Probably the most iconic picture in NFL history.
This Bald Eagle is still here!
I think that picture is after the Bears beat the hell out of him in the ‘63 Championship game. RIP Y.A.
That’s how bad the Giants are this year, even he couldn’t handle.
I had forgotten that he was LSU.
http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/lsu/article_181f7c0c-6b24-11e6-b30c-579aaba33b8e.html
Y.A. Tittle, star LSU and NFL quarterback, has died
Wow, probably the first “football hero” I was aware of....as one who never really went in for football.
I saw Tittle play in Kezar with the Niners. Great times. Those great times, and now Y.A. Tittle, are gone forever.
R.I.P.
Hope Tittle was unable to truly grasp the nature of the NFL these days.
Sad to think he’d have to go out while they are stinking up the place.
RIP Mr. Tittle.
RIP. Another piece of my childhood enters the history books.
Great player, enjoyed watching him, RIP.
What a great player.
RIP Mr. Tittle!
From the NFL’s golden era....never to be repeated.
R.I.P., 14, R.I.P.
When your name is “Tittle”, you grow up tough.
I wish I could have seen him play. I read about him when I was a kid. He sounded like one cool dude. And, he somehow survived CTE!
Superhero!
It was a really BAD day for Giants yesterday,
A little before my time, but I’ve read he was awesome. RIP.
RIP.
Around 1987, I was working for a TV repair shop making house calls. One call took me to a rural location. When I finished working on the TV set, the customer asked me if I knew who his next door neighbor was.
“You ever heard of YA Tittle?”
Being a long time football fan, of course I did.
He escorted out of the house and that’s when I noticed his neighbor’s mail box with the name “Tittle” on the side. I looked at my customer with a “you gotta be kidding me” grin.
Then, he introduced me to the fellow working in the yard. Y. A. Tittle. I restrained my urge to go all fanboy and just said something like “nice to meet you.”
Just an old guy working in his yard.
‘I was a teen living in the NYC area back then, and Tittle was considered a god.’
I was a teen then too, though I liked the old NY Titans...those Giant teams were great, Tittle, Robustelli, Katcavage, Gifford, Huff; those were good days...
I was there when he threw 7 TD passes against the Skins. He played the second half of the NFL Title game against the Bears on one leg. His ligaments in his left knee had been stretched to the point of tearing by a rolling block by LB Joe Fortunato. The Giants’ team doc shot it up with novacaine and trainer Johnny Dziegel taped it rigid. I think team chaplain Fr. Dudley blessed it as well. He was tough but so were they all. 37 man rosters for 14 gane schedule. In the off season he sold insurance in the same office in Frisco as my uncle. A NYC transplant for whom the Giants were religion. My uncle said Tittle was simply a gentleman. The highest compliment a man of his generation could pay to another. RIP Y A.