NHL The final day of the 1970 regular season was a gong show
- Thread starter Fenway
- Start date
Anyone else have a pair of Hyde Blueliners in the day? Couldn't afford Tacks like Bobby had
ylekot
Still evaluating..
Ill take Teddy Green, Pie, Cashman, O'Reilly, Johathan, Hell Wensink too.
Roll 4 Lines
Pastafarian!
I learned more from him than I did from my Bantam coaches.
Roll 4 Lines
Pastafarian!
I had Bauer Black Panthers.....hand me downs from my A-Hole brother!Anyone else have a pair of Hyde Blueliners in the day? Couldn't afford Tacks like Bobby had
EverettMike
FIRE DON SWEENEY INTO THE SUN
Imagine Gale Sayers with a couple years of modern day training followed by modern medicine to treat his injuries? Jim Brown working with a nutritionist to turn his tree trunk body into steel?
Let Ted Williams study pitchFX for a day and he'd hit .350 right now.
Last edited:
Just imagine if today's surgical techniques were available back then. God only knows what he would have done to the record books.
I'm sure it was painful for Bruins fans watching #4 in a Blackhawks jersey trying to stay in the game but I think it would have devastated them further if he had played another 10 years there in prime health. I wasn't the Bruins fan then that I am today but I clearly remember being upset when it was announced that he was gone to Chicago- it was like Yaz signing with the Orioles or Tigers instead of staying with the Red Sox- absolutely unthinkable. I know Bruins fans were really upset, I remember people calling the Guy Manilla show on WBZ radio, they were shocked and angry (not at Bobby, but the Bruins)
McGarnagle
Yes.
- Aug 5, 2017
- 28,907
- 38,596
I'm too young for 71 and 86. For me it's Superbowl LII, game 7 of the 2003 ALCS, and game 7 of the 2019 SCF.
The 4th spot up for grabs between the Scott Walker goal, the 2006 AFCCG, and maybe the 2004 Bruins with Thornton's 0-for-7.
I was emotional and whiny about sports as a kid and teenager (and still am to some extent), but Aaron Boone's homerun was the only time I ever physically hurt myself in anger after I kicked the bedframe in a state of rage. Surprised I didn't break my foot.
Fixed it for you.
That game was a killer for a then 15 year old BMC. I might have been OK with it if Dent had launched it 400 feet over the Green Monster. Instead it was more like a f***ing pop fly
ylekot
Still evaluating..
My mount Rushmore
Is similar but the death of Len Bias would be in there. Incredibly tragic moment in an otherwise magical 1986 year for the Celtics. 78 loss to the Canadians and the Ben Dreith bullshit call on Sugar Bear Hamilton in 76 along with Bucky F in Dent are honorable mentions
DKH
The Bergeron of HF
- Feb 27, 2002
- 74,311
- 52,235
ylekot
Still evaluating..
No disrespect to Bias but he never played a game in Boston.
What I remember most about Stingley's injury is the Patriots flew back to Boston and left nobody in Oakland to watch over him. However John Madden the Raiders coached stayed with him
ESPN.com - Page2 - A Madden in Full
This was the backdrop, then, of that fateful game. The ancient Greeks would see hubris here, on an epic scale. They would warn us. In fact, there was a sense of warning on the sidelines. Only a play or two before Stingley went down, John Madden, who was growing more and more upset because all night long the Patriots had been probing the Raiders middle with passes, turned to the guy beside him and said, "They'd better stop doing that or somebody's going to get hurt!"
It happened in the second quarter -- a hurried pass launched over the middle for Stingley, who was slanting into the secondary. It was high and too far in front of him. Leaving his feet, Stingley was prone in the air, arms outstretched, as the ball sailed past him. In my memory, there he hangs.
For his part, Jack Tatum seemed fooled. Having started back to his right, he pulled up as the ball was released. The receiver, he realized, was coming from the opposite direction. Jack turned, but managed only three or four strides before the action was upon him. He crouched over, sort of leaning into Stingley as the Patriots receiver drifted toward him. They collided. Stingley, in an awkward position, fell to the turf. There was no explosive hit. No flying helmet. Yet Stingley was down. He wasn't moving. He wasn't getting up.
Trainers from both teams rushed out on the field. They tended to Darryl for a long time. Then an ambulance was summoned. Darryl was carefully loaded up and carted off. The game resumed, but under a sickening pall.
After the game, Madden went directly to the hospital. It was Madden's first instinct to go to Stingley.
At the hospital, Stingley had been found to have fractured vertebrae in his neck and was being fitted with a halo brace to stabilize the injury. Our physicians, thankfully, had risen to the occasion. Having overseen a safe transport, they had summoned the appropriate specialists. Experts were now at hand.
But even at the hospital something was dissonant, out of sync. Expecting to find himself among concerned New England officials, Madden found himself alone. No one from the Patriots was there. Not the owner. Not the coach. No one.
Grabbing a phone, Madden called the Oakland airport. Immediately, he was patched through to the New England charter, taxiing out to take off. A more than animated discussion followed. The plane returned to the gate. The business manager was put off.
In the hospital, Stingley was conscious, as doctors worked to fit the halo. Having donned surgeon's garb, Madden appeared beside him, leaning close. "Everything's going to be all right," he whispered.
If only it had been true.
Meanwhile, a second disaster was averted. On the New England charter, now airborne and headed east, players were struggling to understand Stingley's injury when an engine started gushing fuel. Immediately, the flight was diverted to San Francisco. A dozen fire trucks lined the runway as the plane touched down.
In the days and weeks that followed, Madden visited Stingley, if not daily, then as often as he could. During one visit, Madden discovered a malfunction in Stingley's ventilator. In summoning a nurse to fix the problem, Madden might have saved Stingley's life.
Madden retired as a coach after that season and the Stingley injury was a major factor.
Last edited:
ylekot
Still evaluating..
I agree with this. I wonder if Brady would still be going strong if he was playing under the same rules as Bradshaw, Grogan, Starbach etc
EverettMike
FIRE DON SWEENEY INTO THE SUN
EverettMike
FIRE DON SWEENEY INTO THE SUN
Harry Agganis should be mentioned if not on it.
Roll 4 Lines
Pastafarian!
I find it interesting that Bucky Dent and Aaron Boone have the same middle name.
DKH
The Bergeron of HF
- Feb 27, 2002
- 74,311
- 52,235
Yup my father in law played In outfield with him and told me he would show up and always have a gorgeous young lady with him and he told me he was so mature and developed it’s like he was 20 and they were 16
he was like from another planet
I’ve always been enamored with Agannis and remember Ted Williams talking about him
It would have been interesting to see how good he became and certainly would have altered Red Sox history
McGarnagle
Yes.
- Aug 5, 2017
- 28,907
- 38,596
I'd never seen the footage of the hit before.
Is it wrong that my first reaction when seeing it was "That's on Grogan"
At the time Will McDonough questioned Chuck Fairbanks' gameplan.
It was the first time the Pats had been back in Oakland since the stolen playoff game in 1976.
The 78 season ended badly as it leaked out that Fairbanks would take a college job in Colorado the following season as he was fed up with the cheapness of the Sullivan family. Billy Sullivan fired Fairbanks before the final regular-season game in Miami just before kickoff.
Fairbanks came back to coach the playoff game in Foxborough - it didn't go well
Keep in mind this circus happened just weeks after the Bucky Dent game and the Bruins season would end with 'Too Many Men"
When the Patriots released their highlight film for 1978 the final 2 games were omitted
Last edited:
McGarnagle
Yes.
- Aug 5, 2017
- 28,907
- 38,596
At the time Will McDonough questioned Chuck Fairbanks' gameplan.
It was the first time the Pats had been back in Oakland since the stolen playoff game in 1976.
The 78 season ended badly as it leaked out that Fairbanks would take a college job in Colorado the following season as he was fed up with the cheapness of the Sullivan family. Billy Sullivan fired Fairbanks before the final regular-season game in Miami just before kickoff.
View attachment 465650 View attachment 465652
Fairbanks came back to coach the playoff game in Foxborough - it didn't go well
View attachment 465655
Keep in mind this circus happened just weeks after the Bucky Dent game and the Bruins season would end with 'Too Many Men"
When the Patriots released their highlight film for 1978 the final 2 games were omitted
Those 9 months from August 1978 to May 1979 must've been the lowest point to be a Boston fan
Stingley gets paralyzed, Sox collapse to end the year and lose in a heartbreaker to the Yanks, Pats see Sullivan and Fairbanks's drama probably cost them their season, the Celtics were absolutely dysfunctional under John Y. Brown and it almost led Red to go to the Knicks, then the Bruins lose their own heartbreaker to the Habs.
Hard to think of a worse sequence than that.
I wasn't old enough to understand but it was the only time I ever saw my Dad cry
The Red Sox for some unfathomable reason put Agganis into a small Catholic hospital in Cambridge (Sancta Maria) and many believed that contributed to his death. Incredibly they did the same to Tony Congilario 12 years later when logic screamed should have been sent to Mass Eye and Ear.
Harry Agganis - Wikipedia
In 1955, Agganis briefly lost his starting position to rookie Norm Zauchin.[1] On June 2, he was hospitalized with pneumonia, severe fever and chest pains.[2] He rejoined the Red Sox ten days later and played two games against the Chicago White Sox, before falling ill again in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 5. He was diagnosed with a viral infection and flown back to Sancta Maria Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where a doctor partially blamed his playing too soon after the first illness.[2] The Red Sox placed him on the voluntary retired list until he recuperated,[4] an early version of the disabled list. He began showing signs of improvement, before a fatal pulmonary embolism on June 27.[1]
Red Sox general manager Joe Cronin told the Associated Press that everyone related to the Red Sox organization was "grieved and shocked", calling Agganis "a grand boy", and saying the team would wear #6 black armbands to honor him.[3][6] American League president Will Harridge said his office was "saddened and shocked", and Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey said he was "stunned", calling Agganis "a man of great character".[1][6] Ten thousand mourners saw his body lie in state at St. George's Greek Orthodox Church in Lynn.[2]
The 2 highest-rated radio shows then were Cliff and Claf on WITS and Calling All Sports on WBZ hosted by Upton Bell and newcomer Bob Lobel and the Sports Huddle on weekends.
ylekot
Still evaluating..
Man Calling all sports was a great show. Bob Lobel on WBZ sports with the giant panic button LMAO he was great
