NFL preseason games always feel like they are going to be so much fun to watch, and then I always get bored with them pretty quickly and end up doing something else with the flicker of the TV in the background. Maybe I'll work on this paint-by-number kit during today's game from the Yale Bowl.
I spent a fair amount of time in 2017 whipping up these NFL paint-by-numbers from YouTube screen shots and some online filter application (perhaps to some NFL preseason games in the background). Anyway, I really like this one of the Jets' Emerson Boozer.
Emerson Boozer (of Augusta, Georgia) ranked No. 22 in career rushing yards entering NFL75, right behind Clem Daniels and right ahead of Calvin Hill. No. 22 in career rushing yards today is LeSean McCoy, right behind O.J. Simpson and right ahead of Warrick Dunn.
I don't think that means much of anything, but I still think it's fun to think about. I sure like football, TV and the internet.
I just finished re-reading "Run to Daylight," which I think everyone should read just before the NFL kicks off.
ReplyDeleteI'm always impressed with how fast a reader you are! My daughter is a really fast reader, too. It takes me forever.
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I spent about 8,000 hours of my youth looking at these prizes.
Tiger Beat. August, 1975
1:33 PM · Aug 25, 2022
I, of course, hate the Jets, but it has been great to get to see in this exhibition Clarence "Jazz" Jackson, a second-year running back out of Western Kentucky. And it's fantastic to learn that there was apparently a radio station in Bowling Green that was at least monitoring the 1974 NFL draft and announced when the Jets selected Jackson, per an article last year by Jim Gehman for NewYorkJets.com:
ReplyDeleteWhen the NFL held its Draft on January 29 and 30, 1974, the weather may have been great in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the home of Western Kentucky University.
Senior running back Clarence "Jazz" Jackson was otherwise preoccupied and wouldn't have noticed.
"I sat in my dorm room (listening to the Draft on the radio) and they got down to the 14th and 15th round, and I was telling people, 'Man, I ain't going get drafted.' Then it came around to the 16th round and I was sitting there when I heard it," said Jackson, who was chosen by the Jets 395th overall. "I started crying. I was in my room all by myself anyway, but I was just so excited and overwhelmed that I had been drafted. I ran all through the dorm yelling, 'I've been drafted! I've been drafted!'
"I thank God every day for that moment. I didn't care what round I went in. I told some people that if I got drafted by anybody, I would make the team. They didn't believe me though."
Joe Namath has not played in this game, but Craig Morton, the Giants' starting quarterback, is still playing in the fourth quarter. The Giants are leading, 21-20. Morton's backup, Carl Summerell, was loosening his arm up until a few minutes ago, but then the Jets scored a touchdown and extra point to pull with one point, and Coach Bill Arnsparger (of Paris, Kentucky) elected instead to send back out Morton.
ReplyDeleteWell, Morton and the Giants have to punt back to the Jets, and then the Jets face a third-and-less-than-1 around midfield when the tape runs out. According to a YouTube user named "Eric Furman," there was no more scoring in the game, so the Giants ended up winning the last NFL game ever played in the Yale Bowl, 21-20, over the Jets. Thank you, "Classic NFL," for posting. That was a great thing to putter to.
ReplyDeleteIn 10 seasons with the Cowboys, Morton had a QB rating of 75.6, and Dallas went 32-14-1 in games where he was the starter.
ReplyDeleteIn 3 seasons with the Giants, Morton had a QB rating of 60.4, and the Giants went 8-25 in games that he started.
In 6 seasons with the Broncos, Morton had a QB rating of 79.1, and Denver went 41-23 in games that he started.