Peyton Manning's number. LOL, and Phil Jackson wore it in the NBA. Old timers here may remember Roman Gabriel wore it. I used to enjoy watching him QB for the LA Rams (he was a #1 overall pick of the AFL draft, but played in the NFL... he was the #2 overall pick of that NFL draft back in 1962). I'll bet old davidl remembers watching him play. He was the NFL MVP for the 1969 season... All-Pro and the NFL passing leader and led the NFL in passing TDs a few years too. But #18 is a good number. Mrs JABF is wanting a new jersey this year, and I wonder if she might like a Caleb jersey. I still have the old #7 George Halas jersey (seriously). Can't believe the Bears did not retire that number before letting Bob Avellini wear it. But I digress. LOL, old memories.
Peyton Manning's number. LOL, and Phil Jackson wore it in the NBA. Old timers here may remember Roman Gabriel wore it. I used to enjoy watching him QB for the LA Rams (he was a #1 overall pick of the AFL draft, but played in the NFL... he was the #2 overall pick of that NFL draft back in 1962). I'll bet old davidl remembers watching him play. He was the NFL MVP for the 1969 season... All-Pro and the NFL passing leader and led the NFL in passing TDs a few years too. But #18 is a good number. Mrs JABF is wanting a new jersey this year, and I wonder if she might like a Caleb jersey. I still have the old #7 George Halas jersey (seriously). Can't believe the Bears did not retire that number before letting Bob Avellini wear it. But I digress. LOL, old memories.
Peyton Manning's number. LOL, and Phil Jackson wore it in the NBA. Old timers here may remember Roman Gabriel wore it. I used to enjoy watching him QB for the LA Rams (he was a #1 overall pick of the AFL draft, but played in the NFL... he was the #2 overall pick of that NFL draft back in 1962). I'll bet old davidl remembers watching him play. He was the NFL MVP for the 1969 season... All-Pro and the NFL passing leader and led the NFL in passing TDs a few years too. But #18 is a good number. Mrs JABF is wanting a new jersey this year, and I wonder if she might like a Caleb jersey. I still have the old #7 George Halas jersey (seriously). Can't believe the Bears did not retire that number before letting Bob Avellini wear it. But I digress. LOL, old memories.
Wonder if the jersey still has blood on it
When I watch those old games it is shocking how different the game was back then. That was in 1982 when Avellini looked like he'd gone 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali. To be a QB in those old days was brutal... pretty much anything was allowed.
This was in the Detroit game in 1982 at Detroit. Avellini was beaten up horribly and was taken out of the game in the first half. The dude came back in the second half and was just curb stomped, beaten and bloody.
When I watch those old games it is shocking how different the game was back then. That was in 1982 when Avellini looked like he'd gone 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali. To be a QB in those old days was brutal... pretty much anything was allowed.
This was in the Detroit game in 1982 at Detroit. Avellini was beaten up horribly and was taken out of the game in the first half. The dude came back in the second half and was just curb stomped, beaten and bloody.
Yeah, remember Roman Gabriel. He was about as big as Peyton Manning but a notch or two below him. He’s more like the Dak Prescott of his generation — looked good in regular season but flopped in the playoffs.
When I watch those old games it is shocking how different the game was back then. That was in 1982 when Avellini looked like he'd gone 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali. To be a QB in those old days was brutal... pretty much anything was allowed.
This was in the Detroit game in 1982 at Detroit. Avellini was beaten up horribly and was taken out of the game in the first half. The dude came back in the second half and was just curb stomped, beaten and bloody.
Yeah, remember Roman Gabriel. He was about as big as Peyton Manning but a notch or two below him. He’s more like the Dak Prescott of his generation — looked good in regular season but flopped in the playoffs.
I have such great memories of those old teams. I have often wondered why the NFL has never put together a library of all the games? Clean them up (many of them have deteriorated in quality, from what I see here-and-there on the Internet). Clean them up and they could charge for access to that library. I'd pay in a heartbeat to be able to watch the old games again - it was FANTASTIC football. In particular it had "complete football" and not just a game (today) where you see the passing offensive game over-emphasized to the point that it "waters down" the excitement of the games "back in the day." Those were INCREDIBLE entertainment. But, I would not want to see the quarterbacks of today being hurt like the old guys got hurt though. Some games you'd even watch two QBs taken out on stretchers in the same game for the same team. Those old QBs were tough dudes.