06-27-2017, 03:06 PM
(06-27-2017, 11:35 AM)sandwedge Wrote: You will need your "way back" machine for this one. Mine is a game in the 70's between the Browns and Bengals. Pat MacNally who played TE and was our punter at the time getting completely knocked out by Tom Darden, I think, on a pass route and still managing to hold on to the ball for 1st down. They carry him off to the sidelines, give the guy some smelling salts and send him back in! The way he laid on the field, all crumpled up, you'd thought he was dead. Instead he goes on to punt and I even believe he caught the game winner or some crazy sh*t like that.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEGBmI7mUZY
That was 1980, the last year of the old uniforms. That's my most vivid memory, that hit over the middle. When they got McInally to the sideline and had taken his helmet off, he was as pale as a ghost and his head was bobblin' around like a bobble head. He came back in the second half and caught a bomb and rolled over the Browns defender for the touchdown. I still think the Bengals lost the game though
. In today's game Pat would probably miss 2-3 weeks with the concussion protocol. My best Bengal memory hasn't happen yet, waiting on the Vince Lombardi trophy. I hope I live long enough to see it; but if I had to pick something from the past it be the "freezer bowl" or when Sam used to run the score up on the Houston Oilers.
