You likely also know of Pat as an author of two pivotal books about professional American football: The Crunch, detailing the Landry-era Cowboys, and “On Any Given Sunday,” the inspiration for Oliver Stone’s film “Any Given Sunday” (in which Pat has a cameo as an assistant coach for Y.A.
Pat shares plenty here about the differences playing for Landry and Madden and alongside all the colorful Raider characters - Snake, Stork, Foo, Tooz and more. But of course we delved into all phases of Pat’s career, from the Cowboys to the 1975 Bills and, of course, “Dah Raidahs” from 1977 to 1979. Pat, who joined the Dallas Cowboys in 1970 -the year of the AFL-NFL merger - and won a ring with them in the 1971 season against dynasty-to-be Dolphins, talks about the difficulties of playing for that ’76 Tampa Bay team in its inaugural year. You can count on one thing when a new tabletop cards-and-dice gridiron game emerges: Folks will want cards for the 1976 season and the 1976 Buccaneers.īut while those games give a glimpse into what that season might have been like to experience first-hand, Super Bowl champion Pat Toomay has the final word on what that campaign felt like in the flesh. The 1976 Buccaneers might have had one of the more memorably bad seasons in professional sports, but we tabletop sports simulation gamers are positively in love with that team. The APBA Football Club's/APBA Football Handbook gallery of 1970s Topps football cards indicating team sack leaders:Īl "Bubba" Baker's PFR page (his 1978 APBA Football rookie card gives him 5 points and a J-0 injury grade Al ends up unofficially as the single-season NFL sack leader with 23): How John and Nick's research shed light on the sack performances of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers: The official Pro Football Reference entry on the 1960-1981 sack research results: The Sports Reference announcement of inclusion of the unofficial 1960-1981 NFL sack statistics on Pro Football Reference: The Professional Football Researchers Association:
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