The Rise of the Ravens & Significant Players Who Wore Jersey #0

We are into the NFL off season, but we have some great football history for you as we're going to talk a little bit about some early AFL and NFL agreements as well as a couple of franchise city moves on this February 9th football history headlines.

And we're going to also look at the number 0 for jersey numbers all coming up in just a moment.

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I'm Darren Hayes and I'm Also with the pigskindispatch.com welcome to the Pig Pen as we are going to go through your football history headlines and start off on our Numbers Journey of Jersey numbers with the number zero coming up in just a moment.

According to the Pro Football hall of Fame's website, the verbal pact between the then rival professional football leagues pertain to player contracts.

The Ravens were the franchise that formerly called themselves the Cleveland Browns.

Al had formerly worked with ABC Sports for the better part of three decades.

Michaels was a breadth of experience in covering NFL games prior to this move has been a mainstay for almost 20 seasons as part of ABC's Monday Night Football.

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The awesome offensive tackle from the Angelo State Rams, Rod Cason was born.

He made it into the NFL and played for the New England Patriots franchise.

Danny held Arizona State records for the most yards gained by passing in a career was 6,717 and the most touchdown passes was 64.

When Danny left college, he joined the Memphis Southman, sometimes remembered as the Memphis Grizzlies of the World Football League.

And when the WFL folded two years later, Danny was picked up by the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL and was a longtime quarterback and punter for the franchise.

Now, as we promised, we're gonna start off with our first jersey number in this series.

Going all the way from 0 to 99.

And zeros is a logical place to start, but there's a couple ground rules.

So the first one we have to talk about is double zeros.

It was Jim Otto.

So he had quite a span of AFL and NFL experience.

He was an original Raider and and none of the three players to play all of the team's games.

In the ten year history of the American Football League, Otto is considered to be the one of the greatest centers ever to play the game.

The only other double zero of significance that I could find was the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.

Ken Burrow was a great player, very interesting player, and if you can ever watch some old clips of him, you can see his talent that was on the football field.

But Ken Burrow wore the double zeros.

The other, only other person that were zero or double zero that I could find.

And again, if we missed something, please email us at pigskind dispatch gmail.com and we'll catch it up on a future episode.

We'll clean up some of the folks we may have missed because we want to make sure we honor all the significant players that played well.

We had a zero, George Plimpton, who wore it in the preseason with the Lions one year, the Detroit Lions.

So that's what it is now for the zeros for the college jersey.

So we don't have a whole lot of information on folks that wore them.

But there were some players this past season that did wear zero and double zero and we congratulate that on that for them on that because they are the first in the NCAA to be wearing those numbers and that that's short and sweet for zeros.

But not a lot of players were allowed to wear them and there hasn't been a lot of history of them wearing them.

And some, like the NFL, have ended that history abruptly in the early 70s.

So make sure we're going to try to do this regularly through the season.

Probably about three to four times a week.

We're going to talk about the jersey numbers.

And coming up in our next edition, we're going to do it on the February 10th edition release.

We are going to talk to Larry Schmidt from the Gridiron Uniform database.

We talked to Bill Shafer last episode, but Larry is going to get us into some great detail on jersey number one.

We're going to have a great discussion and it's a lot of fun and you are going to really learn some things from Larry Schmidt and I'm excited to present them to you on tomorrow's podcast.

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