NFL Week 9: Mike Tanier’s Game Previews and Score Predictions

November 7, 2015   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

This week's Game Previews celebrate the greatest year in our nation's history: 1976.
Actually, 1976 was a terrible year. The economy was awful. There were gasoline shortages. America was still reeling from the Vietnam War and Watergate. If you don't like your political options now, imagine "peanut farmer versus former Michigan center." Disco was about to break big.
But 1976 was a vintage year for football. The Rams and Vikings faced off in the NFC Championship Game, while the Raiders and Steelers clashed in the AFC Championship Game. These were storied teams: Steel Curtains, Purple People Eaters, vicious defenses, some innovative offenses. The Raiders went on to beat the Vikings in Super Bowl XI, cementing a status as the baddest bad boys of professional sports that would calcify into a silly Halloween over the decades.
Meanwhile, Saints quarterback Archie Manning and his wife Olivia welcomed their second son into the world in March of 1976, naming him Peyton Williams Ma...

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