TWIPF 1973 Week 10

[@tommythomason6187]

Some good football games that week. That Green Bay/Patriots game, Broncos/Steelers, and Browns/Raiders were hard-hitting, intense contests. Looks like the Broncos worked hard preparing for tough Pittsburgh. Seems rare that teams could run on the Steel Curtain like the Broncs did here. And, the most aggressive Browns defensive play I'd seen up until then. They were gang tackling.

[@aaarauz1]

Probably why Pittsburgh loaded up on better LBs.

[@westy40]

Jubilee Dunbar, a name from the past!!

[@stevereber]

Awesome 😎

[@jeffs3752]

Cardinals QB Gary Keithly played one season in the NFL. He started 2 games, completed 43% of his passes for 1 TD and 5 INTs. QB play was so bad in the old days. Norm Snead managed to have a 17 year career despite throwing 60 more INTS than TDs and losing 65% of his starts. The League has come a long way since then.

[@jstube36]

It was a different game 50 years ago. The League was not anti-defense then. Even the best QB threw good number of INT's. Defense was allowed to play defense. The WR had to earn his football. in the 70's Coverages cut off the deep pass. A 300 yards passing day was a feat in those days. It wasn't so much that passing was off. It was the defense that dictated things. That all started to change in 1978. Since then the watering down of defense and contact has gotten worse.

[@mckman6700]

@@jstube36 Offense gets a bigger TV audience which means more $$$ for everyone which means it's easier to play QB/WR now than ever before

[@macofalltrades6396]

Norm Snead played for two of the worst teams of all time - the 1968 Eagles and the early 60s Redskins - as well as the 1973 Giants and the mid-70s 49ers. All of those teams were legitimately terrible. The fact that he was able to coax the moribund Giants to an 8-6 record in 1972 earned him Comeback Player of the Year; in reality, it should have gone to the team. They spent the next two years playing home games in the Yale Bowl, losing all of them in 1974. Snead was a good quarterback who couldn't catch a break. Roman Gabriel couldn't make winners of the Eagles, Craig Morton and Fran Tarkenton couldn't elevate the Giants, and Sonny Jurgensen couldn't turn the Skins into winners.

[@laurala101]

There should be more players in the hall of fame.

[@JohnHoffman-ws9cd]

I agree! They are putting dudes in from the 1990s. What is that? Straight garbage!