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What It Was Like To Play In The Most Violent NFL Game Ever

Posted on 12/27/13 at 3:28 pm
Posted by jmay2007
The Land of the Pines
Member since May 2010
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Posted on 12/27/13 at 3:28 pm
From Deadspin.

Raiders @ Bears 1984

QBs dropping like flies.

quote:

It was ugly enough that the Raiders considered playing their punter at quarterback.

It was ugly enough that the punter refused.


I'm a little too young to remember this game, but it's a pretty fascinating article.
Posted by MikeyFL
Las Vegas, NV
Member since Sep 2010
9622 posts
Posted on 12/27/13 at 3:33 pm to
Damn.

Posted by RonFNSwanson
University of LSU
Member since Mar 2012
23223 posts
Posted on 12/27/13 at 3:36 pm to
damn that's crazy



men were men back then for sure
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
76632 posts
Posted on 12/27/13 at 3:39 pm to
The game was basically played on concrete as well
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
96815 posts
Posted on 12/27/13 at 4:04 pm to
quote:

It was ugly enough that the Raiders considered playing their punter at quarterback.

It was ugly enough that the punter refused.


Their punter was Ray Guy, who was pretty much All World at football. He was capable of playing many positions but got pigeonholed into punter and placekicker because he was THAT damn good at it.
Posted by Antiheroaz
may the odds be ever in your favor.
Member since Dec 2009
19927 posts
Posted on 12/27/13 at 5:15 pm to
quote:

"I'm going to get you in the parking lot after the game and beat you up in front of your family!"- Howie Long




quote:

Lyle Alzado]'s is 'I'll kill you and everything you love"

:scary:
This post was edited on 12/27/13 at 5:16 pm
Posted by ZereauxSum
Lot 23E
Member since Nov 2008
10176 posts
Posted on 12/27/13 at 5:36 pm to
quote:

When McMahon went down and NBC's cameras showed him wincing on the sideline, play-by-play man Dick Enberg said the injury was a "bruised back." The actual diagnosis? A lacerated kidney. McMahon would spend nearly two weeks in the hospital and miss the rest of the season.


quote:

McMahon's agent, Steve Zucker, summed up his client's condition this way: "I went down to the locker room—this was in the middle of the game—and I found Jim there, standing at the toilet, in his pads, pissing blood."


This would have almost definitely made my arse quit.
Posted by undecided
Member since May 2012
15492 posts
Posted on 12/27/13 at 5:40 pm to
That article was painful to read so I can only imagine what it was like to play in the game
Posted by FightinTigersDammit
Louisiana North
Member since Mar 2006
34980 posts
Posted on 12/27/13 at 7:34 pm to
I remember reading about this in a book by one of the Raiders' team doctors, Rob Huizenga(sp), called "You're OK, It's Only a Bruise"
Posted by 20MuleTeam
West Hartford
Member since Sep 2012
3862 posts
Posted on 12/27/13 at 7:42 pm to
I was a freshman in college and still remember that game
Posted by QJenk
Atl, Ga
Member since Jan 2013
15482 posts
Posted on 12/27/13 at 9:14 pm to
Now thats what i call football.
Posted by QJenk
Atl, Ga
Member since Jan 2013
15482 posts
Posted on 12/27/13 at 9:15 pm to
Now thats what i call football.
Posted by BearCrocs
Member since Aug 2013
6505 posts
Posted on 12/28/13 at 11:21 am to
Tl dr
Posted by 91TIGER
Lafayette
Member since Aug 2006
17791 posts
Posted on 12/28/13 at 1:47 pm to
The Raiders put pain on many teams the 20 years preceding 1984. These boys also brought the pain in the 60's, GOAT front 4.


Posted by Jazzbass13
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2013
1338 posts
Posted on 12/28/13 at 2:02 pm to
football was a mans game then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_kflEwPJgw
Posted by cattus
Member since Jan 2009
13494 posts
Posted on 12/28/13 at 2:17 pm to
NFL today sucks in comparison to it in the 80s.
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