04/25/24
December 29, 2010
The Last Time the NFL Played on Tuesday: The rescheduled Vikings-Eagles game in Philadelphia was the first Tuesday game in the NFL since 1946. A torrential downpour moved the New York Giants/Boston Yanks game back a day to Oct. 1. Merle Hapes ran for two touchdowns and Ken Strong kicked a field goal and New York defeated Boston, 17-0. The Giants went on to reach the NFL Championship but lost to George Halas' Chicago Bears 24-14.
Boston Yanks? Sounds like it went over about like you would expect with a team of that name playing in that city. Eventually, kind of became the Colts.
posted by graymatters at 08:34 PM on December 29, 2010
Joe Webb is now the best Tuesday night QB in the modern era. This pleases me.
posted by TheQatarian at 10:03 PM on December 29, 2010
Boston Yanks? Sounds like it went over about like you would expect with a team of that name playing in that city.
I expect it probably went over just fine, given that people back then knew what "Yankee" means, unlike people today.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 09:12 AM on December 30, 2010
The belief that words never change meaning over time makes me gay.
posted by rcade at 10:14 AM on December 30, 2010
Well, you just live it up then, rcade. You don't know what you've been missing.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 10:41 AM on December 30, 2010
How very queer.
posted by yerfatma at 11:30 AM on December 30, 2010
Be like President Truman. Tell the public that your administration has pulled a boner.
posted by beaverboard at 12:02 PM on December 30, 2010
Nothing wrong with that as long as you clean up after.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 12:13 PM on December 30, 2010
Otherwise it's a muff.
posted by yerfatma at 01:44 PM on December 30, 2010
Boston Yanks? Sounds like it went over about like you would expect with a team of that name playing in that city.
Actually, team owner Ted Collins, the manager for singer Kate Smith (of Philadelphia Flyers anthem fame), wanted a team in NYC, but the league wouldn't give him a franchise. He settled for Boston, but stubbornly called the team Yankees. Wikipedia explains the sordid history of the franchise that now plays its games in Indianapolis.
posted by Howard_T at 03:59 PM on December 30, 2010
Wow. That's some history, Howard_T.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 08:48 PM on December 30, 2010
What numbers did NBC pull for the game last night?