RIP Dr. Z

I am glad he has been relieved of his burden, but a hell of a lot of knowledge is gone in a wisp. That's not good for football or the enterprise.
We are in an era where we simply cannot afford the loss of expertise.

 

Loved his columns when I watched and read all the NFL I could get. He watched and wrote about football like nobody else. I loved his year-end wrapup of NFL announce teams.

RIP Dr Z

 

He lived around the corner from me. Straight up good guy.

 

I always loved his story of the Jets going to play in San Diego, and, on a night off, Weeb Ewbank and some assistants go to Tijuana.

They get confronted by a guy asking them if they want to buy filthy movies. Ewbank replies, "Christ no. I've been watching movies all day."

RIP to a sportswriting legend.

 

It's worth noting that two of the giants of the field who've recently passed, Z and Dave Anderson, both covered the Jets of the '60s.

 

Ken Stabler's daughter weighs in:



Anybody else know the rest of the story?

 

It has to do with the episode in which Stabler allegedly had henchmen plant drugs in the car of a reporter who had gone down south to profile him: https://deadspin.com/when-ken-stabler-was-a-country-music-lyric-come-to-life-1717060008/1717487070. IIRC Zimmerman wrote that he became adamantly opposed to Stabler's HOF candidacy after that based on character grounds, among others.

 

Like many here I own it and still just randomly open it and start reading. As a consumer of quality sports writing for a hell of a long time I can say he has a place among the best. “He played the game”.

 

Nice remembrance in the Guardian of Paul Zimmerman, old school Old Blue badass.

Passing of Dr Z adds extra motivation for rugby Eagles in Chicago

 

Using someone's death as an opportunity to bring up old grudges about the Hall of Fame says more about them than it does about Dr. Z.

 

Well, you're probably not going to bring up old grudges about someone whom nobody is talking about, as the reaction would be, "WTF? Where did that come from?"

And at this point, the only reason Dr. Z was ever going to be in the news again was his death. So . . .