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@KevG163
"Happy 82nd Emerson Boozer Super Bowl III Champion 2x AFL All-Star Retired as the #Jets' all-time leading rusher and rushing touchdowns leader Led AFL in TDs in 1967 led the entire NFL in 1972 Scored NFL history's first regular season overtime touchdown in 1974 #JetUp Ring of Honor Inductee in 2015" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-05 02:27:26 UTC 35.2K followers, 10.2K engagements
"Happy 84th Rich "Tombstone" Jackson One of my favorite #NFL nicknames and NFL Films segments The #Broncos'tremendous all-too-unheralded defensive end of the late-1960s and early-'70s An AFL All-Time Team Second-Team selection three-time First-Team All-Pro #BroncosCountry" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-22 22:11:21 UTC 35.2K followers, 10.9K engagements
"Happy Birthday @BrandonJacobs27 The #NYGiants massive bruising battering-ram tailback A 6'4" 264-pound behemoth who could bludgeon and scoot The two-time Super Bowl champion was "Earth" in the #Giants' "Earth Wind and Fire" backfield" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-06 17:43:29 UTC 35.2K followers, 9389 engagements
"July 1967 NFL Films uses double-system sound recording for the first time as they visit Don Shula and the #Baltimore #Colts training camp in Westminster Maryland. Football fans get their first true look and listen behind the curtain of an #NFL training camp" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-13 00:41:35 UTC 35.2K followers, 122.5K engagements
"July XX 1967 The cover of Sports Illustrated "QUARTERBACK ON THE RUN" The New York #Giants' newly-acquired Fran Tarkenton It marks the former/future #Vikings quarterback's only SI cover appearance as a member of the Giants" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-17 17:17:27 UTC 35.2K followers, 3462 engagements
"A Salute to "Crazylegs" Heaven Birthday Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch🕯 With matinee idol looks and an unorthodox running style Hirsch was the long-range weapon of the L.A. #Rams' prolific pinball machine offense of the early 1950s. PFHOF Class of 1968 NFL 50th Anniversary and NFL100 All-Time Teams 1950s All-Decade Team X Pro Bowls 2x First-Team All-Pro In the Rams' 1951 #NFL Championship season Hirsch caught a then NFL-record XX touchdown passes six of which were XX yards or longer. He averaged XXXXX receiving yards per game in '51 still good for third most in #NFL history. Hirsch would later" @KevG163 on X 2025-06-17 16:30:11 UTC 35.2K followers, 6315 engagements
"Heaven Birthday "Fats"🕯 Ernie Holmes Unsung defensive tackle for the #Steelers' "Steel Curtain" front four Before Pittsburgh played Kansas City in 1974 Fats first displayed his new "arrowhead" hairstyle to in his words "point the way to the quarterback". #HereWeGo" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-11 13:22:31 UTC 35.2K followers, 4670 engagements
""THE MAD BOMBER" A Tribute to Daryle Lamonica Heaven Birthday Daryle🕯 Two-Time AFL Player of the Year X AFL All-Star Games X Pro Bowls 2x First-Team All-Pro From 1967-69 he led the #Raiders to a scintillating 39-7-1 record. The first player in American pro football history to throw for XXX yards in a postseason game The first of only three players in #NFL/AFL history to throw six touchdown passes in a postseason game #RaiderNation" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-17 04:00:05 UTC 35.2K followers, 29.5K engagements
"Heaven Birthday Ernie Warlick🕯 Buffalo #Bills Two-Time AFL Champion Tight End In his four seasons with #BillsMafia Ernie earned AFL All-Star honors four times. Prior to that he was a three-time CFL All-Star. He scored what proved to the be the game-winning touchdown in the 1965 AFL Championship. Warlick was a prominent figure in the 1965 AFL All-Star Game Players' Boycott. He later became the first Black sportscaster on local Buffalo television was elected to the Buffalo Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 1998. Ernie was named to the Bills' Silver Anniversary Team in 1984" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-21 23:54:55 UTC 35.2K followers, 6434 engagements
"Steve Grogan turns XX today Tough as nails and the undisputed all-time king of quarterback neckrolls #NEPats #Patriots" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-25 00:02:40 UTC 35.2K followers, 23.1K engagements
"July XX 1976 EPIC STORM ENDS THE FINAL CHICAGO COLLEGE ALL-STAR GAME College All-Stars vs. Pittsburgh #Steelers The College All-Star Game was an annual charity preseason exhibition game played XX times in Chicago from 1934 through 1976. It pitted the previous season's reigning NFL/Super Bowl champions against a team of collegiate all-stars most of whom had already been drafted by NFL teams. With Pittsburgh leading the All-Stars 24-0 the game is suspended with 1:22 remaining in the third quarter due to a storm of biblical proportions replete with lightning and sheets of torrential rain. Chaos" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-23 16:30:03 UTC 35.2K followers, 13.1K engagements
"Heaven Birthday Jacoby Jones🕯 #Ravens and #Texans Receiver/Returner Super Bowl XLVII Champion 108-yard kickoff return in Super Bowl XLVII the longest play of any kind in Super Bowl history 2012 Pro Bowler and First-Team All-Pro Texans all-time punt returner #RavensFlock #HTownMade" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-11 12:29:24 UTC 35.2K followers, 3267 engagements
"Remember Emlen Tunnell on this the 50th anniversary of his passing🕯 #NYGiants Legend The first Black player in #Giants history and the first Black man enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame The World War II veteran ranks #2 all-time in career interceptions with XX. Retired in 1961 as the #NFL's career leader in interceptions interception return yards and punt return yards; finished tied for second all-time in pick-sixes and non-offensive TDs" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-23 17:34:32 UTC 35.2K followers, 10.5K engagements
""The name of the game is hitting." Or at least it once was.for many many years in pro football" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-23 01:40:13 UTC 35.2K followers, 20.3K engagements
"#Chiefs legendary head coach Hank Stram "matriculating" the dishes after a nice dinner" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-13 02:11:40 UTC 35.2K followers, 15.3K engagements
"#Bears running back Brian Piccolo tragically died of cancer XX years ago today June XX 1970 at the age of 26.🕯 The dramatic final scene of the 1971 film "Brian's Song" starring James Caan as Brian and Billy Dee Williams as his backfield mate and dear friend Gale Sayers #DaBears" @KevG163 on X 2025-06-16 18:17:47 UTC 35.2K followers, 206.5K engagements
"William Andrews Atlanta #Falcons fullback out of #Auburn A thunderous backfield monster of the early-1980s Four-Time Pro Bowler Three-Time All-Pro 1979 All-Rookie Team Led the NFL in scrimmage yards in 1981 with 2036; finished second in 1983 with 2176. #RiseUp #WarEagle" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-11 17:01:15 UTC 35.2K followers, 16.7K engagements
"Heaven Birthday Chip Myers🕯 In 1972 Chip became the first wide receiver in Cincinnati #Bengals history to earn Pro Bowl honors. He has also been featured in many an NFL Follies film seen crashing into the wall at Mile High Stadium in 1973. #RuleTheJungle" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-10 03:03:16 UTC 35.2K followers, 3709 engagements
"Happy 64th Henry Ellard The #Rams' all-time leading punt returner and lethal receiving weapon for L.A. and later for the Redskins X Pro Bowls Two-Time First-Team All-Pro #NFL career ranks upon retirement: #3 in receiving yards #6 in receptions #9 in all-purpose yards #12 in scrimmage yards Should be in the Hall of Fame #RamsHouse #HTTR #RaiseHail" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-21 04:00:02 UTC 35.2K followers, 13.8K engagements
"Chicago #Bears icon Walter Payton "Sweetness" runnin' the offseason hill in his 'Roos The #NFL's "King of Hearts"" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-23 00:00:02 UTC 35.2K followers, 25.2K engagements
""Hi Pete." In 1985 NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle fined #Bears quarterback Jim McMahon $5000 for wearing an unsanctioned Adidas headband during a game. The following year Jimmy Mac answered with this classic ad for Taco Bell" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-11 01:17:08 UTC 35.2K followers, 25.9K engagements
""HUNTER" Starring Fred Dryer #Giants and #Rams Pro Bowl defensive end #RamsHouse" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-06 23:54:12 UTC 35.2K followers, 4402 engagements
"Arguably the most memorable game in the history of Monday Night Football. If it's not it's certainly one of them. "THE EARL CAMPBELL GAME" #Dolphins at #Oilers November XX 1978 ABC's Monday Night Football Intro (followed by "MNF's 25th Anniversary" full retrospective of the contest) The Tyler Rose's dominant 28-carry 199-yard four-touchdown masterpiece in the #Houston Oilers' 35-30 victory over Miami at the delirious Astrodome One of #NFL history's greatest individual single-game performances capped by Earl's 81-yard fourth-quarter touchdown rip the longest run of his NFL career Video" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-15 01:07:03 UTC 35.2K followers, 68.4K engagements
"60 Years Ago Today July XX 1965 The iconic "Times Square" Joe Namath cover of Sports Illustrated "FOOTBALL GOES SHOW BIZ" The #Jets rookie's first SI cover" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-19 14:28:42 UTC 35.2K followers, 7254 engagements
""Rookie Teacher and Pupil" Rookie NFL head coach Bill Walsh with rookie quarterback Joe Montana wearing the unfamiliar #19 jersey before changing to his legendary #16 #49ers Training Camp Santa Clara University July XX 1979 #FTTB" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-16 03:09:06 UTC 35.2K followers, 18.8K engagements
"Training Camp As artfully articulated by #NFL Films' John Facenda Philadelphia #Eagles 1974 "Training camp weeds out the weak from the willing. It tunes up the mind and the body and hardens legs that quiver like Jell-O in the summer sun." #FlyEaglesFly" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-22 16:45:48 UTC 35.2K followers, 11.1K engagements
"Heaven Birthday Paul "Tank" Younger🕯 #NFL Trailblazer #Rams Fullback/Linebacker First athlete from an #HBCU to play in the NFL 1949 (Grambling) First Black assistant GM in NFL history (Chargers 1975-87) NFL's first Black First-Team All-Pro linebacker (1951) First Black player to play in an NFL All-Star Game (1952 Pro Bowl) #RamsHouse" @KevG163 on X 2025-06-25 16:07:27 UTC 35.2K followers, 10.3K engagements
"60 Years Ago Today July XX 1965 "Before Broadway" Six months after signing what was then the most lucrative rookie contract in American professional sports history a 3-year/$427000 pact Joe Namath takes the practice field for the first time as the New York #Jets open summer training camp at Peekskill Military Academy. The high-priced rookie was met with resentment from some skeptical veterans in the locker room. #JetUp" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-15 16:23:08 UTC 35.2K followers, 16.4K engagements
""THE FRANCHISE" A Floyd Little Tribute🕯 Heaven Birthday to the Denver #Broncos and #Syracuse Legend PFHOF Class of 2010 2x AFL All-Star X Pro Bowls 3x All-Pro (1x First-Team All-AFL) Led NFL in rushing in 1971 and rushing TDs in 1973 Led AFL in all-purpose yards in 1967 led AFL/NFL in 1968 Broncos Ring of Fame 1984 Charter Class College Football Hall of Fame Class of 1983 #44 retired by #BroncosCountry and #Cuse Football🍊" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-04 23:19:52 UTC 35.2K followers, 8502 engagements
"Happy 85th Bobby Bell #Chiefs Strongside Linebacker PFHOF Class of 1983 Super Bowl IV Champion 2x AFL Champion NFL100 All-Time Team First-Team AFL All-Time Team 1970s #NFL All-Decade Second-Team 5x First-Team All-AFL 1x NFL First-Team All-Pro X AFL All-Star Games X Pro Bowls Among the greatest all-around strongside linebackers in pro football history #ChiefsKingdom" @KevG163 on X 2025-06-17 12:39:05 UTC 35.2K followers, 18K engagements
"Heaven Birthday Walt Garrison🕯 #DallasCowboys Running Back/Fullback *A Real-Life Cowboy" One of the toughest grittiest runners to have played the game Super Bowl VI Champion #Cowboys" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-23 12:29:07 UTC 35.2K followers, 3497 engagements
"Happy 62nd Mark Jackson Member of the #Broncos' "Three Amigos" receiving corps In the 1986 AFC Championship Mark caught John Elway's game-tying touchdown pass which capped "The Drive" to force overtime in Cleveland. His 80-yard catch-and-carry score in the 1987 AFC Championship was then the longest reception in AFC title game history and remains tied for Denver's longest postseason reception. After leading #BroncosCountry four times in receiving yards and touchdowns he signed with the #NYGiants in 1993 and led the team in receiving yards" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-24 00:13:53 UTC 35.2K followers, 8327 engagements
"Lombardi's Morning Spot Sneezer's Snack Shop Green Bay Wisconsin #Packers #GoPackGo" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-22 17:06:09 UTC 35.2K followers, 50.9K engagements
"The highest-rated most-watched Monday Night Football game of all-time Chicago #Bears vs. Miami #Dolphins Week XX 1985 The '85 #PhinsUp squad preserves the legacy of their undefeated 1972 brethren by defeating the 12-0 Bears at an amped-up Orange Bowl in Miami" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-22 02:05:07 UTC 35.2K followers, 145.3K engagements
"Was really hoping for a "BATMAN RETURNS" #Steelers' throwback uniform choice An explanation of #Pittsburgh's original "Golden Triangle" look (aka the 'Batman' jerseys) followed by a rugged 1967 hits montage #HereWeGo" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-21 14:24:42 UTC 35.2K followers, 16.7K engagements
"Pretty epic late-'80s #Rams horns 'do out in Anaheim #RamsHouse" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-24 02:40:29 UTC 35.2K followers, 15.8K engagements
"New York #Giants Training Camp 1990 For the eventual Super Bowl XXV champions the road to glory began under the hot summer sun at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Team leaders Phil Simms and Carl Banks discussed the team's goals heading into the season. #NYGiants" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-24 00:38:42 UTC 35.2K followers, 5448 engagements
"40 Years Ago Today July XX 1985 The cover of Sports Illustrated "ROUGH AND READY RAIDER" #Raiders future PFHOF defensive end Howie Long makes his only appearance on the SI cover #RaiderNation" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-23 01:16:20 UTC 35.2K followers, 3958 engagements
"Rest In Peace Gerry Philbin🙏🏻🕯 The #Jets' Super Bowl III champion left defensive end First-Team AFL All-Time Team Two-time First-Team All-AFL Led the AFL in sacks in 1968 2011 Jets Ring of Honor Inductee #JetUp" @KevG163 on X 2025-06-25 22:03:51 UTC 35.2K followers, 24.5K engagements
"Heaven Birthday Alex Trebek🕯 Born XX years ago today🏈" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-22 14:44:33 UTC 35.2K followers, 46.2K engagements
"The great Daryle Lamonica born XX years ago today Before going on to star for the #Raiders Daryle was a backup/situational quarterback for the #Bills. In the snowy 1963 AFL Eastern Division Playoff against Boston he launched a 93-yard touchdown bomb to Elbert "Golden Wheels" Dubenion. It was then the longest pass in AFL/NFL postseason history a record that would stand for XX years" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-17 16:23:56 UTC 35.2K followers, 27.1K engagements
"Happy 75th Jerome Barkum New York #Jets Tight End His clutch last-minute touchdown catch lifted the Jets to an unforgettable 16-15 comeback victory over Miami at Shea in Week XX of the 1981 season. One of the most memorable plays in #JetUp franchise history" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-18 12:40:21 UTC 35.2K followers, 17.6K engagements
"Happy 59th Tim Brown #Raiders Legend #RaiderNation's All-Time Leader in Receiving Punt Returns and Touchdowns PFHOF Class of 2015 1990s Second-Team All-Decade Nine-Time Pro Bowler Two-Time First-Team All-Pro 1987 Heisman Trophy winner #NotreDame #GoIrish☘" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-22 17:56:39 UTC 35.2K followers, 4728 engagements
"July XX 1976 #Packers fullback Jim Taylor is enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The power gear in Vince Lombardi's legendary offense Taylor becomes the first player from Green Bay's #NFL dynasty of the 1960s to be inducted into Canton. #GoPackGo" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-25 01:28:34 UTC 35.2K followers, 3251 engagements
""MINI-MACK" A Tribute to Mack Herron Born XX years ago today🕯 The #Patriots' 5'5" 170-pound bundle of dynamite broke Gale Sayers' single-season #NFL record with 2444 all-purpose yards in 1974. Even in a 14-game season it remains the #NEPats' single-season record" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-25 00:37:33 UTC 35.2K followers, 3032 engagements
""REMEMBERING SNAKE" A tribute to Hall of Fame legend Ken Stabler on this the tenth anniversary of his passing🙏🕯🐍 #Raiders #RaiderNation #RollTide" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-09 01:20:18 UTC 35.2K followers, 19.2K engagements
"BARRY BREAKS 2000 On December XX 1997 the #Lions' Barry Sanders became just the third player in #NFL history to surpass 2000 rushing yards in a season. With his father and fellow 2000-yard rusher Eric Dickerson in attendance the eventual NFL MVP Sanders rushed for XXX yards XXX in the final XX minutes and scored the game-winning touchdown in #OnePride's 13-10 victory over the Jets" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-17 02:15:52 UTC 35.2K followers, 9697 engagements
"Heaven Birthday Jake Scott🕯 A Tribute to Miami's Original #13 Born XX years ago today Super Bowl VII MVP The #Dolphins' all-time leader in interceptions and punt return yards Two-Time Super Bowl Champion Five Pro Bowls Two-Time First-Team All-Pro Free safety for #Miami's No-Name Defense #PhinsUp #GoDawgs" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-20 13:15:09 UTC 35.2K followers, 21.7K engagements
"Happy 77th to "The Head Hog" George Starke Redskins team captain 13-year stalwart right tackle and founding member of Washington's vaunted "Hogs" offensive line Super Bowl XVII Champion Honored as one of the "70 Greatest Redskins" @TheHeadHog #HTTR #RaiseHail" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-18 16:39:11 UTC 35.2K followers, 5118 engagements
"50 Years Ago Bum Phillips and the 1975 #Houston Oilers Training Camp In his first camp as an NFL head coach Bum's emphasis on team camaraderie and togetherness paid immediate dividends. The #Oilers had their first winning season in eight years and first 10-win season since 1962. During his six seasons as head coach of the Oilers Bum would record five winning campaigns four seasons with 10-or-more victories and two AFC Championship appearances" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-24 01:30:18 UTC 35.2K followers, 25.6K engagements
"Happy 76th Archie Manning A Salute to the New Orleans#Saints' Great #8 #WhoDat #HottyToddy" @KevG163 on X 2025-05-19 16:48:16 UTC 35.2K followers, 5056 engagements
"Don Shula's brutal #Dolphins summer training camps of the early-1970s Four-a-days and "gassers" in the stifling heat relentless humidity and sudden South Florida downpours at Biscayne College in #Miami Gardens No water just hard work. #PhinsUp" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-13 16:45:58 UTC 35.2K followers, 308K engagements
"Happy 57th Barry Sanders Put simply one of the greatest players in NFL history #Lions #OnePride" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-16 12:22:56 UTC 35.2K followers, 18.4K engagements
"50 Years Ago Tonight World Football League program cover featuring former longtime legendary #Raiders quarterback Daryle Lamonica. Lamonica had joined the WFL's Southern California Sun in 1975 following his release from #RaiderNation. July XX 1975" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-14 22:56:10 UTC 35.2K followers, 7330 engagements
"RARIFIED AIR The #Raiders' Daryle Lamonica One of only two players with X touchdown passes in both an NFL/AFL postseason game and regular season game along with Tom Brady One of only two players with X touchdown passes in a half along with Aaron Rodgers One of only three players with X touchdown passes in an NFL/AFL postseason game along with Tom Brady and Steve Young One of only three players with two NFL/AFL postseason games with 5-or-more touchdown passes along with Kurt Warner and Patrick Mahomes #RaiderNation" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-17 23:49:17 UTC 35.2K followers, 10.5K engagements
"#NFL Summer XX Years Ago John Facenda recounts the sights and sounds of training camp in 1974" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-12 13:45:01 UTC 35.2K followers, 155.6K engagements
""ROUGH ACRES" In 2024 the #Chargers opened "The Bolt" a lavish $XXX million 150000-square-foot training facility sitting on XX acres in El Segundo California. In the summer of 1963 head coach Sid Gillman and his Chargers trained at "Rough Acres" a failed desert dude ranch XX miles east of San Diego. What players experienced is nearly impossible to believe. The Chargers went on to the franchise's most successful season winning the 1963 AFL Championship. #BoltUp" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-14 01:23:15 UTC 35.2K followers, 13.4K engagements
"Happy 72nd Steve Grogan Highlights from the #Patriots signal caller's sensational second season of 1976 That year Grogan set the #NFL single-season record for rushing touchdowns by a quarterback with XX leading New England to its first postseason appearance in XX years. His record would stand for XX years. #NEPats" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-24 12:45:02 UTC 35.2K followers, 15.8K engagements
"July XX 1986 #Mets-#Reds 14-Inning War at Riverfront One of the wildest baseball games I've seen The clip shows just a fraction of the insanity Cincinnati player-manager Pete Rose inserts himself as a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the 9th singles and has Eric Davis pinch-run for him. Davis steals second and then third. New York's Ray Knight and Davis square off and come to blows setting off one of the nastier bench-clearing brawls you'll ever see. In extra innings due to player ejections and the length of the game Mets manager Davey Johnson is forced to jockey numerous players at different" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-22 23:05:55 UTC 35.2K followers, 25.2K engagements
"BARRY'S BEST THANKSGIVING 1997 #Lions stud Barry Sanders feasted for XXX yards and three touchdowns in a 55-20 drubbing of the Bears. Detroit's XX points remain #OnePride's all-time single-game franchise high" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-17 01:45:15 UTC 35.2K followers, 20.2K engagements
"Joe Namath and Raquel Welch attend the 1972 Academy Awards" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-12 01:32:42 UTC 35.1K followers, 186K engagements
"Could you imagine these scenes occurring in today's NFL Ankle deep mud uninterrupted public drunkenness on the field a lake taking up the better part of one end zone The #Dolphins and #Patriots at #Boston College's waterlogged Alumni Stadium in November of 1969" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-20 15:48:54 UTC 35.2K followers, 110.4K engagements
"Happy 57th LeRoy Butler #Packers Strong Safety Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2022 The first "Lambeau Leap" #GoPackGo" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-19 13:10:30 UTC 35.2K followers, 9184 engagements
"Happy 79th "Hunter" #Rams defensive end Fred Dryer In 1973 Fred became the only player in #NFL history to record two safeties in a single game. He accomplished the feat during a five-minute span of the fourth quarter in a win over Green Bay at the Coliseum. #RamsHouse" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-06 14:17:46 UTC 35.2K followers, 47.4K engagements
"The #Vikings' Fran Tarkenton hits Ahmad Rashad on MNF in 1976. THIS is what Roone Arledge Don Ohlmeyer Chet Forte and Bill Morris brought with ABC's Monday Night Football in the 1970s FIVE different camera angles for one play. Broadcast pioneers. CBS and NBC weren't using nearly that many at the time for their NFL product" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-08 01:41:25 UTC 35.2K followers, 48.1K engagements
"Happy Big 5-0 Tim Dwight #Falcons and #Chargers return man and receiver The University of #Iowa product is one of ten players with a kickoff return touchdown in Super Bowl history. His XXX kickoff return yards in Super Bowl XXXIII are the second-most in a Super Bowl. #RiseUp #BoltUp #Hawkeyes" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-13 13:53:36 UTC 35.2K followers, 15.4K engagements
"Heaven Birthday Jack Kemp🕯 #Chargers and #Bills Quarterback Longtime political figure and member of U.S. House of Representatives 2x AFL Champion 7x AFL All-Star 2x First-Team All-AFL 1965 AFL Player of the Year AFL All-Time Passing Yards Leader Starting QB in five of the first seven AFL Championship Games AFL Players Association Co-Founder" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-14 00:38:17 UTC 35.1K followers, 6040 engagements
""Making the Team" The great Charlie Jones introduces us to the sights and sounds of grueling #NFL summer training camps of the 1960s" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-24 02:00:08 UTC 35.2K followers, 12.3K engagements
"Happy Birthday #Rams quarterback James "Shack" Harris Shack was the MVP of the 1975 Pro Bowl in Miami the #NFL's first primetime Pro Bowl when the game was still played with full intensity The AFC and NFC rosters included a whopping XX () future Pro Football Hall of Famers #RamsHouse" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-21 00:43:56 UTC 35.2K followers, 5214 engagements
"Happy 66th Sammy Winder The #Broncos' two-time Pro Bowl running back John Elway's 39-yard scoring strike to Sammy early in the fourth quarter of the 1989 AFC Championship Game gave #BroncosCountry an insurmountable 10-point cushion en route to a 37-21 victory over Cleveland" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-16 02:48:46 UTC 35.2K followers, 7251 engagements
"Happy Birthday Kurt Warner PFHOF Class of 2017 Super Bowl XXXIV MVP 2x AP NFL MVP X Pro Bowls 2x First-Team All-Pro 2008 Walter Payton Man of the Year #StLouis #Rams #RamsHouse" @KevG163 on X 2025-06-22 13:00:45 UTC 35.2K followers, 32.6K engagements
"#Vikings icon Bud Grant visits with CBS Sports' Phyllis George for a candid interview before the 1976 NFC Divisional. Among the topics discussed are the weather long johns chewing gum respect the football life and outdoor activities in Gordon Wisconsin. #SKOL" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-18 17:16:39 UTC 35.2K followers, 13.6K engagements
"Heaven Birthday Max McGee🕯 #Packers Legend The 34-year-old end stayed out all night before Super Bowl I not expecting to play much the next day then: ✅Replaced injured Boyd Dowler early in game ✅Scored the first TD in Super Bowl history ✅7 rec XXX yards X TD #GoPackGo" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-16 12:50:02 UTC 35.1K followers, 9227 engagements
"A Salute to Ken Willard Happy 82nd Ken The #49ers rambling rough-and-tumble fullback/running back of the 1960s and '70s 1965's second overall pick out of #UNC Willard played nine seasons for the Niners earning four Pro Bowl selections and two Second-Team All-Pro nods. He retired in 1975 as the NFL's eighth all-time leading rusher. Virginia Sports HOF Class of 1985 2013 ACC Class of Legends #FTTB #GoHeels" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-14 23:32:20 UTC 35.2K followers, 8566 engagements
"RIP Gerry Philbin🕯 The AFL's First-Team All-Time defensive end led the AFL in sacks in 1968 and helped lead the #Jets to their only Super Bowl championship. #JetUp" @KevG163 on X 2025-06-25 23:20:41 UTC 35.2K followers, 18.7K engagements
""WORLD CLASS" The Ultimate James Lofton Tribute PFHOF Wide Receiver Class of 2003 One of my favorite all-time players Happy Birthday James #Packers #GoPackGo #Bills #BillsMafia #Raiders" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-05 23:27:40 UTC 35.2K followers, 10.9K engagements
""HIGH-STEPPER" A Salute to Roger Craig Happy Birthday Roger #49ers #FTTB #GBR #Huskers" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-10 17:06:15 UTC 35.2K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Happy #NationalVideoGameDay Bo Jackson Tecmo Bowl's Ultimate Weapon #Raiders #RaiderNation" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-08 16:20:37 UTC 35.2K followers, 9748 engagements
"Heaven Birthday Mini-Mack Herron🕯 The #Patriots' diminutive halfback and return man In the two-year period of 1973-74 the 5'5" 170-pound dynamo had the most all-purpose yards in the NFL. In 1974 the explosive Herron broke Gale Sayers' single-season #NFL record by amassing 2444 all-purpose yards. #NEPats" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-24 22:10:16 UTC 35.2K followers, 8170 engagements
"Happy 79th Ron Yary #Vikings Right Tackle PFHOF Class of 2001 1x NFL Champion 3x NFC Champion NFL100 All-Time Team Finalist 1970s Second-Team All-Decade X Pro Bowls 7x All-Pro (6x First-Team) #1 overall selection in 1968 Draft out of #USC the first tackle ever taken #1 overall in the NFL Draft #SKOL #FightOn" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-17 00:03:22 UTC 35.2K followers, 7624 engagements
"RIP Luis Sharpe🙏🏻🕯 13-Year Left Tackle of the #StLouis and #Arizona #Cardinals Three-Time Pro Bowler Two-Time Second-Team All-Pro 1982 NFL All-Rookie Team Elite blindside pass protector and devastating pulling tackle on the run First-round selection out of #UCLA in 1982 #BigRed #BirdGang" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-12 16:18:57 UTC 35.2K followers, 23.6K engagements
"BOMBS AWAY IN MIAMI: SHACK HARRIS EXPLODES💥 Honoring Shack Harris's 78th birthday NFL Films highlights plus a montage of CBS broadcast clips from the second half of the #Rams-#Dolphins 1976 shootout in Miami the best game of Harris's career. Shack threw for XXX yards and two touchdowns only the #NFL's fifth and final 400-yard passing game of the 1970s. He dove over for another score. Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier call it for CBS Sports. #RamsHouse #PhinsUp" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-21 01:25:32 UTC 35.2K followers, 10.8K engagements
"#NFL Films' Steve Sabol recounts several of the antiquated stadiums and often impossible-to-believe playing and practice conditions of the American Football League during the 1960s" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-21 01:57:37 UTC 35.2K followers, 119.5K engagements
"Heaven Birthday "Sweetness"🕯 Walter Payton Chicago #Bears Legend NFL Icon #DaBears" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-25 04:30:33 UTC 35.2K followers, 1473 engagements
"Heaven Birthday Tom Benson🕯⚜ New Orleans #Saints Owner and President 1985-2018 Born XX years ago today #WhoDat" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-12 20:40:43 UTC 35.2K followers, 8375 engagements
"September XX 1978 "Big Bad Earl" Earl Campbell's unforgettable runaway truck rumble through the Rams Vin Scully George Allen and Jim Brown in the CBS booth and those in attendance at #Houston's Astrodome lose their collective minds" @KevG163 on X 2024-09-24 12:36:11 UTC 35.2K followers, 206.1K engagements
"Happy Father's Day #Browns head coach Paul Brown the "Father of Modern Pro Football" meets with #Rams head coach Sid Gillman "Father of the Modern Pro Passing Game" following the 1955 NFL Championship" @KevG163 on X 2025-06-15 13:40:16 UTC 35.2K followers, 7462 engagements
""THE KILLER B'S" The Miami #Dolphins Defense The AFC's top-ranked defense of 1982 #PhinsUp" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-12 01:09:55 UTC 35.1K followers, 6095 engagements
"Heaven Birthday Willie Davis🕯 #Packers Legend NFL Films president Steve Sabol shares his recollections of Green Bay's legendary Hall of Fame defensive end of the Lombardi Era. #GoPackGo" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-24 12:15:21 UTC 35.2K followers, 8920 engagements
"Happy 78th Shack Harris With the Bills in 1971 James Harris became the first Black starting quarterback in AFC history. In 1974 the #Rams installed "Shack" at starting quarterback making him the NFC's first-ever Black starting quarterback. Harris would lead L.A. to X wins in its next X games and a division crown earning Pro Bowl honors. The 1975 Pro Bowl saw Harris throw two fourth-quarter touchdown passes to earn game MVP honors in the NFC's 17-10 victory. In a 1976 game against Miami Harris totaled XXX passing yards the #NFL's fifth and final 400-yard passing performance of the 1970s" @KevG163 on X 2025-07-20 13:40:27 UTC 35.2K followers, 18.8K engagements