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Christian McCaffrey is better off being used in a Marshall Faulk role. He's more like Faulk, a runner-receiver, than Barry Sanders.

I just saw the program, good overall. A few politically correct moments, but a lot of interesting footage. The players of that period (1933-59) were mostly working class or poor, with a football scholarship "a way out." Toward the end a good segment on Billy Cannon. Check the schedule and...

It might be Belichick figures Burkhead is best used as a spot player due to his injury prone history.

When are you going to tell us which "various method" the Jews will use to "quietly dispose" of the black population?

The SEC Network almost never has anything about the pre-1970 SEC. A year or so ago they had a program on Fran Tarkenton's Georgia career 1958-60, but that's about it. This year for the 150th anniversary of college football the SEC Network has a series. On Tuesday night, September 10, at 9 pm...

A few months ago I glanced at NRO. There was something like "A typical American has good feelings toward racial minorities." These "good feelings" are not returned one iota. Not one iota. When you point this out to white people with this attitude, they are usually speechless.

McCaffrey is faster than Jon Arnett and doesn't have the acrobatic moves Arnett had. Jon Arnett was considered a great runner (and receiver-kick returner) at his best, but after his second year (1958) the Rams went into a morass of losing.

I'm sure you've noticed white players seem oblivious to such considerations.

Bleirer wasn't a "tailback." The Steelers didn't use the I-formation. They used the standard pro set with the halfback and fullback side by side. Harris, at fullback, was the major runner with Bleirer at halfback with a fair amount of carries. The Steelers had sputtered on offense the first...

Don, thanks for the heads-up. Many NFL players who made the team were placed in a National Guard unit. Others were "4-F" due to a bad knee, etc. You would be amazed how many star football players were officially 4-F. I know of two who admitted to it in their autobiographies. Pat Toomay, in his...

The idea the moon landing was faked is a staple among blacks.

And when the "browning" comes, so does left-wing "ideology." As with all neocons, Shapiro supports policies which result in what he claims to oppose.

Commissioner Bowie Kuhn made a big deal of condemning the book and even called Bouton in for a dressing down. All of which sent the book's sales through the roof. On the other hand, every club house had a sign saying "What you see here. What you hear here. It stays here." Bouton broke the code...

Ball Four's "insight of what major league ball players were really like" didn't surprise me a bit.

The subject of this thread, started by me, was Ingemar Johansson winning the title 60 years ago, not meaningless blathering about the 1963 Clay-Cooper fight.

Are you aware that a fighter isn't knocked out when he gets up before the count of 10 and can continue?

I see you realized you had confused Floyd Patterson with Sonny Liston. Patterson was articulate and well spoken, but was not considered an outstanding heavyweight champion.

Standard operating procedure. Clay cut Cooper up in the next round to end it.

In 1982 Cooney was presumed to have a chance of winning, but was beaten handily. By the mid-1980's it was often said there will never be another white heavyweight champion. I followed boxing, heavyweights in particular, in those days, read all the boxing magazines. Nobody, absolutely nobody...

So what? Clay got up by the count of four, and the round ended anyway.

On the night of June 26, 1959, at Yankee Stadium, Ingemar Johansson KO'd Floyd Patterson in the third round to win the Heavyweight Championship. I was 8 years old and heard the news while listening to a little league game on the radio. In 1959 baseball was so popular, little league games were...

As for dead bodies pulled out of rivers, people underestimate the danger rivers can have and die in them, especially when drunk.

The first thing team owners always do is demand a "new stadium" from the taxpayers every 25-30 years. "We'll move if you don't build a new stadium," is the standard line.

I saw Mantle play on TV many times. Did you? Have you ever read a biography of Mantle? Mantle was so fast that even after the 1951 knee injury he still had great speed. Funny thing, Mickey Mantle was my favorite baseball player as a kid and now I'm attacked on this Forum for not liking him. My...

Yes, you're lost in space all right. Speaking of Mickey Mantle, he tore up a knee in the 1951 World Series. He basically played on one leg the next 17 years.