DOG ASIDE: This video provides an in-depth look at a 1979 regular season game of the week between the Dallas Cowboys and the Atlanta Falcons. The 1979 Dallas Cowboys season was their 20th in the league. The team was unable to improve on their previous output of 12–4….winning only eleven games….and qualifying for the playoffs….but losing…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: The reason that pro football is so popular is pure and simple….the hits….and most fans just flat out love the hit men of the NFL….cuz we all just have an almost orgasmic moment when we hear the sound of the hardest hitters putting a good one on the opposing player…..and after you watch…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: Robert Lee “Sam” Huff (born October 4, 1934) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1982. Huff was drafted in the third round of the 1956 NFL Draft…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: Nothing in the world of sports has experience any more popularity….both by sports fans and the sports media…..than the Super Bowl. Nothing gets analyzed or psychoanalyzed more than the Super Bowl and its participants. There is nothing in the world of television advertising that drives more revenue for less air time….than the Super…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: Elisha Archibald “Archie” Manning III (born May 19, 1949) is a former American football quarterback. He played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints from 1971 to 1982….and for short stints with the Houston Oilers and Minnesota Vikings. In college, he played for the Ole Miss Rebels football…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: Samuel Adrian “Slingin’ Sammy” Baugh (March 17, 1914 – December 17, 2008) was an American football player and coach. He played college football for the Horned Frogs at Texas Christian University….where he was a two-time All-American. He then played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins from 1937 to 1952. He was…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: Coach John Madden was hired by Al Davis as linebackers coach for the AFL’s Oakland Raiders in 1967…..putting him in the Sid Gillman coaching tree….as he helped the team reach Super Bowl II that season. A year later, after Raiders head coach John Rauch resigned to take the same position with the Buffalo Bills….Madden…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: The 1975 Oakland Raiders season was the team’s 16th season….and 6th in the National Football League. The 1975 season would be George Blanda’s final season in the NFL…as Blanda retired with two significant records….the most seasons in American professional football (26)….and the most games played (340). Opposing quarterbacks had a passer-rating of 37.2 against…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: Yelberton Abraham Tittle (born October 24, 1926), better known as Y. A. Tittle….is a former football quarterback in the National Football League….who played for the Baltimore Colts, San Francisco 49’ers, and the New York Giants….who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971. Born and raised in Marshall, Texas….Tittle played…
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