Ok, here's some of my memories.
1960 or was it 61...Pats vs. Titans of New York, Polo Grounds...Few seconds left in game, Chuck Shonta blocks punt of Rik Sapienza and runs it back for game winning TD. That was the first game that I really started doing a lot of yelling...
I got to know Sapienze several years later when he became the WR, and punter, for the Boston Sweepers of the Atlantic Coast Football League where I began my first work inprofessional football as assistant to the General Manager and worked with the place kicker in practice sessions as his holder.
1963 Sending an article in to John Gilhooly of the Boston Record-American and he printed it and I managed to get 45 people to fill a bus, leaving at midnight in a snowstorm, headed to Buffalo for the divisional playoff between the Bills and Pats.
We spent the 2nd half of the game on the field, standing next to the Pats bench as they won and went to the AFC title game in San Diego..and got crushed.
Another game in the 60's, cant remember who was playing, i think it was Dallas Texans..or maybe they had become KC Chiefs by then..... anyway, Tom Yewcic was at QB and the Pats had the ball deep in their own territory, right infront of us.....Yewcic went back to pass and it was obvious his arm was going forward, but referee Walter FitzGerald Orange Striped AFL referee jerseys) called it a fumble and the other team picked it up for a TD.
I was so incensed (I always believed Fitzgerald had it in for the Pats) that I jumped down onto the field and started running towards FitzGerald...I had my hands up and was about to grab him when I was grabbed from behind by Boston's finest. I was not arrested, but Iwas escorted out of the stadium. (Braves Field)
There was the game at BC Alumni Stadium where the stands caught on fire.
Another game at BC Stadium where they actually called a player (I believe it was Joe Bellino) out of the stands to report to the Pats locker room to get dressed... And, he played in the game.
Bellino was another player I got to know with the Boston Sweepers.
And one more at BC, when I got tosit on the Pats bench. A good friend of mine was the driver for Fallon Ambulance service. He asked me to go along one day....we got to the stadium, pulled in to the ramp and we were required to sit at the end of the bench in case a player got hurt and the ambulance was needed.
Strangely, I wasnt asked which plays to run.....
I will have more later on... HOpe you enjoyed reading these little tidbits. Mabe I should write a book.