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08-02-2013, 12:13 PM #25Regular 1st Stringer
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08-02-2013, 01:47 PM #26
Re: Top d bags from Baltimore sports history
I guess we could add John Elway, even though he never played for Baltimore.
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08-02-2013, 03:01 PM #27Pro Bowl Poster
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08-02-2013, 11:12 PM #28
Re: Top d bags from Baltimore sports history
LeRon McClain. Can't respect spitting in a guys face.
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08-03-2013, 10:00 AM #29
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Re: Top d bags from Baltimore sports history
It's true. He did steal from his teammates. That's well known amongst old timers. The owner
caught him red handed when he hired a midget and hid him in the ventalator shaft and he
took pics of him taking stuff out of lockers. The entire team complained about it.
After Rosey got the evidence he called a meeting of the team captains, Gino, Unitas and
someone else. Rosey didn't want to let him go because he might come back to hault them and
he did in SB 3. Weeb the coach liked him and didn't want him to go but the players did.
Gino and JOhn really didn't want hm to go but they represented the team and the team
wanted him gone.
So Rosey says OK, he's gone but it's on you guys not me. Gino said the hell with that. Its
your decision. So they fired him.
When Sample saw Unitas before the SB game in Miami he said not today big guy. YOu're
not pulling it out today. John said hey man, do you still have the watch you stole out of
my locker? LOL
Sample ended up in prison years later for stealing social security checks or something like
that and even then he said he was innocent.
But I wouldn't put Sample on the all time d-bag list even though he helped beat us in
SB 3 - Rosey's worse nightmare. Weeb signed him as soon as he got to NY.
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Re: Top d bags from Baltimore sports history
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Re: Top d bags from Baltimore sports history
No one would ever put Earl Weaver on the d-bag but he'd be right on top of the all time
ass hole list for blowing all those series with all that talent he had.
There was the time at Martin's WEst when there was a big sports banquet and Earl literally
and physically attacked Jim Palmer on stage and they had to separate the two. That was all
over the papers. That was also after Palmer's book that wasn't as complimentry to Earl as
Earl would have liked it to be because he kept yelling about that book up on the stage.
A reporter told me Earl was out in the hallway before that charging $25 pr signature and he was drunk like more than once in public when he was pulled over by a cop for DUI and
called him crater face or something like that because he had pimples-lol. That was back
in the days when DUIs weren't as serious as they are now.
When the local beat writers asked Earl about it he said it must have been those
oysters he ate. Bob Maisel wrote - stay away from those oysters Earl-lol.
The Martin's West thing blew over like it always did between the two and they went on an Orioles cruise together but Earl could be a real ass hole when he wanted too.
Jim said it all started the first time he faced Johnny Bench in the minors and Earl was a manager. Earl didn't like junk balls so he told Jim to serve him his best fastball. Jim
said I don't think that's a good idea Earl. Bench had a reputation as a HR hitter even in
the minors. Earl said just do what I said and Jim did and Bench hit it out. Jim said he
never listened to Earl again and always sat in the opposite end of the dugout from him
during games-lol.
Palmer said in the book Earl was always throwing chairs and coolers around in the club house
and it made the team really uptight just before a game, so they went out and played
uptight. That's why they lost those series according to the book.
JIm said they won it all in 83 the year after Earl left just to prove they could win it all
without him. I think that was the part of the book that pissed Earl off but he later
said on ESPN that he had 17 wonderful years with Jim Palmer.Last edited by AirFlacco; 08-03-2013 at 03:03 PM.
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Re: Top d bags from Baltimore sports history
It's in his book - JOHNNY U by Johnny Unitas.
REad it. Also read Confessions of A Dirty Football Player by Johnny Sample where
he talks about being black listed for stealing money out of lockers. Click on
first link in the google link It even mentions being documented in John's book.
Sample even mentions how cheap the Jets were-lol and his version of the battle
between Pete Rozelle and Namath over his Bachelors 3 bar in NY. MUST READING!
http://www.google.com/search?client=...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8Last edited by AirFlacco; 08-03-2013 at 02:56 PM.
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08-03-2013, 03:13 PM #34
Re: Top d bags from Baltimore sports history
Exactly. The NFL apparently didn't consider the ravens to be a Super Bowl contender, so they didn't request that MLB not schedule the Orioles for a home game September 5 when MLB was making out the schedule. If any entity is at fault for the season opener screw up, it's the NFL.
Al
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08-03-2013, 03:19 PM #35
Re: Top d bags from Baltimore sports history
Didn't want to play for Irsay, either.
Elway's mistake was how he said what he said. If he'd never said that he doesn't want to play in Baltimore, and instead said he doesn't want to play for Bob Irsay, he wouldn't have gotten the hate from us fans (or as much as he got.) Disparaging Baltimore, even if that wasn't his intent, is what really angered us, IMO.Al
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08-03-2013, 03:44 PM #36
Re: Top d bags from Baltimore sports history
Anything can happen in a short series (or a single NFL postseason game.)
In the 1969 Series, they couldn't hit Mets' pitchers. In 1979, Eddie Murray went 1for his last 21, or thereabouts, and the rest of the offense withered with him (two runs in the last three games, all losses.)Al
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