Several Raider's fans aplenty on this message board. I can't think of many Oakland or Stabler Games I ever missed, from the year I moved to California, in 1969, just an hour south of Oakland Alameda and Candlestick.....next 45 yrs in the Mojave Desert, an hour North of L.A. (Stabler's Rookie Year-1970) Stabler was a must to watch, in his years (1970-1984). Stabler could make comebacks with the best of them, ie Montana, Elway, Marino, both Mannings, Staubach, Young, Unitas. From Oakland, to Houston, to New Orleans, Stabler was properly nicknamed. He had that snake bit way of turning games & opposing teams into prey, and around at the last minute, when all seemed lost..... I hate Brady too, tho' i hate to use the word hate, so "despise" it is..... Tho' as its no secret in my book, I've never seen a better QB Lifetime than Joe Cool Montana........and in my own book, no one, I mean no one, even comes close to my loyalty to Montana, as the Greatest ever to play the game, and grace the gridiron.
Bingo! Not to mention if a defensive player farts too loudly near a QB today, it's a penalty. Those QBs of the 60s, 70s were having alot of "hats" (helmuts) applied to their bodies- from their heads to their ankles!...and quite a few times coming late after he released the ball without penalties....and that HURTS and often lingers throughout the game. Combine all of these things and it's almost unfair to the QBs from the 60s and 70s to compare them with today's QBs. Actually....I think it IS a bit unfair.
Anyone see this article.... http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-deserves-another-look-from-the-hall-of-fame/
Nice going Tote, good find. Many of "us" kinda knew this about The Snake but didn't quite have all the inside numbers and/or didn't think "we" needed them to make the case for Stabler....some of us just "knew it" watching him during his career while knowing he DID have very good "numbers" and accomplishments. Did I say "inside numbers" ? Oops....there I go again with cherry picking. Quite alright....good going Tote. Thanks.
Unbelievable, According to the experts his career numbers didn't have him worthy of the hall while he was alive but 48 hours after his death he's made out to be Steve Young, Joe Montana & Dan Marino all rolled into one.
Was he voted in while? NO! My only point being that if they're saying he's worthy of the HOF now why couldn't they of honored the man while he was still alive. I just think its a shame that they waited until his passing to re-think things. JMO.
...I don't know, but that's the way things seems to go when someone dies...too little too late. This is one of the reasons I have insisted that when my time comes, I don't want any kind of funeral service, no flowers, no words spoken about me in death that were not spoken while I was alive.
Amen, were on the same page........ I too don't want any funeral, no memorial service, no embalming or turning me into a hollow mummy, for dis-fkn-play. No words, cremate me, throw my ashes in the woods of the San Gabriel or High Sierra........ no words, only music, and in no formal way........
Good Point Rick, Stabler IMO, tho' a short career, too many games where he had to take backseats to Lamonica and Blanda. I'd not balk to put 'The Snake' in the HOF, IMO, he always belonged there. Despite the short career as the starting QB, he just made too big an impact on Football during his tenure/era, to not be in Canton........my 3 cents........!
...lol, please, anything but that ! ...like my Mom used to say, "When I die, just stick a ham bone up my ass and let the dogs tote me away".
CLASSIC..........!!! Your Mom sounds like she was wise far beyond her years. I bet Her Mom was too......
ain't nothing like hunting razorbacks, with only a pocket knife in hand; to slow 'em down, (of course), while the Hunter bites the arteries of the Razorback neck in two.....!!
