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a Football Life about our three headed monster The Perfect Backfield

Good stuff, I loved that comraderie and rapport between Morris, Zonk and Kiik

Kiik definitely aged the quickest and looks like he lives the simpler life out of the trio, he was so Bad-A** when he was younger. Morris looked great and had a ton of energy and seems to be happy to get a second chance in life. And Zonk just looks like he's living in ultimate peace and has gotten everything he's wanted out of life.

I watched my first Fin game in 79 and became an instant fan because of Zonk and Nat Moore. Those old vids of watching him plow down defenders are so classic. He's in a class with Jim Brown, Earl Campbell and John Riggins when it comes to brutality.

Kinda of sad in a way that our heroes from that undefeated team will pass on eventually sooner than later, so much rich history.

I love this NFL series and hope to see more Fins make the cut, we have a ton of them that could be featured with our history.
 
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Great show, I agree. I can still remember the whole Butch and Sundance thing. I'm glad to see they are all doing well and still seem to remain close after all these years.
 
Very enjoyable show. Much better than some of the early reviews suggested. I loved the frequent use of real-time broadcast interviews and newspaper clips from that era. That's always preferable to interpretation decades removed.

I never fully trust history books because so much of what I experienced as a kid or young man has not been accurately portrayed later. I guess it's the Bar Stool types at work.

This program didn't have an agenda, unlike the Roy Firestone, "One Team, One Town" show that tried to win points among the current demographic by pretending that Miami was already a major melting pot in the early '70s. Firestone is like that. He loves the sap and the praise. Truth at times can't be allowed to get in the way.

I attended the games in the early '70s as a kid and remember virtually everything. However, I was surprised that the transition from Kiick to Morris in 1972 had been more one-sided than I realized.

Kiick definitely has aged poorly. He seemed 15 or 20 years older and more frail than Csonka or Morris. Sad. Not a great attitude. He seemingly wanted to stay home. At least he had a daughter relatively late in life and she's an accomplished tennis player, at least the last I heard. That should help stem the aging process to some degree.
 
Awsi Dooger said:
Very enjoyable show. Much better than some of the early reviews suggested. I loved the frequent use of real-time broadcast interviews and newspaper clips from that era. That's always preferable to interpretation decades removed.

I never fully trust history books because so much of what I experienced as a kid or young man has not been accurately portrayed later. I guess it's the Bar Stool types at work.

This program didn't have an agenda, unlike the Roy Firestone, "One Team, One Town" show that tried to win points among the current demographic by pretending that Miami was already a major melting pot in the early '70s. Firestone is like that. He loves the sap and the praise. Truth at times can't be allowed to get in the way.

I attended the games in the early '70s as a kid and remember virtually everything. However, I was surprised that the transition from Kiick to Morris in 1972 had been more one-sided than I realized.

Kiick definitely has aged poorly. He seemed 15 or 20 years older and more frail than Csonka or Morris. Sad. Not a great attitude. He seemingly wanted to stay home. At least he had a daughter relatively late in life and she's an accomplished tennis player, at least the last I heard. That should help stem the aging process to some degree.
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From what I heard from his daughter, he is suffering from from CTE and it seems mentally, is having a rough time these days.
 
Daytona Fin said:
From what I heard from his daughter, he is suffering from from CTE and it seems mentally, is having a rough time these days.
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Sad to read that about Kiik. Like Awsi said, Kiik sounded like he didn't wanna go but was talked into it. I didn't take it that he didn't wanna hang with the guys but you could definitely see he was suffering physically but the program never aludded to it.
 
hab321 said:
Great show, I agree. I can still remember the whole Butch and Sundance thing. I'm glad to see they are all doing well and still seem to remain close after all these years.
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Csonk starred in great episode of the Six Million Dollar Man.

One of Our Running Backs Is Missing: http://youtu.be/88ZsKw1SQg8

He lays out Butkis in it....Carl Weathers is also in it.
 
See the difference between the game it was and the game it has become today...more sports entertainment than real football due to money. Its all about marketing & selling the space for ad's.
Zonk talks about playing hard to get into the playoffs back then...that's where the money was made. Now? Mike Wallace refuses to even act like he is trying to make a catch by jumping but makes millions, guaranteed. Ironically , Zonk and Co started the money landslide that lead to where it is today.
I miss the old version...If a pay per performance league where to start I would tune out of the NFL completely. Imagine a world with no Pats domination (Or pre-Madonna Brady) and guys playing to survive like the 1970's
 
BlueFin said:
Csonk starred in great episode of the Six Million Dollar Man.

One of Our Running Backs Is Missing: http://youtu.be/88ZsKw1SQg8

He lays out Butkis in it....Carl Weathers is also in it.
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He was also in"Emergency" I was a kid but I remember he was drunk or on drugs or something and all the firemen could take him down, he was a bull out of control. Loved that episode also
 
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