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2016 February -

Bill Goldthorpe was known as one of the fiercest, wildest enforcers ever to play professional hockey, though most of his career was spent in the minor leagues.  He was immortalized to some degree in the 1977 film Slap Shot starring Paul Newman, where the character Ogie Oglethorpe was based upon him.  In his prime, Goldthorpe was as volatile as nitroglycerin. He’d blow up and fight if someone so much as looked at him funny, even if the game hadn’t started, even if it meant going into the stands. It was all part of the rough-and-rumble 1970s, the golden era of...

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2016 February, Cowboys -

1975 was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Cowboys.  In 1974 they had missed the playoffs for the first time since 1965 and when the smoke cleared at the end of training camp in 1975, twelve rookies had made the team (this doesn't include Mike Hegman, who joined the team in 1976 and Jim Zorn who was cut at the end of camp).  This “Dirty Dozen” rookie class  included future All-Pros Thomas Henderson, Pat Donovan, Bob Bruenig, and Herbert Scott plus Hall of Famer Randy White. After finishing in second place to the 11-3 Cardinals, the 10-4 Cowboys...

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2016 February -

Super Bowl I, known originally as the First AFL-NFL World Championship Game, was played January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.  In an effort to commemorate the game, NFL Films worked to reassemble every play from the game despite having to cull the footage from over 20 different sources.  Although this game was not considered as important as the NFL Championship Game played two weeks before, Vince Lombardi was very nervous at the potential of losing to an AFL team.  The 'old guard' of the NFL was putting pressure on Lombardi – not only to win – but...

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