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Mike Deal, Mark’s brother, was a year younger than Bob. The two played baseball for Hobart.

One of his favorite stories was when Bob beat up a Michigan City Elston catcher who had been razzing Mike for most of the game.

After hearing too much, Bob told the catcher to stop talking.

According to Mike, the guy popped off again and Bob stormed into the dugout. Russ Deal, who also was Hobart’s baseball coach, had to intervene.

Everyone in the dugout except the kid emptied out when they saw Bob coming, according to Mike. They knew to get out of the way.
 
thanks for sharing. Kooch, when men were men. My first choice is for Zach Thomas to get in the hall, but good lord Bob deserves to as well. Long over due.
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I love old school people, i really do. I love how overly pathetic they are. Life to them is all about hard this, hard that....yet 30 years later theyre still angry and miserable all the time. And probably still poor too.

I should know, I was raised by an old school dad, who, till this day has no joy in life. Spent his life busting his rear end, and still isnt rich.
 
TruePoizon said:
I love old school people, i really do. I love how overly pathetic they are. Life to them is all about hard this, hard that....yet 30 years later theyre still angry and miserable all the time. And probably still poor too.

I should know, I was raised by an old school dad, who, till this day has no joy in life. Spent his life busting his rear end, and still isnt rich.
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Toughness is a virtue. Has little to do with happiness or being miserable.

Sounds like you and your old man have some stuff to sort out.
 
TruePoizon said:
I love old school people, i really do. I love how overly pathetic they are. Life to them is all about hard this, hard that....yet 30 years later theyre still angry and miserable all the time. And probably still poor too.

I should know, I was raised by an old school dad, who, till this day has no joy in life. Spent his life busting his rear end, and still isnt rich.
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Perhaps he's "Rich", just knowing he has a son like you!:out:
 
AJDUHEJETKILLER said:
thanks for sharing. Kooch, when men were men. My first choice is for Zach Thomas to get in the hall, but good lord Bob deserves to as well. Long over due.
PHINS UP.

GO Chiefs this weekend!
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Only man ever to make the pro bowl at tackle and at guard... 4 Super Bowl starts...He’s higher on the list than even Zach!
 
TruePoizon said:
I love old school people, i really do. I love how overly pathetic they are. Life to them is all about hard this, hard that....yet 30 years later theyre still angry and miserable all the time. And probably still poor too.

I should know, I was raised by an old school dad, who, till this day has no joy in life. Spent his life busting his rear end, and still isnt rich.
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None of us know what Bob Kuechenbergs life was like really....but I’ll take an old school person with standards and integrity over the alternative.
 
I teach at Hobart high school. Indiana is a basketball state, but Hobart was and is a football town. If you don't like high school football or football history, skip the post and move on. :)

Little background -- Hobart high school played in the Duneland Athletic Conference until about fifteen years ago. There wasn't another team in the conference whose enrollment wasn't at least twice Hobart's (which was about 1200). Every team in the conference played in 5A while Hobart was in 4A. Despite that, Hobart won conference title after conference title....once running off a 57 game conference winning streak over a 9+ year period. I believe at one point they won 30 straight sectional titles. Team has since moved fallen on harder times relatively but is currently coached by former NFL lineman Craig Osika.

Until about 15 years ago, the team played their games at the Brickie Bowl. Stadium was built on a hill so that you entered above the field and then the stands were built going down the hill. A railroad ran immediately behind the visitors stands and typically during the game visiting fans were treated to a train running immediately behind them. In 2008, ESPN named it on their top ten best high school stadiums. The stadium was located next to the middle school which only had about 30 parking spots, so if you were going to the game (which regularly had crowds of 4,000+) you usually either walked from home or if you didn't live close, had to expect a mile or two walk to get to the stadium.

When a new high school was built a few years later, a decision was made to build the new stadium (in order to update the Brickie Bowl, any changes that were made would have to go through the Army Corps of engineers as protected wetlands encircled the part of the visitor's side). The new facility is state of the art but has tried to incorporate some of the history.
 
the fact guys like Kuech and LC Greenwood aren't in the HOF because they played with other great players taints the integrity of it. Kuech beat up Alan Page with a broken arm in the Super Bowl...put him in already.
 
WCUPUNK said:
the fact guys like Kuech and LC Greenwood aren't in the HOF because they played with other great players taints the integrity of it. Kuech beat up Alan Page with a broken arm in the Super Bowl...put him in already.
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Kooch totally dominated Page in that super bowl. A true warrior that should have been in the HOF long ago.
 
BlueFin said:
Only man ever to make the pro bowl at tackle and at guard... 4 Super Bowl starts...He’s higher on the list than even Zach!
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Blue Fin- I would be fine if Kooch went first. Stud. Its criminal hes not in. Zach's stats in time will pave his way as well.
 
BlueFin said:
Only man ever to make the pro bowl at tackle and at guard... 4 Super Bowl starts...He’s higher on the list than even Zach!
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Agreed. I don’t know how he’s been snubbed for so long. With Langer and Little in its as if they don’t want to overload the Hall w too many guys from the same line. It’s a shame too. Keuch was great. Really great. Not just the toughness stuff - he was a true master of his craft and a key reason the team went to 4 SBs during his tenure. I can still see him pulling around the corner, that athletic no 67 looking for a hapless DB to whallop.
 
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