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Emlen Tunnell, Tom Landry & Dante Lavelli

truebluelarry : 7/1/2020 6:06 pm
How awesome is this photo?



It's not every day you capture three HoF'ers in one shot.

This is from Cleveland Municipal Stadium on 10/1/50, which was the day Steve Owen unvailed his renowned Umbrella Defense to stop Paul Brown and Otto Graham's potent offense and shut out the Browns 6-0 in a shocking upset, which was the first time clevealnd had ever been held off the scoreboard.

The Giants also defeated the Browns at the Polo Grounds 17-13 in the rematch.

Fun fact - the second shutout in Browns history was also courtesy of the Giants - the 10-0 win in the Eastern Conference Playoff on 12/21/58 at Yankee Stadium.
Another cool thing about that photo  
truebluelarry : 7/1/2020 7:09 pm : link
is a different photographer took a photo of the same play from a few feet away a split second later.

Unbelievable photo  
kinard : 7/1/2020 7:11 pm : link
... that could be the new background for my computer.

That 1950 Giants team looks like they could have won the NFL Championship.

Even though they beat the Browns twice in the regular season, they lost to them in the Divisional playoff game in Cleveland.

Wonder why Cleveland would have hosted that game if the Giants had beat them twice that season? Another missing ring for NYG
RE: Unbelievable photo  
truebluelarry : 7/1/2020 7:15 pm : link
In comment 14927544 kinard said:
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... that could be the new background for my computer.

That 1950 Giants team looks like they could have won the NFL Championship.

Even though they beat the Browns twice in the regular season, they lost to them in the Divisional playoff game in Cleveland.

Wonder why Cleveland would have hosted that game if the Giants had beat them twice that season? Another missing ring for NYG


That 1950 Giants team was awesome (they scored 50 points three times that year), but the Browns were too. They were analgous to the 1986 Giants & Redskins, the NFL's two best teams played in the same division those seasons.

Home field advantage was decided by a coin toss back then. The tie breaking system with head-to-head records, net pints, strength of schedule, etc wasn't established until the mid 1970s.
gifford  
hankb1126 : 7/1/2020 7:42 pm : link
was gifford playing db then

i know heplayed db with landry and tunnel
RE: gifford  
truebluelarry : 7/2/2020 6:01 am : link
In comment 14927562 hankb1126 said:
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was gifford playing db then

i know heplayed db with landry and tunnel


Gifford was drafted in 1952 and was a DHB his first two seasons and made the Pro Bowl as a defensive player in 1953. He played offense occasionally in 1952, but took on a heavier load in 1953 as the team was hit hard with injuries and he was nearly a 60 minute player at season's end, even talking on kickoff duties. He was so beat up and worn out after the season was over he nearly retired.
Yeah, but what was the result of the play?  
Big Blue '56 : 7/2/2020 6:45 am : link
:)
RE: Yeah, but what was the result of the play?  
truebluelarry : 7/2/2020 7:14 am : link
In comment 14927700 Big Blue '56 said:
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:)


Looks like an incompletion, but if it were by today's rules Landry would've been flagged for PI!
Otoh,  
Big Blue '56 : 7/2/2020 7:20 am : link
It could be a Beckham INT
I never realized that, in addition to being the Giants dc, he also had  
Ira : 7/2/2020 9:49 am : link
played for the Giants. His wife said that, after Jones fired him, he went back to being a Giants fan.
RE: I never realized that, in addition to being the Giants dc, he also had  
Big Blue '56 : 7/2/2020 10:25 am : link
In comment 14927767 Ira said:
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played for the Giants. His wife said that, after Jones fired him, he went back to being a Giants fan.


He was all-pro I believe
Just looked it up:  
Big Blue '56 : 7/2/2020 11:21 am : link
All-Pro: 1954
gifford  
hankb1126 : 7/2/2020 4:30 pm : link
thank you true blue i did not think of looking up when gifford was drafted

i met him several times when i was a kid my father was a director of the touchdown club of NY and i went to alot of the luncheons
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