DOG ASIDE: Super Bowl III was the third AFL-NFL Championship Game in professional American football….the first to officially bear the name Super Bowl. The game, played on January 12, 1969, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida….is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in American sports history. The heavy underdog American Football League (AFL) champion New…
DOG ASIDE: Although the special teams players on an NFL team don’t get much notoriety or press coverage…..each team’s coaching staff knows how important the kicking and the return games are….I mean, just think about how many games you have seen where a kickoff or kickoff return…..or a punt and/or punt return…..have made a huge…
DOG ASIDE: The Giants and the Eagles have a long standing rivalry…..and even if the team’s are not competing for a championship season….they always bring their A-game when they play each other….and when they met in 1984….it was no different….for it was a hard fought contest that went down to the last play of the…
DOG ASIDE: The 1984 NFL season was the 65th regular season of the National Football League. The Colts relocated from Baltimore, Maryland to Indianapolis, Indiana before the season. The Colts new home field was the Hoosier Dome. The New York Jets moved their home games from Shea Stadium in New York City to Giants Stadium…
DOG COMMENTARY: Like the history of war….the history of the NFL….has shown the world that you cannot win with just strategy alone…..you must have strength…..that is why pro football players are eager for combat…..as they all love the taste for contact…..which means the hardest hitters who delivered the hardest hits just simply had a big…
DOG COMMENTARY: When Bone Daddy talks about the NFL from the 1960’s to the 1990’s…..he seems to always get around to the subject of the hardest hits and the hardest hitters he had seen….as two guys names that come up every time…Dick Butkus, linebacker for the Chicago Bears in the 60’s and 70’s…..and Lawrence Taylor…
DOG COMMENTARY: If it weren’t for the Coach Tom Landry and the Dallas Cowboys during the reign of dominance by Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers from 1964 thru 1967…..Bone Daddy might have been a “cheesehead”….cuz Lombardi’s Packers represented everything that BD loved about football…..hard nosed defense and ram it down your throat offense….as The Pack…
DOG ASIDE: The 1967 Green Bay Packers season was their 48th season in the National Football League….which resulted in a 9–4–1 season record….and a victory in Super Bowl II. The team beat the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL Championship Game….a game commonly known as the “Ice Bowl”….which marked the second time the Packers had won an…
DOG ASIDE: Francis Asbury “Fran” Tarkenton (born February 3, 1940) is a former NFL quarterback, television personality, and computer software executive. He is best known for playing with the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants….as well as serving as a commentator on Monday Night Football….and a co-host of That’s Incredible!. At the time of his…