>>>>>>After touring southern Wisconsin yesterday, returning my daughters to school, I caught up on three NFL football games on the recorder and noted a disturbing trend. Three of the league's most recognizable quarterbacks -- Aaron Rodgers, Eli Manning, and Jay Cutler -- are now wearing mustaches. Not that they are especially hirsute mustaches but given the popularity of the NFL it's inevitable that the look will trickle down. The male look of the 1970s may be coming back.
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>>>>>>You've been warned.
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>>>>>Does this mean that we can expect quarterbacks to begin wearing panty hose like Joe Nameth did? :)
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>>>>Joe was my favorite quarterback when I was a kid. He could get away with anything. It is still one of my favorite mysteries of sports that the wild child from Pennsylvania and the Alabama Bear collaborated so famously.
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>>>That's because the Alabama Bear sat him down a few times, including the Sugar Bowl.
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>>He was a tough old bird. Maybe Namath wanted a little of that.
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>There was a lot to respect about the Bear. He believed that you came to The University to play football, and by god you were going to play football. While other teams where winning with huge differences in score (I hesitate to say 'run up the score'), he'd put in his 2nd string. If the 2nd string was still scoring, he'd put in his 3rd string.
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>He's also the coach that integrated SEC football, tho he'd been trying for several years to recruit black players only to lose them to other universities that didn't sit in the middle of George Wallace's state.
Being a fourth generation San Franciscan, I could not understand the prejudice I experienced in the Southern states. Here is something about the University of San Francisco in 1951. By the way I met Bob St. Clair. He said it was nice to meet someone his size. I am 6’ 7” and he is 6’ 8”. I have a open invitation to visit him at his home. We went to the same High School. His major in college was Graphics Art. I can palm a basketball and his hand is 1 ½ times bigger than mine. You cannot tell anything by a mans size.
The 1951 University of San Francisco Dons football team, coached by Joe Kuharich, went undefeated, with a record of 9-0, and the team produced ten future NFL players (Ollie Matson, Gino Marchetti, Bob St. Clair, Dick Stanfel, Ed Brown, Lou Stephens, Burl Toler, Joe Scudero, Roy Barni, Mike Mergen, Merrill Peacock, and Ralph Thomas). Five became NFL Pro-Bowlers, and Gino Marchetti, Ollie Matson, and Bob St. Clair later were inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame—a record for one college team.
The team also had another first; Burl Toler became the first African American official in the NFL.[108] Future NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle played a role as the Dons' Athletic Publicist. At the height of their success, the team experienced one of the greatest snubs in college football history.
Due to the team having two African-American star players, Ollie Matson and Burl Toler, they were not invited to play in any of the college football bowl games hosted by the SEC (Southern Conference).[109] This resulted in the team being invited to the Orange Bowl without Toler and Matson. The team refused the invitation. Guard Dick Columbini said "'No, we're not going to leave ‘em at home’ ... ‘We're going to play with ‘em or we’re not going to play.’"[108] As a result of the team's refusal to play in the Orange Bowl, the USF Athletic Department was forced to drop its football program in 1952, due to a deficit in department funds.
