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Sunday, February 13, 2022

State of the NFL

The annual NFL Honors show has become an evening of wokeness, though it is good to watch the Man of the Year presentation and the unveiling of the new Hall of Fame inductees. This year they seemed to make up for past slights, awarding Sam Mills, Richard Seymour, Tony Boselli, Dick Vermeil, and Cliff Branch. Perhaps there’s hope for Herschel Walker after all.

Thursday night LA Rams offensive tackle Andrew Whitworth was named this year’s NFL Man of the Year. In his articulate, inspiring acceptance speech he said something I rarely hear a professional athlete say: that fans are the reason players like him are able to play a kid’s game. Whitworth is the oldest left tackle in NFL history.

At the end of the Rams game this year against Detroit, he saw a Lions player sprinting across the field to greet Whit. The rookie said “You won’t remember me, but years ago when you played for the Bengals, you used to volunteer at my community center. You would sit me and talk to me about life. I just wanted to thank you. I wouldn’t have made it without you”. Whit said he didn’t tell the story to brag, but to show how you and I can make a difference in people’s lives.

What Super Bowl record will never be broken? Cowboys kicker Mike Clark kicked a 9 yard field goal in Super Bowl 5 against the Colts. In the first Super Bowl Green Bay’s Donny Anderson became the only player to punt and return a punt in the same game.

Link: why the NFL uses Roman numerals to denote Super Bowls. Which recent Super Bowl did not use a Roman numeral? Super Bowl 50. Advertisers didn’t like the look of "Super Bowl L".

https://www.dictionary.com/e/the-roman-numeral-bowl-are-you-ready-for-some-football/

CAL QUANTRILL  [B-R Bio] was the first freshman to be the Opening Day starting pitcher for Stanford University since Mike Mussina did it in 1988. Quantril started for Stanford U. in 2013. He turned twenty-seven on Thursday. Born 10-Feb-1995. His father led the American League twice in pitching appearances, and twice led the majors in games pitching for a National League team. Paul Quantrill led the AL in games pitched with 80 for Toronto in 2001 and for the Yankees in 2004 with 86. In 2002 and 2003 Paul led MLB for the Dodgers with 86 and 89.

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