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Your Favourite American Football Pics/GIF's Etc Thread
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11-03-2012 11:11pm#1
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Derrick Mason, best receiver in Ravens franchise history scoring a TD
Three years ago when Chicago Bears came to Baltimore. The franchise offered to pay by the hour for labour and over one thousand people showed up and got the stadium cleared in time.
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Good idea
Couple of pictures I've always liked, the first being my favourite and the second being probably one of the most iconic football pictures of this century so far.
Eric LeGrand leads his team mates out onto the field after being paralyzed from the neck down a year earlier following a horror collision during a special teams play.0 -
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Actually this is probably more iconic than that VY photo.
ATLANTA - Imagine being that close. Everything you've played for in your career, all the work you put in that season, all about to pay off in the ultimate way. You have the ball, you see the end zone, you stretch out the ball, and ... nothing.
To many fans, Kevin Dyson is eternally stretching, reaching, straining. His image has been shown countless times, the ultimate picture of heartbreak. Dyson should be most famous for being on the receiving end of the Music City Miracle, but somehow his name often gets forgotten when that play comes up. But nobody forgets that Kevin Dyson was the man who was tackled one yard short of the end zone on the last play of the Super Bowl.
Of course, it wasn't Dyson's fault. After all, it was Rams linebacker Mike Jones who brought him down by the ankles, making the single greatest tackle in NFL history. Jones rightfully receives all the credit for saving the Super Bowl for the Rams. But all the images of the play show Dyson, stretching the ball out in vain. All you see of Jones is his helmet, maybe his arms. You see all of Dyson, all of his heartbreak.
Jones' tackle of Dyson overshadowed what had been a brilliant final drive by the Titans. After scoring 16 straight points to tie Super Bowl XXXIV, Tennessee watched St. Louis take the lead right back in only one play, as Kurt Warner found Isaac Bruce for a 73-yard touchdown with just under 2:00 to play. From there, Steve McNair took over, leading one of the greatest drives in Super Bowl history. Continually ducking out of sacks and scrambling away from pressure, McNair willed the Titans downfield with his arm and his legs. The defining moment came on the Titans' second-to-last play of the drive, when McNair scrambled both directions in the pocked, ducked out of two sacks, then found Dyson for a first down at the 10 yard line.
The Titans had time for one more play. McNair took the snap from the shotgun, dropped back, then hit Dyson on a slant pattern. Dyson was open and made the catch with only Jones to beat. Jones won.
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This one's famous outside of American football:
YA Tittle is the man in the photo, he has just thrown a pick-6 against the Pittsburgh Steelers and was concussed and cracked his sternum on the play. It's famous because Tittle, a hall of fame quarterback, realises that this will be his last season, and that his dream of winning an NFL championship is over.0 -
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Heavy wind bends goalposts in Buffalo:
i remember that game actually, pats won that 15-0 iirc
here's a couple of broncos ones that stand out:
Elway leads "The Drive":
Terrell Davis gets in for one of his three TDs in superbowl 32:
Probably my favourite :
The Helicopter: Elway gets 8 yards with a suicide dive on 3rd and 7 to set up Davis for the game winning touchdown in Super Bowl 32
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i remember that game actually, pats won that 15-0 iirc
I remember that game because Matt Cassell had a punt on 3rd down that caught the Bills unaware and the wind took it the length of the pitch, it closed out the game.
Found the highlights...punt at 3:30
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Nope, it did actually happen lads
The ref is Garth DiFelice and the game is the Rams V 49ers in 2008.
It wasn't a punch as such as it looks from the picture, but more the referee attempting to stop himself getting steamrolled by Kenneth Darby.
I've read that referee's have been taken shots from players for years and getting badly injured in the process, so I guess he can't be blamed for protecting himself, although it does look like they just both got in each others way too.
Have a look at the video below:
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Nope, it did actually happen lads
The ref is Garth DiFelice and the game is the Rams V 49ers in 2008.
It wasn't a punch as such as it looks from the picture, but more the referee attempting to stop himself getting steamrolled by Kenneth Darby.
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in fairness he put him down pretty easily!0 -
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poldebruin wrote: »Thanks Paully D. I love the one of the players sittong on the bench freezing - really shoes the type of game football was back in the day.
Can anyone tell me the team. It's great looking in the background to check out the old-stylee stadia too!!
That "old-style stadium" would be unmistakable one-and-only Yankees Stadium, which has the exact same roof style to this day!
That's a picture from the Giants - Browns back in 1958 - one of the bigger rivalries back then - here's another picture from that game and a nice write-up of it.
The battle for the NFL’s Eastern Conference had come down to the season finale on December 14, 1958 as the New York Giants hosted the Cleveland Browns at Yankee Stadium. The Giants were 8-3 and a game behind the 9-2 Browns. Thus, New York needed to win in order to force a playoff with Cleveland for the conference title. A loss or tie would propel the Browns into the championship game.
New York’s head coach was Jim Lee Howell, but he had two highly able assistants in Vince Lombardi to run the offense and Tom Landry to direct the defense. They were a solid, veteran club on both sides of the ball, featuring QB Charlie Conerly, halfbacks Frank Gifford and Alex Webster, OT Roosevelt Brown, and C Ray Wietecha on offense and DE Andy Robustelli, MLB Sam Huff, and safety Jim Patton on defense. However, they had played poorly in the preseason and got off to a 2-2 start in the regular season games before winning six of their last seven contests (one of their wins had been against the Browns in Cleveland).
As for Cleveland, Head Coach Paul Brown’s club featured second-year FB Jim Brown on offense, who had already broken the single-season rushing record. If teams concentrated too heavily on stopping him, rookie HB Bobby Mitchell made them pay with his outstanding outside running ability. Second-year QB Milt Plum was still something of a project, but the offensive line was a good one and the defense contained Pro Bowl-quality players in tackles Bob Gain and Don Colo, LB Walt Michaels, and HB Don Paul.
The Browns wasted no time in taking the lead as Jim Brown ran 65 yards for a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage. There was no further scoring until the second quarter, when Giants DE Jim Katcavage recovered a fumble at the Cleveland 38 by HB Lew Carpenter and the Giants capitalized as Pat Summerall kicked a 46-yard field goal.
The Browns responded with a 22-yard Lou Groza field goal that was set up by a 51-yard pass play from Plum to flanker Ray Renfro. Cleveland held a 10-3 lead at the half.
In their first possession of the third quarter, the Browns drove to the New York 13 yard line. But in a call that was heavily second-guessed afterward, Paul Brown chose to try a fake field goal. Holder Bobby Freeman attempted to run around left end but was tackled for a loss by LB Harland Svare. Instead of potentially taking a 13-3 lead (Groza had missed two earlier attempts, but this would have been from just 20 yards with the ball well placed at the center of the field), the margin remained seven points.
The teams traded punts after the failure on the fake. Now in the fourth quarter, and following a fumble by Plum that the Giants recovered on the Cleveland 45, New York came back with trickery of its own. End Kyle Rote had noted that the Browns were vulnerable to the halfback option pass because HB Don Paul and safety Junior Wren were quick to run up and defend against the sweep coming in their direction. On the first play following the fumble recovery, Conerly pitched to Gifford, who ran to his right on an apparent power sweep. The Browns defense shifted to stop the run, and Gifford fired a pass to Rote, who was finally brought down after a 39-yard gain to the six yard line. After two running plays into the line lost yardage, the Giants again ran the option play and Gifford threw to end Bob Schnelker in the end zone for an eight-yard touchdown (pictured below). Following Summerall’s extra point, the score was tied at 10-10.
The Browns, playing conservatively to run the clock down since a tie was as good as a win for their purposes, punted the ball back to the Giants. New York proceeded to drive from its own 30 to the Cleveland 25, but Summerall missed a 33-yard field goal attempt with less than five minutes to play.
The New York defense again forced the Browns to punt, but punter Dick Deschaine, who encountered a heavy rush, got off a poor 22-yard kick that went out at the Cleveland 43. The Giants misfired on three passes, including a long throw to Webster at the goal line that the halfback dropped and one to Gifford that was ruled an incomplete pass (although the Browns insisted afterward that it was a fumble).
With just over two minutes left, Summerall, who had suffered a knee injury in the previous contest against Detroit and was listed as doubtful in the week leading up to the game, kicked a 49-yard field goal through the snow for the winning points (pictured at top). The final score was 13-10, setting up the rematch at the same venue the following week.
The game had been a tough defensive struggle, and the two Cleveland turnovers, against none by the Giants, played a key role. The Browns outgained New York, 257 yards to 226. Jim Brown (pictured at right) accounted for 148 yards on 26 carries (bringing his record total to 1527), but other than the game-opening 65-yard score, the great fullback had been well defensed. Cleveland passed for just 107 yards, to 162 for the Giants.
“Imagine having to heat the Browns three times in one season to even get into the championship game,” said Jim Lee Howell. “Once is tough enough. Twice, and now again.”
In the rematch of the two 9-3 teams for the conference title the following week, the Giants defense shut the Browns down even more effectively and won, 10-0. They lost the NFL Championship game to the Baltimore Colts in a 23-17 overtime classic.
Pat Summerall, in his first year with the Giants after a season in Detroit and five with the Chicago Cardinals, was successful on 12 of 23 field goals in 1958, none bigger than the kick to beat the Browns. As he returned to the sideline following the climactic field goal, Vince Lombardi said to him, “You know you can’t kick a football that far, don’t you?”0 -
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It reminds me of my youth and watching NFL highlights on a Monday night, and this image reminds me of a game between the Broncos & the Giants at Mile High (not sure if this is the actual game tho).
I went and started a new thread for iconic images, doh.0 -
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The Patriots snow bowl - AFC Divisional Playoff game in 2002 vs Oakland. Down 13 - 3 Brady leads 4th quarter comeback to win the game in overtime. The picture captures Brady spiking, after he rushed for a TD to close the gap to 3 points. The game started him on the road the greatness.
'The Catch' - 1982 NFC Championship game between the 49ers and the Cowboys. Montana was on the verge of being sacked but bought time with a sweet pump fake. Dwight Clarke made a finger tip catch with 51 seconds left on the clock, to win a famous ding dong battle of a game.
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My mate took this in NY, 2 days after Tebow joined in the midst of Tebowmania.
I think its a great photo with the NY skyline in the reflection.
He also brought back a few papers with articles, commentary etc from the NY Post and Times. If anybody wants to see them let me know and ill pm them photo's of them.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyPq17pO7e8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-93Ogb5prA
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