C'mon Dad, lay some Otto Graham or Sammy Baugh on us...just kidding
QB of Your favorite Team When you Started Watching Football?
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On my desk are the game ticket stubs for Simms and LT's retirement games. I was there.
Cost of each ticket? $35.00. Yikes.
Do remember Otto, Sammy also, but a little less so. Didn't see enough of them. Weren't on the tube as much as I recall.
Probably where Lucas got the idea of Darth Vader, with those long capes with the hoodies.
My Dad and I always went to The Game, Harvard/Yale as the Harvard HC had been an Asst for Dad at VFMA.
Boston Fire Dept Band is sitting in the U of the closed end of Harvard. PAT"s get kicked and some kids were tusseling for the balls. Fireman put down their instruments run out and get into a doneybrook with the young fans fighting for the balls.
After the game we went back to Southie to the Head House Tavern to wait for the boat back to Thompson's island. where I first heard the song; "Southie is my home town." (used to be ONLY Irish section of Bean Town.)
Lol. LT's retirement game was 1994 and Simms was 1995. The memory
is a, ahem, a little shaky but a friend and I walked into the stadium at
kickoff for LT's game. The security and traffic around the stadium was
nuts because Al Gore was campaigning in NYC that night.
Otto Graham's brother used to drive my mom to work in Orlando, Florida. I was only about 15, but, don't worry, I recognized the name and told my mom that Graham had been one of the most outstanding QBs of all time. That impressed her.
Norm Snead indeed played QB for the Eagles for several years in the 1960s. There was a transition period between Snead and Gabriel, and Sonny Jurgensen started at QB one of those years. I had to look this up to refresh my recollection.
I don't recall Lucas having interest in sports or as California lifer knowing anything about the NY Giants of that Era.
Actually, I remember LeBaron with the Cowgirls. Possibly the shortest nfl quarterback I've ever seen.
Weird -if this question was asked on the Michigan board I bet more than 75% of the answers would have been college players. Here it is nearly all NFL players.
Not weird if you compare the capacity of Rutgers' Stadium at the time most of those responding were basing their answer on (1960-1980) and the Big House.
LeBaron played the majority of his career in Washington in the 1950s, then went to Dallas for several seasons in the 1960s. Dallas was an expansion team formed in the early 1960s, and that may be how LeBaron got to Dallas. My guess is that he was eventually beaten out for the QB job at Dallas by Dandy Don Meredith.
Yes, college football is still not a big deal in the Northeast as compared to the Midwest or South. Rutgers has a chance to gain a big footing in the Northeastern market if the team improves, and that would attract more public attention to Rutgers. I"ll bet the state legislature would not be so cheap with Rutgers if the school were considered a hotbed of athletic victories.
Yeah....if I recall correctly, Dallas took him in the expansion draft when they joined the league.
Thanks for the video Northern Knight. LeBaron was only 5'7''. Also punted. Served 2 years in the Marine Corp in Korea during the war. Received a Purple Heart. Also played a year in Canada for his old College Coach. When the guy got fired he came back to Washington.
Not that I'm a Cowboys or Jets fan, but Roger Staubach and Joe Namath,
Roger because my mother was from TX and both parents were in the Navy, Namath because my mother was enamored with him and he led the Jets to a championship (hey, I was a kid, how would I know what my mother was thinking! LOL). Being from TX, she still watches all possible football games at the age of 97 from her recliner in Myrtle Beach. Switches to Baseball in the spring,
Roger because my mother was from TX and both parents were in the Navy, Namath because my mother was enamored with him and he led the Jets to a championship (hey, I was a kid, how would I know what my mother was thinking! LOL). Being from TX, she still watches all possible football games at the age of 97 from her recliner in Myrtle Beach. Switches to Baseball in the spring,
He and Dandy Don used to rotate every play with The Hat sending in the play with either Eddie or Don.
My classmate at Manlius, his Brother was Maury Youmans on the Boys and one of the Syracuse 59 National Champions " Sizeable Seven ". (Today those sizes are laughable.)
When I started rooting for the Eagles it was Dick Vermeil's first year and I believe Gabriel was still the starting QB, but I seem to recall Mike Boryla (sp?) getting some starts or PT that year.
That's a tough one- Tom Tupa maybe? I know Randall Cunningham got a off a great punt against the Giants one time.
Yeah, it may have been a little wind-aided that day- but still impressive! Ryan would have him quick kick sometimes, but nothing like that usually happened.
Played against Manlius as a freshman for the Cortland JV when freshmen couldn't play varsity.
You do recall correctly. He would come in as QB in the last two minutes and lead the Oakland Raiders to come-from-behind victories. I definitely remember this to be the case in 1968, and it was true for a few years afterward. Yes, he was a place-kicker. He was not a modern soccer-style kicker, but he was effective for a pretty long range. Pressure did not bother him, perhaps because he was 40 or more when he was doing this. Truly a remarkable players. Incidentally, Daryl Lamonica (known as the Mad Bomber) was the QB that Blanda would replace. I read in a memoir by a Raiders' player that Blanda had many more leadership qualities than Lamonica. Even more incidentally, the coach of those teams was somebody named John Madden, who would shout and scream on the sidelines.
He lasted in the league until he was almost 50, with less and less QB-ing as the years went on.
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