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I too, heard Lundquist say that about the leather helmets. Erik Ainge, QB for my Tennessee Vols, showed his knack for throwing interceptions in key situations.

I remember Terry Hoage playing for Georgia. Once I saw something on the Sports page about how Hoage was recruited by Georgia. As I recall, Georgia did not have many scholarships left that year when a scout or somebody whose judgement Vince Dooley respected, recommended Terry Hoage. Dooley said...

The NFL Players Association has always been unwilling to help long-retired players, especally pre-1960 players. Some years ago, they would not give financial assistance to Johnny Unitas. This site has details: http://gridirongreats.org

A while back I referred to a WR named Justin Armour. He had a good rookie year with Buffalo, but missed the next year with an injury and was passed on to Philadelphia and Denver. In 1999 with Baltimore, Armour caught 37 passes as a third and fourth WR. He was a out of the league the next year...

I was in the library today, and I saw the obit for Dick Nolan in SI that had the comment by Frank Gifford that Don is referring to. Dick Nolan was an excellent player at Safety on what was the best defense in the NFL in the 1950's. As a player, Nolan was considered tough and smart. He would not...

I can remember predictions during the mid-1970's that "in ten years over half of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL will be black." As it turned out, this did not happen. A few years ago, there was more optimism in this regard. There was even an article celebrating the coming takeover by...

When the measurement showed that the Colts were inches short of a first down, I had the same "strange feeling" that Don had. The instinct that you develop from observing pro football for many decades told me that the FG attempt was going to fail either through a miss or a block.

Don Shula's 1964 Baltimore Colt team that played in the NFL Title game that year had 20 of 22 white starters. His 1968 Colt team that lost to the Jets in Super Bowl III had 18 white starters. As Don says, Shula had a mainly white defense into the 1980's with Miami. I always thought that...

The 1972 Dolphins had 16 out of 22 white starters most of the season. Tim Foley was injured during the playoffs after starting at CB most of the season. In 1971, the Dolphins started 18 white players in Super Bowl VI, which they lost to the Cowboys. I haven't counted but I think that the Miami...

By accident, I caught the last few minutes of that Great Conservative Patriot Bill O'Reilly's Fox News show tonight. It was O'Reilly's Pinheads and Patriots segments. He called Chapman a "Pinhead because he didn't like his son dating a woman of color." O'Reilly considers this to be a serious...

You can find a brief bio of Quennan in wikipedia. He used to write for the neocon magazine, The American Spectator, mainly book reviews. He considers himself an expert on Popular Culture.

Court TV is showing a one hour special on Watts right now. It will be repeated early Sat. morning at 3am ET, and again at 3pm ET Saturday afternoon October 27.

In his autobiography titled "I Pass," Y.A. Tittle, HOF quarterback, said that he had no respect for anyone who complains about his opponent running up the score. Tittle said something like, "My philosophy is to beat them and to score as much as you can. During the 1963 season, 49er coach...

How good would the Titans be if they had someone anywhere near as good as Brady or Manning at QB?

I haven't seen an article like this, and as I have written, that takes in a good many years. Whitlock was saying that a team with a great passing QB and a good number of white players overall is most likely to win championships. If teams like the Colts and Patriots continue to win Super Bowls...

I have read about pro football since around 1960. I well remember when Bob Hayes came into the NFL. Hayes was a good football player who was the World's Fastest Human in 1964. He was not a trackman who tried to play football. John Carlos and Tommy Smith were track sprinters who failed when they...

It is hardest to predict how a college QB will do in the NFL than with most other positions. The best bet is to draft a QB who has the physical skills, and has played against top competion in college. Further, he should have a good head on his shoulders. Peyton Manning is the classic example of...

The program didn't mention O.j. Simpson, but did Rae Carruth. The aforementioned Bill Plaschke was much kinder to Carruth than he was to Tonya Harding. He said wistfully, "How could Rae look at that in his rear-view mirror."

Well, there is a lack of QB talent on the Tennessee Titans.