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  • fordfixer
    Legend
    • May 2008
    • 10921
    #1

    The truth behind Ben's suspension

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    Commissioner Roger Goodell will visit eight training camps in six days from Aug. 2-7 leading up to Hall of Fame weekend, the NFL confirmed Wednesday. Including visits to Green Bay and Kansas City this week, Commissioner Goodell will be in 11 cities in 10 days, meeting with players, coaches, fans and members of the news media as the NFL prepares to begin its 91st season.

    Goodell will travel on the Madden Cruiser with Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach and broadcasting legend John Madden at five of the stops. Madden now serves as Special Advisor to the Commissioner on a variety of football matters. The trip will conclude on Saturday night, Aug. 7 at the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Canton, Ohio.

    After visits to the Jacksonville Jaguars and Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints' camps on Monday, Goodell will join Madden for visits to the training camps of the Philadelphia Eagles (Tuesday), Baltimore Ravens (Wednesday), Washington Redskins (Wednesday), Pittsburgh Steelers (Thursday) and Cleveland Browns (Thursday). From Cleveland, the Madden Cruiser will head to Canton for the Hall of Fame festivities. On Saturday morning, Commissioner Goodell will fly to Indianapolis to attend Colts training camp in Anderson, Ind., before returning to Canton for the Hall of Fame induction ceremonies on Saturday evening.

    On Thursday, Goodell will attend the Green Bay Packers annual shareholders meeting and will host a fan forum at Lambeau Field with 120 Packers fans. The forum will be shown that night on NFL Network at 8 p.m. ET.

    Then on Friday the commissioner will join the Kansas City Chiefs at the New Arrowhead Stadium for the dedication of the Founder's Plaza honoring the Chiefs and American Football League founder Lamar Hunt.


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    • RuthlessBurgher
      Legend
      • May 2008
      • 33208
      #2
      Re: The truth behind Ben's suspension

      Speaking of Madden's hate for the Steelers, I wonder if Frenchy will come out and give his version of whether the ball hit him or Tatum on the Immaculate Reception (he has always claimed to know exactly what happened that day but hasn't spoken up) now that Jack Tatum passed away yesterday.
      Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.

      Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.

      We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.

      We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.

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        • fordfixer
          Legend
          • May 2008
          • 10921
          #3
          Re: The truth behind Ben's suspension

          Originally posted by RuthlessBurgher
          Speaking of Madden's hate for the Steelers, I wonder if Frenchy will come out and give his version of whether the ball hit him or Tatum on the Immaculate Reception (he has always claimed to know exactly what happened that day but hasn't spoken up) now that Jack Tatum passed away yesterday.

          I think Frenchy will never tell what he knows

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            • Steel Life
              Pro Bowler
              • May 2008
              • 1535
              #4
              Re: The truth behind Ben's suspension

              I think he should whisper it in Madden's ear as he lies on his deathbed...
              It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust & sweat & blood...

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                • fordfixer
                  Legend
                  • May 2008
                  • 10921
                  #5
                  Re: The truth behind Ben's suspension

                  Fuqua remains mum about Reception
                  By John Grupp, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
                  Thursday, July 29, 2010
                  In-depth Steelers

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                  The Assassin is gone, but Frenchy Fuqua isn't ready to end any controversy surrounding the Immaculate Reception.

                  One day after former Oakland Raiders Pro Bowl safety Jack Tatum died from a heart attack, Fuqua, once again, declined to publicly discuss one of the most famous plays in NFL history.

                  The former Steelers running back gave his standard cryptic response from his home in Detroit on Wednesday.

                  "I know exactly (what happened on the play)," he said. "What happened on that play was truly immaculate."

                  Fuqua and Tatum, who had become friends in recent years, will be forever linked to the Immaculate Reception in the 1972 playoffs at Three Rivers Stadium.

                  Tatum collided with Fuqua as Terry Bradshaw's fourth-down pass arrived with 22 seconds to play. The ball ricocheted in the air before Steelers running back Franco Harris made a shoe-string catch and raced 42 yards for the game-winning touchdown.

                  Tatum had claimed the pass touched Fuqua first, which would have made Harris' catch illegal, according to then-NFL rules. Officials ruled the pass first touched Tatum, giving the Steelers their first home playoff victory.

                  The debate still rages. About four years ago, Fuqua, Tatum and former Steeler running back Reggie Harrison were gathered at a memorabilia show in Virginia.

                  Harrison tried to get to the bottom of things.

                  Fuqua recalls: "Reggie said, 'I got you two together. What happened on that play?' Jack said, 'I don't know who touched the ball. I was trying to tear your head off.' I said, 'What happened on that play was truly immaculate.' "

                  While replays of the grainy footage were inconclusive, a Carnegie Mellon professor in 2004 analyzed film clips and determined the ball, based on the trajectory of its ricochet and the distance it traveled, must have bounced off Tatum, who was running upfield at the time.

                  Fuqua said he and Tatum rarely spoke about the Immaculate Reception as their friendship grew over the years. They frequently crossed paths at memorabilia shows and sports banquets. Tatum always denied the ball hit him, but Fuqua is skeptical.

                  "Jack was sincere. I don't think he knew what happened on that play," Fuqua said. "He went to tear my head off. He thought the play was over."

                  Fuqua was saddened to learn of Tatum's death. He said, to this day, the hard-hitting safety, whose 1978 hit left Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley paralyzed, is the only Raider he ever grew to respect.

                  "My feeling for the Oakland Raiders is as bitter today as they were in the 1970s," Fuqua said. "But I got a chance to know Jack pretty well. He wasn't a bad guy. He was the only decent Raider that I knew.

                  "I'm just glad I had the opportunity to know him, not from across the sidelines, but personally. I can honestly say there were two Jack Tatums: the assassin and the fun-loving guy."

                  Fuqua said Tatum would have fit in well with the great Super Bowl champions of the 1970s.

                  "He could have been a Steeler; he was just drafted by the wrong team," Fuqua said. "He would have fit in (with the Steelers). We would have given him that class."

                  Molon labe

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                    • StarSpangledSteeler
                      Starter
                      • Feb 2010
                      • 560
                      #6
                      Re: The truth behind Ben's suspension

                      Originally posted by Steel Life
                      I think he should whisper it in Madden's ear as he lies on his deathbed...
                      Bah-Hahahahahahahaha! (like on Braveheart)

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                        • Ghost
                          Legend
                          • May 2008
                          • 6338
                          #7
                          Re: The truth behind Ben's suspension

                          "He could have been a Steeler; he was just drafted by the wrong team," Fuqua said. "He would have fit in (with the Steelers). We would have given him that class."
                          That's awesome!
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