Did Joe Theisman ever Play with the Miami Dolphins?

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by TAFKAS

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/25/Sp...aracters.shtml

JACK SQUIREK, Linebacker, Raiders
Super Bowl XVIII

Theismann, an ESPN broadcaster, remembers the screen pass all too well. "I didn't want to run it," he said. "Joe (Gibbs) explained that we'd played the Raiders earlier that year and that it worked against them then, and I said, "Don't you think they know that?' And he pointed at me and said, "Run it."'

At the Raiders bench, defensive coordinator Charlie Sumner remembered how the play had burned them for 67 yards 15 weeks earlier at RFK Stadium. He called for a zone defense, inserted Squirek and told him to cover receiver Joe Washington man-to-man. "I was trying to get in the game and Charlie kept grabbing me and saying, "Make sure you don't let him get by you."'

While a player, he started a business in suburban Cleveland, cleaning carpets in office buildings. When his partner left, Pro Team Carpet Cleaning eventually became the more diversified Squirek Services.

You're the man! ....Damn...Jack Squirek...who would have "thunk" it.

What's funny is that earlier that year we beat them in a shootout at RFK. Joe Washington was badasss in that game.

[gibbs4life]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

You are the mother f****n man!!

Thanks!! I knew he had some connection to Miami...and I think he did at one time return punts for the Redskins.

he was one helluva punter too.lol

one big ole yard against the bears.

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by gibbs4life

he was one helluva punter too.lol

one big ole yard against the bears.

Hey, where is chocowinity, NC ?

[4mrusmc]

Hey guys I don't know if this is one of those urban myths, but I thought that Joe T. changed his last name to Theismann so that it would rhyme with heisman (trophy)? Something for the brain trust to research.......

[dmek25]

he didnt change his name,just how you pronounce it

[MTK]

Joe Theismann (born September 9, 1949) is a former American football quarterback and current television football announcer. He played football for the University of Notre Dame and was a runner-up in the 1970 Heisman Trophy voting which went to Jim Plunkett of Stanford University. Late in the season, the original pronunciation of his surname, "THEEZ-man," was altered to rhyme with "Heisman," which he has continued to use since then. Whether this was done by Theismann himself, as many have suggested, or at the behest of Notre Dame officials is unclear. During his collegiate career, the smallish Theismann (just 6'-0", 180 lb/1.83 m, 82 kg), led the Fighting Irish to a 20-3-2 record. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Theisman

[70Chip]

Originally Posted by offiss

That play is pretty funny if you listen to Theisman tell the story of what happened right before the INT.

He went to sideline during a TO, Gibbs said to run that play to J.Washington, Joe disagreed and said we should take a knee, Gibbs said it worked earlier in the year, and Joe said exactly, that is why we shouldn't run it because it's the same exact circumstance they will be looking for it, but Gibbs said run it, so Joe returns to the huddle calls the play and as he approaches the line of scrimmage he looks over at Gibbs for a last second desperation reprieve, Gibbs starts waving at him to run it, the rest is history.

I will always believe that the Raiders were stealing signals. There not smart enough to figure it out themselves. And isn't it rather like Theesman to say "I didn't want to run the play!" Just because they called the play doesn't mean that he head to lob it up right to the guy that deep in his own territory.

[Luxorreb]

OK 12thman...
As the official warpath ref, you LOSE this thread. Do some history lessons. Joey T play for the Dolphins??? Gimme a break man. He beat em in the Superbowl dummy!!!