OT: Roman Gabriel has passed

RIP

He was my favorite football player back in the day. He was the one who got me watching football.

RIP mr. gabriel ...that was the era of great qb names like fran tarkenton, broadway joe namath, dandy don meredith, bart starr, johnny unitas, y a tittle, roman gabriel, babe parelli, daryl lamonica, tobin rote, marlin briscoe, bob griese, kenny the snake stabler, len dawson, earl morrall, george blanda. i know i'm conflating times a little but man we had some great qbs and great names. i mean josh allen and joe burrow are great qbs but blah names. even the greatest, my boy brady and i know this is blasphemy, kind of a generic name. i even remember roman gabriel in a movie.

I remember as a kid having his football card, and thinking what a good QB he was. I just looked it up: in a three-season stretch from 1967 to 1969 Roman Gabriel's Rams went 32-7-3. They were in the weird "Coastal Division"; two teams from both 'coasts' (geography lesson: Georgia is on the Atlantic coast; Atlanta is not). As a result the Gabriel and the Rams would play Unitas and the Colts twice every year. They were two of the league's best quarterbacks, and two of the very best teams at the time.

Back to that 67-69 stretch: Gabriel was named to the Pro Bowl each year. In '69 he was the MVP and All-Pro - leading the NFL in touchdown passes while simultaneously having the league's lowest interception percentage. That's a remarkable feat.

RIP, great respect to him. The Rams were my “other favorite” team back then (NFC, west coast, it made sense to me to go “opposite” the Pats, and wouldn’t you know the Pats first title was against the Rams but not “my” Rams since the execrable “Heels Up” Frontiere took the shady St. Louis Kroenke money).

Also he was great on Gilligans’s Island

(P.S. Team Maryanne for sure)

OC for the Boston Breakers according to OPs link.

Did not remember that

Aw man, bummer. When I was 11 and played football I was Roman Gabriel and my younger brother was Jack Snow. (We eventually became Sam Cunngiuhmn and Mack Herron). Great memories.

Even though he wasn’t on the team I was rooting for, I was always a big Roman Gabriel fan. He was a hard nosed QB, and I loved watching him play.

Also liked him in the movies, especially the one with John Wayne called The Undefeated.

when i was young it was maryanne but when i grew up def ginger.

tuckeverlasting said:

when i was young it was maryanne but when i grew up def ginger.

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Mary Ann first, last, and always!



RIP Roman Gabriel, betcha he loved playing in LA during the 1960s!

(p.s.: How ****ed-up was the NFL in those days with their division & playoff formatting? Even before the 4-division split in 1966-67, the Baltimore Colts were playing in the WESTERN division!)

marianne was cute and sweet but ginger was sexy and sultry.

tuckeverlasting said:

marianne was cute and sweet but ginger was sexy and sultry.

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Ginger Grant? I ****ed her too... Oh!

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