It seems they did not know it at the time but of course September 29, 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers at Philadelphia (Phillies) and New York Giants hosting the Pirates (Pitts a burgh), tilts were the last for the Dodgers as Brooklyn and the Giants as New York, respectively.
Some notes follow:
Phils’ first and two prominent ’62 Mets, the year the National League returned to N.Y. , Rich Ashburn batting and Roger Craig pitching.
Elsewhere at the venerable Polo Grounds, Bob Friend and the Pirates are on their way to victory. Baseball in New York had its new ballpark opening in April 1964 (Shea Stadium).
In that game the great Wilver Darnell Stargell, not yet a “Bucco” player in ’57, homered and Friend got the win, another in a first/last Pitts vs N.Y. team, game of note.
Most of the Dodgers players work in the off season, a far cry from today’s such, who begin the L.A. version’s 68th season as world title winners for the 8th time in franchise, 7th time in L.A. and 5th time in a complete L.A. season.
Their pitching coach, Joe Becker will train mules and some years before their greatness as pitchers, both Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale will be in the Army until April 1958, by then aware their team is in Los Angeles.
Roger Craig pitched for both the Dodgers (as Brooklyn and L.A.) and Mets. He also managed the San Francisco Giants, that is where the Giants moved, to their first pennant in 27/Juan Marichal years in 1989.
Ah some football as the closest a team came to appearing in a third straight Super Bowl as two time champions, something the Chiefs have accomplished, was the ’90 season when the 49ers were denied in the NFC title tilt/NFL semi by another team called the Giants, the New York football (Giants).
Namesake of Craig, Roger Craig an excellent player and two time Supe champion with the Niners did commit a horrible turnover on yet another great play by one of the greatest in any sport, Lawrence Taylor, leading to a Giants win that denied S.F. a chance to win a third straight crown.
Someone in “Comments” writing about a superb, 1962 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, impressed with a great note that I will insert later.
Tony Randall stars and excels as an advertising executive who is an alcoholic. Jayne Mansfield, less than 5 years before her tragic death and in the episode which aired a scant 4 months after Marilyn Monroe died, gives an excellent performance.
Most times, Mr. Hitchcock joked in some manner before and after episodes of this great show. After “The Hangover,” he not only refrained from doing so, but also cited alcoholism as the serious problem it always will be. He also passed on humor and commented on the serious problem of juvenile delinquency in another episode.
Below the anonymous comment/excellent note. However, the movie with Lemmon was “Days and Wine and Roses,” released in December, twenty days after the episode aired. It was 10 years until Lemmon’s magnificent performance, not as an alcoholic, in “Save The Tiger.”
Yet thanks for the IMDB comment below, mistakes and all.
Very well done. If there were any sort of ironies is that the other Felix Unger, Jack Lemmon from the film version, just a few years later played a hapless drunk in ‘Save the Tiger’. Randall was at his best in this episode.
Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall are pictured above.
Both the Kansas City Chiefs, who also won an all the way (cue Eric Carmen, whom we lost in the last year and “The Raspberries”) AFL crown in their last season as the Dallas Texans in 1962 and Philadelphia Eagles have won 4 NFL crowns.
One or the other will take a 5th, not on the witness stand, but if the Chiefs in Super Bowl wins while the Eagles are seeking their second Supe title to go along with NFL title game wins in 1948, 1949 and 1960.
K.C. is (4-2) in previous Super Bowl games, (3-1) under current coach Andy Reid, who is (3-2) in such tilts.
Philly is just (1-3) in previous Supes, winning under recently fired as Jacksonville Jaguars coach, Doug Pederson in ’17 while losing under Dick Vermeil who imposed New Orleans curfews in ’80, Reid in ’04 and to Reid under current coach Nick Sirianni (38-35) 2 years ago after the 2022 season.
That is Frank Pitts, a major factor in the Chiefs’ (23-7) win vs the Vikings in the fourth Super Bowl, three years after the Packers, up only (14-10) at the half with a key Willie Wood interception return, beat K.C. (35-10) in the first of what has grown exponentially–Super Bowl.
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A great episode of “Gunsmoke,” with guest star Carroll O’Connor, that aired on October 30, 1967, three plus years before Mr. O’Connor and the seminal show, “All In The Family” debuted, also stirs memories of another time an NFL team bid for three straight titles.
Both “Gunsmoke,” and “All In The Family” aired on CBS with each ranking as one of the network’s all-time most popular, if not great shows. Certainly “All In The Family” led by the superb O’Connor, a great cast all under the leadership of now 100 year old and “treasure,” Norman Lear was among television’s greatest and most important shows.
“Gunsmoke,” certainly had great episodes, one being “Major Glory,” which originally aired on Monday night October 30, 1967, with guest star O’Connor leading the way.
Victor French in a guest role and series regular Ken Curtis, who played “Festus Haggen,” stood out in the episode.
Here’s one that “returned” to me and likely only me. I did need to certify certain facts and in doing so I came across a fine retrospective and discovered information about a book, each through the efforts of writer Bob Fox.
I recalled a Halloween (or close to) Monday night tilt, involving the Packers in which Travis Williams had a kickoff return touchdown. Sure enough, it was on October 30, 1967 (Packers 31 Cardinals then in St. Louis where the game was played that night, 23) airing on CBS after “Gunsmoke.”
Only I link touchdown returns, the aforementioned one by Travis “The Roadrunner” Williams, the first of four in that still (the Chiefs are the first team since to be one win from doing same), unprecedented 3rd straight title, via a title game win, season by the Packers that aired after Mr. O’Connor in “Gunsmoke” and another “return.”
The other being, a “real life,” (I believe) punt return touchdown by Alvin Hammond, that as “Archie Bunker,” Mr. O’Connor once referenced on “All In The Family.”
The great Carroll O’Connor, pictured above in a role on “Gunsmoke.”
Click below to read an outstanding and helpful article about the October 30, 1967 Pack/Cards game written by Bob Fox.
Mr. Fox also has written a book about the great Green Bay Packers’ guard, Jerry Kramer.
Halloween Eve in 1967: The Green Bay Packers Get a Return on Investment
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A few weeks into the 2024 NFL season, the certainly historic Athletics’ baseball franchise, one whose highs and lows were epic, played their last game in a city (Oakland) for the third time.
The cities involved in previous last A’s/Athletics games, Philadelphia and Kansas City, will have representative teams meet, with the NFL crown on the line for a second time in 3 seasons/2 years on the calendar, and for a third time in a major North American sports league final round. (Philadelphia, which lost a highly competitive Supe 2 years ago with its Eagles, vs the current two time champion, incredible winners in close tilts, Chiefs, won the ’80 World Series 4 games to 2 with its Phillies, vs the K.C. Royals).
The Eagles taking advantage of 5 “Wash” turnovers” rode 3 rushing TD’s apiece from Saq Barkley and Ja Hurts to a (55-24) NFC title game victory.
They are now (4-0) in such games, when current Chiefs coach and 3 time Super Bowl winning coach Andy Reid was not their coach in said game. Phil was just (1-4) in such games under Reid.
A close Chiefs win vs the Bills in the ‘offs (3 of the 5, all in the last 4 seasons and in 2 straight seasons, K.C. is (5-2) vs Buff. in ‘offs tilts) yields some details here. In effect, while difficult, some “Hail to the Chiefs” is in order.
Of course Mahomes, he with 3 crowns (NFL variety), and not so appealingly, a la Curry, who has 4 crowns (titles, I do not know what is in his mouth), plays and more relevant, is shown “playing” with his mouth retainer, was brilliant, severely outplaying Allen, the latter below par for a third straight Bills ‘offs loss, after playing great, finding Gabriel Davis for an ‘offs record 4 TD’s (one to tie and three to give “Buff” the lead), in a heartbreaking “slots 4” loss at K.C. in ’21, running for 2 TD’s juxtaposed with Allen being stopped on myriad key plays.
Add in this “hail,” Butker, an all-time great “booter,” who no matter how hard I try to “jinx” him, does not miss and credit must be given him!!
I will add the obscure Samaje Perine, taking the “wrap up” Mahomes short pass as well as Kareem Hunt, no relation to Lamar and Clark, who “first td’d” for a second straight game.
That is the great hockey player, Dave Keon, a key member of 4 Toronto Maple Leafs’ title teams, for so long now the last 4, pictured above.
Sure it is a tangent, however, 50 years ago, (’72-’74) the Oakland Athletics won 3 straight World Series.
Go back 10 years from that and the Maple Leafs, who last even made the NHL final in ’67 when they did “6” then great Montreal (Canadiens), won NHL titles (’62-’64).
Will K.C. also make it three?!
Before we sing the well deserved praise for the great player, Patrick or Pat Mahomes, the three TD’s scored by both Saq Barkley (maybe he and Phil can overcome the non title Barkley association, maybe) and Ja Hurts matched the three scored by “Automatic” Otto Graham in the ’54 title game/NFL final.
Alas Otto scored 2 more the next year (’55) and the Browns, Otto’s team had 2 straight titles.
Yesterday was a “mere” semi and speaking of 55, doing it in a semi is not doing it in the final a la the ’89 Niners, who until yesterday were the 2 time Supe champion to have gone the furthest (farthest) in a bid for an unprecedented 3rd straight Supe win, who hit 55 in routing Denver, then (0-4) in Supes and now (3-5).
It is the Chiefs, in an unprecedented 5th Super Bowl in 6 seasons, who have a chance at winning an unprecedented third straight.
In the (32-29) K.C. win a 4th in 5 seasons, 3 straight years, KO of Buffalo, the one and only Mahomes ran for a TD and threw for 2.
Jerry Rice was on “just” 3 of the 5 Niners’ title teams (’81-’94).
The 59th Super Bowl will be a rematch of the teams in the 57th, again to be TV’d/piped by Fox, as after Philly (Eagles) ripped Wash (55-23), the Chiefs qualified for their third straight Supe, (they won the last 2), winning (32-29) vs the Bills.
K.C. which beat the Eagles by 3 in that ’22 season Super Bowl will be/is a slight, certainly less than the key #3, “fave” in the tilt, which has the ridiculous hype awaiting us in the upcoming 2 week wait period.
One review and maybe more details will folla (ode to Robert Shaw, but the Bills who once had a Billy Shaw, have again failed, most notably doing so on huge 3rd and 4th down plays) is Philly’s Jalen Hurts scored thrice, Patrick Mahomes did so twice while Bills QB, Allen did not score, failed on 2’s and other 3rd and 4th downs.
The great Patrick Mahomes is pictured above.
Jannik Sinner won his second consecutive Australian Open Tennis title and third major tournament (3-0) in such), as he won the men’s part, in straight sets (all 3) vs Alexander Zverev, who still has never won a major tennis event.
Not so Madison (Maddy) Keys, who took her first such crown, first semi-ing Iga Swiatek in a big upset and then doing the same as not quite as big but still sizable “u/dog” vs two time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka in the final round.
Sinner is clearly the men’s top ranked player, especially hard to beat on hard surfaces, those being such at both the Australian and United States Opens.
Jannik Sinner, pictured above.
Once again in Sunday’s conference title games, both the Philadelphia Eagles and their one time coach, now with 3 titles and as the Kansas City Chiefs head coach, Andy Reid, will be at home in such a game.
Reid’s Chiefs’ teams, somewhat incredibly, are not only in their 7th straight AFC title game but also their 6th at home, among those seven. They are (4-2) in the previous, followed by a fine (3-1) Super Bowl record.
The Eagles, who were (1-4) when coached by Reid in conference title games, (1-2) at home), will be in their eighth such game, all but the two under Reid, at Philly. They are (3-0) in non Reid home NFC title/NFL semis games.
Going back, the Eagles played in 4 semis or later/not neutral field games within 3 seasons, (’47-’49), winning three, doing so in two of the three road games.
Why not the great “Greyhound” Bob Dandridge, pictured above with the ball.
In the only previous “semi” or later contested between Washington and Philadelphia teams, Dandridge severely outplayed Erving in the Bullets’ 6 game series win, which was followed by a 7 game triumph vs the Seattle SuperSonics (now the Oklahoma City Thunder) to notch their lone NBA crown.
I believe John Drew, a fine scorer, is guarding Bobby D (ode to a great broadcaster Mel Proctor) while the classy, superb player, Wes Unseld of the Bullets, is seen in the backround.
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