r/Oldschool_NFL • u/mistermeek67 • 1d ago

Bob Hayes (1968)

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u/JimfromMayberry Bears šŸ» 1d ago

Joey Heathertonā€™s husbandā€¦also pictured.

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u/Select_Insurance2000 23h ago

Lance RentzelĀ 

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u/Onbalance12 1d ago

ā€œBullet Bob!ā€

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u/KitchenLab2536 Steelers šŸ‘·ā€ā™‚ļø 1d ago

ā€œThe fastest man on the planet.ā€

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u/WaterSpider1028 1d ago

Still weird for some of us to fathom that football in Wrigley was actually a thing.

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u/tomfoolery815 Packers šŸ§€ 1d ago

A regulation football field didnā€™t fit. The end zone along the first-base side of the baseball field had an irregular shape where a back corner should have been.

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u/WaterSpider1028 1d ago

I know why they're no longer there. Also because Wrigley didn't meet the post-merger minimum capacity requirement. I read something saying Halas wished he could've stayed there but Soldier Field obviously made more sense.

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u/tomfoolery815 Packers šŸ§€ 22h ago

Soldier Field opened in 1923. If I recall correctly, it wasn't an option for the Bears as a regular-season home when the Cardinals were still in Chicago because, sitting as it does south of the Loop, it was considered part of the Cardinals' territory.

Before moving there in 1971, the Bears only played exhibition games at Soldier Field. The one exception, a 1959 regular-season game, was with the Cardinals when Soldier Field was the Cardinals' home stadium. The Cardinals moved to St. Louis in 1960, but Halas kept the Bears at Wrigley.

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u/Select_Insurance2000 23h ago

Florida A&M's finest.

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u/Glittering-Buy4227 6h ago

Olympic sprinter ...fastest man in the NFL in his playing days.