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  1. Tiger_fan

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    Yep, part of the Saints "Thunder and Lightning" backfield with Chuck Muncie. the two combined for:
    1976 -- 1,229 rushing / 692 receiving = 1,921 total
    1977 -- 1,455 rushing / 513 receiving = 1,968 total
    1978 -- 1,192 rushing / 815 receiving = 2,007 total
    1979 -- 1,906 rushing / 792 receiving = 2,698 total

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    Tony Galbreath of Missouri (taken #32 overall in the draft)
     
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    hints on the two you missed: one has a daughter, Island, and a son, Navy. the other led the NFL in passing TDs and passer rating one year
     
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  3. fanatic

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    Ha, not at all.
    Yeh, just kind of glanced at them. Have to weed out t_f's post. I'll have more time to look when I get home.
     
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    These are just guesses

    Muncie and Galbreath, not sure of the opponent
    Hilliard and Mayes

    Ricky Williams was one. I think Deuce was the other.

    I think it's the Big 10, but I can't think of the 4th.

    BIG 10
    Everett/Drew - Purdue
    Dave Wilson - Illinois
     
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  5. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    Muncie and Galbreath are correct, in a win over Kansas City
    Mayes is correct, but not Hilliard.

    Remember, Ditka era. But both are incorrect


    Correct on the conference and these 3. Since the 4th shows my age again, I'll spare you any more waiting. Larry Cipa, University of Michigan, in 1974.
     
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    Trying to think of the other RB we had with Mayes. Don't tell me. I think I can figure it out. It's right there in my brain.

    I'm stumped on the 2 players that ran and threw for a TD. Could have sworn Ricky Williams threw a halfback pass for a TD one time. Guess he didn't rush for one in that game.
     
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    Was it Mayes and Ironhead Heyward?
     
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    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    Correct, in a win over Cincinnati.
     
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    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    Mario Bates and Heath Shuler, in a win over Detroit in Ditka's first season. They were the first since Terry Bradshaw and Rocky Bleier did it some time in the early 70s.
     
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    In the early 90s, there used to be a club right on Lake Pontchartrain called Barts where a lot of Saints players used to go after home games. I only went a couple of times, but saw Ironhead Heyward there on one occasion and couldn't believe someone THAT freakin big could be a running back. Dude could have been a lineman. I couldn't imagine being an LB or worse, a DB, and trying to tackle him. He definitely earned his nickname.
     
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