Football
Related: About this forumDoes anyone here remember Roman Gabriel?
Growing up in the 60's, CBS had an East Coast game, then a West Cost game. The Rams got a lot of the WC broadcast mindshare. For good reason. Gabriel was the first quintessential QB. Tall, tough, and what an arm. He was my first QB that made want to read the NFL results the next day. Loved watching the late 60's Rams. And they had the Fearsome Foursome...
rurallib
(62,528 posts)and if I recall had movie star looks. Won a super bowl didn't he?
calguy
(5,358 posts)He did not win a Super Bowl though. They didn't have Super Bowls when he played.
BootinUp
(47,260 posts)Hacksaw Reynolds
Fred Dryer
Merlin Olsen
Big black defensive end's name escapes me.. darn it.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,912 posts)He anchored the D....then became a State Supreme Court Justice in CA, I think.
BootinUp
(47,260 posts)I had a nice card collection of almost the whole team like early seventies. I was on the east coast for many years and never heard he became a judge/justice.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,912 posts)He was the awesome baller.
Jones Grier, Olson, and Lamar Lundy.....Lundy was a quiet dude, given his cohorts.
Dick Butkus called them "the most dominant line in football history."[1
BootinUp
(47,260 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,912 posts)You made me realize I made a mistake on that point!
BootinUp
(47,260 posts)since I couldn't remember that.
I was picturing Rosie, he's hard to forget.
Tomconroy
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(24,912 posts)Walleye
(31,238 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,912 posts)At least that is what I remember waching at Gramps and Grandma's....
FalloutShelter
(11,947 posts)Harold Carmichael. I was about fifteen and at the Old Vet with my dad as the Eagles practiced.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,912 posts)I went with my Dad to a Boston Patriots game at Harvard Stadium. Saw Joe Kapp suck and get bombarded with snowballs by Pats fans after he turned and gave them the Double Flying Eagle. Pete Sellars was a great receiver, IMHO.
FalloutShelter
(11,947 posts)Fans would do.
dem4decades
(11,334 posts)blm
(113,165 posts)Fight me.
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(24,912 posts)luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)back in the early 60s. Great player and, yes, movie star looks.
Roosevelt Grier, unbeknownst to many, was really into needlepoint. In fact, I got started doing needlepoint because my father found his needlepoint book at the library. I probably never would have been interested in that girly stuff if not for that book.
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(24,912 posts)luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)Hes a Trumper.
CanyaDigIt
(1,057 posts)with Rock Hudson and John Wayne.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,912 posts)Did not know. Roman had great looks, the wig is cool, too!
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(24,912 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)I do.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,912 posts)I was 10 when I started paying attention to NFL football. Sunday afternoons had CBS late games on. LA Rams got a lot of playtime on the East Coast.
rsdsharp
(9,268 posts)of the Vikings in 1961, and then to the Falcons in 1968. Great QB, with a volcanic temper, but a lousy coach.
He was the only quarterback to beat a Lombardi team in a playoff game 1960 NFL championship, Packers v. Eagles.
gladium et scutum
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