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12-18-2012, 09:53 PM #49Regular 1st Stringer
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How about the playoff game against the Steelers and the airplane that was buzzing around Memorial stadium and at the end of the game crashed in the upper deck around section 40! We had seats in that section for most of the game but Pittsburgh had a huge lead and most fans had already left. We had gone down to the lower concourse to sit with family at halftime and could hear the plane circling the stadium.
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12-18-2012, 09:54 PM #50Regular 1st Stringer
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12-18-2012, 09:58 PM #51Regular 1st Stringer
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12-18-2012, 09:58 PM #52Regular 1st Stringer
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We were there. Luckily that game was a blow out. Because every one left early no one was left in the seats when the plane crashed. Otherwise people might have gotten killed. Even the pilot survived. I know the plane took off from a small airport near Churchville.
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Last edited by AirFlacco; 12-18-2012 at 10:08 PM.
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Re: Anyone remember the 1977 season?
Here's a pic of the crash. Old Donald Kroner was trying to land the plane on the field and he almost made it-lol. But get this, he had been a flight instructor and worked in the air traffic control tower.
Good thing we got killed in the game 40-14 (I mean that was brutal) and people left early or some real people would have been killed and a lot of them.
Old Donald ended up in a mental institution.
http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/N6276J-Kroner.htm
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12-18-2012, 10:03 PM #55Regular 1st Stringer
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I think so . We were winning most of that game. Elway was awful. His Father could not believe all the booing. Elway remembered that game on TV years later saying he could not believe how pissed off Baltimore was at him. Tried to say he had nothing against BMore, just did not want to play for Irsay (or Kush). I do remember and old geyser back up QB pulling it out at the end. I do think it was either Kubiak (or maybe Craig Morton).
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Elway has said ever since it had nothing to do with Bmore but that's BS. He wasnt coming here- period and used baseball to get out.
And Bert Jones went out there to talk to him. He didnt' have to do that becuase he wasn't coming anyway. He told him all the horror stories like Irsay's slobbering press conference at the air port when he was drunk as a skunk and said he wasn't moving and how he crashed a radio interview Bert did after a game and they had to take it off the air. I remember that one. Irsay was a nut.
So Bert went out there but Elway wasn't coming anyway.
Kush played a hand in the final move. As soon as he got here he learned that Irsay was selling the team so he got the movers and shakers in Phoenix to make an offer to he could go home as head coach. He was run out of town after slapping a punter in the face for shanking a kick.
So Irsay went to Phoenix but then Indy heard about it and came in with an offer. Indy already had a new stadium an empty one.
Irsay still hadn't made up his mind to move until Schaeffer passed that stupid domain law where the state would take the team.
That's when Irsay skipped town in the middle of the night and he had a place to go to but Kush got the ball moving.
Then he had the nerve to say the move was the most bizzare thing he ever witnessed the way the movers came in and trashed the place.
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12-18-2012, 10:16 PM #57Pro Bowl Poster
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Boulder-
"This year is very familiar."
I respectfully disagree. Bisciotti owns the the Ravens.
Name me any owner in the NFL who was/is a bigger piece of shit than the infamous Robert Irsay! (and credit only given for rationale! ;))
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12-18-2012, 10:39 PM #58Regular 1st Stringer
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12-18-2012, 11:07 PM #59
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We were drunk as skunks late in the 4th Q when Kroner's plane buzzed the stadium a couple times at lowering altitude. One of our group said to get out of the stadium because the plane was coming back. That season, we had seats in Section 38, and IIRC Kroner crashed into Section 41.
By the time we made it down the upper deck escalator, everone got excited and the buzz was about the plane crash in the upper deck (yes - that dumpy old stadium had escalators while the cheapskates who built M&T couldn'tfigure out how to provide them for us!). I missed seeing the crash itself - probably wouldn't have known it if I had seen it happen. I have never touched Sloe Gin again since that day.In a 2003 BBC poll that asked Brits to name the "Greatest American Ever", Mr. T came in fourth, behind ML King (3rd), Abe Lincoln (2nd) and Homer Simpson (1st).
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LOL T - great story and keep em coming.
Speaking of those escalators they were installed at the Orioles home game and they crashed. A lot of kids got hurt, a girl was killed.
The irony was, it was safety day and a lot of safeties were there.
My parents were upset seeing it on the news because my brother and I were there but we already got off.
I called home as soon as I heard about it and saw it so they wouldn't be upset.
Here's the link.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=7430,1161924Last edited by AirFlacco; 12-18-2012 at 11:28 PM.
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