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The Packers HOF publishes these tidbits. Found today's interesting.


April 2, 1976 – The Packers trade quarterback John Hadl, cornerback Ken Ellis and two undisclosed draft choices to the Houston Oilers for quarterback Lynn Dickey. Dickey, a backup to Dan Pastorini for five years after being selected 56th overall (third round) in the 1971 draft, is expected to end Green Bay’s search for a reliable passer that began with the retirement of Bart Starr in the summer of 1972. “No, I don’t feel any pressure on me because of the price,” Dickey says. “There’s always pressure, but if you don’t like that, you’re in the wrong business.”
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One of the players Houston drafted with the two picks they got from GB was Tim Wilson, who had a few good years at RB for them and later New Orleans.

The other was a wide receiver who showed so little promise that the Oilers dumped him on the expansion Seahawks during training camp.

That wide receiver's name....was Steve Largent. And now you know the rest of the story.
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Originally posted by Satori:
And that transaction produced one of the all-time great bumper stickers in WI...

"You can sack our Pack, but you'll never lick our Dickey"


haha. My favorite was one from my alma mater. We had recently fired football coach Mike O'Cain and hired a basketball coach Herb Sendek.

It read "You can have Mike O'Cain but you can have our Herb!"
(Mike OCain = my cocaine)
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Originally posted by Brak:
Ted Thompson was on that same Oilers team?


indeed, from '75 to '84

and...in a 1981 game against the New York Jets, Thompson successfully converted four extra-point attempts as the emergency kicker
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Originally posted by CitizenDan:
....And now you know the rest of the story.



Very cool info, CD, and very well played!

Great thread too, H5!
Perhaps you should make this a daily posting?
On this day in 2005, Aaron Rodgers had a long day in the green room before the Packers finally drafted him 24th overall.

lap faller
chip on shoulder

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"It sounds silly to keep repeating myself, but we really and truly wanted to take the best football player on the board," Thompson said. "And we felt like (Rodgers) was the best football player on the board.

"We look at the draft as a long-term view, but we would like some help initially, yeah. The guys we picked today, they're good football players. And I'd expect all those guys to help us this season."

"We stuck with the board today. We picked the best player on the board. We literally took the highest-rated player on the board today -- every time."




Signing his rookie deal.

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I love the picture of Rodgers signing his rookie deal, The only difference when he signs his current deal will be the size of the Brinks truck that arrives with the pen and the bonus payment
Pack88

Speaking of Dickey... and Kickers.

 

 

30 years ago today, Lynn Dickey was 27-31 for 333 yards and 5 TDs, but the Packers needed a 42-yard Jan Stenerud FG to beat Oilers 41-38 in OT.

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lots of derp from that chickenboy character

I believe Dickey got knocked out of the game at end on that concrete Astrodome surface and Dave Whitehurst actually led them to winning field goal.

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Originally Posted by Hungry5:

Speaking of Dickey... and Kickers.

 

 

30 years ago today, Lynn Dickey was 27-31 for 333 yards and 5 TDs, but the Packers needed a 42-yard Jan Stenerud FG to beat Oilers 41-38 in OT.

Yup, and my Packers' "fact a day" calendar told me it was the first of five OT games that year.  At the time, this set an NFL record, with the Panthers tying it in 2003.  Although the Packers went 2-3 in their games and the Panthers went 4-1 in theirs. games.

Interesting, quirky note going into Cincinnati this week. The Packers have played the Bengals three times on this date.

 

Four years ago today the Bengals won 31-24. Cincinnati still has four starters from that game, while Green Bay has seven.

 

And 21 years ago today, a young Brett Favre saw his first action with the Packers and led them to a thrilling come-from-behind victory.
 
 

Let's not forget this classic:

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c.../20/packers_bengals/

 

The Immortal Raymont Harris helps the GBP stop the Neil O'Donnell/Carl Pickens/Corey Dillon-leg Bungles to record a scintillating 13-6 victory.  

 

Some names from the past in this link.

I recently re-watched the Kitrick Taylor game.  yeah, bert was able to salvage that game at the last but he was AWFUL in the game until the end.  getting sacked, fumbling the ball, off target.  it sure turned out alright tho.

Yup, Tdog, I remember watching that game and when it was over and I got done celebrating, I said to someone else, "Favre has more balls than brains." I would assert that same thing throughout his career... Sterger included! 

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