His most important sack ever

[Mojo Ram]

Terry Bradshaw trying to get out the words for quick hitting Fox game highlights is flat out embarrassing. It’s been bad for several years now.

Al Michaels was once fantastic but yeah, it’s time to get him off the air in prime time and big games.

 

[David Ray]

Michales mailed it in - one of worst calls of all time. AD’s stop on Perrine on third and one may have been the most impressive. Stopped him in his tracks from behind.

Do you believe Al Michaels is WASHED?!?! YESSSS!!!!!

 

[Faceplant]

Do you believe Al Michaels is WASHED?!?! YESSSS!!!!!

 

[Turducken]

If it had been up to me, he would have been SB MVP.

I wanted him to keep playing, but looking back it might have been the perfect point for him to walk away after the SB (from his POV and the team's).

The Run it Back season was doomed by injuries and and his final season became a partial rebuild with torches passed to rookie defenders. That was bittersweet but if McSnead had let him retire after the SB we would only have two more years until his HOF induction.

 

[RamsSince1969]

I have to say, IMHO, the greatest non-sack play of his career was the 1 armed grab of Perine to not let him fall forward for the first down which brought up 4th and 1 and then he nearly sacks Burrows for the win.

 

[RamFan503]

Thats a circle track deal my friend.

Or road course. Just sayin'

 

[gogoat1]

Or road course. Just sayin'

Of course ! Sadly road courses are becoming a thing of the past.
I would love to run a mid 70 Firebird in a class at our local 3/8th mile track. Just too expensive, you beat your car up and have to get new tires almost every race.
So I bracket race my 69 GTO.
Just love cars, engines and Hot Rodding. Real Pontiacs in particular.
No fan of EVs, I can not stand them on any level.

 

[RamFan503]

Of course ! Sadly road courses are becoming a thing of the past.
I would love to run a mid 70 Firebird in a class at our local 3/8th mile track. Just too expensive, you beat your car up and have to get new tires almost every race.
So I bracket race my 69 GTO.
Just love cars, engines and Hot Rodding. Real Pontiacs in particular.
No fan of EVs, I can not stand them on any level.

I just bought a couple shifter carts. They need a little work but can’t wait to get them out on the track. I haven’t run carts in years. It’s probably going to beat the shit out of me.

 

[gogoat1]

I just bought a couple shifter carts. They need a little work but can’t wait to get them out on the track. I haven’t run carts in years. It’s probably going to beat the shit out of me.

They have a cart track in Redding ?
I know their drag strip went to 1/8 mile, so ours (Samoa) copied them. I am against it. Real drag racing is 1/4 mile IMO. At least they only went to the 1/8 in Super Pro. So I race Pro 1/4 mile and Super Pro 1/8th mile.
We have a EV day at the track, worst thing ever to watch silent drag cars. You go to hear the big cams, high compression and blowers and smell the burning rubber.
You have these dorks with money, buy a Tesla that runs 10s or better and they act like they have done something. We laugh at them.
I have more appreciation for some guy with no money, fixes up some beat up 72 Nova and it runs 12s. Thats what drag racing is all about.

 

[fanotodd]

Agree. I think Al Michaels has been awful for more than a decade.

It's odd to me that so many sports announcers (play-by-play and analysts) are allowed to continue well-passed their prime (in my opinion). So many examples; and everyone would never agree on all of them.

Many sports fans love certain announcers, and remain loyal (and ignore their decline) to the end.

I was guilty of that with Phil Rizzuto (Yankees' announcer for fifty years ... from before I was born, throughout my childhood and well into my adult years). He went from bad-to-worse at the end of that long career but I loved the Scooter!

He was one of the exceptions for me; and, most sports fans have an exception or two.

There are football announcers (Al Michaels is one ... Collinsworth is another for me) that I watch their games but with the sound off. I don't believe they can tell me anything I don't know or can't see ... and, all they can do is piss-me-off.

My guilty pleasure was Bill King. I hated the raiders but loved the A’s and was a big Warriors fan. There was a point when he did ALL three. Eventually, he could only handle baseball (slow). Still loved the guy. Had some great calls, even if it was for the raiders in their heyday (‘70’s).

 

[fanotodd]

Allen2mcvay:

You got me reminiscing.


View: https://youtu.be/5Y1SeAjv5ao?si=axUuCf53q0cf6oFZ
He says, “get your big butt outta here.”
He does.

 

[RamFan503]

They have a cart track in Redding ?
I know their drag strip went to 1/8 mile, so ours (Samoa) copied them. I am against it. Real drag racing is 1/4 mile IMO. At least they only went to the 1/8 in Super Pro. So I race Pro 1/4 mile and Super Pro 1/8th mile.
We have a EV day at the track, worst thing ever to watch silent drag cars. You go to hear the big cams, high compression and blowers and smell the burning rubber.
You have these dorks with money, buy a Tesla that runs 10s or better and they act like they have done something. We laugh at them.
I have more appreciation for some guy with no money, fixes up some beat up 72 Nova and it runs 12s. Thats what drag racing is all about.

I’m in Reno, NV. We have a pretty cool track near the Stead airport. It’s getting new asphalt any day now as well. I’m seriously jonesing to get out there.

I used to live in Woodburn, OR but still quite a way from the track there. We could still hear the drags from our back yard. It was always fun to check out the races. It was a pretty small venue so you could get right in and out and easily find any spot you wanted to watch from. And yeah… I don’t think I’d see the attraction to watching a drag without the thundering roar, the burnouts, the flames, etc. It seems silly.

 

[Badfinger]

I just bought a couple shifter carts. They need a little work but can’t wait to get them out on the track. I haven’t run carts in years. It’s probably going to beat the shit out of me.

Are you in Norcal? Come to Prairie City. My Dad runs his carts there with his friend, Ron Emmick, who is a cart racing legend.

Edit; Just saw you say Reno. Just over the hill, bro.

 

[gogoat1]

I’m in Reno, NV. We have a pretty cool track near the Stead airport. It’s getting new asphalt any day now as well. I’m seriously jonesing to get out there.

I used to live in Woodburn, OR but still quite a way from the track there. We could still hear the drags from our back yard. It was always fun to check out the races. It was a pretty small venue so you could get right in and out and easily find any spot you wanted to watch from. And yeah… I don’t think I’d see the attraction to watching a drag without the thundering roar, the burnouts, the flames, etc. It seems silly.

Is Fallon Drag Strip still up and running. We had a guy who would come all the way from there to race at Samoa. Guy in Shingletown did the same.
We also have a guy that comes to our Wally Race from Woodburn.
I go to Vegas once in awhile, and drive from here to Sparks, spend the night and drive to Vegas through Hawthorn, Tonopah, Goldfield, Beatty ect. Driving out of Fallon towards Hawthorn Lake there is the Fallon Drag Strip sign out in the middle of the desert. It looks like you drive way down this dirt road to get to the strip.
BTW, I used to stay at Western Village in Sparks because it was chill and they had single deck 2$ Blackjack tables. It was pretty cool. 100-150$ if you lost for a night was not too shabby. But no reason to stay there anymore, I hate slots.
But during C19 they took out the tables and last I know they were still gone.
Is there any other cool locals casino with2$ Blackjack around there anymore ?

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

Agree. I think Al Michaels has been awful for more than a decade.

It's odd to me that so many sports announcers (play-by-play and analysts) are allowed to continue well-passed their prime (in my opinion). So many examples; and everyone would never agree on all of them.

Many sports fans love certain announcers, and remain loyal (and ignore their decline) to the end.

I was guilty of that with Phil Rizzuto (Yankees' announcer for fifty years ... from before I was born, throughout my childhood and well into my adult years). He went from bad-to-worse at the end of that long career but I loved the Scooter!

He was one of the exceptions for me; and, most sports fans have an exception or two.

There are football announcers (Al Michaels is one ... Collinsworth is another for me) that I watch their games but with the sound off. I don't believe they can tell me anything I don't know or can't see ... and, all they can do is piss-me-off.

+1 for Scooter. Rizzuto’s love for the game and love for the Yankees was unparalleled. He was a trove of Yankees history and despite his decline I loved every minute of Phil Rizzuto broadcasting Yankees games.

On the radio Susan Waldman is like nails on a chalkboard to me and Dave Simms is just flat. I’d gladly go back to Tommy Hutton and Hank Greenwald.

Michael Kay

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

My son loves Al Michaels voice. btw. He’s his favorite, but his ears lack experience.


AD was nails in the Super Bowl. I recall something he said about impacting the game late and early years ago. He often made game altering plays early in games, that I felt caused the offensive line to be distracted. In the Super Bowl he came up huge in the fourth quarter.

McVay said something like, your best players come up big in the biggest moments. Kupp, Stafford, and AD were magnificent.

 

[RamFan503]

Is Fallon Drag Strip still up and running.

Yes it is. TopGun Dragstrip. 1/4 mile

Is there any other cool locals casino with2$ Blackjack around there anymore ?

I don't know. I don't really game much.

 

[RamFan503]

Are you in Norcal? Come to Prairie City. My Dad runs his carts there with his friend, Ron Emmick, who is a cart racing legend.

Edit; Just saw you say Reno. Just over the hill, bro.

I'll probably barely have time to run them here. It would be fun to go to different tracks though. I've run Pat's Acres in Canby, OR. That's a pretty cool track.