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Today in Sports History: December 6th
(Testaverde goes down well before reaching the end zone. Screen cap by CBS) 12/06/1979 - Dawkins breaks backboard again Three weeks after he broke a backboard in a game at Kansas City, Darryl Dawkins does it in front of the hometown fans in Philadelphia. Unlike his first backboard-breaking dunk,...
11/17/1968 - The Heidi Game
(Daryle Lamonica lines up towards the end of the game. Screenshot from NBC) The year was 1968. A minute and five seconds remained in the fourth quarter between the New York Jets and Oakland Raiders. It was close throughout, and Jim Turner had just kicked a 26-yard field goal to give the Jets a...
1/12/1969 - Broadway Joe upsets the Colts
(Namath throws during Super Bowl III. Photo by Walter Iooss Jr., Getty Images) Three days before the kickoff of Super Bowl III, Jets quarterback Joe Namath was accepting the AFL MVP at a Miami Touchdown Club dinner. A Baltimore Colts fan interrupted the celebration and heckled that the Colts were...
Throwback Uniforms: Oilers and Jets (1962)
In Week 3 of the NFL season, the 2-0 New York Jets met up with the 0-2 Tennessee Titans. As a part of the AFL Legacy program, both teams wore one of their classic jerseys from back in the day. The Titans wore a uniform from when they were the Houston Oilers, and the Jets wore a uniform from back...
2/11/2009 - Favre announces second retirement
(Favre in a game in Miami. Photo by Marc Serota, Getty Images) Brett Favre announces his retirement from the NFL... for the second time. The longtime Packers quarterback had retired eleven months earlier, only to change his mind, un-retire, and negotiate his way onto the roster of the New York...
3/04/2008 - Favre announces brief retirement
(Favre at his retirement press conference. Photo by Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images) There have been many athletes who came back after announcing their retirement. What makes Brett Favre's volte-face so infamous is that he didn't even sit out a year; only a few months after his ultimatum, he was...
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