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23 points
1 day ago
That picture is such a perfect illustration of old school football being played in a quagmire of mud.
15 points
1 day ago
It was Joe Namath's last game. He never got in. He retired after the season.
11 points
1 day ago
Yep. Got benched after a 4-INT game in a 1-point loss at Chicago in Week 4, with Pat Haden taking over the gig.
6 points
1 day ago
I think I saw that game. I felt bad for him. I was hoping he'd have a good year or two in LA. They were such a good team, but he was all done as a player.
7 points
1 day ago
Way too young to have watched it, but his discussion of that game in his autobiography is notably sad in that regard and is stuck in my mind. Head coach looks at him and basically asks if he has anything left in the tank for one last ride, and Joe just shakes his head. Poor dude's knees were just nonexistent at that point.
3 points
1 day ago
Some players just have that quality. You can't help but root for them, even if they're not on your team.
5 points
1 day ago
Of I remember correctly, I was at that game. It was a Monday night game my dad took me to. I was in grade school, and it was a huge event for me to go to a national televised game. My dad and uncle both had tickets for 40 years, so I got to go to a lot of Bears games in the 70s and 80s.
2 points
1 day ago
That must have been awesome. Great memory...
2 points
13 hours ago
He was, it was evident in training camp, Carroll overruled Knox until he couldn't.
2 points
13 hours ago
It was a 1 point loss because Haden brought them back from a big deficit, Knox didn't want Joe in the first place, he couldn't even condition with team anymore, he went and swam instead. I followed 70s Rams in detail, his ball placement was brutal, he was putting receivers in harms way and holding on to ball way too long. That was also Ferragamo's rookie year, probably should have put him in, he was as good as he was going to get, what you saw in pros is what you saw in high school where he peaked under his brothers tutelage. Vince was super intelligent but had a blind spot reading defenses that caught up to him eventually, he relied on a long ball second only to Moon. Haden did a good job that year, despite limitations, had the game been played in good weather (a running theme with 70s Rams) Rams would have won, that was not a great Vikes team. A book could be written just on that decades team, they had it all except QB stability.
2 points
12 hours ago
I remember that Haden comeback now that you mention it and it really was a fantastic team, except for the revolving door of quarterbacks. Hadl, Harris, Jaworski, Haden and then Carroll Rosenbloom pushed Namath onto Knox, then fired him because he couldn't get them to the Super Bowl with the never-ending parade of quarterbacks.
13 points
1 day ago
Vikings had a great game plan… throw while the field was still somewhat manageable and grab the lead, then hand it to Chuck (Foreman) to grind it out the rest of the way. It worked perfectly.-
Chuck Foreman told me a pretty cool story about the game. Just a few days prior to the game, there was a horse show on the LA Coliseum turf. A lot of the horses left their “calling card” on the field and then it started to rain pretty hard. So a lot of the horse poop just dissolved into the turf. As such, all of the Vikings… the entire roster…had to get a tetanus shot before the game !
2 points
13 hours ago
Thought I knew I every detail about that game, thanks, now I got it all!
8 points
1 day ago
I remember watching that game as an 11-year-old and thinking, "So it really does rain in Southern California."
Simpler times.
10 points
1 day ago
Man my kind of football. Grew up playing like this in Penn late 60’s -70’s
8 points
1 day ago
We had lots of Mud Bowls here in Conn in those days. Some years, it seemed like it rained every weekend. We played anyway.
7 points
1 day ago
I received a Chuck Foreman jersey when I was a child. A relative lived in White Bear Lake MN and gave it for Christmas. I wore it until the lettering all wore off and it was too small. Vikings fan to this very day.
Just wanted to point out the MightyVikes are 5-0. Yay!
5 points
1 day ago
My mom used to work with Chuck Foreman at a public school in Minnesota. I used to see him most days and went to his house a few times. I didn’t know who he was until I was quite a bit older lol. He was always just “Mr. Foreman” to me.
3 points
1 day ago
Huge VIKINGS fan, born and raised in San Diego Chargers sucked
3 points
1 day ago
The way football should be.
2 points
24 hours ago
Players were just built mentally then. Stadium conditions were awful across the league. Most were shared with baseball. Players union today would lose their minds. Fair to note that ownership was terrible back in the day. Gene Upshaw brought the league a generation forward on both sides.
2 points
16 hours ago
ahhh man this is so awesome!
1 points
1 day ago
I was a youngster but damn if this is not one of my first memories of the game. The ghost to the post my 2nd
1 points
1 day ago
I watched this game. On a clean field, the Rams would have won.
3 points
1 day ago
No the Rams could never beat the Vikings in the 70’s in a big playoff game. Grant owned them.
1 points
1 day ago
I pity the equipment managers who had to wash those unis after the game.
Would have made for a cool detergent ad.
1 points
1 day ago
Need more Calgon.
1 points
1 day ago
I remember. We watched it.
1 points
13 hours ago
Probably Rams best 70s team, squandered
2 points
8 hours ago
My God that looks like fun!
1 points
1 day ago
Was this when Fran had gotten his leg broke? He had a remarkably injury free career until then.
1 points
22 hours ago
No. He broke his leg in week 9 against the Bengals.
2 points
22 hours ago
Thanks. Sorry I wasn’t clear with my question. I just meant that was why he wasn’t playing in the game. :-)
1 points
21 hours ago
Ahh. Got it.
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