Aiming for immortality
It’s been 50 years since the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants played in what is regarded as the greatest NFL game ever played. It’s a game that began the process of bringing football in the imagination of Americans eventually eclipsing baseball.
The main protagonist, of course, was Johnny Unitas who led the Colts to a 23-17 overtime victory over the Giants.
Here’s an article discussing the game but with a special Canadian twist looking at the Saskatchewan Roughriders connection.
The interesting part was how the Colts spied on the Giants. It does help to put into perspective the hypocritical howling that went on during “Spygate” and the New England Patriots. It’s not morally the right thing to do, but whenever competition, money and prestige are involved it’s almost inevitable it happens. Heck, this sort of stuff happens all the time at all levels in every sport. I remember when my soccer coach once told a couple of us to go “check” out an opposing team at a tournament to see what they were up to.
