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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.italianpatthepatriot said:i would love it (if possible with 'many hours') from day n.1...
let's hope one day (soon) we will have this opportunity
also i will appreciate a book, bigger and season per season, like it was 'Tales from the Patriots sidelines'
any chances ?
what do you think ?
italianpatthepatriot said:perhaps for the 50th years ? so...2009-2010 ?
still to wait so long ?
RayClay said:You won't find a lot of video of the early days.
However, tales from the Patriots sideline was written by felger from Wisconsin.
There aren't a lot left who could really tell the tale.
Ron Hobson of the Quincy Patriot Ledger is one. Who else?
Keegs said:I would love to see something like that too........ It would be great for young fans like myself and would really help me to appreciate what they are doing now more.
I'm 23 and I really don't remember much before Bledsoe.
I lived in Massachusetts until i was 6 or 7 and my dad used to take me to games where he had season tickets in the end zone. I just don't remember much of anything except the fights in the stands, the 2 lunatics sitting in front of me who would kick over their beers everytime the pats scored, and the guy who lit the paper bag on fire that the Saints fan was wearing on his head it said "Aints" on it.
I would love to know what i don't remember and what i wasn't alive to see
SamBam39 said:it's kind of a mystery why the definitive pats history hasn't been written yet.
yeah, this crazy bastard crawled down with his index finger over his lips (the universal Sssshhhhh symbol) and just crawled over seats until he got to the guySamBam39 said:I remember those 'aints' bags - that was funny. their team was so god awful back then. for the first time in quite awhile, I think the saints may be actually starting to turn the corner towards some respectability now.
RayClay said:With apologies to Cecil B. DeMille, a feature film based on the early Patriots, (ending with the current team of course), would be the greatest story ever told.
Talk about truth being stranger than fiction.
http://www.rextrailer.tv/ This guy used to have a sidekick named Pablo.
Strange but True AFL Stories
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THE WILDMAN VERSUS THE CLOWN
LARRY "Wildman" EISENHAUER, DE Boston Patriots 1961-69
Larry Eisenhauer was nicknamed "Wildman" by his Patriot teammates because he liked to do wild things. Such as running out onto Kansas City's snow-covered Municipal Stadium field clad in only his helmet and jockstrap. Or his hitting his head on metal locker doors. Or ramming his forearms thru locker room walls to psyche himself up. Yet this was nothing as compared to one of the AFL's goofier episodes — a cruel tackle of a clown!
It involved the rookie six-foot five-inch, 255-pound defensive end Eisenhauer and a middle-aged, five-foot three-inch, 110-pound clown named Pablo. What makes matters worse is that Eisenhauer’s bruising tackle was captured on film and shown on a popular Boston kiddie show called Boom Town. The show starred Rex Trailer and his comic sidekick, Pablo the Clown.
The Boom Town producers thought it would be funny if skinny Pablo tried out for the Patriots. The Boston players agreed to go along with the gag. Pablo joined the Patriots on the practice field wearing an old-fashioned football uniform.
The script called for a mock scrimmage where Pablo would get the handoff and zigzag his way through the Patriot defense for a touchdown. The producers knew the kids at home would laugh at seeing pro football players running around and falling down as Pablo scampered past them.
The script was good, but the TV people had overlooked one important factor — Eisenhauer. He hadn’t gotten his nickname for nothing. As I said before, Eisenhauer would get so psyched up before a game that he would punch anything, walls, doors, lockers — even his teammates weren’t safe. He once put his helmeted head through a locker room wall in War Memorial Stadium. Unfortunately, the director of the show didn’t know about Wild Man or about his fierce dedication to football.
As the cameras rolled, Pablo began snaking his way through the Patriot defense. Everythig was going smoothly until Pablo scooted down to the 20-yard line past the last defender. It just happened to be Wild Man.
Suddenly, Eisenhauer was overcome by his killer instinct. All he saw was an enemy player running for a touchdown. And he had to stop the enemy. Eisenhauer let out a terrifying roar and charged after the clown.
Poor Pablo. With his eyes as big as footballs, Pablo ran for his life but it was no contest. At about the five-yard line, Eisenhauer jumped on his back and squashed him. Boomed Eisenhauer, “Nobody gets across our goal line. Not even a clown!â€
Pablo was buried in the turf, gasping for breath. The TV crew rushed to his aid. Then they turned and chastised Eisenhauer.
“I’m kind of ashamed of it now,†he [admitted]. “But I just couldn’t stand to see anybody score on us if there was a chance I could stop him. He was slow, so it wasn’t any trick catching him. I didn’t really hurt him. I just sort of jumped on his back. Why give the guy a free touchdown?"
SamBam39 said:wait until NEM sees this one - he was probably there! LOL!
while those kind of stories are great, it's the actual team's play that most of us would love to see historically documented. what were the teams like. what were the coaches like. why sis they suceed or fail? what was the competition like. what was the organjization like? etc. etc.
RayClay said:Contrary to popular myth, the early teams were very competitive
Murphys95 said:That's a very good point. And apparently it's a popular myth! Despite many good seasons in the past, the Patriots are a recent phenomenon in New England. For me, that explains why there isn't a definitive history of the team on DVD - there was never a demand for it until recently.
Also, back the in mid-90's, NBC admitted they had destroyed most of their library of NFL games from the 60's and 70's. Bummer.