RIP Turk Schonert

[TheSportsPredictor]

Former Bengals QB dies of a heart attack:

Former Bengals quarterback Turk Schonert dead at 62

 

[CD Boogie]

helluva football name. RIP

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Better article:

Bengals Mourn Turk

 

[playthrough]

Played in the Little League World Series. How many NFL quarterbacks (or NFL players) could say that?

 

[Alma]

Side note: I was a fan of those 80s Bengals teams. Played a little bit of a ****hole at Riverfront, electric skill players (James Brooks, Eddie Brown), lefty QB, big-mouthed HC. AFC Central back then was terrific; in 1988 and 1989, the Central supplied 3 of the AFC's 5 playoff teams.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Side note: I was a fan of those 80s Bengals teams. Played a little bit of a ****hole at Riverfront, electric skill players (James Brooks, Eddie Brown), lefty QB, big-mouthed HC. AFC Central back then was terrific; in 1988 and 1989, the Central supplied 3 of the AFC's 5 playoff teams.

“You don’t live in Cleveland, you live in Cincinnati!” is one of the great moments in football history.

RIP Turk. He was part of the transition from Ken Anderson to Boomer Esiason, which also included Jack “The Throwin’ Samoan” Thompson.

 

[Alma]

“You don’t live in Cleveland, you live in Cincinnati!” is one of the great moments in football history.

RIP Turk. He was part of the transition from Ken Anderson to Boomer Esiason, which also included Jack “The Throwin’ Samoan” Thompson.

Forgot about Thompson.

Boomer could play. Mobile enough. Accurate for those days. (Completion %s are a joke now.)

But he had better talent around him than those guys ever got credit for being.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Gonna second that he had one of the cooler names in sports history. In an alternate timeline, the name Turk Schonert would have been a character in 1980s action films or a 1970s television show.

 

[poindexter]

(Completion %s are a joke now.)

James White had 15 receptions for 97 yards on Sunday. Which is great.
It just makes statistical comparisons across eras utterly nonsensical.

This was mentioned before: Midway thru this year, the average NFL qb rating was Joe Montana's career rating.

 

[playthrough]

Forgot about Thompson.

Boomer could play. Mobile enough. Accurate for those days. (Completion %s are a joke now.)

But he had better talent around him than those guys ever got credit for being.

I was a huge fan of those Bengals. (And still a fan, unfortunately.) I will always believe they'd have won SB XXIII if Stanley Wilson hadn't shoved his career up his nose the night before and Krumrie hadn't broken his leg during the game. I was in the end zone in that game, a 14-year-old kid, and still see Montana-to-Taylor in my mind.

 

[outofplace]

I was a huge fan of those Bengals. (And still a fan, unfortunately.) I will always believe they'd have won SB XXIII if Stanley Wilson hadn't shoved his career up his nose the night before and Krumrie hadn't broken his leg during the game. I was in the end zone in that game, a 14-year-old kid, and still see Montana-to-Taylor in my mind.

That was a brutal injury in every way. I'm not sure how much impact Wilson had, but losing Krumrie was devastating.

 

[Junkie]

I was a huge fan of those Bengals. (And still a fan, unfortunately.) I will always believe they'd have won SB XXIII if Stanley Wilson hadn't shoved his career up his nose the night before and Krumrie hadn't broken his leg during the game. I was in the end zone in that game, a 14-year-old kid, and still see Montana-to-Taylor in my mind.

Thanks to of a family full of Cincinnatians, I was a Bengals fan as a kid. Their best chance was Super Bowl XVI. The Bengals statistically dominated but had two turnovers inside the Niners' 5 and one inside their own 5, which accounted for 17 points of San Fran's 20-0 halftime lead. They later had a first-and-goal at the 3 in the third quarter, had two plays from the 1, and came up empty. Me and my Pete Johnson jersey never recovered.

The Turk should have had a ring.

 

[playthrough]

That was a brutal injury in every way. I'm not sure how much impact Wilson had, but losing Krumrie was devastating.

The field in Miami was atrocious, which neutralized James Brooks' effectiveness. Another plodding fullback like Wilson would have sure helped. (Ickey Woods had an OK game). And it's hard to measure what Wilson's absence meant to team morale, but it sure as heck didn't help. To this day, Boomer Esiason doesn't mince words when talking about it. The anger hasn't subsided.

 

[qtlaw]

Don’t forget Turk was a pretty good QB at Stanford; would be a good fit for today’s offense.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

No better division ever than the AFC Central was at that time.
The four coaches wouldn't even take a photo together.
A big reason, for me, the game is no longer fun.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

No better division ever than the AFC Central was at that time.
The four coaches wouldn't even take a photo together.
A big reason, for me, the game is no longer fun.

As a Steelers fan as a kid, it was tough to watch the other three central teams roll out Warren, Boomer and Bernie at qb, and we had Bubby Brister and Mark Malone. It was Sesame Street’s one of these kids was not like the other for football.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

 

[CD Boogie]

As a Steelers fan as a kid, it was tough to watch the other three central teams roll out Warren, Boomer and Bernie at qb, and we had Bubby Brister and Mark Malone. It was Sesame Street’s one of these kids was not like the other for football.

Growing up, I'd maybe see the Steelers on TV a handful of times per year bc I didn't live in the Pittsburgh area. Most Sundays I'd spend watching the Jets or Giants, while patiently waiting for the score updates to scroll across the bottom. Consequently, my memories are not too sullied by images of Brister and Malone.

 

[outofplace]

Growing up, I'd maybe see the Steelers on TV a handful of times per year bc I didn't live in the Pittsburgh area. Most Sundays I'd spend watching the Jets or Giants, while patiently waiting for the score updates to scroll across the bottom. Consequently, my memories are not too sullied by images of Brister and Malone.

That was most of my Sundays in the late '80s, though I did manage to go to the opener in 1989. The downside there being that was the year they lost to the Browns, 51-0. The upside was my cousin and I moved from our seats on the 300 level to ground level at the 50-yard line by the fourth quarter. That was the team that lost its first two games by a combined score of 92-10, having been obliterated by the Browns and Bengals. I found those numbers waiting for me on the chalkboard in one of my classes the Monday. They somehow won their last three in the regular season to sneak into the playoffs and upset the Oilers before losing in Denver.

Brister was actually good in the playoffs that year, but he didn't have much around him. I've heard people make the claim that it was Noll's best coaching job and I see the point.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

It was close.
Getting a bad '84 team to the AFC Championship game was a heck of a piece of coaching.