03-06-2023, 10:27 PM
Only three non-kickers have played more than 300 NFL games. Who are they?
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(03-06-2023, 10:32 PM)skip75 Wrote:(03-06-2023, 10:27 PM)Mick Wrote: Only three non-kickers have played more than 300 NFL games. Who are they?I'll cherry-pick Tom Brady, then guess Drew Brees & Brett Favre.
(03-06-2023, 10:32 PM)skip75 Wrote:(03-06-2023, 10:27 PM)Mick Wrote: Only three non-kickers have played more than 300 NFL games. Who are they?I'll cherry-pick Tom Brady, then guess Drew Brees & Brett Favre.
(03-08-2023, 06:02 PM)Mick Wrote: I was one of the pre-eminent figures in the Roaring 20s. My grandfather was on the winning side in the U. S. Civil War, and I got my start as a board boy, updating stock transactions in a New York stock brokerage. In 1913, I opened my own brokerage, in 1917 I purchased the Sierra Nevada mine, and I was being sued for fraud by my customers by 1918. I was indicted by a Federal grand jury in 1923 for perjury and by another Federal grand jury for mail fraud (though I was cleared of all charges).
I worked hard and partied harder. My mistress committed suicide. I was a member of Tammany Hall's political machine. I was a compulsive gambler and owned numerous gambling operations, including a thoroughbred racing stable.
Fifty years before Pele joined the North American Soccer League, I owned a professional soccer team in the fledgling American Soccer League, hugely popular with immigrants to America. I tried to foist American innovation into the sport, thereby infuriating FIFA and the USPFA (U.S. Professional Football Association, the governing body), instigating the "Soccer Wars" and prematurely ending soccer as a favorite pastime of Americans. The Great Depression finally killed it.
I started a professional football team called the New York Giants six years before the NFL started and the "real" New York Giants commenced. Gambler Arnold Rothstein was a close friend and brokered the transaction for which my family largely became known.
Who am I?
(03-08-2023, 06:02 PM)Mick Wrote: I was one of the pre-eminent figures in the Roaring 20s. My grandfather was on the winning side in the U. S. Civil War, and I got my start as a board boy, updating stock transactions in a New York stock brokerage. In 1913, I opened my own brokerage, in 1917 I purchased the Sierra Nevada mine, and I was being sued for fraud by my customers by 1918. I was indicted by a Federal grand jury in 1923 for perjury and by another Federal grand jury for mail fraud (though I was cleared of all charges).
I worked hard and partied harder. My mistress committed suicide. I was a member of Tammany Hall's political machine. I was a compulsive gambler and owned numerous gambling operations, including a thoroughbred racing stable.
Fifty years before Pele joined the North American Soccer League, I owned a professional soccer team in the fledgling American Soccer League, hugely popular with immigrants to America. I tried to foist American innovation into the sport, thereby infuriating FIFA and the USPFA (U.S. Professional Football Association, the governing body), instigating the "Soccer Wars" and prematurely ending soccer as a favorite pastime of Americans. The Great Depression finally killed it.
I started a professional football team called the New York Giants six years before the NFL started and the "real" New York Giants commenced. Gambler Arnold Rothstein was a close friend and brokered the transaction for which my family largely became known.
Who am I?
(03-08-2023, 08:02 PM)Mick Wrote:(03-08-2023, 07:55 PM)BobK Wrote: Tim Mara. Grandfather of the Giants owner. Or is too youngPretty close. Think different sport with SFBA connections...
(03-08-2023, 09:44 PM)BostonCard Wrote: The MLB New York Giants?
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(03-08-2023, 08:02 PM)Mick Wrote:(03-08-2023, 07:55 PM)BobK Wrote: Tim Mara. Grandfather of the Giants owner. Or is too youngPretty close. Think different sport with SFBA connections...
(03-08-2023, 09:44 PM)BostonCard Wrote: The MLB New York Giants?
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Quote: To destroy one of the three teams that opposed him, Johnson persuaded Stoneham to evict the Yankees. This would give Johnson an excuse to force Yankees' owners Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston to sell the Yankees to a more pliable owner; Johnson even went as far as to promise Stoneham that he could choose Ruppert and Huston's replacement. The move backfired when Ruppert and Huston announced that if Stoneham evicted the Yankees from the Polo Grounds, the Yankees would move to Boston's Fenway Park as tenants of the Red Sox. They would have been well within their rights to do so, since Red Sox owner Harry Frazee had pledged Fenway Park as collateral for a loan from Ruppert. Stoneham realized that if the Yankees left town, he'd lose revenue from a valuable tenant. He also didn't want to be held responsible for forcing Ruth, the biggest star in the game, out of town. With these factors in mind, he renewed the Yankees' lease for one more year. The incident led the Yankees to construct their own park, Yankee Stadium, to ensure that no other team would have the power to deny them a place to play.