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Honestly, simeon rice should be in the hall of fame. 3 pro bowls, 2 all pros, 122 career sacks, and 28 career forced fumbles. He also won defensive rookie of the year in 1996 and a Super Bowl in 2002

What kind of a gentleman was Frank Howard? When Ted Williams was hired to manage the Senators, Frank respectfully offered Ted his #9 and switched to #33. No charge.

I saw Frank Howard hit a homer in Connie Mac Stadium that took off just like an airplane. It was a line drive that just kept rising and rising and rising until it got into like right centerfield in between the lights and was still rising now I don’t know how far that thing went because I don’t think anybody was able to retrieve it, but I have to believe that went over 500 feet because as I said, it was still rising 340 feet away

One correction: Howard never was a starting first baseman for the Dodgers, although they gave him a look there. His entire time with the Dodgers, he only played 11 games at first base, 6 as a starter. They had considered moving him to first base in 1961, but the chipped bone in his thumb kept him out of the lineiup and they decided to keep Frank in right field, leaving first base to the incumbents, Gil Hodges and norm Larker. And in 1962,after the Dodgers lost both Hodges and Larker in the expansion draft, they decided they would be better defensively with Howard in right field and a much shorter (5' 10") Ron Fairly at first base. Fairly had started 21 games at first base in 1961, so they had a basis for defensive comparison, and the reason they left both Hodges and Larker available to the expansion draft.

Was my baseball hero when my dad was stationed at the Pentagon late 60's, had his baseball card

I hated Frank Howard when he was a Dodger, being a Giants fan.

Frank Howard was known as a gentleman, but when he was on the Dodgers, coach Leo Durocher caused him to lose his temper. In the clubhouse Durocher began needling him and punching him in the stomach. That was too much for the soft spoken Howard. He picked up Durocher by the lapels and threw him against the wall.

1982 was easily the weirdest season in league history. 9 game season, a 16-team playoff brackett, in a 28 team league, making it so teams with 4-5 records got in. It's also weird how teams like the Browns, who were 5-11 in 1981, made the playoffs, while the 49ers, the defending Super Bowl champions, did not. It's also weird how the patriots, who went 2-14 in 1981, made the playoffs, while the Colts, who also finished 1981 with the same record, finished winless. Wes chandler had over 1,000 yards receiving it in 9 games. And how can we forget, a kicker winning the league mvp. Mark mosely had a fantastic year, but it was nowhere near mvp caliber

I'm missing your videos, Beau. Good sports documentaries that i love watching

I absolutely think Ken Anderson should be in the HOF. As a player, he didn’t win a Super Bowl, but led his team to one in 1981. Compare his career numbers to some other HOF qbs (ex Bob Griese). He deserves to be in!

It’s well known that the reason the ‘73 Chargers struggled was because their uniforms numbers weren’t quite large enough.

I’m his time, deciding between the NBA and Baseball wasn’t difficult. Baseball was king and the NBA was in its infancy. If you could get a contract with an MLB team then that’s where you were going.

At first glance you look at his career statistics and although impressive they're not eye popping but then you look and realize he only played 13 full seasons Which really is very impressive

Johnny U. did NOT participate in any of the drugs that season - according to the book, he wanted nothing to do with that crap and thats one of many reasons that he was one of the alltime best.

As a manager he had high standards and helped shape a lot of young players.

Kenny could spin the ball as good as any QB.

As a Dodger fan since 1967, it's great to see a Frank Howard video. When Frank hit 44 home runs in 1968, then 48 and 44 the next two seasons, I was bummed when I found out the Dodgers traded Howard after the 1964 season.🥵 In 1968, the Dodgers leading home run hitter hit 10 home runs, while Frank hit 44. Frank had to be taller than 6'7''. In 1968, Frank hit 10 home runs in a six game stretch.

Yeah, the Broncos didn't draft Elway, they traded for him. However, you make an interesting point. The Broncos had a good roster. If 82 would've been a normal season, they'd have probably finished around 500 which would have moved them back about 10-15 slots in the 1983 draft. Then they wouldn't have had the draft capital to trade for Elway. You could then argue, w/out the strike, the Broncos don't get Elway which completely changes NFL history. Maybe they draft Marino (they showed no signs of valuing him), but I think they'd have stuck w/DeBerg which means no SBs for Denver in the 80s.

I know you pegged the 1998 Jets as the best team to never make a Super Bowl. I always thought the 1999 Jaguars were. Crazy they went 15-3 with their only losses to one team. Division rivals, the Titans.

He was the last great lefty.

It was glorious watching them snuff out the final sputter of that Cowboy dynasty. These guys will always be one of my favorite underdog stories.

Bill Parcells had that team contending almost immediately. And I felt so bad for them in 1999 when Vinny went down Week One. They were Super Bowl favorites and in an instant it was over. They got a haul for the 2000 draft. And did well with most of those picks.

Man. Steve DeBerg was one of the great journeyman QBs. Blast from the past. By the time I was watching the NFL he was an elder. He hung around until 44 I believe.

The NFL Hall of Fame is so terribly reactionary putting in players like Lynn Swann bc of post season sucess while those are far greater numbers like Stanley Morgan and Isaac Curtis get no consideration. Play off on super bowl succession of course merit something federation but not nearly as much as the HOF gives. Football is after all a team sport

People seem to forget how close Anderson came to beating Montana in that super bowl, and then he defeated the 49ers and the regular season. If they taken that super bowl the legacies will be much different, but that's football

Anderson has some amazing timing as he came up right after Greg Cook, who Bill Walsh said was the greatest quarterback you've ever seen, was injured his rookie year in 69'

The Broncos also had a new owner in Edgar Kaiser and Reeves was a huge coaching prospect coming out after Dallas lost to the 49ers in the NFC Championship. Kaiser wanted his own coach.

Aah yes good old Frank Howard a tall drink of water. I grew up in D.C. and used to go to RFK for some double headers. I went to Milwaukee with my cousin to see a Brewers game and Frank was 3rd base coach at the time so I was able to yuck it up with him before the game started. I'll never forget his ten homeruns in 7 games.1968. I watched everyone of them his tenth homerun was at Tiger stadium cleared the roof I remember Al Kaline was another.

A mention of what the Dodgers got for him, COsteen, would've been nice.

Ken Anderson was the most technically perfect player, I’ve ever seen. Wherever Bill Walsh went he took film of Anderson to show to his next quarterback. Hall of Famers Dan Fouts, and Joe Montana, were both taught by watching him. He carried the Bengals, for years. He led the NFL in passing 4 times, was the NFL MVP in 1981, NFL Man of the Year in 1975. 3x’s Ken led NFL in completion percentage (1974, 1982, 1983), he was also the passing yards leader 2x’s (1974, 1975), as well as yards/completion 2x’s, a wonderful athlete, he rushed for 2,220 yards while averaging 5.6 yards/carry. It’s been said he didn’t win a Super Bowl, but there are quarterbacks in the Hall who haven't. Anderson was poetry in motion, and a joy to watch, there is no way he doesn’t belong in the Hall of Fame. Bill Walsh, the genius who masterminded the West Coast Offense, thought he was perfect, I agree.

Saw Frank play in AAA in Spokane, the Dodgers farm team, in '60 along with Willie Davis, Ron Fairly and others. I was standing directly behind the backstop and someone threw him a high fastball. He hit a laser shot over the centerfield wall some 410 ft. away. I have never seen a ball hit so hard.

Yes, I believe he should be in the HOF!!

Regarding the drug thesis: I have always wondered to what extent cocaine use affected the Chargers during the Air Coryell years, which began 5 (seemingly long) years later. In addition to the well-cited defensive struggles of those teams from the late 70s to mid 80s, the Chargers were characterized by undisciplined and untimely offensive miscues and turnovers despite the offense’s legendary and innovative status in NFL history. Chuck Muncie’s struggles are well documented, and Miles MacPhearson, a cornerback, marginal player, current evangelical pastor in San Diego, and admitted former cocaine addict, has preached at length on how he “learned his bad habits” as a member of those early-80s Chargers, but he never names any names. After choking in the 79 playoffs, the Chargers had some of the highest odds to win the Super Bowl between 1980 and 1984, yet, in the words of Harry Kalas, would always “find a way to lose the big one.” Again, just a thought. Great video.

Capital = city Capitol = building

2:31 Imagine trying to block the plate with that freight train rounding third. 🚑 🏥

As a kid and Dodger fan in the early 60's, I heard Vin Scully recount what he said was "the furthest home run I have ever seen, and probably never will see again" off the bat of Frank Howard. I vividly recall Vin saying it happened at County Stadium, Milwaukee, and Frank was up against a knuckleballer, I'm guessing somewhere in the years between '61 to '63. The pitch fooled Frank so completely, he let go of the bat with his right hand, and swinging only with his left. Vin said the Braves shortstop told him later he only heard a loud crack, and a buzzing sound wizzing past his head, and that had he even tried to catch it it would have ended his career. The ball began as a low line drive, steadily gaining height as it went over the left-center bleachers, and out of the park into the parking lot. Later estimates based on witness approximations of the ball's landing spot initially put the distance at 600'. Later experts on MLB home runs claim the shot was impossible, and could have not been physically possible. I heard Vin Scully tell the story twice on old KFI(?) radio in Los Angeles in the old L.A. Dodger days. It was either the L.A. Times or our local Long Beach Telegram sports section placing Frank's shot on its front page, calling it "The Shot Heard Round the World" with a very cool graphic, as I recall. I kick myself for not saving the paper. Frank Howard was my boyhood hero.

He was the franchise QB for the Bengals, an athlete who should have been the first Bengal to receive consideration for enshrinement. He always enjoyed his contests vs. Bradshaw and the Steelers, faltering when a Steeler head-hunter exploited a missed blocking assignment to run straight at him, grabbing Anderson's face-bar while twisting Ken's head and throwing him to the ground. But Ken came back until yielding to Boomer (whose passing and scoring stats in their 2 Super Bowls don't even begin to compare with Anderson's). And it was Anderson who beat Fouts in the -55 degrees "Freezer Bowl" to bring the Bengals to their first Super (something not achieved by HOF QB Fouts). Anderson's leadership, passing (and running) skills, his poise and big heart clearly qualify him for the HOF--ahead of publicized QBs who were his contemporaries (Namath, etc.) but who fell short of Ken''s stats. Had Bill Walsh stayed in Cincinnati, after losing the coaching job to an equally qualified Bengal assistant coach, would his "project" Ken Anderson have had additional games like his record passing victory (450 yds) over HOF'er OJ Simpson and the Bills? (On Monday Night Football, '75). Probably yes. Would he be in the HOF? Probably years, if not decades, ago. Would the Bengals, Cincinnati, and Ken have been the better for it? (After reading Walsh's autobiography, I'm not so sure.)

They didn't drafted. The Broncos traded Mark Hermann.

Anderson completed 20 consecutive passes in one game

I saw Frank Howard in dodger stadium hit three home runs in one game and the last one went through the triangle on the top of the left field foul pole!

You compare Ron Santo of the Cubs getting in the Hall of Fame with his numbers compared to Frank Howard and I wonder why Frank Howard is not in the Hall of Fame. My mother loved Frank Howard and took me to games as a dodger fan in the '60s.

"Capital" = city "Capitol" = building ffs

My childhood hero!!!! Brings back great memories of going to the ball park with my dad. Thank you for making this video.

I was at the game in Chicago where the (eventual champion) White Sox lit him up in the first inning for 6 runs on 4 home runs. It was actually quite sad to see.

It's said that nobody ever hit a home run out of old Yankee Stadium. But in the mid 1960's Frank Howard pulled a pitch that went over the top of the left field foul pole and out of the stadium. It was ruled foul but Yankees outfielder Bobby Murcer said it was a fair ball.

Well done video man.

His time with the Yankees was sooo bad I forgot he was a Yankee

His slider flattened like a pancake and his velocity plummeted from 04-05.

He never smiled as a NYY, always seemed miserable. Now he cant stop smiling lol

Randy's time in NY made Jack McDowell's time there look like a success.