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Re: 2019 Obituaries

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:48 am
by Eagles One
TodMaher wrote:
Eagles One wrote:Dave Parks, former split end, tight end and wide receiver with the San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers died on July 8th, at the age of 77:


https://www.lubbockonline.com/news/2019 ... dies-at-77
He died on August 8th not July 8th.
Corrected

Re: 2019 Obituaries

Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 12:58 pm
by Eagles One
Cedric Benson, former running back with the Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals and Green Bay Packers died on August 17, at the age of 36 (motorcycle accident):


https://www.tmz.com/2019/08/18/cedric-b ... cle-crash/

Re: 2019 Obituaries

Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 2:08 pm
by dfen
Mike McGee, St. Louis Cards 1960-1962 on 8/16/2019 at 80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_McGe ... _football)

Re: 2019 Obituaries

Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2019 6:48 pm
by Eagles One
Jack Whitaker, longtime broadcaster who called Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants games, as well as Super Bowl 1 (1967) died on August 18, at the age of 95:


http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300000 ... asses-away

Re: 2019 Obituaries

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:12 pm
by BD Sullivan
Jim Hardy, who played for the Rams, Cardinals and Lions, died on Friday at the age of 96:

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/spor ... 84441.html

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... rdJi00.htm

Re: 2019 Obituaries

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:57 pm
by Eagles One
BD Sullivan wrote:Jim Hardy, who played for the Rams, Cardinals and Lions, died on Friday at the age of 96:

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/spor ... 84441.html

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... rdJi00.htm


Record holder for most interceptions thrown in one game with 8.

Re: 2019 Obituaries

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 9:39 pm
by Rupert Patrick
Eagles One wrote:
BD Sullivan wrote:Jim Hardy, who played for the Rams, Cardinals and Lions, died on Friday at the age of 96:

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/spor ... 84441.html

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... rdJi00.htm


Record holder for most interceptions thrown in one game with 8.
Which is on the list of records that will never be broken.

Re: 2019 Obituaries

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:34 pm
by BD Sullivan
Rupert Patrick wrote:
Eagles One wrote:
BD Sullivan wrote:Jim Hardy, who played for the Rams, Cardinals and Lions, died on Friday at the age of 96:

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/spor ... 84441.html

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... rdJi00.htm


Record holder for most interceptions thrown in one game with 8.
Which is on the list of records that will never be broken.
In his first NFL game no less. It came against an Eagles team that had just gotten humiliated by the Browns in the 1950 opener:

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... 240crd.htm

Re: 2019 Obituaries

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 3:17 pm
by JohnH19
Eagles One wrote:
BD Sullivan wrote:Jim Hardy, who played for the Rams, Cardinals and Lions, died on Friday at the age of 96:

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/spor ... 84441.html

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ ... rdJi00.htm


Record holder for most interceptions thrown in one game with 8.

It would be neglectful if we didn’t also mention that Hardy threw 6 TD passes the following week.

Re: 2019 Obituaries

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:57 pm
by John Maxymuk
A rare BD error. Hardy came into the league in 1946 so the 8-pick game was not his first outing.