bluzman61
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I looked up the AL leaders for 1972, Dick Allen finished tied for third with his .308 average! Rod Carew won the title, only 10 points higher than Allen, at .318. Allen came VERY close to winning the triple crown that year. I believe Billy Williams of the Cubs came close to winning the triple crown in the National League that same year, 1972. I'll look it up.I remember the White Sox games possibly being on channel 44. Harry Caray was the SOX announcer then, and he was a blast! One game, he did the game from the center field seats, and I think he had several kegs of beer out there with him. He AND the fans out there got loaded during the game! My favorite season to watch was 1972, the year Dick Allen won the American League MVP for the Sox. I watched as many games as I could and Allen was wonderful to behold that year. One of my clearest memories of that season was a game the Sox played against the Royals in Kansas City. The stadium had a LOT of room in the outfield, and you really had to nail a pitch to knock it out of the park. Dick Allen hit a screamer into the gap of the outfield and the ball kept rolling and rolling. Allen, who despite his muscular physique, still had some speed then. He ended up with an inside the park home run! He did it ALL that year, I believe he finished with 37 home runs and 113 RBI, which both led the league, and a .308 batting average, which I believe was in the top 5 for the season. What an amazing season to witness!I remember days kind of similar to that. In the early to mid 1970's in rural Indiana (we were about 7-8 miles from any good sized town) I believe we only had 6 or 7 channels, maybe 8. I can remember we could get the ABC, NBC, and CBS channels, also WGN and the PBS station. And a couple higher numbered channels, 32 and 44, I believe. This was, of course, quite a bit before cable TV. So, a grand total of 7 channels. But it was more than enough for us. In some ways, I really DO miss those days.It's a tough time to be a fan of sports. Used to be players were around for a long time and you thought of them as family almost. Now it's more of a every man for himself thing which makes it hard to root for players.Very confused lolSo who's your team?Prove me wrong, then. I was betting on Brady in 2007, Eli came out with hokey college-ball tactics which threw the Pats off and Eli won that year.Aye man, Eli Manning and Tom Brady are 2 of the best QBs that have ever, ever been, boy.I'll be interested to see how many drop back passes he does per game.Still gonna get his shit pushed in next season. That line is dog shit.
A lot. But what you have to measure is how fast he gets rid of the ball...and what decisions he makes in getting rid of it.
Did I mention ever? Because ever.
With all due respect, Marion...did you just call Eli one of the best QB's to have ever been? Don't get me wrong...I respect what Eli did in the two Super Bowls he won but he's not even in the top 20 NFL QB's of all time!
I say genius! I lost money, but Eli nailed that shtuff!
That's the year I learned respect for Eli Manning: 2007.
He even did it again later! 'Sup?
I could never get into the Giants after that weirdo had gay sex and killed himself in prison.
Fricking crazy
He played for the Patriots.
Grew up as a Giants fan. Lived in Boston for many years and adopted the local teams so I became more of a Patriots fan. Live in Florida now however so maybe I'll start rooting for the Bucs? Then again one of my college friends is a coach for the Chiefs so I pull for them as well. Confused yet? LOL
The Giants thing happened because back in the day the only football we got on TV out in Western Mass. every Sunday were the Giants games on Channel 3 out of Hartford Conn. Only 3 TV stations back then, Kiddies...try and wrap your heads around THAT!
Channel 32 was WFLD and 44 was telumundo or some Chicago Spanish station