they are the bullies of the nfl. they are damn good and they know it. they are the media darlings.
Scumbag gonna Scumbag.
Quote from: B1GBLUE on December 22, 2023, 07:38:22 AMthey are the bullies of the nfl. they are damn good and they know it. they are the media darlings.
Yeah they kind of took over what the old Raiders were in the 1970s sometime in the mid 80s and never looked back.
Quote from: TONKA56 on December 22, 2023, 07:45:30 AMScumbag gonna Scumbag.
Yeah they kind of took over what the old Raiders were in the 1970s sometime in the mid 80s and never looked back.
That's quite insightful and I can probably point to the game where the Eagles stole the baton from the Raiders. When the two teams played a game in LA in 1986, Marcus Allen was getting ready to score the game winning TD but fumbled on the goal line. Andre Waters scooped it up and nearly went the distance before being taken down inside the Raiders' five yard line and Eagles went on to win a game they had no business winning. It put a chip on their shoulder and, a few weeks later, they played the Giants at the Vet. The whole bounty hunter thing from Buddy Ryan was in full force at the time. Their secondary tried to get Joe Morris by throwing him in the baseball dugout, behind those pads in the endzone, after he scored a TD. Needless to say, that pi$$ed off LT, whom they were trying to cut down below his knees. Then, in the span of a handful of plays, LT blows up their offensive line an Ron Jaworski is beaten to a pulp until he put up the white flag. Randall comes in and he gets more of the same.
But you're absolutely correct that it all started with the Buddy Ryan era.
Peace!