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Warren Moon on "unretiring" his #1

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CANE said:
Moon got paid to unretire #1.
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I feel like numbers should be "retired" for no more than 25-30 years. At that point it's been a generation or two after the original player is gone and it's time to allow another player to craft their legacy
 
If the NFL lasts another 100 years, they will be unretiring numbers every year and won't care two :****: about some dead guy's legacy.
 
mikedeep97 said:
I feel like numbers should be "retired" for no more than 25-30 years. At that point it's been a generation or two after the original player is gone and it's time to allow another player to craft their legacy
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Not gon lie… I thought it was dumb that Malik Nabers had to get “permission” from Ray Flaherty’s family to wear #1 for the Giants. I could see getting permission from a player but the Giants retired the number in 1935 and Flaherty passed away in 1994.

Gotta draw a line somewhere.
 
I think retiring numbers is short sighted and unnecessary.
I believe a ring of honor around every NFL stadium for their HOF’ers is enough.
I guess I’m old fashioned but I liked it when star QB’s were all #11, 12 or 13 , great RB’s were generally 32-39 and WR’s were 80-89.
 
RF-4CCane said:
I think retiring numbers is short sighted and unnecessary.
I believe a ring of honor around every NFL stadium for their HOF’ers is enough.
I guess I’m old fashioned but I liked it when star QB’s were all #11, 12 or 13 , great RB’s were generally 32-39 and WR’s were 80-89.
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Well you’re quite as old school as you think my guy. Flaherty who I mentioned earlier was a TE and he wore #1. He stopped playing in the 1930’s. Frank Gifford who was a Safety and RB played in the 1950’s and he wore #16. Numbers were all over the place back in the day.

I knew what you meant but but I just want to point out that the NFL hadn’t always been stringent about the whole jersey numbers thing like many believe.
 
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Pretty much all retired jerseys have a time limit. I don't see anything staying on forever.

Maybe they should just standardize a decade or a couple of years or something. It doesn't shrink the honor it's just there's many years and generations to go.
 
mcnaire2004 said:
Pretty much all retired jerseys have a time limit. I don't see anything staying on forever.

Maybe they should just standardize a decade or a couple of years or something. It doesn't shrink the honor it's just there's many years and generations to go.
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I’m with you but it’s difficult to put a timeframe for some… should anyone ever wear #23 for Chicago Bulls or # 3 for the Yankees again? Should the player with the retired number have the final say for perpetuity?
 
FuriousStyles said:
Well you’re quite as old school as you think my guy. Flaherty who I mentioned earlier was a TE and he wore #1. He stopped playing in the 1930’s. Frank Gifford who was a Safety and RB played in the 1950’s and he wore #16. Numbers were all over the place back in the day.

I knew what you meant but but I just want to point out that the NFL hadn’t always been stringent about the whole jersey numbers thing like many believe.
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I agree with you.
My point was more that if they keep retiring numbers, the numbers left take away some history.

The NFL did standardize numbers in 1973, so there is/was some rigidity after that.


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I remember Ken Burrough with the Oilers wearing 00 until 1981. I think he was the only player in the 70’s with that number. I always thought that was a cool number and since he was drafted in 1970, he was probably the last player to wear it.
 
I've no issue with retiring numbers, given the retired player is legit elite., a HOF or HOF-caliber player.
 
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RF-4CCane said:
I remember Ken Burrough with the Oilers wearing 00 until 1981. I think he was the only player in the 70’s with that number. I always thought that was a cool number and since he was drafted in 1970, he was probably the last player to wear it.
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Cane and Raiders C Jim Otto wore '00'?I

I think he retired after the 1974 or 1975 season though.

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