Browning Hall
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
Csonka, Warfield and Kiick. Good times. R.I.P.
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
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Memphis Grizzlies/Southmen, Csonka, Warfield & Kiick, Liberty Bowl Stadium, Memphis TN - Circa 1975
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holyterror
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
A particularly cruel disease, at an especially difficult time. Prayers going up on behalf of his family.
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
(06-20-2020 11:00 PM)Browning Hall Wrote: Csonka, Warfield and Kiick. Good times. R.I.P.
The big 3. Was a big deal at the time getting them to leave the NFL.
Wish the NFL would have given Memphis a franchise then.
After the WFL folded, Bassett kept the team together and on payroll for awhile.
I seem to recall an NFL season ticket pledge drive.
At that time, Memphis & Shelby County was still bigger and better than Metro Nashville.
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MemphisTigerPawr
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
(06-21-2020 09:02 AM)bluebacker Wrote: (06-20-2020 11:00 PM)Browning Hall Wrote: Csonka, Warfield and Kiick. Good times. R.I.P.
The big 3. Was a big deal at the time getting them to leave the NFL.
Wish the NFL would have given Memphis a franchise then.
After the WFL folded, Bassett kept the team together and on payroll for awhile.
I seem to recall an NFL season ticket pledge drive.
At that time, Memphis & Shelby County was still bigger and better than Metro Nashville.
Sigh
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
(06-21-2020 09:02 AM)bluebacker Wrote: (06-20-2020 11:00 PM)Browning Hall Wrote: Csonka, Warfield and Kiick. Good times. R.I.P.
The big 3. Was a big deal at the time getting them to leave the NFL.
Wish the NFL would have given Memphis a franchise then.
After the WFL folded, Bassett kept the team together and on payroll for awhile.
I seem to recall an NFL season ticket pledge drive.
At that time, Memphis & Shelby County was still bigger and better than Metro Nashville.
the NFL-A-Thon
Hosted by Brent and Phyliis
46,000 season ticket deposits, back when the Liberty Bowl might have been seen as viable by the NFL
Memphis' successful entry into the NFL back then would have completely changed the trajectory of Tennessee's two largest metro areas
the NFL is still king
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
Nashville sucks.
What an awful place. Good for a weekend maybe.
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
There should be two NFL teams in Tennessee, the Titans and the Blues. And Memphis should be in the same division as the Browns.
(This post was last modified: 06-21-2020 07:59 PM by Keeper.)
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
Saw another Grizzlie tonight in Midway.
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
I think I saw every home game. One game I was with a girlfriend and her parents on the press box side. Suddenly everyone was looking up behind us and the crowd stood as if they were doing the wave. It was Elvis up in the press box. When he waved as if he was leaving about 200 women hit the exits, knowing where the elevator came down. Some women came back and said he didn't get out of the elevator.
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
(06-22-2020 04:16 PM)Tiger46 Wrote: I think I saw every home game. One game I was with a girlfriend and her parents on the press box side. Suddenly everyone was looking up behind us and the crowd stood as if they were doing the wave. It was Elvis up in the press box. When he waved as if he was leaving about 200 women hit the exits, knowing where the elevator came down. Some women came back and said he didn't get out of the elevator.
yes
ironically, that game was the Memphis Grizzlies vs. the Charlotte Hornets,,,,classic
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
(06-21-2020 11:43 AM)k2tigers Wrote: (06-21-2020 09:02 AM)bluebacker Wrote: (06-20-2020 11:00 PM)Browning Hall Wrote: Csonka, Warfield and Kiick. Good times. R.I.P.
The big 3. Was a big deal at the time getting them to leave the NFL.
Wish the NFL would have given Memphis a franchise then.
After the WFL folded, Bassett kept the team together and on payroll for awhile.
I seem to recall an NFL season ticket pledge drive.
At that time, Memphis & Shelby County was still bigger and better than Metro Nashville.
the NFL-A-Thon
Hosted by Brent and Phyliis
46,000 season ticket deposits, back when the Liberty Bowl might have been seen as viable by the NFL
Memphis' successful entry into the NFL back then would have completely changed the trajectory of Tennessee's two largest metro areas
the NFL is still king
In Howard Cossell's book "I Never Played the Game" he says that Memphis was promised the next expansion franchise after being passed over for Tampa Bay and Seattle in 76.
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
(06-22-2020 04:43 PM)k2tigers Wrote: (06-22-2020 04:16 PM)Tiger46 Wrote: I think I saw every home game. One game I was with a girlfriend and her parents on the press box side. Suddenly everyone was looking up behind us and the crowd stood as if they were doing the wave. It was Elvis up in the press box. When he waved as if he was leaving about 200 women hit the exits, knowing where the elevator came down. Some women came back and said he didn't get out of the elevator.
yes
ironically, that game was the Memphis Grizzlies vs. the Charlotte Hornets,,en yards. ,,classic
I was at that game. After a Csonk carry the announcer said, "Tackle made by...the Charlotte Hornets." He carried three or four guys about an extra seven yards.
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k2tigers
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
(06-22-2020 04:57 PM)Tiger46 Wrote: (06-21-2020 11:43 AM)k2tigers Wrote: (06-21-2020 09:02 AM)bluebacker Wrote: (06-20-2020 11:00 PM)Browning Hall Wrote: Csonka, Warfield and Kiick. Good times. R.I.P.
The big 3. Was a big deal at the time getting them to leave the NFL.
Wish the NFL would have given Memphis a franchise then.
After the WFL folded, Bassett kept the team together and on payroll for awhile.
I seem to recall an NFL season ticket pledge drive.
At that time, Memphis & Shelby County was still bigger and better than Metro Nashville.
the NFL-A-Thon
Hosted by Brent and Phyliis
46,000 season ticket deposits, back when the Liberty Bowl might have been seen as viable by the NFL
Memphis' successful entry into the NFL back then would have completely changed the trajectory of Tennessee's two largest metro areas
the NFL is still king
In Howard Cossell's book "I Never Played the Game" he says that Memphis was promised the next expansion franchise after being passed over for Tampa Bay and Seattle in 76.
by Pete Rozelle
then along came Tagliabue and his upstart young intern, Roger Goodell. Memphis never stood a chance when it came to multi-city expansion derbies.
The two times we were the closest were the above mentioned Grizzlies/Southmen owned by Bassett, and then late Colts' owner Robert Irsay's move anywhere out of Baltimore. Memphis was thought to be the favorite by some.
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Browning Hall
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
(06-22-2020 10:34 PM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote: (06-22-2020 08:19 PM)k2tigers Wrote: (06-22-2020 04:57 PM)Tiger46 Wrote: (06-21-2020 11:43 AM)k2tigers Wrote: (06-21-2020 09:02 AM)bluebacker Wrote: The big 3. Was a big deal at the time getting them to leave the NFL.
Wish the NFL would have given Memphis a franchise then.
After the WFL folded, Bassett kept the team together and on payroll for awhile.
I seem to recall an NFL season ticket pledge drive.
At that time, Memphis & Shelby County was still bigger and better than Metro Nashville.
the NFL-A-Thon
Hosted by Brent and Phyliis
46,000 season ticket deposits, back when the Liberty Bowl might have been seen as viable by the NFL
Memphis' successful entry into the NFL back then would have completely changed the trajectory of Tennessee's two largest metro areas
the NFL is still king
In Howard Cossell's book "I Never Played the Game" he says that Memphis was promised the next expansion franchise after being passed over for Tampa Bay and Seattle in 76.
by Pete Rozelle
then along came Tagliabue and his upstart young intern, Roger Goodell. Memphis never stood a chance when it came to multi-city expansion derbies.
The two times we were the closest were the above mentioned Grizzlies/Southmen owned by Bassett, and then late Colts' owner Robert Irsay's move anywhere out of Baltimore. Memphis was thought to be the favorite by some.
We couldn't afford an NFL caliber stadium. Expanding the Liberty Bowl was akin to enlarging an over sized high school stadium. Skyboxs in the wrong spot. Pressbox sucked.
The original would be sweet right now. They mucked it up.
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
(06-21-2020 07:58 PM)Keeper Wrote: There should be two NFL teams in Tennessee, the Titans and the Blues. And Memphis should be in the same division as the Browns.
You're right
(This post was last modified: 06-23-2020 10:40 AM by gotigers1.)
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RE: Former Grizzliies player dies at 73
^^ love those goalposts!!
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