Allen 25 28 5-10 190 Nebraska 8- 350
S Lyles,Lester 23 26 6-3 209 Virginia 4 404
S Mike Guess, 10 2242
S Dan Short, 10+ 2314
S Miano,Rich 23 36 6-1 200 Hawaii 10- 350
S Ken Granader, 10+ 630
B-WR RET Shane Swanson, 10- 790
RB KR Ricky Porter, 10 1143
RB Richard Crump, 10 476
RB Henry Odom, 10 402
QB Rusty Hilger, 10 4550
QBteve Pisarkiewicz, 10 350
P Giacomarro,Ralph 25 1 6-1 190 Penn State 3 350
LB Cabral,Brian 29 54 6-1 233 Colorado 1- 350
LB Ed Jackson, 10 611
LB Dann Lute, 10 350
LB Williams,Ed 24 54 6-4 244 Texas 8- 350
LB Salonen,Brian 24 89 6-3 229 Montana 10- 350
LB Golden,Tim 26 91 6-1 220 Florida 1- 350
LB Jerue,Mark 26 59 6-3 229 Washington 10- 350
K Haji-Sheikh,Ali 25 6 6-0 172 Michigan 1 350
G DE Dave Pureifory, 10 635
G Ed Muransky, 10 1764
G Thom Dornbrook, 10 5764
G Hough,Jim 29 51 6-2 267 Utah State 3- 350
DT Mike Matz, 10+ 1188
DT Jeff Baldwin, 10- 823
DL Steve Marinkov, 5 350
DE Brad Anae, 10 635
DE Scott Hutchinson, 10 2253
DE Creswell,Smiley 26 92 6-4 251 Michigan State 2- 350
DB RET Cooper,Evan 23 21 5-11 185 Michigan 10 810
C-T Scott,Carlos 25 56 6-4 295 Texas-El Paso 10- 350
CB RET R.L. Harris, 9 350
CB Reggie Phillips, 10+ 742
CB John Lewis, 10 823
C Mark Traynowicz, 10+ 6941<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 1985 season started off with a 6 game losing streak with 5 of those 6 games on the road. They didn’t get their first win until week 7 against the Oakland Invaders. They followed that with thier second win and first shut out at home against the Denver Gold. They followed that with another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[41,38],"class_list":["post-7010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-season-in-review","tag-41","tag-new-orleans-brass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distantreplaysports.com\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distantreplaysports.com\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distantreplaysports.com\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.distantreplaysports.com\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.distantreplaysports.com\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.distantreplaysports.com\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.distantreplaysports.com\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distantreplaysports.com\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.distantreplaysports.com\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.distantreplaysports.com\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}