IF THERE IS NOTHING ELSE, TALK TO YOU NEXT TIME.. BE WELLby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
I APPRECIATE THEM VERY MUCH. I AM HUMBLED TO HAVE SUCH GOOD FANS. IF YOU ASK ANOTHER HANDFUL OF QUESTIONS I WILL TRY TO GET TO THEM BEFORE THIS HURRICANE HITS. AFTER THAT WE MAY NOT HAVE POWER HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA.by JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
Quoteramsfanatic I was there when you were inducted in to the HOF in 2001...18 years late! Just curious on how you felt being snubbed for so long...I know I was pissed every year waiting for your name to be called and I wasn't gonna miss it when they finally did! GO RAMS!!! WELL, AGAIN THAT IS A TOUGH ONE. I WAS DISAPPOINTED HAVING COME SO CLOSE AND THINKING I WAS NEVER GOING TO GET IN, BUT WHEby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
THAT'S HARD TO SAY. FOR ME IT WAS MOMENT TO MOMENT, IT WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT WAS SEPARATE. GUN TO MY HEAD I COULDN'T TELL YOU WHAT YEAR CERTAIN THINGS WERE. IT WAS ALMOST A ZEN THING, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. I HAD TO FOCUS ON THE HERE AND NOW AT SUCH A HIGH LEVEL THAT SOMETIMES THE MEMORIES WERE NEVER REALLY CREATED. BUT, TO TRY TO ANSWER THE 1975 PLAYOFF GAME WHERE I TIPPED A SCREEN PASS ANby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
Quotesean Mr. Youngblood, Thank you for doing this. It's a true honor having an opportunity to communicate with one of the all-time greats of football. The Rams made the Super Bowl after the 79 season, but which of your 70s teams do you think was the best? To that point, conservative playing calling and phantom calls aside, any ideas as to why all those great teams could not break throughby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
QuoteCraigMatson We fans don't have much chance to see practice beyond training camp. . Wondering if you've seen many examples of players even competent players who looked pretty awful time after time in practice maybe even horribly loafed it but could turn it on in real games? . How would coaches punish the poor habits or get more out of the neer do wells? . WE ALL PRACTICED HARD ESPECIALLYby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
QuoteCeeZar Hi Jack, I'm heading up to South Dakota for the opening weekend of pheasant season. So my mind is a bit more on birds than football at the moment. I know you're a big hunter. What is your favorite thing to hunt and where do you like to hunt it? Thanks for you time. CeeZar I LIKE TO HUNT QUAIL. THAT IS MY FAVORITE, THOUGH I HAVE BEEN TO THE GOVERNOR'S HUNT UP THERE IN SOUTHby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
SEATTLE WAS A GOOD OFFENSE AND THEY HAD A LEFT-HANDED QUARTERBACK. ALL WEEK RAY MALAVASI AND BUD CARSON DRILLED US ON NOT TO LET ZORN ROLL OUT OF THE POCKET. SOME OF THE ONLY YARDS WE GAVE UP WERE ON A PLAY WHERE ZORN ROLLED OUT PAST FREDDIE AND AS ZORN TURNED UP THE FIELD, FREDDIE WHO BROKE HIS CONTAIN WAS CHASING. ALL THE WHILE RAY WAS YELLING AT FREDDIE THAT 'WE TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THAT, DRYER,by JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
Quotemexram Hello Mr. Youngblood, and thank you very much for coming. I fue get to see you play and before I ask anything I wanted to thank you for all the memories and the big heart you always played with. My question is, what do you think this Ram line needs to really be feared and not just hyped? And, if Fisher asked you, would you coach them? Thank you very much for your time!!! The skyby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
QuoteShaky In this new era of NFL Football can a team still win the SB with a killer D and an below average O? I miss the old day's of football without instant replay. There are just too many stoppages in the game now. There is no such thing now of a team knowing when the 4th quarter comes this is our game now. You just can't tire-out another team with all these new rules. thanks Jack, Shaby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
Quoteroman18 as football player what other career do you think you would have excelled at? Did you ever want to be anything else? I NEVER PLANNED TO BE A FOOTBALL PLAYER. I WENT TO COLLEGE TO BE A BANKER. I HAD A JOB WITH A BANK IN ATLANTA WHEN I WAS DRAFTED BY THE RAMS. I HAD A FEW MONTHS TO GO TO GRADUATE AND I WAS GOING TO WORK FOR THAT BANK IN THE SUMMER. I HAD A GOOD JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEARby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
QuoteRamgator That Fran Tarkenton flipped the finger at you as time expired in one of those PAINFUL 70s Playoff loses? I heard you wanted to kill him for years. Thanks for all the memories! GO RAMS!!!! And Gators too!!! YES, THAT IS TRUE. I DIDN'T WANT TO KILL HIM OFF THE FIELD, BUT ON THE FIELD, SOMETIMES IT CROSSED MY MIND. WHEN HE DID THAT IT WAS AFTER A VERY TOUGH LOSS, EITHER IN 74 OR 76by JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
QuoteHazlet Hacksaw HI Jack, Thanks for coming on. Long time fan from NY/NJ - saw you play here every game you played in NJ/NY/Philly in your career. How ticked off were you guys when in the 1977 playoffs you finally got a home game against the Vikings and it was pouring rain in LA? I said to myself, these guys are cursed! Thanks I WASN'T TICKED AT THE WEATHER, I WAS TICKED WE DIDN'Tby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
QuoteRamFanInPA Comparing the NFL now to when you played. What is your favorite part of today's game and what is your least favorite part? I met you at your 2001 Hall Of Fame Induction weekend. It was a thrill, thanks for all those great memories!! You and Merlin are the reason I became a Rams fan all the way back in Pennsylvania. I still put on that #85 jersey proudly many a Sunday!!!! Lby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
QuoteCraigMatson Honor to have you here Sir, First off did you have many zone blitz concepts dropping. The DTs or DEs and bringing the DBs and LBs' ?. Besides Dryer and yourself what other DL man was fairly nimble in coverage . Most know about the issues bad luck or whatever the Rams had in beating the Cowboys and Vikes over the years. .have you boiled it down to specific reasons or schemes tby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
QuoteCraigMatson Was there a exceptional physical freak on the teams you played on that just seemed to. Have unbelievable Physical gifts? . Are their any opponents that would also come to mind? . Russ Francis was the first-ever All world player according to Mr H.Cossell: ) , could you nominate two or three? MONTE JACKSON WAS A PHYSICAL FREAK, HE COULD BENCH PRESS A MILLION POUNDS AND WAS FASTby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
QuoteRam Rock Jack, First of all, thanks for being here to answer our questions. Also, thanks for being a childhood hero of mine and many many others! You had an impact on many a Rams fan's life because of your respect of, and how you played the game! My Question is this Mr. Youngblood: How did it feel being part of all the festivities for the LA Rams Home Coming? Was it emotional fby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
Quotebrownsugar It looked like the Ram D line knew how to stop the run most of the team, despite you and Dryer being relatively light in wieght for your positions. It looked like you and Fred knew techniques….My question is how did the Defensive line look so organized.? Experience, intelligence, desire, a certain coach. What was it like going against Slater every day? Why did it take til 1979by JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
Quotejoram Despite all your accomplishments on the field does it ever irritate you that most descriptions of your career start with you playing on a broken leg? IT DOESN'T IRRITATE ME. IT PISSES ME OFF. ALL I DID WAS DO MY JOB. I FELT I HAD A DECENT CAREER, ONE THAT I WORKED HARD AT AND STRIVED TO BE THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS AND AT TIMES, I THINK I DID. I ALSO DON'T LIKE IT WHEN IT IS MISIDEby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
TOO MANY TO NAME, BUT PHIL OLSEN, MERLIN, BROOSKIE, EDDIE BROWN, BOBBY BRU, ALL OF THEM CAME TO MY FARM TO HUNT OR WE'D FISH TOGETHER. RICH SAUL WAS PROBABLY THE ONE I WAS CLOSEST TO. WHEN I WAS A ROOKIE I MOVED INTO THE SAME APT COMPLEX AS HE AND EILEEN AND THEY SHOWED ME THE ROPES. NOLAN AND I ARE CLOSE, TOO.by JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
Quote70sramsfan Thank you so much for taking questions, Mr. Youngblood. I have been a fan since finding your football card on the top of a pack in 1974! A question about your teammate Jim Youngblood. The two of you were not related, and yet the Youngblood name is not a common one, and the two of you played the left side together for a number of years. My question is, how close were you anby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
WE DIDN'T HAVE A BET, BUT WE DID HAVE A COMPETITION, BUT IT WAS MORE A WEEK TO WEEK THINK, WHOEVER HAD THE MOST DIDN'T HAVE TO BUY THE BEER. IT WAS A COMPETITION WITH ALL OF US, NOT JUST SCRAPPER AND ME.by JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat
QuoteNewMexicoRam Thanks, Jack, for stopping by and jawing! I was at that game in rainy Chicago that night, a senior in HS at the time, which turned out to be the last game Broadway Joe played in. It was great to have had a chance to see one of those great Ram teams of the '70's! What was it like to have him as a teammate? What was the team response when Joe was pulled for Pat Haden? Didby JackYoungblood - Jack Youngblood Chat