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1986 New York Giants: Third Best Team of the 80s Bull Market Era
Posted: 26th June 2010 by Tim McGhee in NFL
It's a great quarterback nickname, coined by the cynical New Yorkers of the late 1970s.
"Parkway Joe" Pisarcik, was described by the tabloids' sportswriters as "the bargain basement quarterback."
No $427,000 bonus here. No photographs of Parkway on...a Parkway. No Super Bowl victory guarantees. No Super Bowls.
Then, the following year it was, “Where the hell is Morehead State University?”
Tough room, here in Jersey.
It's in Morehead, on I-64, about an hour east of ...
1983 LA Raiders: Fourth Best Team in the ’80s Bull Market Era
Posted: 21st June 2010 by Tim McGhee in NFL
I’ll say this: If the 1983 Raiders are the fourth best team in the 1982-1987 Bull Market Era, the other three must have been coached by Saint Peter with Moses as the offensive line.
But Raiders fans instead have Al Davis: owner; president; play caller; iconoclast; baby, just win, baby, because Al has an unparalleled commitment to excellence and, in the early '80s, was the scourge of Alameda County.
No matter how insufferably weird ...
In my first two or three years of college (beer and poker...I think I lost a semester), I studied psychology, hoping someday to become a counselor.
Yeah, right.
After seriously evaluating my life, I determined I should be on the weird side of that desk.
Seeing a counselor was the route to go after I decided drop out of psych (easy) and become an engineer (masochistic). Engineering jobs were not difficult ...
At the young age of 10 I was already a football freak. Even though I knew little about the game and didn't play for fear of being hit really hard, I watched a lot of football on television, astounded by the running and the leaping and the hitting.
When the games were over, I got the newspaper early the next morning and digested the sports page front to back. ...
Steelers fans around the globe knew Sunday January 21, 1979, was going to be a special day. Their Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys, the Steel Curtain and America’s Team, were meeting that afternoon in Super Bowl XIII at the Orange Bowl. That championship game held much promise for both teams laden with talent – 14 Hall of Fame members would eventually be inducted between them – as ...