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RIP Mike Curtis.

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by DanOregon, Apr 21, 2020.

  1. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    The consensus of the '60s was 1. Unitas. 2. Starr. Gap here. 3. Jurgensen. 4. Tarkenton for NFL QBs. The AFL estimations were more fluid, but until Super Bowl III they were evaluated as separate and interesting, but unequal, at least in the Philadelphia area.
    2. As far as middle linebackers went, it was kind of the same thing. Nitschke and Butkus were seen as such dominant players that a merely excellent one like Curtis did not get perhaps his due.
     
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  2. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Enjoy
     
  3. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    John Brodie is one of those guys who blossomed after age 30. Then exploded when the 49ers drafted a successor in Spurrier. How many guys were MVP at age 35? It’s a small group.

    Since Plimpton books have come up, there was an anecdote in Paper Lion about one of the West Coast qbs making someone racist comments while drunk. Plimpton didn’t say who, but at the time, it pretty much narrowed it down to Brodie or Bratkowski.
     
  4. Elliotte Friedman

    Elliotte Friedman Moderator Staff Member

    That Curtis video is hilarious. Leading the tackle with a right-arm punch is great.
     
  5. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    At 17:55 of the 49ers-Cowboys video there is a player yelling "Go Duane, Go Duane, Go Duane!"

    At 19:35 of the Super Bowl V video is another player yelling "Go Duane, Go Duane, Go, Duane!"



    Wonder if it's the same player speaking.
     
  6. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Also, late in the 49er game, Bob Hayes gets laid out on a long pass play, and turns to the ref and makes the universal wr "throw the flag" motion.

    Anyone got an earlier documented sighting?
     
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  7. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    The 49ers benefited from the realignments of the late 60s and early 70s which got them out of the same division as the Packers, and the Rams, who appeared to be getting really good under George Allen, stalled for a few seasons after he took off for Washington. Plus the 49ers themselves had a core group of players who got good about that time, so a brief window opened for them in the early 70s. But then the Cowboys, Vikings and Redskins all got good too, so they couldn't break through.
     
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  8. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Rams-49ers, with Gabriel going against Brodie, was a great rivalry back then.
     
  9. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Very very vaguely I seem to remember some rumors that Tarkenton had been involved in semi-racist incidents at some point early in his career, but I don't think it was "drunken rambling,"
    Etc etc. In any case it didn't really stick.
     
  10. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    You forgot and then the 49ers decided OJ and Plunkett were the saviors in lieu of draft picks.
     
  11. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Well, that was when Brodie and his age group were aging out. Plunkett had been a complete bomb with the Patriots and OJ had 99,999 on his odometer, so it was no big surprise to anybody that didn't work.
    OJ still had a couple gallons in the tank-- he ran for 900 yards or something against the Lions his first year in SF -- but that was his last burst.
     
  12. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Plunkett had a very good rookie year with the Pats. But the team was so bad that he got brutally beaten up game after game and really was lifted from the job for self-protection.
     
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