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cheers, one of my top 5 favorite Packers if not #1.
Another famous 6/6
Now that was a BAD man...
1958 Packers Draft.
Dan Currie, Jim Taylor, Jerry Kramer, Ray Nitschke. year 3 of a 3 year draft stretch that also produced Hornung, Starr, and Gregg.
Thanks Jack!
1958 Packers Draft.
Dan Currie, Jim Taylor, Jerry Kramer, Ray Nitschke. year 3 of a 3 year draft stretch that also produced Hornung, Starr, and Gregg.
Thanks Jack!
Nitschke = Football. Player.
Some of my favorite football pictures are of 66.
Some of my favorite football pictures are of 66.
So true Satori - 69 years ago.
The best movie ever made.
Period.
Period.
There's a really good movie in the final 2 hours 20 minutes.
The first 29 minutes are devastating. Possibly the most important 29 minutes ever put on film.
The first 29 minutes are devastating. Possibly the most important 29 minutes ever put on film.
If you like Saving Private Ryan, be sure to check out HBO's Band of Brothers and The Pacific. 2 outstanding mini series.
Yup. I spoke with a lot of D-Day veterans when I was working on the Honor Flight program, and many of them said that the opening scene in "Saving Private Ryan" was as real as it could get on film.
God bless them. We'll never see their like again.
By the way... for those interested in the Honor Flight program, watch the documentary. It's excellent.
Honor Flight -- One Last Mission
God bless them. We'll never see their like again.
By the way... for those interested in the Honor Flight program, watch the documentary. It's excellent.
Honor Flight -- One Last Mission
quote:Originally posted by Blair Kiel:
The best movie ever made.
Period.
Agreed wholeheartedly.
And it lost the Best Picture Oscar to something called "Shakespeare in Love." Can you believe that???
quote:Originally posted by StarrToDowler:quote:Originally posted by Blair Kiel:
The best movie ever made.
Period.
Agreed wholeheartedly.
And it lost the Best Picture Oscar to something called "Shakespeare in Love." Can you believe that???
Hollywood is stupid. How Argo won the Oscar over Silver Linings Playbook this year still has be shaking my head. OF course I cannot stand Ben Aflect so maybe I am just biased.
Several scenes in Saving Private Ryan get to me but none more than the one where the chaplain arrives to tell the mother her sons were killed and she collapses on the porch. No words were spoken but what a great scene. I cannot even type about it without getting misty eyed. Great Movie.
Not sure if anyone else knows this but Nitschke's nickname on the Packers was the Judge.
Jerry Kramer told me that it was because in his first couple years he sat on the bench so much.
Jerry Kramer told me that it was because in his first couple years he sat on the bench so much.
Great thread. Nitschke and D-Day. Lot's to appreciate.
Enduring love of Saving Private Ryan. It recognized the sacrifice paid without glorifying war. There were no "hero's", only men following orders trying to survive doing a job that needed to be done. The scene where Hanks talked about not knowing Ryan, not caring about Ryan. But if rescuing him helped him get back to his family, then he needed to finish his mission. The scene where General Marshall reads the letter to Mrs Bixbey from Abraham Lincoln gets me every time, especially when he recites the last 1/4 of the letter from memory.
6/6 indeed!
Enduring love of Saving Private Ryan. It recognized the sacrifice paid without glorifying war. There were no "hero's", only men following orders trying to survive doing a job that needed to be done. The scene where Hanks talked about not knowing Ryan, not caring about Ryan. But if rescuing him helped him get back to his family, then he needed to finish his mission. The scene where General Marshall reads the letter to Mrs Bixbey from Abraham Lincoln gets me every time, especially when he recites the last 1/4 of the letter from memory.
6/6 indeed!