Sam Bam

[boston massacre]

Former USC and New England Patriots RB Sam Cunningham dies at 71

Cunningham rushed for 135 yards and scored two TDs in USC's win at Alabama in 1970. That was the last season Alabama didn't feature any Black players.

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[Heim]

Great power back with speed...He also initiated the dive over the line for a touchdown naturally called the 'Cunningham dive'....

I still think that '72 team was the best ever. The entire secondary went pro as did the linebacking core. I think Mike Rae was the QB.

 

[MrTop]

i looked back at football reference . It looks like 1976? Pats went from 3-11 to 11-3 ... i thought stabler beat them in playoffs..with a pass to clarence davis ??? i guess i am thinking of a different year. Yes the pats were good that year.

 

[Crazy Pete]

Raiders 16-1 that year, only loss a blowout loss during regular season to Pats.
Winning score was a 2 yard naked bootleg by gimpy legged Stabler diving into the end zone. Remember it well- I slammed my leg down in celebration, so hard it put a hole through the mobile home wood floor.
A little earlier, Raiders got a huge break on a roughing the passer call against (I think) Sugar Bear Hamilton, preventing a 4th & goal from the 8.
Aforementioned Mike Rae was their 3rd string QB.
Trivia note to Railbird: Rae was (is?) golf coach at Saddleback

 

[railbird]

qb guru bill cunerty was golf and OC of football at saddleback

 

[FairWarning]

Raiders 16-1 that year, only loss a blowout loss during regular season to Pats.
Winning score was a 2 yard naked bootleg by gimpy legged Stabler diving into the end zone. Remember it well- I slammed my leg down in celebration, so hard it put a hole through the mobile home wood floor.
A little earlier, Raiders got a huge break on a roughing the passer call against (I think) Sugar Bear Hamilton, preventing a 4th & goal from the 8.
Aforementioned Mike Rae was their 3rd string QB.
Trivia note to Railbird: Rae was (is?) golf coach at Saddleback

I remember that game, it was a iffy call on Hamilton.

Sam's younger brother wasn pretty good also - Randall Cunningham.

 

[boston massacre]

Raiders 16-1 that year, only loss a blowout loss during regular season to Pats.
Winning score was a 2 yard naked bootleg by gimpy legged Stabler diving into the end zone. Remember it well- I slammed my leg down in celebration, so hard it put a hole through the mobile home wood floor.
A little earlier, Raiders got a huge break on a roughing the passer call against (I think) Sugar Bear Hamilton, preventing a 4th & goal from the 8.
Aforementioned Mike Rae was their 3rd string QB.
Trivia note to Railbird: Rae was (is?) golf coach at Saddleback

a huge break on a roughing the passer call against (I think) Sugar Bear Hamilton,

Flag Thrown By Referee Ben Dreith.

Total Phantom Call.

Hamilton's Hand Never Touched Stabler's Helmut.

Dreith a Colorado West Coast Guy.

Biased Call

 

[John Kelly]

Great power back with speed...He also initiated the dive over the line for a touchdown naturally called the 'Cunningham dive'....

I still think that '72 team was the best ever. The entire secondary went pro as did the linebacking core. I think Mike Rae was the QB.

I faintly remember seeing highlights of Sam Cunningham launching himself over a pile of lineman on Monday Night Football halftime highlights with Howard Cosell on the narration.

The late Walter Payton copied and perhaps perfected the technique after Cunningham created the strategy.

 

[skinny]

a huge break on a roughing the passer call against (I think) Sugar Bear Hamilton,

Flag Thrown By Referee Ben Dreith.

Total Phantom Call.

Hamilton's Hand Never Touched Stabler's Helmut.

Dreith a Colorado West Coast Guy.

Biased Call

Ben Dreith, 15 yards for giving him the business.

 

[Crazy Pete]

a huge break on a roughing the passer call against (I think) Sugar Bear Hamilton,

Flag Thrown By Referee Ben Dreith.

Total Phantom Call.

Hamilton's Hand Never Touched Stabler's Helmut.

Dreith a Colorado West Coast Guy.

Biased Call

I was a HUGE 70’s Raiders fan (pre-Woke/BLM), & I thought the same thing when I saw the replay.
A forgotten aspect of that game is that the Patriots had the ball, 3rd down, 4-5 minutes left, Grogan threw to Russ Francis, and Raider defender Phil Villipiano committed the most flagrant face guarding penalty in the history of the NFL. I buried my head in my hands, waiting for the flag...that never came! I was pleasantly shocked. Francis went into an understandable tirade. HUGE play.
Also, Sugar Bear got an additional penalty for his tirade, moving ball to the 2 yard line.
I justified it as karma, makeup for a lot of anti-Raider calls from past years.

But yeah, not one but TWO crucial,
devastating botched calls near the end.
And I loved it

 

[boston massacre]

I was a HUGE 70’s Raiders fan (pre-Woke/BLM), & I thought the same thing when I saw the replay.
A forgotten aspect of that game is that the Patriots had the ball, 3rd down, 4-5 minutes left, Grogan threw to Russ Francis, and Raider defender Phil Villipiano committed the most flagrant face guarding penalty in the history of the NFL. I buried my head in my hands, waiting for the flag...that never came! I was pleasantly shocked. Francis went into an understandable tirade. HUGE play.
Also, Sugar Bear got an additional penalty for his tirade, moving ball to the 2 yard line.
I justified it as karma, makeup for a lot of anti-Raider calls from past years.

But yeah, not one but TWO crucial,
devastating botched calls near the end.
And I loved it

That Call Reviewable Today ?

Reviewable.

PATRIOTS WIN !