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Vince Lombardi was another example. He "retired" after the Packers won the Ice Bowl and Super Bowl II but after a year as Packer GM took big money in 1969 to coach the Redskins. He died of cancer a year later just before the 1970 season. Lombardi didn't have much of a coaching tree either.

A win like this can be a good omen for going all the way.

I've seem dumb DBs fumble in that situation.

It's not too uncommon for a team to win the Super Bowl one year and fall back the next.

I first noticed Howard Cosell in the 60s when he wrote a monthly feature in Sport Magazine on famous sporting events. It was pretty good, neutral in fact. I heard him on the radio doing the 1964 Clay-Liston fight in which Liston quit on his stool after Round 6. Cosell shouted, "HE's NOT COMING...

Well said. Trump, along with being for only himself, is a political dead end. Trump would be a 78-year old lame duck. One way or another Trump in 2024 means failure. And he wants Haley as running mate.

I remember Billy Parks. He was another White player of the early 70s who didn't always play up to his ability. Parks identified with the emerging counterculture. He was a hands and moves type. Sid Gillman had a soft spot for this kind of WR. In 1972 with the Cowboys, before a game, Parks...

Thanks for the comment but it was 1962 when Jim Taylor led the NFL in rushing. I can't tell you how many times writers have gloated about never having White RBs anymore. By the way, nobody was surprised at the time when Taylor had the yardage totals he did.

This is ironic when I recall a 1981 SI article on Collinsworth during his rookie year. The theme was, "Cris Collinsworth loves to talk!" Collinsworth was quoted as resenting being compared to White receivers and said something like, "I want to be compared to guys like Lofton." So as an...

You need better leaders than Trump. You need many leaders which results in more adherents and a larger movement.

I read Tatum's book when it came out. His apologia for the hit on Darryl Stingley received considerable attention. Tatum said he had to play that way or Al Davis would cut his salary or trade him. Tatum ripped Franco Harris for running out of bounds along with "slipping, falling, and caking...

Over the years we've seen White players do this often in decisions of this nature.

I remember it very well. It started with Atkinson's hitting Swann in the neck during the 1975 AFC Title Game, knocking him out of the game with a concussion. Swann came back with his most famous performance in Super Bowl X. George Atkinson caused another incident in the 1976 Raiders-Patriots...

Jim Taylor in 1962, 14 game season. Taylor gained 1474 yards, 5.4 avg. per carry, 19 TDs all rushing.

Yes, letting down in the last regular season game when your playoff spot is clinched has been disastrous.

I remember seeing all the players mentioned on TV and reading about them in the sports magazines of the time. Tommy Mason was a very good (short of great) player from 1962-65. He made the Pro Bowl (Pro Football Reference) three straight years (1962-64). Mason was having another good year in...

Yes, it was the usual demeaning and/or condescension that someone like Danny Woodhead gets from media types. The phrase "had to scrap his ass off" is supposed to mean Woodhead lacked physical ability. Danny Woodhead couldn't have played as well as he did if he wasn't very talented. I noted in...

Whether CMac wins the season MVP or not, the best thing would to have big games in the playoffs, win the Super Bowl and be Super Bowl MVP.

Christian McCaffrey IS being discussed for NFL MVP.

Note J.J. Watt's weak (some would say pathetic) tweet on the subject. At the moment the major sports media is not paying much attention to it. I wouldn't be surprised if a crescendo of support for the comment suddenly appears. But it might just vanish from the news in a few days.

He could say, "All White people should be killed," and nothing would happen to him. He wouldn't lose his job, assuming he has one.

This was part of Rose's act: A White guy with limited athleticism who did it with desire and hustle. I've seen Rose quoted, "I have no athletic ability." And "I run pretty good for a White man." He said things like this often, especially late in his career. One of his biographers noted that...

Christian McCaffrey had already passed Larry Csonka in regular season 100-yard games. CMC now has 20 to Csonka's 16. Playoff games are counted separately.

He threw the lateral on the Music City Miracle.

The MLB Network has a new two-hour show on George Brett, premiered Thursday night. It shows George Brett as the greatest hitter of his era. It's amazing how many big home runs he had in big games, playoffs especially. A great White player gets a worthy tribute. It will be repeated several...