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Stitch is still alive? Wow! Rode the bus with him to a UM-Pitt game in '86. Mirilovich later coached at UM with Curci and Chuck Foreman blamed him for his fumbling problems in college. He did not have the problems in the pro's. Said Mirilovich was always yelling at him, I think it was the wrong...

I did not know what Tate did to end Bobby Best's career. Please explain. I'd like to know. The kid had great promise. We had two of the best RBs in the country and neither had great careers. The other was Vince Opalsky. Please tell me about Best.

Yes. Tony Cline was a stud DE in his own right. Had a career with the Raiders and 49'ers. Why Tate said if teams wanted to run away from Hendricks they could run into a monster like Cline. The Matador WAS the most exciting UM player ever why young people are stupid to use the word "matador" in...

Still in touch with **** Sorensen. He's retired and living in northern Va. Coaching at an area HS, had a tall rangy LB we tried to get some interest in by UM but it was a no go, I guess. The kid wad underrated, signed with UVA. ****'s son is still coaching as an assistant with the Seahawks. I...

Loved the Tate era defenses. Led by Ted Hendricks but they had a lot of good players.

You played at UM, Mianjomar? I would guess you would have graduated about '60. If you did, you probably would have played with one or both of the Diamond brothers, maybe Jim Otto, Eddie Johns, Bill Miller and Larry Wilson, Fran Curci, and a slew of others. You might have been a freshman Don...

I remember Fred Brown and Bob Werl. Brown was a juco transfer, I think. Wasn't his nickname "Redtree" or something like that? I remember Brown as an offensive end and Werl as a defensive end. I think Werl might have played opposite UM All-American Ed Weisacosky. I think I watched those guys on...

Cousineau was not a real person. That was the fake draft of 1979. Soviet disinformation. Putin was a young KGB operative back then, he might have been involved in putting this hoax over on American football fans. All of this is buried in the Kremlin archives, for sure. Don't look in any...

Wow! You and Dingaan have me beat! I wonder how many youngsters here know what Whizzer White's later claim to fame was!

I actually knew the daughter of his coach, I think. Years ago, I was working as a summer associate in a big law firm in Chicago. We had a paralegal named Jane Brennan. Turned out to be Terry Brennan's daughter. Unfortunately, Terry did not have a successful career. Like Gerry Faust, they made...

Duncan was a bust. Drafted first by the Packers but never played in the NFL, only Canada. Meanwhile the QB the Packers drafted in the 17th round the next year, Bart Starr, became their longtime starter during the glory years. I believe he would have been the starter on the losing and very...

I was living in San Francisco around the time Bartkowski went to Cal. I knew some people who were in school there and I was introduced to Leigh Steinberg who I think became his agent. Leigh was finishing law school at Cal and from what I was told was trying to decide between sports...

Wow! Ron Yary was a great one. USC had such a tradition of OLs for quite some time.

I'm old enough to remember the excitement of the real Matador, George Mira, in the early '60's. Our teams were never great, but he was so much fun to watch. And I do remember a bit of some of our powerful teams with Don Bosseler, especially 1956. My favorites were the teams of the late '60's...

You think you're old. Tucker Frederickson was a bit older than I am, I think. He came out of Hollywood or Ft. Lauderdale. We'd fight like **** these days to keep a south Floridian home. For me, try Bob Fenimore. Now go look it up. I told you I went to my first UM game in the OB in 1955. We...