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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.Jim is just unappreciated, quietly humble (in comparison with his contemporary, Joe Theismann).Plunkett gave us hope during the "dark days".. in his 15 year NFL career he played for the 49'ers and Raiders for 10 years, 234 of his 380 sacks took place on the West Coast Teams.. while he took a beating here, he took more on the Bay teams.. he was a tough player.
Even though he won two Superbowls with the Raiders he never made the HOF....
Jim grew up poor in California, with his two older sisters helping his parents, both blind, barely scrape by.Uggh, so sorry to hear that.
The guy was a tough SOB, a gleam of hope in the post-Babe Parilli years, when Pats fans had to endure Clive Rush, John Mazur, Mike Taliaferro, Tom Sherman and then Joe Kapp's 3-TD, 17-INT season.
Excuse me for a moment, I just threw up in my mouth.........
Plunkett was the guy that made people finally say they were proud to be Pats fans - no different than Bledsoe did years later. Unfortunately the team around him was nowhere near as good as Bledsoe's. He was unmercifully beaten .... and then to add insult to injury, when he physically could not get on the field anymore, his backup (Grogan) ended up getting all the glory.
I feel bad that he suffered so badly with the Pats, but I still fondly remember his first NFL game upset victory over the Raiders, as well as a few wins against the Jets. Glad he got to win not one, but two Super Bowls.
In retrospect it's not surprising at all that he can hardly walk. A very sobering story: 18 surgeries, artificial knees, artificial shoulder ..........
And then Roger Goodell has the audacity to more or less say that retired players are healthier than the rest of us, just a few days ago?
smh...........
He was the original David Carr.. Very good QB behind a horrible O-line, years before Hannah and Gray... Given support the guy won 2 Super Bowls and I think he is the only two time Super Bowl winning QB who is eligible who is NOT in the Hall of Fame, mainly because of his atrocious stats in NE. It was his trade to SF ( like the Hershel Walker trade to Minn by Dallas a generation later) that garnered Pats enough assets and draft picks to turn around the team in the mid 70s.....He played on some terrible Patriots teams in the early 70's. He was thrown to the wolves poor guy.