Dan Abramowicz

    Dan Abramowicz is 6-1 and 165 pounds. His college was Xavier University. Abramowicz was drafted late in the 17th round in 1967 by the New Orleans Saints. In 1969 he led the NFL with 73 receptions. in 1973 he got traded to the San Francisco 49ers then ended his career with the Buffalo Bills. After the 1975 season he retired and ended his career with 396 receptions, 5,686 receiving yards, and 39 touchdowns. Abramowicz held a career record for having at least 1 reception in his 105 games. When Dan Abramowicz retired the head coach of the Chicago Bear, Mike Ditka, hired him as the Chicago Bears Special Teams Coach from 1992 - 1996. Abramowicz was re-united with his team the New Orleans Saints as the Offensive Coordinator from 1997 - 1999. Since 2008 he has his own T. V. on a catholic T. V. channel on EWTN called "Crossing the Goal".

   

Dan Abramowicz for the Saints

Dan Abramowicz for the 49ers

Source: Wikipedia  and the Official Encyclopedia of Football 

1944 Card-Pitt

    In 1944 the Chicago Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers were short on players due to World War II. So the teams merged in the 1944 season to create the team Card-Pitt. The head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Walt Kiesling and the head coach of Chicago Cardinals, Phil Hanler were the co-coaches of the Card-Pitt. Unfortunately they lost all ten of the regular season games. The Brooklyn Tigers also lost all of their ten games. That is the first time in NFL history that two NFL teams lost all of their regular season games. Only 4 teams ever in NFL history have lost all regular season games such as the 1976 Tampa Buccaneers and the 2008 Detroit Lions. Art Rooney said "The worst team in NFL history". The Quarterback of the team, John McCarthy, threw thirteen interceptions, zero touchdown passes, and a Quarterback rating of 3.0. The Kicker of the team, Conway Baker, missed 4 of his 15 extra points.

Card-Pitt Roster 

QB John McCarthy

QB Coley McDonough 

QB Walt Rankin

HB John Butler

HB George Magulick 

HB John Popovich 

HB Bernie Semes 

HB Bob Thurbon 

FB John Grigas 

B Walt Masters 

 E Don Currivan 

E Walt Kichefski 

E Johnny Martin 

E Eddie Rucinski 

E Clint Wagner 

T Clarence Booth 

T Chet Bulger

T Ted Doyle  

T Cliff Duggan 

G Conway Baker 

G Lou Marotti 

G Elmer Merkovsky 

G John Perko 

C Vince Banonis 

C Marshall Robnett 

C Al Wukits

Source: Wikipedia

                             

NFL Bench Warmer News

NFL Bench Warmer New is my blog where I write/blog about the NFL, Football, football cards, football players, football games, and more. When I write this blog I don't actually mean real bench warmers. I just got the name because it's catchy. So that's what will be writing about. Keep reading!

Bench Warmers!

Hot Dog Comics

I use to always write Hot Dog Comics and put them on my other blog called Hot Dog Comics and Other Cool Things.  I made that blog when I was younger, but a few years later I kept writing about football instead of my Hot Dog Comics. So I started to copy and paste all of my football blog posts from Hot Dog Comics and Other Cool Things to my new blog NFL Bench Warmer News.

This is one of my Hot Dog Comics I wrote.

The Rookie/Comeback Kid Andrew Luck

          Andrew Luck was the number one overall draft pick of 2012. He fixed up a 2-14 team to a 11-5 making the playoffs unfortunately losing to the. Most of his 11 wins weren't all that easy to win in fact some people didn't even think they would win those games. Andrew Luck holds a rookie record for most fourth quarter comebacks with 7. 
             
                               Week                              Team                              Score
                                 2                             Minnesota Vikings                 23 - 20
                                 4                             Green Bay Packers                30 - 27
                                 7                               Tennessee Titans                 19 - 13
                                 8                                Miami Dolphins                 20 - 23
                                12                                  Detroit Lions                   35 - 33
                                13                               Tennessee Titans                27 - 23
                                15                              Kansas City Chiefs              20 - 13

Luck beat the Tennessee Titans twice with two fourth quarter comebacks. When Luck played the Detroit Lions he had 0 seconds left and won the game with a game winning touchdown pass. Andrew Luck would have been Rookie of the Year if it wasn't for Washington Redskins Quarter Back RG3. Luck made it to the pro-bowl in 2012. Luck will probably have more fourth quarter comebacks later in his career like Quarterback's Tom Brady or Joe Montana.

Joe Namath

 Joe Namath played professional football from 1965-1977. He was number 12 and a fantastic quarterback. He played for the New York Jets. His Nickname was Broadway Joe because he was an entertainer in Broadway and some stared in some commercials. In one he shaved his legs for something called beauty mist. He played in the 3rd Superbowl against the Baltimore Colts.  Broadway Joe Vs Johnny U. Broadway Joe for the first time in the AFC history guaranteed that they would win super bowl III. Broadway Joe was nominated number 100 of NFL top 100 best players of all time. He just made the list. The first time in football history all receivers and their quarterback (Joe Namath) has ever made it to the pro bowl was done by the Jets.    

                                     1 2 3 4    
                       nyj         0 7 6 3 
                       bal         0 0 0 7 
Sixteen to 7 Joe didn't let his team down. He was made Superbowl MVP of the year. Looks like  Broadway Joe made the Super III guarantee. Eight years later he got traded to the Los Angeles Rams, that was his last year playing. Lots of people were thinking he should have been nicknamed no Kneed Joe or Late hit Joe because the defense use to always come up and sack Joe after the play so he aways had busted knees. Especially the Raiders defense. There were rules made because of there late hits.

Top 10 Running Backs of all time

10.  Ladainian Tomlinson

9. Marshall Faulk

8. Eric Dickerson

7. Gale Sayers

6. Emmitt Smith

5. O.J. Simpson

4. Earl Campbell

3. Barry Sanders

2. Walter Payton

 1. Jim Brown