I just wish Dean would have planned it out ahead of time with Roy Williams to become his successor. Bill Guthridge was a good man, but not the right age or choice to be the succeeding coach.
4 seconds for break a career in the sport. Really bad injury. At least the defender show some sportmanship calling everybody to help the quarterback. Snap his leg like a breadstick 😢
This is the best clip of Forces legendary burnouts he did before they changed to new clutches. Been looking here and there for years to find a good half track burnout! Don't know how i missed this one, guess i didn't scroll long enough.
That horrific injury to Joe Theisman was in 1985 and 33 years later (2018) Washington's QB Alex Smith had a similar injury. Only difference was sadly Joe Theisman did not return to the field to play after his injury but Alex Smith did. Still hard to watch that leg break of Joe Theisman even today.
you can see the first guy with the fire extinguisher turn around and motion with his hand across his throat to the people behind him that russell had been decapitated. My grandpaw said he knew some guys that were working up there that day. Its truly tragic.
Understandably after that play, Lawrence Taylor was not a factor the rest of the game. I remember seeing it and LT just seemed like he didn't want to play hard and hurt someone else. He was back to normal a week later.
my dad was at that game. that was the last game he ever went to. he's still alive, he just didn't like the hassle of live games and seeing that leg snap was apparently the last straw. his dad had season tickets back in the 40's so my dad was also at the Pearl Harbor game as a little kid. I wonder how many can claim that record ?... you'd have to pay me to go to an NFL game...
I can still remember an interview from Lawrence Taylor a long long time ago describing the sound he heard when he brought Joe Theismann to the ground. He said it sounded like two firecrackers going off in quick succession. I can’t even imagine it.
