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1958 NFL championship game: Men who made the moment
Ernie Accorsi watched the 1958 NFL championship game between the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts as a 17-year-old Colts fan. He went on to become general manager of both teams that played in the historic contest. He has probably watched the game 40...Tags: Sam Huff, Johnny Unitas, Baltimore Colts, Sports, Jim Parker
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'Greatest' came from NFL's best
On Dec.28, 1958, the NFL's best offense and defense, its finest quarterback, its best possession receiver and big-play threat, its most dominant defensive lineman and prototype offensive tackles, its best-rounded linebacker and its most promising...Tags: Death, Sports, Weeb Ewbank, Ed Reed, Terrell Suggs
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Ditka song hails ex-players
Sun reporterFootball fans don't think of red-faced, gravel-voiced Mike Ditka as a musician. But the former Chicago Bears coach said yesterday that he helped write a country song - he also does a voiceover - about aging NFL heroes tentatively called "Love of the Game....Tags: Sam Huff, Mike Ditka, Career and Workplace, Johnny Unitas, Baltimore Colts
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Upshaw asking Congress for help
Sun reporterNFL Players Association chief Gene Upshaw asked Congress yesterday for assistance in improving a disability benefits system that retired players say repeatedly let them down when they were poor and ailing from old football injuries. "We have made great...Tags: Mike Ditka, FEMA, Career and Workplace, Laws, Baltimore Colts
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NFL feud goes to Congress
Sun ReporterThe son of late Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster says he'll tell a Senate committee today that he fears other retired players will die as destitute as his father did unless the NFL and its players union boost assistance to needy players. "No...Tags: Death, Career and Workplace, Family, Sports, Retirement
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PeyBack Bowl raises $380,000 for charity
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Peyton Manning's annual PeyBack Bowl has raised more than $380,000 for charity. The money from the Indianapolis Colts quarterback's bowling tournament on Monday will go to disadvantaged youngsters through his PeyBack Foundation....Tags: Indianapolis Colts, Peyton Manning, National Football League, Baltimore Colts, Indiana Pacers
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Football films to put you in the mood for the Big Game
Zap2It.comThe big-screen TV has been delivered and calibrated, the kegs of beer are properly chilled and the grill is primed and ready to flame on at a moment's notice. The only detail that remains is how to fill those long, empty hours between now Sunday's Big...Tags: Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, Death, Denzel Washington, Sean Astin
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The second city
Times Staff WriterHere in the nation's second-largest market, a phrase the NFL has forced us to commit to memory, we have a saying that the nation needs to learn, because this was us in 2006: We're No. 2! Take a look at our sports teams and the last 12 months. USC...Tags: Babe Ruth, Elections, Phoenix Suns, Will Ferrell, Matt Leinart
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Select company
Tribune staff reporterThe 1983 draft put the Bears on the path to the Super Bowl two years later. The Bears picked up Walter Payton in 1975, which made that a watershed draft. But when it comes to the best draft in Bears history, it is no contest. On Nov. 28, 1964, the...Tags: George Halas, History, Arts and Culture, Sports, John Wooden
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Smashing finish by Cubs
Tribune staff reporterMost of the Cubs weren't born when Willie Smith hit his game-winning home run on Opening Day of the 1969 season, and neither were many of the fans in the newly renovated bleachers on Saturday afternoon at Wrigley Field. But just as Smith's two-run shot...Tags: Chicago Cubs, Baseball, Crimes, Ronny Cedeno, Scott Rolen
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ESPN promotes South Dakota tourism or something
WatchdogESPN's latest "Mt. Rushmore of Sports" release doesn't make much more sense to me than the last one. It appears Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Joe Namath and Manhasset's own Jim Brown will represent New York in this feature. I'm not......Tags: John Stockton, Joe Montana, Boxing, Ted Williams, Greg Maddux
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Making a splash, then quick dash
Tribune staff reporterIf Chad Hutchinson has a role model these days, it should be Virgil Carter. The parallels abound. In 1968, Carter, like Hutchinson on Sunday, was the fourth quarterback of the season for the struggling Bears. He came out of nowhere (in Carter's case,...Tags: George Halas, Bud Grant, Cinderella (fictional character), Chicago Bears Game Tickets, Basketball
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