Posted on 05/15/2006 10:40:54 AM PDT by 300magnum
Yep!
Hillary Supporter - PUKE!
Drop kick extra point - Awesome!
Yeah.. My most most striking image of him is striding out of the fog after the Fog Bowl. Phildelphia was such an exciting team that year, and it looked like Randall and Buddy Ryan would finally take the Bears out. Randall threw for about a billion yards, but McMahon didn't make any mistakes and took the Bears to a win in the most surreal game I've ever seen.
That pass saved me from being in a 60 car pile-up.
I lived in Syracuse & was leaving had to do some Christmas shopping. One section of the interstate was frozen solid. Had I not run back into the house to watch the end of the game I would have been smack in the middle of it.
In fairness to Flutie, Chicago is a rough place to be a QB. The Bears have had only a handful of really great quarterbacks in their long history. And McMahon was utterly wild and uncontrollable - Ditka didn't call him "Mad Mac" for nothing.
"He even took on Roselle with his headband endorsements."
Don't forget "PLUTO"!
Tomczak was so incredibly inconsistent. When he was on, he was truly superb. I recall the first game of the '87 season against the Giants, he was brilliant. But unfortunately that was the exception. I always liked him. He was a walk-on after his OSU career, not exactly a QB factory.
Very true,especially passing wise, but he did have very good running ability.
How can anyone not like a walk-on?:)
I jumped off his band wagon when he campaigned for Hillary when he was with the Buffalo Bills.
Come on, guys like massgopguy are really unusual. Massholes are raised to be Democrats. Fighting that tide and recognizing how similar that is to being raised to "milk bulls" ala the movie Kingpin is a reason to admire someone from there, but how can you blame someone who doesn't see through the crap who's from there?
Good points. Does anyone remember how long or good a career in the CFL his brother had? I seem to rememver Darren being pretty good as a WR.
I remember all the publicity he brought to that with Futie Flakes. DEFINITELY a classy guy.
Izzo's son's middle name is "Mateen." I remember the annoucement when I was in grad school at MSU. His daughter went to Spartan Village elementary school -- the local school for the on-campus-with-kids students. Izzo's a decent guy, although I wouldn't call the MSU basketball program squeaky clean by any measure.
DY -- I'm a native of NC and UNC graduate with a PhD from Michigan State who loved "Escanaba in 'da Moonlight" and still remembers how to play Euchre. Feel free to drop me a line with NCAA Hoops questions...
I always thought (although I'm way too young to have watched it) one of the great feats of college basketball history was when North Carolina beat MSU with the great Jumping Johnny Green and then Kansas with the awesome Wilt Chamberlin, both in triple overtime. http://www.fansonly.com/schools//unc/genrel/032299aaa.html
What do you think John L. Smith should have to do to stay on? Do you want Steve Mariucci to become coach at MSU?
That's amazing!
Too bad. Flutie was a class act.
I for one am sure going to miss him. Lots of exciting moments when he is in uniform.
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