"Y.A.Tittle,90" Topic

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Hafen von Schlockenberg	09 Oct 2017 12:23 p.m. PST
Not a sports fan, but even I remember this guy. link
genew49	09 Oct 2017 1:01 p.m. PST
I remember him well. My professional mentor played with him on the 49's in the fifties. In 1962 he was the write-in candidate winner for school President in our Junior High School.
Ed Mohrmann	09 Oct 2017 1:27 p.m. PST
YAT, as he was known in the locker rooms for the 49'ers and the Giants, never was able to win an NFL Championship for the Giants, although he was NFL MVP during his tenure there. He was for two seasons a team mate of Sam Huff, and between the two, they pretty much put the NFL on the American sportsfans' map. Rest easy – you sure as heck earned it….
Winston Smith	09 Oct 2017 2:30 p.m. PST
First NFL player whose name I remembered.
pmwalt	09 Oct 2017 6:07 p.m. PST
Sad to hear the news. A name synonymous with football.
Big Red	10 Oct 2017 7:38 a.m. PST
Was he the last player/coach in the NFL?
goragrad	11 Oct 2017 12:00 p.m. PST
RIP
Ed Mohrmann	11 Oct 2017 12:08 p.m. PST
No, Tittle never was a player/coach, altho' he mentored some rookie/young QB's after he retired from playing. The 'last' NFL player/coach is difficult to determine. I'd nominate Tom Landry, who played in the mid-1950's at Defensive Back for the NY F'ball Giants while also doing the Defensive Co-ordinator duties. During his tenure as Dallas Cowboys Head Coach, Landry appointed Dan Reeves a player/Coach while Reeves still had an active role at running back for the team. Reeves was a player/coach for the Cowboys from 1969 to the end of the 1972 season, when he retired from playing to become a full time assistant coach, from which position he became a head coach in his own right for Denver, the NY F'ball Giants and the Atlanta Falcons. There is of course the 'other' NFL Dan Reeves, who owned the Cleveland Rams (sole owner in 1943) and who, after playing the 1945 NFL championship game in icy Cleveland, moved the team to southern California where they became the Los Angeles Rams. This Dan Reeves passed away in 1971. He was never involved in coaching or in playing.

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