Regular Reader wrote:
NWsider4-3-3 wrote:
i remember papa bear seemed to cheer on vince evans, i guess that was a fake as dan's wokeness. dan and house of L must be time travelers.
I remember him being mute when his coaches kept jerking him in and out of those pitiful lineups in favor of absolute bums like Phipps and Avellini (who didn’t deserve an N.F.L. spot)
i wouldn't call phipps a bum..decent with the browns, the bears did make the playoffs in 79, though phipps was over-the-hill by the next year. i agree with you about avellini. i believe the thinking back then was running game + defense = super bowl. bob griese was attempting 16 passes a game and the dolphins were winning super bowls. avellini 9 passes a game and payton for 190 rushing yards and one halfback option TD pass and the bears would contend. we got the latter, the former was so bad you wouldn't want him attempting 6 passes a game.
if papa bear was the bad guy that dan portrays him to be, why did the bears select evans in the draft and subsequently play him? why didn't papa bear have his personal valet tell the GM not to select him or jack pardee/neil armstrong not to play him? a black qb was revolutionary at the time and the bears were at the forefront of that revolution? wasn't james harris - rams and joe gilliam on the steelers the only other black qbs at that time? i can't remember anyone else.