The Giants were playing the Rams at home last game of the season in a win and you're in scenario. He and his buddies had seasons and the went up to the Stadium all charged up as the Giants hadn't made the playoffs since 63. The story always ended the same way "Roman Gabriel lit them up and to make it worse Joe Cos kicked over the bottle of scotch by accident at halftime!"
RE: My Dad always told a story, it was either 70 or 72......
The Giants were playing the Rams at home last game of the season in a win and you're in scenario. He and his buddies had seasons and the went up to the Stadium all charged up as the Giants hadn't made the playoffs since 63. The story always ended the same way "Roman Gabriel lit them up and to make it worse Joe Cos kicked over the bottle of scotch by accident at halftime!"
R.I.P Roman Gabriel.
I was at that game. December 20th, 1970. I believe the Giants engineered a long opening drive but I thought it was an ill omen that they could only come away with a FG. The rest is history. Jerry Shay injured early in the game. I trained my binoculars on him and his face was beet red. I knew then and there the injury was serious. After that, seeing him writhing in pain, the game was an after-thought for me. A 31-3 debacle with everything on the line for the Giants (and the Rams with nothing to play for but their jobs.) And, of course, another decade of Giants ineptitude that followed. And so it goes.
RE: My Dad always told a story, it was either 70 or 72......
The Giants were playing the Rams at home last game of the season in a win and you're in scenario. He and his buddies had seasons and the went up to the Stadium all charged up as the Giants hadn't made the playoffs since 63. The story always ended the same way "Roman Gabriel lit them up and to make it worse Joe Cos kicked over the bottle of scotch by accident at halftime!"
I remember listening to that game. Gogalak kicked a FG and I was thinking it was really gonna happen. By halftime the game was over. Still a very good season for Tarkenton and Tucker and Ron Johnson. Good memories. I think I'm over it now and I forgive Roman. RIP
I do recall watching that Rams/Giants fiasco back then, I was a teen at the time. I recall back then, it wasn't pretty and I was disappointed. I use to like Roman Gabriel until that game, and then with the Eagles (wasn't the same player). He had that dropback style back then that some other QB's also shared, with the back pedaling, Earl Morrall was another one.
I recall the 1966 game in which Roman Gabriel, Dick Bass and Marlin McKeever ran roughshod over the Giants (55-14). A truly humiliating performance, with Rosey Grier gloating and the Giants' Willie Young getting flagged for "trying to hurt" Deacon Jones --- as if Jones wasn't using every tactic to destroy his blocker.
Look at the package the Eagles gave up to acquire Gabriel - two players, two 1st rounders and a 3rd. Rounder. Makes the current bidding for QB draft choices look like small potatoes.
Of his era. R.I.P. Roman. I was at the game in Buffalo when the Eagles played the Bills on the day that the Yon Kippur War started . Gabriel skillfully led the Eagles down the field for what should have been a chip shot, game-winning FG by Tom Dempsey. But Dempsey missed it. He sledge -hammered the ball into the parking lot but was way wide .
Gabriel was on those Ram teams that were actually very good but simply couldn’t beat the Packers . Roman to Jack Snow, #84 ND, never caught from behind . Billy Truax. Les Josephson. Dick Bass. The remnants of the Fearsome Foursome . They were tough .
was just a little one but my dad went to the game and came home thoroughly disgusted. That's where I learned that the biggest fans will sometimes rage at the team they love. Passion!
Also remember Roman showed up on my TV screen now and again though don't recall what shows. Not surprising considering he played in LA.
RIP
RE: RE: My Dad always told a story, it was either 70 or 72......
The Giants were playing the Rams at home last game of the season in a win and you're in scenario. He and his buddies had seasons and the went up to the Stadium all charged up as the Giants hadn't made the playoffs since 63. The story always ended the same way "Roman Gabriel lit them up and to make it worse Joe Cos kicked over the bottle of scotch by accident at halftime!"
R.I.P Roman Gabriel.
I was at that game. December 20th, 1970. I believe the Giants engineered a long opening drive but I thought it was an ill omen that they could only come away with a FG. The rest is history. Jerry Shay injured early in the game. I trained my binoculars on him and his face was beet red. I knew then and there the injury was serious. After that, seeing him writhing in pain, the game was an after-thought for me. A 31-3 debacle with everything on the line for the Giants (and the Rams with nothing to play for but their jobs.) And, of course, another decade of Giants ineptitude that followed. And so it goes.
That was the year when the Giants were robbed by the ref in New Orleans on a TD reception last in the game that was called a non-catch out of bounds, Think it was Don Hermann. Right call and they tie Detroit but the playoff spot was going to be decided by a coin toss!
The Giants were playing the Rams at home last game of the season in a win and you're in scenario. He and his buddies had seasons and the went up to the Stadium all charged up as the Giants hadn't made the playoffs since 63. The story always ended the same way "Roman Gabriel lit them up and to make it worse Joe Cos kicked over the bottle of scotch by accident at halftime!"
R.I.P Roman Gabriel.
I was at that game. December 20th, 1970. I believe the Giants engineered a long opening drive but I thought it was an ill omen that they could only come away with a FG. The rest is history. Jerry Shay injured early in the game. I trained my binoculars on him and his face was beet red. I knew then and there the injury was serious. After that, seeing him writhing in pain, the game was an after-thought for me. A 31-3 debacle with everything on the line for the Giants (and the Rams with nothing to play for but their jobs.) And, of course, another decade of Giants ineptitude that followed. And so it goes.
That was the year when the Giants were robbed by the ref in New Orleans on a TD reception last in the game that was called a non-catch out of bounds, Think it was Don Hermann. Right call and they tie Detroit but the playoff spot was going to be decided by a coin toss!
Absolutely! I think it was against the Saints and the end zone pattern was a colored rectangle within the rectangular end zone. The ref saw the Giants wide receiver come down between the two rectangles and got very confused, assuming he was looking at the out-of-bounds area. Today, the call would have been over-turned in a hot NY minute. But no re-play back then. p.s. The ref was fired before the next weekend of games.
Got outta church just in time to listen to our solid opening drive. (No local TV in those days!) I was sure we were gonna win. I was sure I was going to experience I was going to experience playoff football for the first time in my life! Instead, I had to wait another decade.
That was perhaps the most disappointing 180 minutes of my young life, to that point. Just a painful slow bleed. And Roman Gabriel marching that team up and down the field on us. RIP
RIP
R.I.P Roman Gabriel.
I was at that game. December 20th, 1970. I believe the Giants engineered a long opening drive but I thought it was an ill omen that they could only come away with a FG. The rest is history. Jerry Shay injured early in the game. I trained my binoculars on him and his face was beet red. I knew then and there the injury was serious. After that, seeing him writhing in pain, the game was an after-thought for me. A 31-3 debacle with everything on the line for the Giants (and the Rams with nothing to play for but their jobs.) And, of course, another decade of Giants ineptitude that followed. And so it goes.
I remember listening to that game. Gogalak kicked a FG and I was thinking it was really gonna happen. By halftime the game was over. Still a very good season for Tarkenton and Tucker and Ron Johnson. Good memories. I think I'm over it now and I forgive Roman. RIP
Look at the package the Eagles gave up to acquire Gabriel - two players, two 1st rounders and a 3rd. Rounder. Makes the current bidding for QB draft choices look like small potatoes.
Gabriel was on those Ram teams that were actually very good but simply couldn’t beat the Packers . Roman to Jack Snow, #84 ND, never caught from behind . Billy Truax. Les Josephson. Dick Bass. The remnants of the Fearsome Foursome . They were tough .
an excellent.
Also remember Roman showed up on my TV screen now and again though don't recall what shows. Not surprising considering he played in LA.
RIP
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The Giants were playing the Rams at home last game of the season in a win and you're in scenario. He and his buddies had seasons and the went up to the Stadium all charged up as the Giants hadn't made the playoffs since 63. The story always ended the same way "Roman Gabriel lit them up and to make it worse Joe Cos kicked over the bottle of scotch by accident at halftime!"
R.I.P Roman Gabriel.
I was at that game. December 20th, 1970. I believe the Giants engineered a long opening drive but I thought it was an ill omen that they could only come away with a FG. The rest is history. Jerry Shay injured early in the game. I trained my binoculars on him and his face was beet red. I knew then and there the injury was serious. After that, seeing him writhing in pain, the game was an after-thought for me. A 31-3 debacle with everything on the line for the Giants (and the Rams with nothing to play for but their jobs.) And, of course, another decade of Giants ineptitude that followed. And so it goes.
That was the year when the Giants were robbed by the ref in New Orleans on a TD reception last in the game that was called a non-catch out of bounds, Think it was Don Hermann. Right call and they tie Detroit but the playoff spot was going to be decided by a coin toss!
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The Giants were playing the Rams at home last game of the season in a win and you're in scenario. He and his buddies had seasons and the went up to the Stadium all charged up as the Giants hadn't made the playoffs since 63. The story always ended the same way "Roman Gabriel lit them up and to make it worse Joe Cos kicked over the bottle of scotch by accident at halftime!"
R.I.P Roman Gabriel.
I was at that game. December 20th, 1970. I believe the Giants engineered a long opening drive but I thought it was an ill omen that they could only come away with a FG. The rest is history. Jerry Shay injured early in the game. I trained my binoculars on him and his face was beet red. I knew then and there the injury was serious. After that, seeing him writhing in pain, the game was an after-thought for me. A 31-3 debacle with everything on the line for the Giants (and the Rams with nothing to play for but their jobs.) And, of course, another decade of Giants ineptitude that followed. And so it goes.
That was the year when the Giants were robbed by the ref in New Orleans on a TD reception last in the game that was called a non-catch out of bounds, Think it was Don Hermann. Right call and they tie Detroit but the playoff spot was going to be decided by a coin toss!
Absolutely! I think it was against the Saints and the end zone pattern was a colored rectangle within the rectangular end zone. The ref saw the Giants wide receiver come down between the two rectangles and got very confused, assuming he was looking at the out-of-bounds area. Today, the call would have been over-turned in a hot NY minute. But no re-play back then. p.s. The ref was fired before the next weekend of games.
That was perhaps the most disappointing 180 minutes of my young life, to that point. Just a painful slow bleed. And Roman Gabriel marching that team up and down the field on us. RIP