Okoko uninzi lwethu lunokukhumbula, iDallas Cowboys kunye neDetroit Lions badlale imidlalo ngoMhla wokuBulela. Kodwa kutheni?
Masiqale ngeeNgonyama. Baye badlala yonke i-Thanksgiving ukususela ngo-1934, ngaphandle kwe-1939-44, nangona bengazange babe liqela elihle kakhulu kuloo minyaka. IiLions zadlala isizini yazo yokuqala eDetroit ngo-1934 (ngaphambi koko, zaziyiPortsmouth Spartans). Bazabalaza unyaka wabo wokuqala eDetroit, njengoko uninzi lwabalandeli bezemidlalo apho babethanda i-baseball yeDetroit Tigers kwaye khange baphume ngobuninzi bayokubukela iiLions. Ngoko umnini weeLions uGeorge A. Richards wayenombono: Kutheni ungadlali kwi-Thanksgiving?
URichards wayenesikhululo sikanomathotholo iWJR, esasisesinye sezikhululo ezinkulu elizweni ngelo xesha. URichards wayenomdla kakhulu kwihlabathi losasazo, kwaye waqinisekisa i-NBC ukuba ibonise umdlalo kwilizwe lonke. Intshatsheli ye-NFL iChicago Bears yafika edolophini, kwaye iiLions zathengisa i-26,000-seat University of Detroit field okokuqala. URichards wasigcina isiko kwiminyaka emibini ezayo, kwaye i-NFL yaqhubeka ibacwangcisa kwi-Thanksgiving xa baphinda badlala ngaloo mhla emva kokuphela kweMfazwe Yehlabathi II. URichards wathengisa iqela ngo-1940 waza wasweleka ngo-1951, kodwa isithethe awasiqalayo sisaqhubeka nanamhlanje xa iiLions zidlala … iChicago Bears.
I-Cowboys yadlala okokuqala kwi-Thanksgiving ngo-1966. Bangena kwiligi ngo-1960 kwaye, njengoko kunzima ukukholelwa ngoku, bazama ukutsala abalandeli kuba babebabi kakhulu kuloo minyaka embalwa yokuqala. Umanejala jikelele uTex Schramm wacenga i-NFL ukuba ibacwangcisele umdlalo wokuBulela ngo-1966, ecinga ukuba unokubenza badume eDallas nakwilizwe lonke kuba umdlalo uza kuboniswa kumabonakude.
Isebenzile. Amathikithi e-Dallas-record 80,259 athengiswa njengoko i-Cowboys yoyisa iCleveland Browns, i-26-14. Abanye abalandeli beCowboys balatha kulo mdlalo njengesiqalo sokuba iDallas ibe "iqela laseMelika." Baye baphoswa kuphela ukudlala kwi-Thanksgiving kwi-1975 kunye ne-1977, xa uMkomishinala we-NFL uPete Rozelle wakhetha iSt. Louis Cardinals endaweni yoko.
Imidlalo kunye neeCardinals ibonakalise ukuba ngabalahlekileyo kumazinga, ngoko ke uRozelle wabuza iCowboys ukuba baya kudlala kwakhona ngo-1978.
"Yayiyi-dud e-St. Louis," uSchramm uxelele i-Chicago Tribune ngo-1998. "UPete wabuza ukuba singayibuyisela na. Ndathi only if siyifumana ngokusisigxina. Yinto ekufuneka uyakha njengesithethe. Wathi, 'Yeyakho ngonaphakade.' ”
U-Nate Bain wabaleka i-downcourt kunye nexesha elihambayo kwaye wafaka amanqaku kwi-layup ngoLwesibili ebusuku ukunika uStephen F. Austin uloyiso olumangalisayo lwe-85-83 kwi-Duke, ephelisa umdlalo we-Blue Devils we-150-umdlalo wekhaya ophumeleleyo ngokuchasene nabachasi abangenayo inkomfa.
UBain, umdala osuka eBahamas, wenze udliwanondlebe enkundleni kwaye wazibamba iinyembezi xa echaza ukuba ibingunyaka onzima kangakanani. Ikhaya elalihlala usapho lwakhe latshatyalaliswa yiNkanyamba uDorian kulo nyaka.
“Usapho lwam luphulukene kakhulu kulo nyaka,” utshilo uBain. Andizukhala kumabonwakude.
Amagosa aseStephen F. Austin aseke iphepha leGoFundMe elivunyiweyo leNCAA leBain emva ngoSeptemba. Abafundi baseStephen F. Austin baqala ukwabelana ngelo phepha kumajelo asekuhlaleni emva kokuphumelela, kwaye ukususela ngoLwesithathu emva kwemini, yayikhulise i-69,000 encinci ye-$, idlula ngokulula i-$ 50,000 injongo. Ukujonga ngamanye amagqabaza, abambalwa babaxhasi babengabalandeli bakaDuke.
Ixesha lokuposa: Nov-28-2019