Comments on: Jumping Quarterbacks!

By: Sam Etcheverry, Alouettes and Cardinals Quarterback | Nearmint's Vintage Football Card Blog

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:21:57 +0000

[...] Having seen only his NFL cards, I didn’t know about Etcheverry’s accomplishments in the CFL. As a player he appeared in three Grey Cups (CFL championship games), and he was the league’s most outstanding player in 1954. He passed for 586 yards in one game in 1954, and in 1956 he had a 109-yard pass–no, not a typo, because the CFL’s field is 110 yards long. Etcheverry’s CFL Hall of Fame page has a nice summary of his accomplishments and a great photo of him throwing a jump pass. (I love this shot: see my jumping quarterbacks post.) [...]

By: nearmint

nearmint — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:11:18 +0000

Thanks for posting the link, Jeremy. I love the photo of Air Gilmer halfway down the right side.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:01:12 +0000

Here is the address:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/feature/featureVideo?page=bowden/bama

By: jeremy

jeremy — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:00:40 +0000

Reading this post reminds me of an article I read about Bobby Bowden. It’s about his love for Alabama football and his idol, a QB named Harry Gilmer who did the jump pass.

By: nearmint

nearmint — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:57:42 +0000

Good call--check this out at 2:35: Jumpin' Joe Kapp

By: Hedgehog

Hedgehog — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:41:10 +0000

Joe Kapp – only man to play QB in a Rose Bowl, a Super Bowl and a Grey Cup. It was his trademark. For those of you too young to remember, he was laso in the original “Longest Yard.”