Sammy Baugh is 92
Today not only is St. Patrick's Day. It's also Sammy Baugh's birthday.
Slingin' Sammy is 92 today.
He did everything. Ran, passed, kicked. Tough as a boot.
He's the oldest living member of the NFL Hall of Fame and still holds the NFL record for career punting average and the best punting average in a season.
You also may not know that Baugh was a matinee idol, starring as "King of the Texas Rangers," a Republic Pictures serial, and was the first coach of the New York Titans (which later became the Jets) in the first years of the American Football League.
Sammy, a TCU graduate, played for the Redskins from 1937 to 1952. He lives in Rotan, in the Texas Panhandle.
Happy birthday, Sammy.
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Is it the great Sammy Baugh who first gave us the phrase "matriculated down the field?"
I don't know, Irene. Where'd you hear or learn that?
Sorry. I shoulda Googled it. It was Hank Stram who urged his Kansas City Chiefs to "matriculate the ball down the field," which is a brilliant and colorful phrase that has always stuck in my mind. But there's a very thin Sammy Baugh connection: Lamar Hunt hired Stram to coach his AFL franchise because he played for Stram in college...at SMU...which is TCU's archrival.
I love Sammy Baugh-TCU-SMU football stories, which is another way of saying I have read too many Dan Jenkins books.
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