The Philadelphia Eagles stymied Patrick Mahomes, sacking him 6 times and getting 2 interceptions that yielded 14 points, and ripped the Chiefs (a second time Mahomes and Company were routed in a Supe by great defensive play, as “T.B.” (Tampa Bay) with T.B. (Brady) as their Q.B. did so in ’20, but alas K.C. and Mahomes/Reid have 3 close Supe wins) to win their second Supe in 8 seasons and moved past the Chiefs and Lions, by winning their 5th NFL crown.
Philadelphia the city was (2-10) in final round entities after the Sixers won the ’83 NBA title.
Make that (3-10) now. Look back, I said the Chiefs would not match Lombardi’s Packers with a third straight title.
However, it is hollow and one can not be sure of anything, though most of my real sports convictions were right, but only if they did not really matter.
They do not in any case.
Cooper DeJean had an interception return TD while Zach Baun, evoking Maxie Baughan of the title winning ’60 Eagles, the only team to deny Lombardi in an ‘offs tilt, had a big “int” at the K.C. 13 that led to a Jalen Hurts to A.J. Brown TD, helping Lombardi remain the only coach with 3 straight NFL crowns won in games. (The ’29-’31) Packers with the great Don Hutson as a player and Curly Lambeau as coach also won 3 straight NFL titles, however, before the first NFL title game was played in 1933
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Zach Baun, pictured above.
Philadelphia major sports league teams (the 4 current and the former ones, the Athletics and Warriors), have made 37 final round entities (in football 4 NFL “all the way” title games and now a 5th Supe), going (17-23) in previous such.
The glorious, great and largely forgotten (they also had far more bad years but they were truly the “little girl with the curl”) Philadelphia Athletics were (5-3) in World Series play, the current baseball team the Phillies are (2-6).
Once Philadelphia had the Warriors before they moved to the West Coast really S.F./Oakland Bay Area, beginning with the 1962-1963 NBA season. That team won the first NBA crown in 1947 and another in 1956 while losing in such to the defunct Baltimore Bullets, coached by Buddy Jeannette in 1948.
Hockey’s Flyers won their first two Cup Final rounds, their last two wins, having lost in 5 straight final round appearances.
Football’s Eagles “go in” (4-4) in final round entities, (3-1) in all the way NFL title tilts (wins in their last 3 in ’48,’49 and ’60 after losing to the lone Cardinals’ franchise title team in ’47) but only (1-3) in Super Bowls, including a (38-35) really tough loss to today’s opponent, the current two time champion, Kansas City Chiefs.
Jimmy Dykes, pictured above, was a major contributor to the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics’ title team. He also was on the ’30 champions and the ’31 team “Pepper’d” by John “Pepper” Martin and the Cards in the ’31 W.S.
Philadelphia up (2-1) in the ’29 W.S. certainly appeared headed for (2-2), trailing the Cubs (8-0), before they scored 10 runs (B7) to win game 4 (10-8). Dykes had the big hit though the superb Baseball Reference credits such to Jimmy Foxx.
In 1929, Dykes had a career-high .327 batting average and was ninth in the American League in slugging, helping the Athletics win their first American League pennant in 15 years by 18 games over the New York Yankees of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.[1] He was one of six Athletics players to post batting averages above .310 during the 1929 season.[1] Dykes capped the season by hitting .421 in the World Series against the Chicago Cubs; in Game 4, he had two hits and three runs batted in in a 10-run seventh inning as Philadelphia overcame an 8–0 deficit, and went on to win the Series in five games.
Nowadays, this one a day before the 59th such, “ching-a ling” factors yields a more lasting memory of that tilt’s first touchdown scorer.
One such player, a truly legendary college receiver and fine one in “el” pros, Howard Twilley died yesterday at age 81, “el numero” he wore both with Tulsa University where he and quarterbacks Jerry Rhome and later Billy Anderson, performed “ahead of their time” pass play feats and the 2 time champion Miami Dolphins.
Though I think the ’73, one meaningful loss, Dolphins were even better than the undefeated ’72 team, the latter remains the only undefeated title winning team in the 92 year history of the N.FL. crowning champions in title games.
It was in the game for the championship, in that undefeated (17-0) ‘Phins ’72 season, that Howard Twilley made a great move on the fine then Wash defensive back, the diminutive, but so hard hitting and excellent, Pat Fischer, before Bob Griese hit him for the game’s opening score, as Miami doubled “Wash” (14-7) in that ’72 season Supe.
In college, teaming with Rhome and then Anderson in ’65 when he finished second to Mike Garrett of U.S.C. in Heisman Trophy balloting, Twilley set receiving records, his exploits echoing out to young fans such as me, in those better days of imagination and not every tilt shown, most needing pay.
Click above to view Howard Twilley taking in a Bob Griese touchdown pass to open the scoring in the Dolphins (14-7) win vs “Wash” that completed their (17-0) season with the NFL crown.
Three years earlier, the aforementioned Mike Garrett scored the first touchdown in the ’69 season Supe, doing so for the Chiefs in an eventual (23-7) victory.
Kansas City, which once, ever so briefly housed NHL and for a little longer an NBA team it shared with Omaha (Nebraska), has only 2 major sports league teams, the 2 time defending champion Chiefs, who seek an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl game win, now just 3 days hence (11 days of the hype “rear viewed”– cue Jimmy Stewart, and not to pitch steel belted radial tires) and the baseball Royals.
K.C. is one of the few cities (territories anybody?), to have all its major sports league teams having either above break even or break even records in their final round entities.
The Chiefs are (4-2) in previous “Supes” (3-1) under Reid and (5-2) in games for all the way crowns, having 2 “ot’d” the then Houston Oilers (now the Tennessee Titans) when as the Dallas Texans and in that name and city’s last tilt, they won (20-17) in the ’62 AFL title tilt, clinching– on Tommy Brooker’s game ending field goal.
Baseball’s Royals won World Series crowns 30 years apart in 1985 and 2015 while losing to the Giants in 2014 and to a Philadelphia team, the Phillies, who that year won their first crown in 77 possibilities (1903-1980, no World Series in 1904).
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?!
