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The coaches let him play, or somehow didn't know he was that drunk?
Doc Ellis has entered the chat.
David "Boomer" Wells was hungover or drunk when he pitched a perfect game?
True. I wish I had a sliver of that talent sober.
Who?
What?
Maybe if I had a TV I would understand?
From my hometown … voted a “distinguished alumni”. Great
Read Kenny Stabler’s biography “The Snake”. John Madden had a Pirate Ship not an Oakland Raider football team.
The priest that married me and the Mrs was so drunk he was slurring his words. And to add to the stereotype, he was doing it in an Irish accent... We can always get a laugh about that, and it wasn't the only craziness of the day.
Bobby Layne used to drink whiskey during halftime.
RE: He was allegedly on LSD when he pitched a no hitter?
Line from the Brad Pitt character on heavy LSD, to the three armed killers confronting him in a home invasion in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood:
(Smiling)
“You are real, right?”
There was a time when coaches would bail players out in the morning, before the game.
I would think the free safety would be the easiest position to play drunk.
In the end it relies on what set is called.
Two strides away and you are “burned!”
The sport, Football, has changed but not for the better.
“Chippy,” has become “Dirty.”
I don’t watch NCAA or NFL games, at all.
This isn’t too surprising... Plenty of players likely play while intoxicated on booze and drugs. Many of them likely do so just to kill the pain associated with the constant injuries.
So... What’s the big deal?
Lawrence Taylor and lots of other high profile players said they were high on cocaine plenty of times during their playing careers. The occasional hot toddy couldn’t do too much more harm.
https://www.twincities.com/2013/01/27/tom-dempsey-former-nfl-kicker-dealing-with-dementia/
Tom Dempsey, the former NFL kicker born without toes on his right foot who in November 1970 — after a long night of drinking and debauchery in the French Quarter of New Orleans — set the league record for the longest field goal in a regular-season game. The 63-yard kick lifted the New Orleans Saints to a 19-17 victory over the Detroit Lions, and, in the process, helped transform Dempsey into something of a folk hero in the city hosting the Super Bowl on Sunday, the rare Saints player to hold a prominent NFL record before the Sean Payton era.
I should have played football.
You can work drunk and still earn big money! If I ever showed up drunk it would’ve been my last day.
from the web:
“Financially, Jammer had a fruitful NFL career. According to contract-tracking sources:
His career earnings are estimated at USD $47,116,664.
His average per year (APY) over his career was around $3.93 million.
The largest cash payment he received in a season was $7,233,330 (2007).
His original rookie contract (signed in 2002) was a 6-year deal worth about $15.6 million (with ~$6 million guaranteed), and a later extension (in 2006) added roughly $31.3 million over 6 years.”
“Anybody throws me against the board, I’m gonna piss all over myself.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RqzRLwugi8
Bobby Layne used to drink whiskey during halftime.
As only Art Donovan could tell the story
https://youtu.be/7HDRLnoAY9E?t=211
Explains why he didn’t play up to his potential that year
“ Explains why he didn’t play up to his potential that year.”
How many wins in the eight drunken games?
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