Wow. Jon Gallo and Matt Palmer will not win any popularity contests with several of our readers. Here are the two best readers? comments in response to yesterday?s debate of “Top 10 Most Important Sports Events” with ties to Baltimore City or its five neighboring counties ? Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard ? as selected by Gallo and Palmer:
Dear Examiner Sports Editor:
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My blood pressure soared on reading Matt Palmer?s Top Ten List. How could he put Super Bowl III (1969), the Colts? losing effort against the NY Jets, in his top sporting events agenda? This is TREASON! Palmer should be punished for publishing such nonsense. I suggest that he be branded as an “enemy combatant,” receive a fair trial before the boy-ohs at a bar in Locust Point, and then detained for a 24 hour period, with dog-hater Atlanta Falcons? quarterback, Michael Vick, as a cell mate. Palmer should also be forced to listen, while confined, to all of the recorded rants of John “The Mouth” Madden. That should teach him a lesson!
Sincerely,
William Hughes
Baltimore
Matt,
You must be getting torched for this list. You could not have spent your life in this town and came up with this list (unless maybe you are about 25 years old?) 6, 8 and 10 are strange indeed, #10 especially. A pre-season football game????
And Jon,
Two of these made your list at 8 and 10. … How could you skip over the 1965 NFL play-off game when the Colts had to use Tom Matte at QB and the hated Green Bay Packers won on a highly disputed field goal?
That #10 Pre-season football game between 2 foreign teams was more important????
What about the final game of the NFL regular season in 1967 when the undefeated Colts 11-0-2 went into Los Angeles for a showdown with the Rams and their Fearsome Foursome.
We lost and both teams finished the season at 11-1-2. (We tied them in game at Memorial stadium)
The tie-breaker was head to head play, and since they beat us, they went to the NFL Title game vs. the hated 9-4-1 Packers (who won)
We went home, no play-offs. Not an important game??
? Gene Stump,
Baltimore County
