BRISTOL, Conn. - The highlights this time accompany what's known as "The Greatest Game Ever Played" - the 1958 NFL championship between the Colts and the Giants. The narration for the ESPN special on the 50th anniversary is typical Chris Berman, enthusiastic but not reverential, full of the shtick that has made him famous, complete with "rumbles, stumbles, bumbles and in this case, fumbles!
One of my few regrets in life "celebrates" its 50th anniversary today. I did not attend the Colts-Giants NFL Championship Game at Yankee Stadium on Dec. 28, 1958. Now I'm not alone in that regard. The attendance that day was 64,185, which meant millions of people across the country and billions around the planet did not witness the "Greatest Game Ever." But few were all set to make that attendance figure 64,186 before coming down with the flu a day before the game.
With its swirling, bitter winds, the New Jersey Meadowlands can be the most uninviting football environment known to fans, quarterbacks and kickers in November, December and January. Now the NFL is tempting the weather gods by booking its biggest game into the new East Rutherford, N.J., meat locker in February.
... why not let weather affect the world championship," says Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. That's a ...It's true that the 1958 NFL championship game between the Baltimore Colts ...
FIRST IMPRESSIONS I was lucky enough to meet Johnny Sample early in my sports reporting career. [...] Sample was at the school when a certain Hall Of Famer was there also.
... 2008, ESPN took a nostalgic look back at the 1958 NFL Championship Game between the New York Giants ...
The clock struck :00 in the fourth quarter and the Yankee Stadium scoreboard read Colts 17, Giants 17. Pat Summerall remembers turning to Kyle Rote and asking his teammate, "What do we do now?
... waters, the first overtime playoff game in NFL history. The players did not realize they w...'s 23-17 overtime win in that NFL Championship Game is credited with starting America's fascinati... Hall of Fame who participated in the 1958 NFL Championship Game:. Colts. QB John Unitas, RB ...
Villalon reviews The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL by Mark Bowden and A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL by Stefan Fatsis.
... Bowl fares better than other pro championships at their best. The fewest number of people to watc...
Nearly two weeks shy of its grand opening on LaSalle Road in Towson, Gino's Burgers & Chicken held a dress rehearsal Tuesday to the delight of dozens of former devotees of the legendary local chow. Former Baltimore Colts great Artie Donovan held court at tables in the restaurant located near the intersection of LaSalle and Joppa roads.
..., who played in arguably the greatest NFL game ever -- the 1958 championship game, Colts vs. the ...
It's difficult to compare wide receivers and quarterbacks from different eras. But one thing is certain: Raymond Berry and Marvin Harrison feel blessed to have played with outstanding Colts quarterbacks. Berry had John Unitas to get him the ball in Baltimore while Harrison had Peyton Manning in Indianapolis.
...1958 championship. Of course, Berry and Unitas were int... championship, often heralded as the greatest game ever played. The Colts' 23-17 sudden-death overtim...
JANUARY Rex Bowen, 93, baseball scout who signed Bill Mazeroski, Maury Wills and Dick Groat. Joined the Pittsburgh Pirates as a scout in 1950 and was promoted to scouting director in 1959. Was a special assistant to the general manager in Cincinnati from 1968-'90.
... with a Ferrari in 1955 and with a Cooper in 1958. Nelson Briles, 61, former big-league pitcher who ..., Mariners and USA Network's major-league game of the week from 1979- '85. Dick Weber, 75, one of...Outside" on Army's national championship football teams of the mid-1940s. A 5-foot-9, 170-p...
David Halberstam's distinguished career can be neatly divided into two halves. He was the self-described "serious journalist- historian of American politics" who, notably, documented how our gifted leaders bungled the Vietnam War ("The Best and the Brightest"). And he was the impassioned sports fan who attracted a different but equally devoted group of readers with his books about sports: "Summer of '49," for instance, the story of the pennant race between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. For Mr. Halberstam, writing about sports was a kind of working sabbatical, a chance to relax between more serious projects. (He relished meeting the athletes he had idolized growing up: He admits bragging at a dinner party of dignitaries about his interview with Ted Williams.) What Mr. Halberst...
... Giants quarterback, for a book about the 1958 NFL championship game. Suddenly, prematurely, he w...
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