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Sports in the 70's

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The Baseball: A's, Reds, and Yanks stick out the most. But, you also had some really good Pirates teams, and the BoSox looked pretty good too.

Stars had some cool names too: Catfish, Spaceman and Mad Hungarian really stick out for me. And, of course even a few regular names sounded pretty cool: Bench, Rose, Fergie, and Sparky.

Football: Steelers.

Hockey: Hawks and Canadians, Bruins and the rise of the Flyers.

Baskets Ball--Cocaine with honorable mention to Rick Barry, Bill Walton, Dr J and Boston Celtics.

Boxing: Mohammed Ali


Your thoughts on the 70's?
 
Oh, and the hair. Gotta throw a yeay to the 70's hair.

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With not only the coolest mustache, but also the greatest name ever for a pitcher...

IMO, Rollie Fingers wins the award for athlete of the 70's.


Honorable mention on the name thing: Lynn Swann for the most graceful WR of all time.
 
You can't bring up boxing without Joe Frazier, football without the Raiders and the Big Red Machine nick name in baseball. Hell in the 70's even the Knicks were good.
 
You can't bring up boxing without Joe Frazier, football without the Raiders and the Big Red Machine nick name in baseball. Hell in the 70's even the Knicks were good.

Joe, Norton, Forman...absolute epic years of Heavyweight boxing. Agreed.

Dolphins were awesome in the early 70's. Vikings too. Cowboys sort of owned the NFC in the middle years though, IIRC.

Wow, I realize now how little I followed Basketball in the 70's. I sort of remember Portland winning a title and the Warriors being good. But, not much else except the Celtics with John Havelechek.

I guess baseball and hockey were my sports back then. Football was just starting to get interesting.
 
Another 70's thing.

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Was Mark Fidrych popular nationally? We of course know all about him in Detroit.

For that one year, he was. After that, only Detroit paid attention to all his comeback attempts.
 
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I forgot all about that R,W & B ball.
 
The Baseball: A's, Reds, and Yanks stick out the most. But, you also had some really good Pirates teams, and the BoSox looked pretty good too.

Stars had some cool names too: Catfish, Spaceman and Mad Hungarian really stick out for me. And, of course even a few regular names sounded pretty cool: Bench, Rose, Fergie, and Sparky.

Football: Steelers.

Hockey: Hawks and Canadians, Bruins and the rise of the Flyers.

Baskets Ball--Cocaine with honorable mention to Rick Barry, Bill Walton, Dr J and Boston Celtics.

Boxing: Mohammed Ali


Your thoughts on the 70's?

These 2 images sum it up:

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No helmets and totally low-tech goalie mask 1972

I certainly was a big fan of big Phil Esposito though
 
The Baseball: A's, Reds, and Yanks stick out the most. But, you also had some really good Pirates teams, and the BoSox looked pretty good too.

Stars had some cool names too: Catfish, Spaceman and Mad Hungarian really stick out for me. And, of course even a few regular names sounded pretty cool: Bench, Rose, Fergie, and Sparky.

Football: Steelers.

Hockey: Hawks and Canadians, Bruins and the rise of the Flyers.

Baskets Ball--Cocaine with honorable mention to Rick Barry, Bill Walton, Dr J and Boston Celtics.

Boxing: Mohammed Ali


Your thoughts on the 70's?

Indiana Pacers three ABA titles.
 
Indiana Pacers three ABA titles.

I did not know that.

Early in the Pacers' second season, former Indiana Hoosiers standout Bob "Slick" Leonard became the team's head coach, replacing Larry Staverman. Leonard quickly turned the Pacers into a juggernaut. His teams were buoyed by the great play of superstars such as Mel Daniels, George McGinnis, Bob Netolicky, Rick Mount, Freddie Lewis and Roger Brown. The Pacers were – and ended – as the most successful team in ABA history, winning three ABA Championships in four years. In all, they appeared in the ABA Finals five times in the league's nine-year history, which was an ABA record.
 
1972-phil-esposito-walt-tkaczuk-005588232.jpg

No helmets and totally low-tech goalie mask 1972

I certainly was a big fan of big Phil Esposito though

Phil Esposito, one of the tough skill guys. Like Gordie Howe and Bobby Clarke.
Esposito said of Bobby Clarke two-handing Valeri Kharlamov across the ankle in the Summit Series that the only thing wrong with it was that he didn't do it earlier.
 
George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin saga but Billy as a manager



Earl Weaver



Tommy Lasorda



Come to the ballpark to see the manager steal the show!
 

Fun story: The guy in the rainbow afro wig who used to hold up the "John 3:16" signs at sporting events was named Rollen Stewart. He was a kooky guy who ended up with his ass in the stir for an attempted kidnapping and subsequent hostage standoff. As per Wikipedia, he received three life sentences after turning down a plea deal of 12 years in order to spread his message in open court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollen_Stewart#Arrest

Anyhoo, at the newspaper at which I used to work, we were having a slow day and the metro editor broke out the crank file, which are random letters we would get from ... well, cranks. One of the envelopes was festooned with rainbow highlighter markings and I saw the name "Rollen Stewart" on the return address! Same guy. I guess he spends his time in the joint writing wacky letters to media outlets. I read it. It was ... weird. Like, WEIRD. I don't remember too many specifics, but it was pretty out there.
 
Unser, king of Indy. Petty, king of NASCAR. Announcer, Jackie Stewart, king of F1

 
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