NFL Redeeming Moments

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Published: May 6, 2009

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... I always give pep talks on the first day of class, so I told a little story on the first day in 2008.

I told them about a game I attended in 1970.  It was cold and wet at Shea Stadium in New York City.  The team of my choice seemed to be losing the game.  I almost gave up, but I hung in there.

In the fourth quarter when the clock showed eight seconds, something spectacular or even miraculous happened. 

According to an article written by Joseph Durso, it had happened before in Oakland Raiders history.

Men with a certain knack were able to turn the outcome of the game around, in the direction of a Raiders win.  George Blanda "had a hand or foot in Oakland's earlier miracles" says a 1970 article.

On December 6, 1970, however, Blanda was on the sideline watching.  Lamonica threw a 33-yard pass, and a man whose hands seem to clasp a football better than most, caught the ball.

Earlie Thomas was one of the...

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