Bill Bidwell now flies with the angels

Totally agree. The Cards and Bengals never had any sustained success. The Redskins won three Super Bowls and Snyder wrecked them. Snyder is the worst NFL owner ever and it's not close.

 

I am trying to recall a worse home atmosphere than I've seen at Fed Ex these past couple seasons. A weirdly surgically changed stadium; visitors fully taken over. Apparently it is hell to ingress and egress.

Dignity Health Sports Park (current Chargers home) looks positively Lambeau-ian in comparison.

 

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I wonder how sports editors handled headlines for two teams with the same name in the same city. I know the Giants became known as the New York Football Giants, but would they have to cram in a reference to the sport into every headline or just say, fuck it, and rely on the article to clear up any confusion?

 

I think except for August and September, it was rarely any problem.

 

And that’s with the capacity down to what, 75k? It was in the 90s when it opened. I went there for a college game eight or nine years ago. There was probably 60k and it was still a mess getting in/out. There is a Metro station about a mile away, but apparently walking isn’t a real option and the stadium was built so they could get the fans with the parking fees too. Put a new stadium at the RFK site and be done with it already.

 

I don't know about that, what with the Hot Stove and the nearly year round obsession with all things NFL. I might have to waste an afternoon in the wayback machine and check out the Post-Dispatch sports section from the 1980s, see how they handled headlines.

 

I recall the Post-Dispatch using Big Red for the football team.

 

I'm reminded of the time I heard a radio reporter say "And here's what Roger Craig has to say about the Giants" and thinking "baseball news," only to find out it was the 49ers' running back talking about next week's opponent.

 

This ... and both the P-D and Globe-Democrat would also use football Cardinals.

 

Sometime, I will have to pass along my Roger Craig (the player, coach and manager) story. It involves a Mississippi River steam-boat cruise and me driving him to a grocery store to purchase vodka.