dulargetiger

I thought he was made up like Svengoolie!!

The Big Cat Ernie Ladd was about 6'9 and 320 pounds and Buck Buchanan was 6'7 and 286. Rookie Bubba Smith was 6'7 and 295. Atkins was next.

The My Picks Page.

I was still alive at 14-0 but my score was never advanced and still shows 13-0 and I never saw where I could pick for week 15 and now I see that the deadline was several days ago. I have been looking every day so I could make my pick. I guess I have been eliminated by a technical glitch.

I went to the 1969 LSU-Tulane game with my dad. I recall just before the game that LSU found out that they were snubbed by the Cotton Bowl thanks to Notre Dame. They voted to make the Tulane game their bowl game and beat the Wave 27-0 or something similar. The 69 run defense was something. They gave up about 34 yards per game. Texas was great with the then fairly new wishbone attack and I had been looking forward to see who would come out on top. LSU had a great chance to beat them if they played.

Looks like Tim McGraw.

I was at the game. I was only ten years old and no longer have specific memories of the game other than the return and excitement of us all. I remember thinking it sure was easy to score. The Rams gradually wore down the Saints on way to an 11-1-2 season record. It has over the years been in my mind that the very first play was the TD return.
Lawrence

Billy Cannon was my orthodontist in my teens. I asked him about the old AFL and some players I remembered in my youth. Once I asked him about Lance Alworth. I remember Alworth running away from just about everyone when he caught a pass and he was a 9.6 sprinter in high school. Well Billy told me that Lance wasn't all that fast but he could jump like a deer and could time his leap just right to be the one to catch the ball instead of the defensive backs. So to Billy Cannon, Alworth wasn't all that fast. I would say that no way Cannon could run a 3.9 forty but he was in the 9.3-9.4 range for 100 yards definitely.

Lawrence

Without getting into a pure statistical argument with you I watched games from the mid 1960's to today. I attended all Saints home games from 1967-69. The game I see today is no where near the same game as the game of the 1960's. Rules have been implemented to boost offensive performance because that is what sells tickets. Offensive linemen of the sixties could not extend their arms to block but had to tuck them in to their chests like chicken wings. I have watched the modern college and pro games allow mugging by the offensive lineman. Quarterbacks from the old era were hit on almost every passing play as the defensive linemen were not expected to stop in mid stride and avoid hitting him. Receivers were bumped off the line of scrimmage all the way down the field and the defensive backs could hit them without fear of penalty to break up the pass. In fact, the main role of safeties was to punish receivers going over the middle. To even try to compare the touch game of today with the rough and tumble game of the 1960's by using comparable stats is not fair to players like Hornung and Sayers. They were among the best of their time. Voters of the hall of fame saw them play. They voted them in long before they saw the players of today. If you did not see how the game was played back then you cannot possibly know why Sayers or Hornung has stats not much better than average players of today. They were stars of their time. They were judged as among the elite of their time up to that point in time. That is all one needs to know.
Lawrence

I had a flashback to watching Cecil the Diesel running.