Ditka made a mistake but Walter handled it wrong too and that season was about the D and about Perry scoring TDs on offense so it wasn't crazy to give it to Perry.
No, but he perservered through the lean years, when they were horrible, he was there only viable player, he was the face of the franchise, he deserved to carry the ball instead of the lardo
shit Ferguson played forever. I remember this but for some reason I thought there was no way that was 1985 as I thought Ferguson was done before then. Turns out he played all the way to freakin 1990.
Wow. The guy played with O.J. Simpson and Eric Dickerson. He started games opposite Joe Namath and Randall Cunningham. That's a long career. Of course I bet Testaverde can script a similar story
Ferguson and Namath had a classic battle in Buffalo in the early 70's, 60mphwinds, as hard as Joe throws the ball was almost flying back over his head, he only completed 2/18 passes and Ferguson only attempted 2