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Us: Say the line! Say it! JG9 @ 13:30 "Which is worse than if you did nothing but spike the ball into the ground on every single play." Us: YAAAAAAY! Another incredible video about Daryle Lamonica. Sorry to have lost that great quarterback.
I was born right after the merger & I have always loved watching these old AFL clips. Loads of Hall of Famers, classic AFL team uniforms, Denver's orange pants, 60's Chargers unis, & of course the silver & black Raiders. Thanks JG9 for another great video.
@@christopherengel7436 You're welcome, I think the NFL Network should rebroadcast it during the long wait in between the draft and the opening of training camps.
As a Raider fan I never knew this about Lamonica. Players were tougher back then they are today and if they do play hurt and have a bad performance they get chastised by fans and the media. Another great video.
Surprised you never heard of Lamonica, but you're just young, no shame in that amigo. Daryl was talented, no doubt. An arm like Marino, and a big, tough body like Pastorini.
@@vdubproductions2646 I think during the Playoffs around these years between the Jets and raiders, the raiders were playing their typical ghetto cheap-shot style of unsportsmanlike 'play', and the Jets decided it was payback time after Namath kept getting late-hit.... So even though Lamonica wasn't responsible, he probably got some late hits as New York was sending a message, period.
@@67marlins STFU! You obviously don't know what you're talking about, the Jets and Raiders only played each other in the playoffs ONE TIME, in the 1968 AFL Championship game, and in that game the Raiders were penalized 2 times for 23 yards, YOU DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING, PERIOD!!!
@@gothard5 I think Carr will finally get the recognition he deserves this season. Gannon was a really great fit at the time. Hostetler and Palmer decent but how Carson couldn't make Randy Moss work is a mystery. But Lamonica is my favorite. Plunkett is a legend Stabler a legend and don't forget George Blanda also a legend.
@@gothard5 The greatest Raiders QB is a tough one to call, Daryle Lamonica was the greatest deep passer in Raiders history and he guided the Raiders to 4 consecutive western division titles and to 4 consecutive league/conference championship games after those seasons, 1967-1970 but Snake Stabler took over the starting QB job in 1973 and took the Raiders to 5 consecutive AFC Championship games from 1973-1977 and he was the winning QB in his lone Super Bowl, Lamonica was 0-1 in the big game as was Gannon, Palmer? Uhm, NO! Same with Hoss but Plunkett's 2 Super Bowl titles tip the scales his way. Lamonica's career winning percentage is 2nd all-time to the legendary Otto Graham so it really is difficult to pick only one.
Like Dan Fouts. Just never had that Super Bowl championship. Can't say I know much about the Raiders defense in this era, only that they had Ben Davidson. Football is a true team sport.
I always wonder why the AFL could force a merger but whenever a new league pops up, they're not good enough for a merger. But the AFL had Al Davis. He made the difference
My dad was a huge DL fan (figures since my dad never missed a day of work sick until his early 60s). So, the Mad Bomber was well-known growing up in our house (made my dad a Broncos fan until we moved to Colorado). It's hard for people born in the last 30 years to understand how different football was back then and how Lamonica and Hadel were the Rodgers & Allen of their days. Always thought the HoF should be set up by decades, and more of the greats whose numbers are long since passed in today's game get their due. But sorry to hear he passed. Death comes for us all, but he left quite a legacy in the game and my childhood household.
He has always had 2 strikes against him when it comes to the HOF. First, the fact that his best years were spent in the AFL and second is that the PFWAA has a decades long history of anti-Raiders bias!
@@davidcobb2693 That maybe true but how do you also explain Joe Jacoby and Mike Curtis also not being inducted with Curtis I heard he wasn't a Players union guy but so damn what! He was great.
@@karlcooper7016 Interior lineman are usually overlooked but in Joe Jacoby's case it could be his making only 4 Pro Bowls during his lengthy career, 12 years, Mike Curtis was "great" for maybe one year out of the 14 he played, 1968. 1968 was the only time he was a First-Team All-Pro and it was his first of 4 Pro Bowl years, his career basically fizzled out after his 10th season, his last 4 seasons were unremarkable.
@@davidcobb2693 Jacoby was "badass" dominant forget probowls for a minute because he was also on a great OLine but look up his highlights on Utube he may have been the best hog of all.
@@karlcooper7016 I don't have to look him up anywhere, you asked me why he and Mike Curtis are not in the HOF and I provided a very plausible answer, I'm not a member of the PFWAA so I don't have a say who gets in the HOF. I'd say Jacoby was better than Tony Boselli who's being inducted this summer.
Doctor Death, The Assassin and don't forget the collective nickname of the defensive backfield of Willie Brown, George Atkinson, Jack Tatum and Skip Thomas (Dr. Death), known as "The Soul Patrol".
Lamonica was the prototype quarterback for the Al Davis offence. I met him he was a cool guy and IMHO was a better quarterback than Joe Namath. RIP BOMBER!
Daryle Lamonica was the 1969 AFL MVP, 2 weeks after this game the Raiders hosted the Houston Oilers in a playoff game and Lamonica had 5 TD passes before halftime, he would throw his 6th TD pass in the 3rd quarter to give the Raiders a 49-0 lead en route to a 56-7 victory.
The teams he played on were very talented and the defense was awesome. Lamonjca is remembered as a great QB but in truth he was frustrating to watch he threw way too many ints. He had great games but he was erratic late and we always were glad when Blanda would rescue us. I was glad when they finally played Stabler after sitting for four years.
My boyhood hero ,I met him probably two years before he passed.....he was in tremendous shape ,I told him that he could play today.We talked about the game and how it's changed so much( you cannot even look at a QB sideways without getting flagged...when yo look at the stats of the QBs from the 60s and 70s they pale compared to the years that came after.Theres a reason for that... football was brutal then ,it's so tarnished now that it's laughable....for those who believe today's game is physical,you should have seen it then ...LaMonaco was fantastic,"The Mad Bomber "lives
But decided he had a better chance to start in Buffalo than Green Bay. Then Jack Kemp led the Bills to four straight playoff appearances and two AFL titles. Getting traded to Oakland saved Lamonica. After the 1966 season, the Bills collapsed into one of the worst teams in pro football. In 1968, the Bills were the worst team in pro football, playing in the worst stadium for the worst head coach. In 1968, Lamonica was AFL Champion and Super bowl bound.
@@tygrkhat4087 Daryle Lamonica joined the Raiders just prior to the 1967 season, Raiders went 13-1 advancing to the AFL Championship game, in 1968 he led Oakland to another AFL Western division title and to another AFL Championship game, in 1969 he did it again, division title and AFL Championship game appearance and in 1970 Daryle won a 4th consecutive Western division title, the AFC Western division as the rival pro leagues merged into one big NFL and what used to be called League Championship games became Conference Championship games and Daryle led the Raiders to the first ever AFC Championship game, the 4th consecutive championship game for the Raiders and Daryle Lamonica. Ken Stabler would establish a new record of 5 consecutive Championship game appearances beginning with the 1973 AFC Championship game and continued to the 1977 AFC Championship game.
A sneak attack by a Mad Bomber Raider made Sunday, December 7, 1969 a day of infamy for Cincinnati. It should be mentioned that Greg Cook was playing with an undiagnosed torn rotator cuff, and after the season finale a week later, threw just 3 passes--all in 1973--making him one of the saddest "what ifs" in football history. I love the Raiders' 1970 uniforms, with the silver numbers on the white jerseys. And it's great to see footage of touchdowns where the player just tossed the ball to an official instead of doing a dance. Please distinguish between "all-time" (more properly referred to as "career") records and single-season records. The record that Lamonica was shooting for in 1969 was a single-season record. He didn't have a great NFL career; he had a great AFL career, and three good years in the NFL. The calibre of play in the AFL was very good in its last few years; Hank Stram said after Super Bowl IV that he thought that any of the AFL's top three teams (Chiefs, Raiders, Jets) could have beaten the Vikings.
Hey bro jg9 got a shirt concept for ya, you should make a shirt with historically bad qb performance Stat lines and qbr from both good and bad qbs with your quote of "that's worse than if he just spiked the ball into the ground on every play" that line is comedy gold to me lol
You mentioned the Bengals beating the Raiders in Week 8. The next week the Bengals tied the Oilers. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about that Bengals-Oilers game.
That concert which was a disaster in which a man was stabbed to death near the stage by the Hells Angels who was doing security at the concert that was was a bad way to end the 1960s.
Until you've thrown out your back, you can't appreciate what a feat this. I've had a slipped disk in my back and I've accidentally stabbed my hand with a peering knife. If I had to pick one to have to go through again, in take the knife in a blink.
Live NFL TRIVIA EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT ON TWITCH!!!! Test YOUR football KNOWLEDGE and win CASH PRIZES. Well the FACT is that the Cincinnati Bengals AND the Oakland Raiders COMBINED are EASILY WAY BELOW a 39.6 and should be SPIKING the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play!!!
Daryle Lamonica threw one TD pass in the Raiders next game a 10-6 victory over the visiting Kansas City Chiefs to give him 34 TD passes for the 1969 season but the week after the Chiefs game the Raiders hosted the Houston Oilers in a playoff game and Daryle Lamonica had 5 TD passes before halftime, he threw his 6th TD pass of the game in the 3rd quarter to give the Raiders a 49-0 lead. they won 56-7.
My stupid Bills had the Mad Bomber, and played him as a back up to an aging Jack Kemp. They would bring him in, and he often won the game for them! Then those idiots traded Lamonica for an aging, broken down Tom Flores..... :::crying::::
I live in Buffalo and grew up with the Bills but I fell in love with the Raiders. Lamonica gave back to Buffalo even after they traded him plus I got to see Charles Woodson and Tom Flores get inducted to the hall of fame.
You guys have a legit beast QB now who isn't in his prime yet. This is your guys' year to get a chip this year. You guys have gotten closer each year. And you have owners that have hired good football people and let them do their thing.
As I recall Jim McMahon was in the hospital with back pain and the Bears had a short week leading up to their Thursday Night game in Minnesota in 1985. The Bears trailed 17-9 in the third quarter when McMahon begged Mike Ditka to let him play. Ditka put McMahon in, and McMahon would throw touchdown passes on his first, second, and eighth plays. The Bears won, 33-24.
The Heidi game is my earliest sports memory. I was 4 years old and remember watching the game with my dad. I live in central CA in the Raiders' viewing market and we saw that game in its entirety. Lamonica connected with Davis for a long TD and on the subsequent kickoff, the Raiders recovered a fumble in the end zone for another TD. Two TD's in 9 seconds to blow open a close game. On a side note, I met Lamonica through my work 40+ years later. Super cool guy. I told him that he not only could suit up for the Raiders but would be an upgrade over the QB's they had at the time! (This was pre-Derek Carr.) He got a good laugh out of that one! RIP Mad Bomber.
@@jonrobles1468 I was only 2 years old myself but the more I found out about Darryl Lemonica the more impressed I was with his resume,definitely a Hall of famer.
@@jonrobles1468 'Lamonica connected with Davis for a long TD". Davis? Daryle Lamonica connected with Charlie Smith for a 43 yard TD and on the subsequent kickoff the Raiders scored a TD when a little used RB who played on the Special Teams unit scooped up the fumbled football at the Jets 2-yard line and fell into the end zone, that player was Preston Ridlehuber.
@@jonrobles1468 I can relate to those moments, I was 33 months old when the Heidi game was played and my family assured me when I was growing up that I was in the family room with the rest of my family while the game was on our "big screen" Television set, a 25 inch color console, I don't remember having watched the game but that TV would last another 6 years and to this day I will watch highlights of the game hoping to see something I haven't already seen hundreds of times.
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This video and the idea to do something on Daryle Lamonica was requested by a Patron in our highest tier! Members of this tier get to request a video topic once a month, and this was such a fitting topic to do to honor the legacy of such a great player. Click the link in the description if you want to join Patreon and join this tier!
Us: Say the line! Say it!
JG9 @ 13:30 "Which is worse than if you did nothing but spike the ball into the ground on every single play."
Us: YAAAAAAY!
Another incredible video about Daryle Lamonica. Sorry to have lost that great quarterback.
I too look forward to that line.
Lol me too but I love his content
@@LOS41510 Me too! JG9 videos are a part of my daily routine!
I was born right after the merger & I have always loved watching these old AFL clips. Loads of Hall of Famers, classic AFL team uniforms, Denver's orange pants, 60's Chargers unis, & of course the silver & black Raiders. Thanks JG9 for another great video.
You should check out "Full Color Football", it's a multi episode series of AFL highlights and insights into the "rival" league.
@@davidcobb2693 absolutely amazing! Great call. Thanks for reminding me. That was a lot of fun documentary.
@@christopherengel7436 You're welcome, I think the NFL Network should rebroadcast it during the long wait in between the draft and the opening of training camps.
As a Raider fan I never knew this about Lamonica. Players were tougher back then they are today and if they do play hurt and have a bad performance they get chastised by fans and the media. Another great video.
Surprised you never heard of Lamonica, but you're just young, no shame in that amigo. Daryl was talented, no doubt.
An arm like Marino, and a big, tough body like Pastorini.
@@67marlins I know of Lamonica but not of this particular performance under the circumstances he went through
@@vdubproductions2646 I think during the Playoffs around these years between the Jets and raiders, the raiders were playing their typical ghetto cheap-shot style of unsportsmanlike 'play', and the Jets decided it was payback time after Namath kept getting late-hit....
So even though Lamonica wasn't responsible, he probably got some late hits as New York was sending a message, period.
@@67marlins D-A-R-Y-L-E had a big arm long before Marino so if you're going to put them in the same sentence, Marino had an arm like Lamonica!
@@67marlins STFU! You obviously don't know what you're talking about, the Jets and Raiders only played each other in the playoffs ONE TIME, in the 1968 AFL Championship game, and in that game the Raiders were penalized 2 times for 23 yards, YOU DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING, PERIOD!!!
Lamonica was a great Raider before Ken Stabler arrived on the scene. He is also from Fresno, CA. Unbelievable.
Lamonica, Stabler, Plunkett, or Carr? Maybe Hostetler or Gannon? Palmer? Who would you say is the greatest QB in Raiders history?
@@gothard5 I think Carr will finally get the recognition he deserves this season. Gannon was a really great fit at the time. Hostetler and Palmer decent but how Carson couldn't make Randy Moss work is a mystery. But Lamonica is my favorite. Plunkett is a legend Stabler a legend and don't forget George Blanda also a legend.
the mad bomber
@@gothard5 The greatest Raiders QB is a tough one to call, Daryle Lamonica was the greatest deep passer in Raiders history and he guided the Raiders to 4 consecutive western division titles and to 4 consecutive league/conference championship games after those seasons, 1967-1970 but Snake Stabler took over the starting QB job in 1973 and took the Raiders to 5 consecutive AFC Championship games from 1973-1977 and he was the winning QB in his lone Super Bowl, Lamonica was 0-1 in the big game as was Gannon, Palmer? Uhm, NO! Same with Hoss but Plunkett's 2 Super Bowl titles tip the scales his way. Lamonica's career winning percentage is 2nd all-time to the legendary Otto Graham so it really is difficult to pick only one.
The Mad Bomber has never gotten the respect he deserves.
@@matthewdaley746 Yeah its like Drew Bledsoe with Brady.
Like Dan Fouts. Just never had that Super Bowl championship. Can't say I know much about the Raiders defense in this era, only that they had Ben Davidson. Football is a true team sport.
@@jackmessick2869 So true. The only 1 who managed to truly build a legacy without the ring was Marino.
I was around 10 when my Bills traded Lamonica to the Raiders. I’m still pissed they traded my future QB. R.I.P. Daryle “The Mad Bomber” Lamonica,
Guys like Lamonica, Willie Brown, and Cliff Branch were exactly the type of players Al Davis became obsessed with
I always wonder why the AFL could force a merger but whenever a new league pops up, they're not good enough for a merger. But the AFL had Al Davis. He made the difference
Even back pain couldn't stop the Mad Bomber.
Thank you for the great tribute. #RaiderNation
Awesome video--This type of video is exactly what makes this channel stand out among the rest.
this guy is boring
The audio cuts out for a bit after the line "the doctor said he couldn't do any more damage," what's the missing track?
@Official JaguarGator9?
I saw him late in his career I witnessed mostly Stabler and Blanda.
My dad was a huge DL fan (figures since my dad never missed a day of work sick until his early 60s). So, the Mad Bomber was well-known growing up in our house (made my dad a Broncos fan until we moved to Colorado). It's hard for people born in the last 30 years to understand how different football was back then and how Lamonica and Hadel were the Rodgers & Allen of their days. Always thought the HoF should be set up by decades, and more of the greats whose numbers are long since passed in today's game get their due. But sorry to hear he passed. Death comes for us all, but he left quite a legacy in the game and my childhood household.
I always found his career a mystery but upon further research he was definitely a Hall of Famer.
He has always had 2 strikes against him when it comes to the HOF. First, the fact that his best years were spent in the AFL and second is that the PFWAA has a decades long history of anti-Raiders bias!
@@davidcobb2693 That maybe true but how do you also explain Joe Jacoby and Mike Curtis also not being inducted with Curtis I heard he wasn't a Players union guy but so damn what! He was great.
@@karlcooper7016 Interior lineman are usually overlooked but in Joe Jacoby's case it could be his making only 4 Pro Bowls during his lengthy career, 12 years, Mike Curtis was "great" for maybe one year out of the 14 he played, 1968. 1968 was the only time he was a First-Team All-Pro and it was his first of 4 Pro Bowl years, his career basically fizzled out after his 10th season, his last 4 seasons were unremarkable.
@@davidcobb2693 Jacoby was "badass" dominant forget probowls for a minute because he was also on a great OLine but look up his highlights on Utube he may have been the best hog of all.
@@karlcooper7016 I don't have to look him up anywhere, you asked me why he and Mike Curtis are not in the HOF and I provided a very plausible answer, I'm not a member of the PFWAA so I don't have a say who gets in the HOF. I'd say Jacoby was better than Tony Boselli who's being inducted this summer.
Those eyes would scare the hell out of me if I were a lineman trying to sack him.
Id love to see Lamonica in the HOF
He resembled Jim Plunkett with those eyes peering out of that doubled bar helmet.
One of the greatest AFL qbs of all time. And seriously the Raiders had such cool nicknames. The Mad Bomber, Snake, etc...
Doctor Death, The Assassin and don't forget the collective nickname of the defensive backfield of Willie Brown, George Atkinson, Jack Tatum and Skip Thomas (Dr. Death), known as "The Soul Patrol".
Lamonica was the prototype quarterback for the Al Davis offence. I met him he was a cool guy and IMHO was a better quarterback than Joe Namath. RIP BOMBER!
Daryle Lamonica was the 1969 AFL MVP, 2 weeks after this game the Raiders hosted the Houston Oilers in a playoff game and Lamonica had 5 TD passes before halftime, he would throw his 6th TD pass in the 3rd quarter to give the Raiders a 49-0 lead en route to a 56-7 victory.
The teams he played on were very talented and the defense was awesome. Lamonjca is remembered as a great QB but in truth he was frustrating to watch he threw way too many ints. He had great games but he was erratic late and we always were glad when Blanda would rescue us. I was glad when they finally played Stabler after sitting for four years.
My boyhood hero ,I met him probably two years before he passed.....he was in tremendous shape ,I told him that he could play today.We talked about the game and how it's changed so much( you cannot even look at a QB sideways without getting flagged...when yo look at the stats of the QBs from the 60s and 70s they pale compared to the years that came after.Theres a reason for that... football was brutal then ,it's so tarnished now that it's laughable....for those who believe today's game is physical,you should have seen it then ...LaMonaco was fantastic,"The Mad Bomber "lives
Whenever I hear DL referred to as The Mad Bomber I hear it in the voice of the great John Facenda! 😎 RIP Daryl.
He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1963
But decided he had a better chance to start in Buffalo than Green Bay. Then Jack Kemp led the Bills to four straight playoff appearances and two AFL titles. Getting traded to Oakland saved Lamonica. After the 1966 season, the Bills collapsed into one of the worst teams in pro football. In 1968, the Bills were the worst team in pro football, playing in the worst stadium for the worst head coach. In 1968, Lamonica was AFL Champion and Super bowl bound.
@@tygrkhat4087 Daryle Lamonica joined the Raiders just prior to the 1967 season, Raiders went 13-1 advancing to the AFL Championship game, in 1968 he led Oakland to another AFL Western division title and to another AFL Championship game, in 1969 he did it again, division title and AFL Championship game appearance and in 1970 Daryle won a 4th consecutive Western division title, the AFC Western division as the rival pro leagues merged into one big NFL and what used to be called League Championship games became Conference Championship games and Daryle led the Raiders to the first ever AFC Championship game, the 4th consecutive championship game for the Raiders and Daryle Lamonica. Ken Stabler would establish a new record of 5 consecutive Championship game appearances beginning with the 1973 AFC Championship game and continued to the 1977 AFC Championship game.
A sneak attack by a Mad Bomber Raider made Sunday, December 7, 1969 a day of infamy for Cincinnati. It should be mentioned that Greg Cook was playing with an undiagnosed torn rotator cuff, and after the season finale a week later, threw just 3 passes--all in 1973--making him one of the saddest "what ifs" in football history.
I love the Raiders' 1970 uniforms, with the silver numbers on the white jerseys. And it's great to see footage of touchdowns where the player just tossed the ball to an official instead of doing a dance.
Please distinguish between "all-time" (more properly referred to as "career") records and single-season records. The record that Lamonica was shooting for in 1969 was a single-season record. He didn't have a great NFL career; he had a great AFL career, and three good years in the NFL. The calibre of play in the AFL was very good in its last few years; Hank Stram said after Super Bowl IV that he thought that any of the AFL's top three teams (Chiefs, Raiders, Jets) could have beaten the Vikings.
This. Is. The. Pain. Killer
Hey bro jg9 got a shirt concept for ya, you should make a shirt with historically bad qb performance Stat lines and qbr from both good and bad qbs with your quote of "that's worse than if he just spiked the ball into the ground on every play" that line is comedy gold to me lol
You mentioned the Bengals beating the Raiders in Week 8. The next week the Bengals tied the Oilers. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about that Bengals-Oilers game.
I wonder how many at the Raiders game went to the Altamont concert the day before.
That concert which was a disaster in which a man was stabbed to death near the stage by the Hells Angels who was doing security at the concert that was was a bad way to end the 1960s.
His winning percentage was above 700.
Until you've thrown out your back, you can't appreciate what a feat this. I've had a slipped disk in my back and I've accidentally stabbed my hand with a peering knife. If I had to pick one to have to go through again, in take the knife in a blink.
RIP DL
Live NFL TRIVIA EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT ON TWITCH!!!! Test YOUR football KNOWLEDGE and win CASH PRIZES. Well the FACT is that the Cincinnati Bengals AND the Oakland Raiders COMBINED are EASILY WAY BELOW a 39.6 and should be SPIKING the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play!!!
Look quickly and you can see future NFL color analyst Paul Maguire (#55) standing on the sideline without a helmet. 7:33
how did guys do this? sounds like the old stories of joe namath and his injuries
Strength of will.
did he tie the record the next game? why no mention? i liked lamonica because his named ryhmed with harmonica.
Daryle Lamonica threw one TD pass in the Raiders next game a 10-6 victory over the visiting Kansas City Chiefs to give him 34 TD passes for the 1969 season but the week after the Chiefs game the Raiders hosted the Houston Oilers in a playoff game and Daryle Lamonica had 5 TD passes before halftime, he threw his 6th TD pass of the game in the 3rd quarter to give the Raiders a 49-0 lead. they won 56-7.
The raiders only loss that year came in Cincinnati to the bengals
He's was running on adrenaline as well as pain killers.
Better living through chemistry!
Awful grounds crew in Denver in some of those clips. There are times when Madden video games had fields like that.
take notes, little ones. this a football god..not that two handed touch brady is accustomed to
My stupid Bills had the Mad Bomber, and played him as a back up to an aging Jack Kemp. They would bring him in, and he often won the game for them!
Then those idiots traded Lamonica for an aging, broken down Tom Flores..... :::crying::::
I live in Buffalo and grew up with the Bills but I fell in love with the Raiders. Lamonica gave back to Buffalo even after they traded him plus I got to see Charles Woodson and Tom Flores get inducted to the hall of fame.
You guys have a legit beast QB now who isn't in his prime yet. This is your guys' year to get a chip this year. You guys have gotten closer each year. And you have owners that have hired good football people and let them do their thing.
As I recall Jim McMahon was in the hospital with back pain and the Bears had a short week leading up to their Thursday Night game in Minnesota in 1985. The Bears trailed 17-9 in the third quarter when McMahon begged Mike Ditka to let him play. Ditka put McMahon in, and McMahon would throw touchdown passes on his first, second, and eighth plays. The Bears won, 33-24.
DOES THIS GUY EVER SHUT UP AND GET TO THE STORY. HE TALKS WAY TO MUCH. TAKES A 5 MIN STORY AND TURNS IT IN 15 AND MORE MIN.
It's like if you ask him what time it is, he will tell you how the watch was made.
@@davidcobb2693 got that right. long drawn out just makes him boring
The Heidi game and the bad back game are his claim to fame.
The Heidi game is my earliest sports memory. I was 4 years old and remember watching the game with my dad. I live in central CA in the Raiders' viewing market and we saw that game in its entirety. Lamonica connected with Davis for a long TD and on the subsequent kickoff, the Raiders recovered a fumble in the end zone for another TD. Two TD's in 9 seconds to blow open a close game. On a side note, I met Lamonica through my work 40+ years later. Super cool guy. I told him that he not only could suit up for the Raiders but would be an upgrade over the QB's they had at the time! (This was pre-Derek Carr.) He got a good laugh out of that one! RIP Mad Bomber.
@@jonrobles1468 I was only 2 years old myself but the more I found out about Darryl Lemonica the more impressed I was with his resume,definitely a Hall of famer.
@@jonrobles1468 'Lamonica connected with Davis for a long TD". Davis? Daryle Lamonica connected with Charlie Smith for a 43 yard TD and on the subsequent kickoff the Raiders scored a TD when a little used RB who played on the Special Teams unit scooped up the fumbled football at the Jets 2-yard line and fell into the end zone, that player was Preston Ridlehuber.
@@davidcobb2693you're right. Senior moment for me. Thanks!
@@jonrobles1468 I can relate to those moments, I was 33 months old when the Heidi game was played and my family assured me when I was growing up that I was in the family room with the rest of my family while the game was on our "big screen" Television set, a 25 inch color console, I don't remember having watched the game but that TV would last another 6 years and to this day I will watch highlights of the game hoping to see something I haven't already seen hundreds of times.
The funny thing is that Daryle was known as a 'soft' quarterback back then.
Really? Among Donkeys and Queefs fans but that's a product of jealousy and envy!
Raiders GOAT quarterback in my book