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Please read my comments about the early AFL on the lineup post for this match anyone can be critical of any modern Super Bowl but to disparage those first 2 AFL wins is revisionist history that I find insulting.I attended with my dad the 1967 AFL title game where the Raiders crushed the Oilers 40-7 earning the right to lose to Green Bay 33-14 in Super Bowl 2.The Raiders fumbled in the 1968 title game giving the Jets the chance to represent revolution against the machine in the 3rd Super Bowl in 1969.The symbolism of the AFL winning is to me the 2nd most important connection between the hippie/anti-war counter culture and sports.Only Muhammad Ali as an anti-establishment hero tops it.The Tigers winning the World Series in 1968 a year after race riots comes close.Jimi Hendrix and Jose Feliciano did national anthems that year.
that was me not Tom I use his identity to post headings and I forgot to sign out
Hey Mark
I did not realize K C had such a formidable offense to stop in '70... Lineman Mick Tinglehoff and Grady Alderman and running back Dave Osborne blocking so Joe Kapp could throw to the lesser talented of the two Gene Washingtons. Now the Stenerud-Yepremian Thanksgiving game that lasted 3 OT was "revolutionary. " The abbreviated playoff period resulted from housewives complaining to network chiefs to putting a "curfew" on armchair quarterbacks. That "coin flip winner takes the overtime winner cake" was the single worst thing to happen to football ever. I hate KC because, even though the Chiefs had hall of famers galore, I believe beating a Bud Grant lead team pre Fran Tarkenton is like beating a Marv Levy lead team. Both coaches lose four Super Bowls. "You have to be good to lose so much," Oregonian columnist Dwight Haynes told me on Wilson High's baseball field when Eric turned the pitch protector fence around so he could pitch with the other hand to a switch hitter who switched sides in batting practice. (Nice work if you can do it, but Eric was just making Dwight and me laugh hard.)
Jaynes not Haynes.
I got 158 with Wall and Holiday Inn on a Swat beat down.
Yo Swat with Mark Gas and "Warriors, come out to play yay."
I show with Holiday,Wall,Ticket 158-105 Swat, Dray,Klay and Mark Gas.
You guys who saw the best bands while I was trapped with the country revival, hair bands and geezer rockers of the latter 20th century, I look back in shame, saved only by Bowie and Bruce, who was good when the E Street Band first got back together. But Earth, Wind and Fire at Civic Auditorium may have better than the legends.
The Origin of the passing game as we know it from its AFL roots (from Adam Lazarus' "Hail to the Redskins: Gibbs,the Diesel,the Hogs and the Glory Days of D.C.'s Football Dynasty.
1. Bobby Beathard plays defensive back for Sid Gillman in San Diego in '60. Al Davis and Chuck Noll are Sid's assistant coaches.
Beathard becomes a scout for Hank Stram in K.C., then Atlanta, and then becomes director of player personnel in '72 for Don Shula in Miami.
2. Bobby Beathard is appointed Skins GM in '80 by Jack Kent Cooke, the former Laker owner who acquired Chamberlain and Jabbarand financier of the Ali-Frazier fight of the century. Beathard was a college roommate of John Madden at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Cooke wanted Madden to coach Washington two years after winning a Super Bowl and then retired. Instead Beathard hires Joe Gibbs, the offensive coordinator for Don Coryell in San Diego. Earlier in the day Gibbs was called by Beathard, Oakland beat San Diego to win the AFC title in '80.
3.Gibbs played for Don Coryell, who posted three undefeated seasons between '66-'69 at San Diego State. Gibbs was hired by Coryell in '64 to work on an offensive line. He also chauffered John Madden, the defensive coordinator. Gibbs was tjere for just the first of three undefeated seasons. Coryell invented the I formation that John McKay used so successfully at USC.
4.Gibbs goes to work for Florida State Coach Bill Peterson, who produced future Super Bowl MVP Fred Biletnikoff and invented the pre-snap adjustment to counter a defensive blitz.
Peterson was widely considered an innovater of the passing game.
5. Gibbs becomes offensive line coach at USC for John McKay, who learned the I formation from his assistant Don Coryell in '60.
6. A former FSU colleague, Don Breaux lures Gibbs to Arkansas to assist Frank Broyles. A head coach factory at Arkansas produced Johnny Majors, Raymond Berry, Jimmy Johnson,Doug Dickey,Hayden Frey and Jim Mackenzie.
7. Gibbs makes his first move from offensive line coach to handle running backs for his former boss Coryell in St. Louis. In '75 Terry Metcalf and Jim Otis make the Pro Bowl. But Coryell was fired after blasting fans and management after a loss to the Skins in '77.
8. Gibbs re-joins McKay in Tampa Bay. Gibbs in the coaches' box radios plays to an assistant who relays them to Doug Williams, a rookie QB out of Grambling.
9. Gibbs joins Coryell in San Diego as offensive coordinator when Ray Perkins drops that job to coach the Giants. Coryell developed a "passing tree" that detailed route running, revolutionized the use of the pre-snap motion, and popularized personnel shifts, frequently switching from two-back sets to four-receiver sets, then back to the I formation.
10. Gibbs coaches the Skins to its first title in 40 years and three titles in 11 years. When he stepped down as Redskins coach, he earned the highest winning percentage of anyone to coach at least 200 games.
Ticket 231-224 Swat.
E Team:
Wow. Exhaustive - and exhausting - stuff.
Mark, why don't you write a book about the AFL? You could probably find Daryl Lamonica. I'll bet he's ranching or growing nuts or something down in Fresno. You can do it.
The Mad Bomber sent me an autographed glossy when I was a kid. It arrived in my mailbox out on Mountain Road in Stafford. I didn't remember sending for it. Maybe my dad did. It was awesome.
I thought Doug Williams, the black QB who put to rest the notion that his kind can not win it all, was revolutionary. He may not have succeeded without Joe Gibbs, the offensive coordinator for the most potent air attack in memory.
I also thought that John Madden's roommate and his chauffeur making it to the top would appeal to Raider fans. The Sid Gillman-Al Davis combo inadvertlenty lent itself to the AFL role in development of Cam Newton, the "last of his kind," if all goes well for those who could care less.
Now I feel like West Side Story conductor Leonard Bernstein hosting (on this blog) a celebration for a Black Panther.
Eric that was Tom's story of Gibbs and the AFL one connection that writer missed was that Don Breaux was the backup QB at San Diego coached by Gilman in the early 60's.Another connection missed was that 49ers coach Walsh who so popularized the west coast offense was an assistant under Al Davis at Oakland.All modern passing offense originates in the 40's with George Halas and the Bears QB Sid Luckman.Gilman's late 50's USC offense was brought into the AFL in 1960 with the Chargers.Davis,brought as Gilman's x and o man from USC continues tweaking it then installs it even more audaciously after leaving Gilman for the Raiders in 1963.I met Lamonica in 1996 at a Raiders/Chiefs game when he came into the box I was sitting in with the DeSilva family.Ed Desilva was the head of the Coliseum board that brought the Raiders back from LA.The Davis' box was one over from us at the 50 I spoke with Mark briefly that day and waved to Al who grunted scowled and then half way waved back
Final Ticket topples Swat 231-220 T(DJordan-26...Love-38...HD-50...Wade-41...Wall-43...Holiday-33)Sw(Westbrook-52...Klay-37...Dray-35...Monroe-31...MGas-40...ITom-25)
Partials Invaders will defeat the ETeam it's 216-128 Butler won't get 89...P4 will beat JRB it's 193-113 Milsap plays today pushing the P4 total higher...Wingos likely winners over Nitecaps Dave leads 149-145 Pau need just 5 today for Hawthorne
Tom those 1969 Vikings were not as bad as you think Kapp was a shitty QB but was one the toughest competitors ever.Of course I'm prejudiced because Kapp is a revered icon at Cal leading us to the Rose Bowl and was a reserve on the NCAA championship Cal basketball team.I've met Joe several times he married a woman for his 2nd wife who was a year ahead of me at Piedmont High.
Always fun to hear your ties to the great society Mark.
Always fun to hear your ties to the great society Mark.
Final Invaders defeat the ETeam 216-153 I(Howard-20...Cousins-37...Anderson-38...Lillard-36...Derozan-38...Towns-47)E(Lamarcus-17...Butler-25...Kyrie-35...Dirk-26...MCW-25...Sullinger-25)Final P4 pummels JRB 218-113 P4(Paul-38...Harden-50...Melo-41...Milsap-25...BLopez-47...Batum-17)JRB(Vucevic-27...Okafor-14...Hayward-19...Tyreke-DNP...Curry-37...Russell-16)
Final Wingos get an important win defeating the Nitecaps 179-149 HW(Rondo-31...Lowry-29...Middleton-18...LBJ-38...Pau-34...Gortat-29)Caps(RJax-23...Kemba-25...George-29...Bosh-33...Drummond-32...Wiggins-7)Tom is MHS winner with his 231
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