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My Aunt & Uncle live in Jackson Tennessee and they were friends with Ed "Too Tall" Jones who lived there in the off-season, his son would even come over to go swimming. In fact the first time I ever played the legendary Atari roller ball X's and O's football game was with that young man. Naturally I did not meet Too Tall as he was off at training camp.

So your a Boomer Sooner huh? Now THAT'S a college football factory. https://youtu.be/5l_d2hbh8nI and Barry did spawn a son who spawned a son who electrified Chapel Hill for four years and who will light up Jerry World for years to come. OU also taught me a lesson, and that is UNC will never be a real player in football. 1980, heels with LT as a senior and a kick ass defense, two 1000 yard rushers in "Famous Amos" Lawrence and Kelvin Bryant (both who played in the show), UNC was 7-0 OU was about 5-2 and we're seen as shaky, but the Sooners were favored by seven and the hook. My old man drops mad bank on the Heels, JC Watts though had other ideas. We thought coming in that the heels could defend the option as we had throttled a good ECU team who ran the same offense just the week before. We thought wrong, OU broke open a close game after halftime (14-7) and won 41-7 rushing for 495 yards,0 passing.

And don't get me started on the Staubach era cowboys. My first real heartbreak as a fan was when he led them to two scores in the final 2:20 in what was his final regular season home game https://youtu.be/vJFQNAuNor8


Ok one last tie in, well make that two.


First NFL game I ever went to was in Arizona. Next to last game of the 96 season. In fact it was the weekend Jerry McGuire opened at the movies as they showed the trailer on the big screen at old Sun Devil Stadium. My brother works in movies and TV as a transportation coordinator and he was on the set of the Oliver Stone fit of madness that was "U-Turn" and he flew me out and I got to spend a day on the set. They did the filming in a dusty hole called Miami Arizona. Got to meet Mr Stone(nice guy) got to meet Nick Nolte (weird guy) but alas I did not meet J-Lo or Sean Penn though I did get told some stories about how abusive he was verbally and even physically towards the catering crew.

As for the game itself, Cardinals rise up, come back late, skins help out with dumb penalities and Kevin Butler nails a chippie to win at the gun. But hey Enterprise rent a car gave us seats in their suite high atop The stadium, we ate drank and made
Merry with some good natured smack bantered about.


And a couple years later I did go back to Arizona after my brother bought a place in Tucson for Thanksgiving. We went to see UA-ASU which was a shootout with the cats winning 50-42 in a game that took close to FIVE hours to complete.

Last edited by Coach Lambini at 2/14/2018 7:24:21 AM

That's cool about Ed "Too Tall" Jones :-) I was only 6 years old when you suffered your first fan heartbreak in that Cowboys/Skins game...Not sure if I was into football yet...but two years later I sure was, and I suffered my own first fan heartbreak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14CKs0rY0jE) UGH!!!! Still hurts to watch!!

Very interesting about the football game you attended, and the Jerry McGuire connection we both share...I was at the Christmas night game in 95 Cowboys vs Cardinals...which is the game that was featured in the footage of the movie There seem to be two different release cuts of that movie....Because I can be seen in one of them, but not the other. Our seats were in the South End Zone and there is a shot in the movie where the camera pans that section and the crowd erupts in cheer...In one of the cuts, you can see me in my Dallas Cowboys Jacket jump up....in another version/cut, I can't find myself :-)

Like I said, it was Christmas night, so you'd think everyone would be in a great mood...but goodness, there were like 6 fights that broke out in the stands...One of them just two rows in front of us...In the row in front of us, just to our right was a couple who where were Cardinals fans...and directly in front of them, also a couple, who were Cowboys fans...There was a stretch in the game where everything seemed to go the Cowboys way, so the two Cowboys fans kept jumping up & cheering...it was bothering the couple behind them, especially the woman...She kept yelling at them to sit down...and they told her this was not the opera lol So they kept jumping up, and she kept yelling at them...after 5 or 6 times she poured her entire beer on the guys head!!! So he freaks out and lunges back at them, and of course her boyfriend now has to step in to defend her, and they start throwing punches...needless to say all 4 were kicked out ;-) Good times!!



Last edited by Jason at 2/14/2018 5:08:59 PM

Yeah that is like the last time I went to a NFL game. Panthers v. Foreskins 2008 or maybe 09. Wild melees broke our all over, I was in the upper deck and saw three large brawls errupt and in the concourse going out at games end things got a little heated because the skins pissed the game away, all of this over two teams that ended up terrible. Now up in DC the Panthers are just another team. Down in the Carolinas there is out and out animosity between the fan bases. This was staunch Skins country all thru my youth, we got them every week on TV, the Colts also had a huge following as they were the AFC offering, back then you were on one side or the other. Whatever feelings anyone around here had for the colts disappeared with the move to Indy. But the skins good or bad were always on, one year someone tried to supplant the skins with the Bartkowski era falcons during the time they were making noise. that lasted about 2 weeks before resuming the status quo, if for no other reason then it pissed off the stations morning show host who was a complete Redskins honk, and dammit if Lee "get off my lawn" Kinard wanted the skins you were getting the skins. Funny thing is, he blew out the head of the sports department personally over the air about it.


Actually all Panther fans are soft fans or fake tough guy posers. I have never seen a Panther fan get truly upset, except for the guy who sucker punched that old eggles fan this past season, but he was a Eggles fan, by rule your supposed to punch them. Dude could have been 98 and wheeled in on a gurney, slug the miserable bastard. And now those sleazeballs are world champs, I tell you one man who cracked a smile and a snappy retort to the Eggles bringing it home, and that would be the man who last quarter backed them to a Championship https://youtu.be/ToIVpUL_mYs now Van Brocklin was at the tale end of his career with Philly when he willed them to a title, and though it is one of the most unlikely and unique events in NFL history the real mark one can never underappreciate is the fact that he STILL owns the record for most passing yards in a NFL game as he threw for 554yds against the NY Yanks in 1950. Of course if Brady had somehow completed that final pass he would have taken over that record. BTW, the Yanks moved to Dallas in 1952, after bombing there they went to Baltimore and became the Colts.

Alas we pine over a dying sport. We will look back 20 years from now and I think history will show that the Eggles win in 1960 really was the coming out party for the NFL's first great dynasty in the Lombardi Packers, and I think this one will bookend what may well be the final great dynasty in these Patriots.

Last edited by Coach Lambini at 2/14/2018 9:10:44 PM

Still in it! I'm gonna win the championship!!! I now have a two-game winning streak thanks to this drama:
(http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/99620909/reportmatch.as...)

You had fans in AZ cheering you on tonight

(37746822) Shaving can be a real challenge for some players!!

Had a decent run but couldn't keep revenue up to hold on to my amazing center, so going to relegate. Hopefully be back up after one season. Good luck to all. This has been a good league.