New Off-topic thread: America's real passion: NFL football

[mick]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Mick, when were the Lions ever here in the first place?

1957 Tobin Rote, Bobby Lane, Hopalong Cassidy.
Yes, there was TV and yes, I watched it.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by mick

1957 Tobin Rote, Bobby Lane, Hopalong Cassidy.
Yes, there was TV and yes, I watched it.

Funny thing, I was going to include in my post "1957 was a long time ago", but so was 1960 and I wasn't alive to watch Bednarik's last game.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Funny thing, I was going to include in my post "1957 was a long time ago", but so was 1960 and I wasn't alive to watch Bednarik's last game.

I was.

He wasn't the only player going both ways back then, but he got the most publicity because he did it in the playoffs. Back then, the playoffs consisted of one game iirc- the championship game.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

I was.

He wasn't the only player going both ways back then, but he got the most publicity because he did it in the playoffs...

Bednarik is gay?!? And right there in front of everybody on Franklin Field? Norm Van Brocklin must have had a fit.