RIP Sonny Jurgensen

[Cosmo]

Hall of Fame quarterback Sonny Jurgensen passes away at 91

Oh man, this one will take me a minute to process. Met Sonny once in the visiting locker room at Sun Devil Stadium back in the days when the Cardinals were in the NFC East and played in Tempe every season. Couldn't have been more gracious. A Washington legend. Profoundly sad.

 

[BTExpress]

Let's get that name spelled right in the header.

 

[Cosmo]

Ah, finger slip

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Interviewed Sonny when I covered Super Bowl XVIII in Tampa. Great guy. He said: “Ask me anything you want but don’t ask me about him.” He pointed behind him to Joe Theismann, who got off the team bus handing out copies of Joe Theismann’s Redskins Report to the fans

 

[Michael_ Gee]

The best pure passer of his time and one of the best of any time. This Eagles fan is old enough to remember the universal civic chagrin when Jurgensen was traded to Washington for Norm Snead. He was a very good radio guy of the complete homer school. Also, at one point after his playing career, Sonny was simultaneously in Virginia's drunk driving school and drunk boating school.

 

[maumann2]

Billy Kilmer will die tomorrow just to give Redskins fans in heaven something to argue about.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

Kilmer and Jurgensen on the same team looked like a couple of beer league guys running the show. Must have been fun, though. That's a book I would love to read.

 

[Justin_Rice]

The best pure passer of his time and one of the best of any time. This Eagles fan is old enough to remember the universal civic chagrin when Jurgensen was traded to Washington for Norm Snead. He was a very good radio guy of the complete homer school. Also, at one point after his playing career, Sonny was simultaneously in Virginia's drunk driving school and drunk boating school.

They left Sonny and Sam on the radio broadcast maybe a year or two too long. The last few seasons (moreso Sam) were cringy bad.

 

[brn623cl]

I guess there is no use going to the Washington Post to read about his Redskins legacy.

 

[Cosmo]

They had something, clearly it was in the can because it was a Len Shapiro byline and very long.

 

[Jesus_Muscatel]

Kilmer and Jurgensen on the same team looked like a couple of beer league guys running the show. Must have been fun, though. That's a book I would love to read.

It was.

 

[Jesus_Muscatel]

They left Sonny and Sam on the radio broadcast maybe a year or two too long. The last few seasons (moreso Sam) were cringy bad.

Yes, Sam's bout with dementia took its obvious toll later in life.

Sonny, I'd argue, stayed reasonably sharp, mentally.

And he was a prince of a guy. From all I've seen and heard.

 

[Della9250]

Still Washington's single-season TD pass leader

 

[Michael_ Gee]

They had something, clearly it was in the can because it was a Len Shapiro byline and very long.

Yeah,, but it had Jurgensen's great line about getting traded. "When I left Philadelphia, all the bartenders wore black armbands.:"

 

[TigerVols]

My year’s first entry in the “damn, they were still alive?!?” list.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

The best pure passer of his time and one of the best of any time. This Eagles fan is old enough to remember the universal civic chagrin when Jurgensen was traded to Washington for Norm Snead. He was a very good radio guy of the complete homer school. Also, at one point after his playing career, Sonny was simultaneously in Virginia's drunk driving school and drunk boating school.

My dad was from eastern pa, but didn’t root for the eagles. I asked him why once and his blunt reply was “because they traded Jurgensen for Snead.” I had no idea what it meant, but in my mind, I knew it was terrible.

 

[hondo]

Gave Washington fans a reason to root for very bad teams in the late 1960s. Lost a lot of games 31-28. Bastards would never get him a good running back or a defense until George Allen got there and got total control but Sonny wasn't his kind of guy for on and off-field reasons.
One of the biggest crying shames was Lombardi and Jurgensen paired up for only one season. Lombardi let him throw the ball.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Lombardi loved Jurgensen. Said that if he'd had Sonny with the Packers they'd never have lost a game.