Bobby Layne who could throw 5 TDs, with a splitting hangover.
Don’t you mean George Blanda instead of Ken Stabler?
Remember when they started letting Women reporters in the locker room to do interviews? That’s when it started.
I truly am so p*ssed that the NFL has screwed up football for me! All I can say is I’m so HAPPY that College Football was amazing this year.
Now - on to Basketball and Hockey, LOL! Bite Me, NFL!
I don't believe that.
Next we will be hearing about how they used to play with leather helmets.
I remember when the Redskins were a good team. 25 years ago......
I remember as a young college woman in NYC (17 years old) following my late, great pal, Patty, to Joe Namath’s pad where we’d hang out hoping for a glimpse of the man. How she loved him and all the hockey players of that era. How I’d hate to be a young girl following Kapernack...
Ken Stabler never kicked the ball.
He did study the playbook by the light of the jukebox, drink like a fish on a mission, date Ms Alabama’s as fast as they crowned them, attempt coitus with every willing female within a 50 mile radius, lead the league in nail biting come from behind last minute wins and give John Madden ulcers.
George Blanda was the quarterback/linebacker who was the Raiders placekicker who doubled as their third string QB. He held the league record for points scored lifetime for quite a while with 2002 points scored as QB and kicker.
I cannot help but wonder if the problem, the very REAL problem, with concussions could be solved by banning the current helmets. If we reverted to the helmets from the early 1900s. players would be reluctant to sacrifice their own future for a ‘hit’!
Butkus, Nitschke, & Dobler era players would never put up with all the celebrating crap that is far too common after plays nowadays. Guaranteed the celebrant would end up with a broken bone or a gouged eye on the next play if real men played today.
Don’t forget Jack “Hacksaw” Reynolds who was so mad after a loss that he hacksawed a 1953 Chevy Bel Air in half.
Or Jack Youngblood, who played in Super Bowl 14 with a broken leg , and sacked Staubach with one in the NFC Championship that year.
Or Bob Waterfield, who was willing to burn a down just so he could purposefully let Colt Art Donovan run right at him so Waterfield had the opportunity to drill the football right into his face (no facemasks then).
With no radio headsets and coordinators for every combination of situations, the quarterbacks generally had to call their own plays and think on their feet.
Bronko Nagurski?
The very name inspires awe and terror, humility and respect.
All Honor, and due Homage, to Bronko Nagurski!!!
Yes, during Hurricane Hugo. I was there.
Let’s add a little fuel to the fire! I didn’t see the game, but saw this on the news:
“Will Rob Gronkowski be suspended for his late, cheap shot hit on Tre’Davious White?”
Man, that was devious. When I saw that, I yelled, ‘GRONK! HOW COULD YOU?’
Video here, in case you missed it:
https://www.sbnation.com/2017/12/3/16730586/rob-gronkowski-cheap-shot-video-bills-patriots
Thoughts, it’s pretty much out of my mind.