Posted on 08/24/2022 8:38:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Len Dawson, the legendary quarterback who led the Kansas City Chiefs to a Super Bowl victory, has died, his family said Wednesday. Dawson was 87.
Dawson’s family released a statement to KMBC-TV, where the retired NFL star worked as a broadcaster.
"With wife Linda at his side, it is with much sadness that we inform you of the passing of our beloved Len Dawson. He was a wonderful husband, father, brother and friend. Len was always grateful and many times overwhelmed by the countless bonds he made during his football and broadcast careers," his family said in a statement.
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Now I feel old, I remember watching him play.
Yet I hated them both, but at least Nick's Dolphins beat the Vikings fairly. Interesting it was just 3 years later, and every team in the NFL had Gatorade on both sidelines by then.
Gee, I wonder why?.
Lenny the Cool.
Enjoyed him after his playing days as chiefs radio broadcast with Bill Grigsby another Kansas City legend. Mitch Holtus and Kevin Harlen. He had such great chemistry in the broadcast booth.
He was also great on KMBC as a sportscaster and director of sports.
Rip Lenny.
Bud Grant wouldn’t let his team have heaters in Minnesota and he damn sure wouldn’t have let them have Gatorade.
Well, smoking is probably why he died so young
Wasn’t this the time that the Vikings called themselves the “Purple People Eaters”?
Yes. They had a ferocious defense, led by the likes of Carl Eller and Alan Page. Len Dawson and the Chiefs carved them up in SB IV.
I researched it
He liked Fresca
The tartness
I did not
Like tab I thought it awful
Today though diet Dr Pepper is my daily drink
5 a day I’d reckon
So what was the Vikings excuse in those other 3 Super Bowls?
Those were fair, By then their Defense was old in the tooth.,.But 3 years earlier they were set to win it all.
Miami, Pittsburgh, and Oakland beat them fair and square.
But not the Chiefs game. You tell me.
Show me a sporting event from anywhere in the World that does not have Gatorade on the side.
They knew then. Hell in 1967, after their loss to Florida in the Orange Bowl, the Georgia Yellow Jackets coach was asked why his team lost to the inferior and underrated Gators? His comment, and I quote.
“””””We didn’t have Gatorade. That made the difference.”””””
It was known, just not well in NFL circles, but the Dean of the school got his buddy Hunt to use it on his players so they could get the publicity,
Then why didn't the Gators win Natties those years?
Yes, they were. The number 1 Defense in all of Football that year,
But after the freezing tempts up North, and the high heat and humidity of New Orleans, they were out of gas. But not Kansas City, they were flying around like they were on speed.
Even the broadcasters were shocked at how badly the Viking looked and how energetic the Chiefs were.
Hell, they used clips of the game to sell Gatorade for years.
You mean in the NFL, in the last season before the merger.
True, but he would have fought tooth and nail if he knew the Chiefs were in essence using a drug, which is what gatorade is compared to water.
Hell, today they are suspending players for using power drink that have no drugs in them that are not approved by the NFL
Yet Gatorade was a drug, the Chiefs were running around the Vikings like they were dead.
They were, the humidity and heat was killing them,
yes. The last gig game before they merged the next year.
So you really can’t say that the NFL was better than the AFL that year.
The gators were still an inferior team, and so with players leaving every year it still took decent recruiting of players, but like I said, the yellow jackets were bigger favorites over the gators than the Vikings were over the Chiefs.
And
Yet, in the Orange Bowl, a similar situation, High humidity which is a killer to bigger stronger men.
To deny the fact is just ignorant. As I asked another FReeper,
You tell me why every Sports event has gatorade today if it does not make a difference?
It worked to assure of the Merger would happen didn’t it?
Imagine if Kansas had water. The Vikings would have destroyed them.
It would have been a low scoring slu=fest the Chiefs would not be able to match. It would be similar to the games the Steelers would play a few years later.
But the way the chiefs rolled over the Vikings, even the play by play guys were remarking how lacidaiskal and off the mar the Vikings were.
Hell, I lived in Minnesota, and I remember being home fornChristmas before I was transferred to Columbus GA. I left Duluth and it was 20 below, I got off the plane in GA, and the himidy must have been close to 99%.
In that first Month I kept ending up in sick bay from passing out,. I had no energy, I could not lift up my M-16, let alone a 50 lb back pack on a 20 mile force March. I passed out. and I was 18 in the best shape of my life.
It is surprising to me that in 50 years I have never heard this excuse for losing.
When St. Louis lost game six in the World Series in 85 we heard all about Buddy Biancalana etc, etc, but never heard of this Gatorade excuse for Super Bowl IV.
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