The Ten
(“The Ten” is not a top ten, but ten items worth being included in The TEN)
1.) On this day in 1976 Los Angeles Rams head coach Chuck Knox deceided not to go for it on fourth and goal from the Minnesota Vikings half-yard line in the first quarter. The Rams marched down the field on the game opening drive, but Knox decided to kick a field goal.
The Vikings Nate Allen blocked Tom Dempsey’s kick Bobby Bryant recovered and returned it 90-yards for a touchdown. Minnesota would build a 17-0 lead in the third quarter before Los Angeles rallied.
The Rams final drive to take the lead in the fourth was stopped when Pat Haden underthrew Ron Jessie down the middle of the field and was picked off by Bryant (for the second time).
The temperature was 19 degress, windchill was 7.
2.) “College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.”—Noell Gallagher, 1938’s “Farewell to Sport”
3.) On this date in 2004 Green Bay Hall of Fame Defensive End Reggie White passes away at the age of 43.
4.) “I throw a Christmas party at my house. It’s not really a Christmas party, because I don’t want to call it a Christmas party. But let’s just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.”—Bill Murray
5.) “You can’t get better by staying on the bunny slopes.”—Maranatha HC Steve Bogan.
6.) “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”—Shirley Temple
7.) Former St. Louis Cardinal Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith turns 60 today.
8.) “What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.”—Phyliss Diller
9.) Antyone Sims
10.) Mid Valley Sports award season starts today and goes everyday until they are all named. Necomers of the year, DC’, OC’s, HC’s, Players, MVPS, Teams…
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