....... My two biggest football memories were Carl Garrett running for 41 yards on 3rd and 38 and Plunkett to Vataha for 88 yards and a TD to beat the Baltimore Colts. Schaeffer Stadium was a joke. It was the world's biggest high school stadium. It was 60,000 bleacher seats.
Ah yes RJM....that was the Patriots "golden age of suck".
My greatest childhood Pats memory was turning the corner at a Stop and Shop grocery store to literally run into John Hannah. He was freaking huge. Of course he seemed bigger to me as a 10 year, but was the size of a Volkswagen. Conversely, I remember the crowd going crazy at games when "Mini" Mack Herron would return punts or kickoffs because that was about all the Patriots had to cheer about in those days and the only way they were going to score. He was tiny and quick as a flea.