This morning I am feeling better, with no need for meds,and while I both threw a belt and badly bent the blade on my lawnmower yesterday, with the help of you good posters, I made it through, and like I said yesterday, I was able to get back on the net and get down on the Cubs and Sox, so lawnmower be damned, I am not, and I shall no longer need to mow because I'm from Chicago, I'll get to that in a bit here, I shall be able to hire the proletariot to do such demeaning tasks that I have been burdened with for about 40 years now, maybe not yet but within a few weeks for sure, not only did I reap what I mowed yesterday, whatever, but as did the late great John Belushi, see it all fits--Belushi Chicago--I too have SEEN THE LIGHT after making a post in another thread here this morning and because you guys were so kind to me yesterday, I shall let you all in on it, you see in that thread I just made a post about the last championship in Wrigley, which was the '63 Bears, and not so fast my Cub doubting friends that is exactly 40 years ago, now this pertains only to Wrigley of course, and you see it's all about Wrigley the place guys, not the teams that play there, it's about good places and bad places and Wrigley is a good place but the promised land may be better I don't know, anyway it's about Wrigley for sure, just Wrigley, and we all know the Lord only required the Jews, Oh Jesus, Joseph and Mary now I'm talking about Jews, anyway it only took 40 years for them to see the promised land guys--ONLY 40 YEARS. Bet the farm guys, CUBS WIN, CUBS WIN.
Remember the game well, The Bears beat the Giants 14 - 10 intercepting a bloodied Y.A. Tittle 5 times. Players I recall are Bears, Mike Ditka, Billy Wade, Doug Atkins, Ritchie Petibone, Willy Gallimore, Jon Morris, J.C. Caroline, Roosevelt Taylor, Abe Gibron, Bill George, Dave Whitsell, truly Monsters of the Midway. Coached of course by George Halas, and the defense was coached by none other than George Allen. Tuff bunch.
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Wilheim, Johhny Morris was another offensive standout on that club.
"The Great Chicago Bear Defense" as Jack Brickhouse referred to them on the radio:
LE Ed O'Bradovitch [would celebrate on Sunday nites by punching people out at Blackhawk games]
LT Stan Jones
RT Fred Williams
RE Doug Atkins [maybe the toughest of the bunch]
LB Joe Fortunato
MLB Bill George [precursor to Dick and Mike and the key cog in this defense]
LB Larry Morris
CB Bennie McRae
CB Davey Whitsell
LS Ritchie Petitbone
RS Roosevelt Taylor
J.C. Caroline was still a key contributor but not a starter by this time.
Tampa's own FB Rick Casares was still on the club and man there is sure a story about him but I'm not going there.
"The Great Chicago Bear Defense" as Jack Brickhouse referred to them on the radio:
LE Ed O'Bradovitch [would celebrate on Sunday nites by punching people out at Blackhawk games]
LT Stan Jones
RT Fred Williams
RE Doug Atkins [maybe the toughest of the bunch]
LB Joe Fortunato
MLB Bill George [precursor to Dick and Mike and the key cog in this defense]
LB Larry Morris
CB Bennie McRae
CB Davey Whitsell
LS Ritchie Petitbone
RS Roosevelt Taylor
J.C. Caroline was still a key contributor but not a starter by this time.
Tampa's own FB Rick Casares was still on the club and man there is sure a story about him but I'm not going there.
he was number 33 if I recall. Atkins 81, George had an unusual number, 31 I think. Petibone had 3 ints of Tittle in the game. I have heard stories about Doug Atkins, one very tough player. Did'nt Willy Gallimore get killed in a car accident? I was a Giant fan in those days, they lost three straight NFL title games, 61 and 62 to the Packers and the 63 game to the Bears.
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