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Great post. thanks. I found this on the Ravens site. Looks like Noah Spence could rise up the boards to the Ravens 6th spot after he tore them up at the SR Bowl. But they will have to investigate his drug background but they did it with Jimmy Smith who has turned out well. Noah Spence’s Stock Skyrocketing All The Way To No. 6? The Senior Bowl did wonders for outside linebacker Noah Spence’s draft outlook. Heading into the event, draft analysts projected Spence to the second round despite showing top-15 talent. Off-the-field concerns stemming from failed drug tests that led to a Big-10 ban are what pushed him so far down the board. But a dominant performance in Mobile, Ala., and a cleaned-up drug history over the last year quickly put Spence back in first-round consideration. Now, one draft analyst sees Spence moving all the way up to the Ravens at No. 6. “A post on the Ravens’ website last week speculated that Spence could fall into Round 2.Forget it,” wrote Sports Illustrated’s Chris Burke, who has the Ravens selecting Spence in his latest mock draft at No. 6. “But Baltimore could grab the edge-rushing dynamo here. Spence starred during Senior Bowl week, consistently beating tackles around the bend. Teams will have to dig into his character, but the talent is there to justify a top-10 spot.” Expect the Ravens, along with 31 other teams, to do their homework on Spence to see if he really has turned things around and is worth investing major draft assets. The Ravens took a first-round chance on another player with “character concerns” in 2009 with cornerback Jimmy Smith. Of course, that was the 27th-overall pick, but that decision turned out well. Smith was rewarded last season with a second contract, which is tough to get in Baltimore. “If the Ravens are convinced that is behind [spence] — and they have a pretty good track record of sifting through such personal histories — then there’s a lot of upside here. Even better for their purposes, he’ll have something to prove,” wrote The Baltimore Sun’s Jon Meoli. “The Ravens are so diverse with how they use outside linebackers that he can likely fit in anywhere, if they’re convinced of his quality and makeup.”

So who do you want?

Gino broke his leg in the 58 championship sudden game after Big Daddy fell on it - ouch! Gino said it was his fault. He moved the wrong way when he got tangled up in the line and tripped and Big Daddy tripped on him and landed on his leg. Broke in half. They heard the break on the bench. Gino wouldn't let them take him to the hospital though. He insisted on staying til the end. When asked if it hurt he said like hell.

Anyone remember Big Daddy Lipscomb? As mentioned above Matte always complains about their meager salaries back then. Big Daddy's was so meager he had a part time job as a pro wrestler in the off season and was pretty good too.Unitas even worked down the point in the off season during the early 50s when someone got him a job down there. Talk about spectacular bodies, Big Daddy could kick Mike's and Joe Don's ass at the same time. See here. He died supposidly of drug over dose but Steadman said he was murdered as many thought. The needle mark was in his right arm. He was right handed so how could he give himself a shot in the right arm. It would have gone in the left arm a fact the cops didn't consider. https://www.google.com/search?q=photo+of+big+daddy+lipscomb+wrestling&safe=active&biw=780&bih=357&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ4cnx-_jKAhXKaT4KHT3JBJQQ7AkIPg

Yea, I vaguely remember that one. Here's his pic. He had old Mike Curtis' # 32 before he got here. That's a RB # of course, but Curtis came here as a FB from Duke and converted to LB after getting # 32. Note Joe Don's body, more spectacular than Mike's and note all these old pics of the old timers of Gino, Jim Parker, Ameche and Shula's staff. I saw him on TV in Miami this season when they honored their perfect championship team and he's in a wheel chair now. He's at least 85, close to 90. He was the youngest coach in football at 33 here. I remember when he drove up to the stadium in a beat up old Ford station wagon. Ten years ago I stood on a cruise ship in Miami and looked up at a big sky scraper and at the top it said Shula's Hotel and laughed and said you came a long way Donny. He also owns Shula's Steak House and other businesses and married one of the wealthiest women in the country when his wife died and lives in the most expensive zip code in the US. Shula made Miami. It was just a sleepy retirement community when he arrived but the success of his Dolphins built the city to the biggest Latin resort this side of Rio. He made it possible to go from a minor league training camp to World Series victors with the Marlins and NBA champs with the Heat and they even have hockey. All because of Shula and Baltimore losing SB 3. Bmore had it's heart cut out and Miami grew into a paradise minus all the drug killings in the 70s and 80s. Will bring back memories but how did Custer's pic get in there? LOL https://www.google.com/search?q=joe+don+looney,+rb,+baltimore+colts&safe=active&biw=780&bih=357&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzzfz39PjKAhUMbj4KHQqwDYkQ7AkIRg

Well, their mock sucks. Note all the teams that trade in front of Ravens to get their guy. It has Ravens drafting OT Taylor Decker and not Ronnie Stanley. He's gone. It has the Ravens leaving Hargreaves, Treadwell and even Bosa on the board. I'd be pissed, very pissed. If Stanley and Tunsil are drafted Oz would probably wait to the middle rounds for LT if KO leaves but there's no way he takes Taylor over the above but this is just some phantom guy going by needs and doesn't know how Ozzie drafts - the BPA. http://www.nfldraftblitz.com/2016-mock-draft/ This guy sounds like a project to me because he needs so much improvement in a lot of areas such as bending lower while run blocking but he has great size, NFL arm length and strength. He's the leader of their o-line but only some teams have him even projected in the first round, certainly not in the top 6. If KO leaves and Tunsil and Stanley are gone Oz could trade down to get this guy but I wouldn't leave Bosa and Treadwell on the board. http://www.rotoworld.com/recent/cfb/131426/taylor-decker

We're going to have to wait for that because nfldraftblitz.com still has him in the 2d round and this link was posted on 6 FEb and he was at the bottom of the list with 5 guys better than him. This is a very valuable site to use as a tool. It still has Hargreaves and Ramsey as the best 2 CBs, same as Kiper and McShay and Treadwell as the best WR and Bosa as the best pass rusher and Tunsil and Stanley the best LTs. No mention of Spencer rising just yet. http://www.nfldraftblitz.com/nfl-draft-value-board-26/

Spence has indeed rose to 2d best pass rusher since the SR BOWL but he was dismissed from college with serious personality concerns but Norris' mock has him going to Jags. If true, that will leave Ramsey to us and possibly Hargreaves to choice from. Bisciotti will have the final say on this one if he's worried. I love the sound of Jones in the 2d round which would allow us to take Treadwell, Ramsey or Hargreaves or Spence. Here's his scouting report. http://www.rotoworld.com/player/cfb/132912/noah-spence

That was the name of Hawkins book, THAT'S MY STORY AND I'M STICKING TO IT. What you said is in the book. He was quite a gambler and they had a poker game going on late one night somewhere with Upton Bell, whose father was Bert Bell the former NFL Comish who put the original team in Baltimore but he made them put up the money in advance for 15,000 tickets and the fans did it, then working in the Colts front office and another player or two. It was quite a scandle. Talk about Ray Rice, the old Colts had Joe Don Looney from Oklahoma as a RB one of the greatest human bodies you'll ever see but he got into trouble in every town he lived. The Lions cut him so Shula picked him up. On his first play he carried the ball he ran 60 yards up the middle for a TD, I think it was a TD but Joe got into trouble here. He beat up his girl friend in their apartment and she called the cops who arrested him. It was quite an embarrassment for the team so they cut him but Shula hated as hell to do it. He died some time later running his motorcyle off a cliff. He was definitey a head case best remembered for stepping into a cage to wrestle an orangatun at the Civic Center.

One last story about the Gold Arm. Does anyone remember ALEX HAWKINS - CAPT WHO? LOL He was a character and Jimmy Orr's backup-lol. With the likes of Orr and Berry in front of him the Hawk didn't see much playing time. He was drafted by GB and Weeb traded for him or picked him up when he was cut. He was pretty good on special teams and almost blocked one of the Jets FGs in SB 3. He wrote a good book and said when he retired Unitas had his retirement party at the Golden Arm with just a few of his friends. He was a big name so Hawk didn't want a party but John called some of his friends in and Weeb who picked him off the junk pile. The book mentioned that Weeb wrote down one of the plays he used to beat them in the SB and showed it to them. He got the name CAPT WHO when he walked out with the Marchetti and Unitas the other team captains on defense and offense and a visiting reporter in the press room said who is that. Steadman or somebody said that's CAPT WHO and Steadman wrote up in his articles so he was always called CAPT WHO. LOL. Pellington's restaurant was called the Iron Horse after his nick name on the team. He got that name when he broke his arm and he played with a cast on it. Can you see anyone today played with a broken arm wearing a cast? Pellington did. It was funny how he broke the arm. He was running up to RB to hit him in the throat. The RB saw him coming and knew he was famous for that so he ducked his head at the last moment and Bill's arm missed the throat and hit his helmet and broke his arm. He played the rest of the year with the cast and like it so much he wore it the next year. An opposing coach protested to the refs. They said he has a broken arm. The coach said that was a year ago. So they made him cut it off but someone called him the Iron Horse because he was like an iron gate that swung around and whacked RBs in the head as they came thru the hole. Then the NFL outlaws playing with broken arms-lol. With what Goody has done, it's now officially a pussy league with guys getting injured just walking up to the line of scrimmage.

It was like 9 above today, freezing up here. I'll be going down to Daytona for the month of March like I always do.

The only time I met Unitas was at a restaurant in Be Air and he wasn't nice to me. He was by himself and looked like a lonely old man. I don't know where Sandy was. Never said anything to me. I asked for his autograph and he signed it on a napkin but kept playing with the little kids behind him but their daddy didn't even know who was playing with his kids. I wanted to ask some questions. I was the only one who knew who he was because everyone was from 20-30 yrs old. After that a long line of people asked him for autographs. If he was pissed at me, he was even more pissed after that. But one of the guys in the Nests said Unitas does not like to be interrupted when he's eating. So that's why he gave me the cold shoulder but during the next season we had seats behind the Ravens bench, 3rd row back, and Unitas walked by with his daughter. Thousands were screaming and yelling at him and he came straight over to me and shook my hand and said you're the guy from Bel Air. I said yea as he sure made my day. Mine was the only hand he shook but he never looked at my face but picked it out of a crowd of 30,000 fans. One time I saw Ozzie at Oregon Ridge. He walked by me on the way out and I yelled, Flacco please. Oz said he's that good huh? I laughed knowing he was bluffing me. Ozzie never tips off on the draft even in a restaurant. I was scared to death it was gonna be Henne because Peter King said he had he play book already.

My best friend lived near the lanes off Providence Rd in Towson. We spent a lot of time in there with our dates on the weekends. We were just talking about that and what a great high school life we had. College was all work both physically and mentally but nobody believes me when I say I screwed Goldie Hawn in College Park. She's from down there and were were pals and hung out in the Student Union on Fri nights for mixers. Speaking of the lanes, Unitas owned them with Tom Matte but everything John touched went bad and he was broke by 72 and filed bankruptcy so he could keep his estates. He had a huge house and a lot of land in Sparks, MD and a town house in Cape May and kept those but I read where he was sued the day he died. He was on a treadmill working out with Matte when he collapsed. He complained that he only made $272,000 pr yr compared to modern salaries. That was a lot of money back then and he had two homes including one one the beach. I just started my first job around there and made $6500. Our house up here cost $30,000 so you had to earn at least half that with 10% down. My dad's house payments went up from $90 pr month in Govans to $200 pr mo in Bel Air. We sold it for $350,000. Cars were under $10,000 in the 70s. Bought a new Mustang in 79 and car payments were $80 pr mo. I paid cash for the current Malibu but my Camry cost $15,000 in 99s. I told Matte you're always bitching on the radio about how much less you got than today's players but you made more than the rest of the country for playing a game. I said nobody on my street made more than $10,000. They worked down the point in the mills, and gas stations as mechanics and bank offices. You got $20,000 in the 60s for playing a game. You had more than the rest of us. He said yea, you're right but he still went back on the radio bitching. It really bothers them but they paved the way for these guys to do so well.

Yea, I remember Sau. He must have had some colorful quotes to get beeped out that many times. Unitas' wife had Arty Donovan kicked out of the car pool for the bad language he used on all their kids. Bill Pellington owned the Iron Horse along York Rd. I went in there a lot and a lot of John's teammates including Tom Matte went back there for a sauence-sp after the funeral to see if they could reach John's spirit-lol. True. It's in Steadman's book. Rumor also has it that Pellington bet $30,000 on the Jets. The Colts owner bet on the Colts as he aways did but why would Pellington bet vs his former team. He's from NY where his dad owned a bar and he knew all the same mafia contacts Namath knew from his club Bachelor's 3. The commish suspended Namath til he sold it but maybe Pellington thought the fix was on and bet vs his own team. Unitas used to own the Golden Arm on York Rd. I took my dates in there. Very impressive with all the teams hemets going around the room and some great paintings. He started it with Bobby Boyd, the DB, of the championship teams but he walked out later on.

I got into a fight with a kid at the Lodge. I was telling Chris the bar tender my probs in Looneys and he said stay away from there. She's trouble, man. So I said thanks but don't tell the manager I said that. She'll go nuts and was the one who banned me after we broke up. So this punk is listening behind me and said, I'll tell the manager what you said. I go to Looneys. I turned around and said you can get hurt really bad butting into another's man business. So I wiped the smile off his face when I kicked him in the balls and he drops fast and hard and hits the floor. Then I picked him up and dragged him over to the bouncer and said he's had too much to drink and is about to throat up over your floor. The bouncer threw him out in the parking lot and he never came back and he never said anything in Looneys either. I know because the bar tenders are still pals with me and would have told me. Everything about us gets back to me in there. I watch some porno and send one of the bar tenders emails with tricks to try on her boy friend-lol. She loves it. Not sure about her boy friend-lol. Sitting at Looneys is like being in a strip show. All the females are gorgeous and all wear low cut t-shirts and their shorts really short and if you're patient you might even get a lap dance. I swear, they often come out and sit next to you at the bar. They invited me to their parties. That happens to a lot of guys. The waitresses do it too butthey don't like you. They're working for their tips and some play you like the gal who even accepted emails from me. I had a relationship and was told two high forces in Looneys were trying to break you two up. I said who are the forces. She didn't know.I said why? She didn't know. A week later we were broken up. I almost had a heart attack. Blood pressure went up to 195/120 but she was right. They broke us up and I was banned. As far as Squeelers fans, I screwed one gal, they were engaged, just because he was a Squeeers fan. True. I got even after he started a fight with a Ravens fan and got him kicked out. She loved me and left him for me. Dated her for about a year. She's the only gal I allowed in my bed room from Pissburgh.

Or the tatt over my gal's, um, vagina. Now that's sick. LOL

Here's a mock from nfl.com and on a CBS power ranking Treadwell is listed 6th who is listed at 6'2, 210 lbs, so with Perriman, we'd have 2 tall receivers the way Trestman likes them. In this mock Treadwells taken 7th by SF. In this mock Ravens get - BOSA. I said he's been dropping already. JAGs take Treadwell. Ronnie Stanley, LT is ranked 3rd and Tunsil is ranked as the best player in the draft. I've seen several mocks calling him to be the first player drafted. According this, Tunsil is drafted 1st and Stanley is 3rd player to go. Then 2 QBs go so that's dropping Bosa. NFL.com says Dallas needs a QB but Jerry says that can wait another year and draft a WR. That would be Treadwell. http://www.nfl.com/draft/2016/mock-drafts We wouldn't be off to draft Stanley if KO leaves provided he's there. Here's the CBS power rankings of each player with Treadwell and Stanley ranked 6th and 7th. Hargrieves is ranked # 14. WoW. McShay said he's the most pure cover guy in the draft but he's 5'9 and might get bounced around in pros. http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/prospectrankings/2016/all

Not only Joe but Kubes made the entire zone blocking scheme simpler. Castillo has one of the toughest and best to learn turning out all those great linemen in Philly all those years but Yanda was about the only guy who could learn it. Oher, Gino and Shipley were too stupid. So Kubes came to down with a dumb down version of the West Coast Offense and a dumb down version of the zone blocking scheme and it worked. Man, I was shitting when he left. HARBs said the only ones that are upset about Kubes leaving are the fans. The organization is happy for him to get this shot and it makes us look good. Very true but the fans sure were pissed he went to Denver and Elway.

I used to go in Looney's almost every day for lunch but's that's where I got into some trouble which is easy to do there but at least they don't have Squeelers fans in there or not many. I was banned from Half Pints for fighting with Squeelers fans. I'm starting to run out of places to go to in Bel Air. There's still the Main Street Tower where I sing and some of Looney's young waitresses visit me to watch me sing Crazy Bitch and go nuts and the Lodge where I just came from after drinks with cronies all afternoon. The place looks like a real lodge with two fire places on each end. You feel like your in the Rocky Mountains.

Well said. We have to wait til the combines are over to get the numbers on everyone. Those will be the official times. Someone said Treadwell is not fast but has size at 6' as a possession guy who gets YAC. I have a bad feeling Jones will draft him. This is where the draft is not deep. If Hargreaves, Ramsey and Treadwell are gone and KO stays then who? The draft wasn't deep last year. Kiper had Perriman ranked at 15th best player and Ozzie had him at 17th BPA which is where he got him. Oz said later there was no one left in the first round he liked. Dupree was the guy he wanted bad but Piss drafted him just above us and Ozzie groaned. WEll, he certainly wasn't an impact player this year but neither was Shazier last year who had a much better year this year. BTW - Torrey Smith was the best WR Ozzie drafted and he got a ring. Didn't score a TD in the SB bought took his coverage deep in the corner along with JJ taking his deep on the other side and Boldin semi deep. That left the middle wide open all night for Pitta to win the game. Even Dickson made a crucial 3d down catch to keep the drive alive. He made it over the middle thanks to Torrey's speed.

That's always a good reason for losing but watch the tape. Their line wasn't blowing off the ball like Denver's to run the ball that much or for pass blocking as you saw. Von Miller was a 1-man wrecking ball pushing the line back. It was like a high school line going vs a pop warner line. Panthers just didn't want it and that goes back to the coaches.

Damn, Cravn we was neighbors. I lived in Forrest Hill off of Red Pump Rd near McDonalds. I sold the house and live in the condos off Moors Mill Rd and Hickory. They have a bunch of condos around there. I owned a condo in Daytona on the beach but never used it much except for renting it out. Never paid a cent on the mortgage. I was gonna move down with my mom to take care of her there but she didn't want to leave the family so I sold it. I can get 105.7 fm up here on the radio because it was fm but none of the am stations. NObody can get 1570 am past Towson. Now I get it on TV via the ROKU box. I get every station in Bmore. Actually, every radio station in the world - almost.

He made it simpler for Joe too.

I could never get any of those guys out here in the sticks but I listened to them when I was driving thru the city a lot on weekends. Use to go to dances on fri nights in the 80s and 90s but took a break outside and listened to Stan. He was a cool guy. We lived in the city when he started. He was a bar tender but family members urged him to go on the radio he knew so much about sports so he did. He stood outside WFBRs front door every night waiting for their GM to come thru for a job. After seeing him a couple of times and auditioning Stan, Harry Shriver gave him a 5-min radio gig which was expanded to 15- mins than an hour and the rest is history. You can read him now on www.pressboxonline which he owns and he even brought back Phil Jackman of the Sun to write. Good old Stan.