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Post by scottbono on Feb 10, 2014 13:53:26 GMT -6
QC: Well while we are at, when I gave you a bit of a hard time about Kilmer, I should have added my admiration for Pat Fisher(not QB, but DB)probably the biggest over achiever and lb for lb the toughest SOB I ever saw at the position. Ian: among other things I would like to see the NFL do is have a skills competition at the All-Star Game. And a Rugby match when in England as a prelim for one of their football games. They could field a team from the practice squads, I think it would be great fun. I plated both Rugby and American football as a kid. Tom, wasn't Pat Fisher a safety for the old St. Louis Cardinals? He was one of the first to do the 'safety blitz'. And I agree, tough-as-nails. Played almost an entire season with a broken thumb and a cast up to his elbow. And he wasn't a 'large' guy either. If memory serves me correctly (I haven't started my Aricept yet) the first such blitz was on ol' Y.A. Tittle and Fisher said Tittle's eyes were as big as saucers when he saw Fisher coming at him.
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Post by Yan Taylor on Feb 10, 2014 14:18:13 GMT -6
Hi Scott, Heaton Mersey, I live on the banks of the river Mersey, it's a small world.
Ian.
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Post by tubman13 on Feb 10, 2014 15:57:31 GMT -6
Tittle was not the only who had eyes bigger than saucers, before or after Fisher's hits. He was Nitschke, Butkus, Curtis, L.T. all wrapped in a neat small package, 5'9' 170 and 5'9" is generous. He was a little Dick Lane or Fred Williamson, he also had great cover skills,56 ints. and neatly 1,000 int. yds. I don't recall tds.
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Post by scottbono on Feb 10, 2014 22:47:15 GMT -6
Hi Scott, Heaton Mersey, I live on the banks of the river Mersey, it's a small world. Ian. Indeed, Ian. My son used to travel to England every couple years to play lacrosse; I tagged along a few times. The word 'quaint' resounds in my thoughts when I think of the area.
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Post by Yan Taylor on Apr 21, 2014 4:49:44 GMT -6
I would have thought that one of the American Football Teams would be in this list; linkStill cannot believe that a little club from little old Manchester based in England could reach such lofty heights. Ian.
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Post by tubman13 on Nov 9, 2014 7:53:48 GMT -6
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