Philtration
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Charles Martin. I'm sure some people don't remember him (he died a while back). Some remember what he did (he grabbed McMahon well after he'd thrown the ball and drove him into the turf). What few remember is why.
The Packers had lost their QB the previous season to late hits, and the week before their QB had taken a number of late hits. So when the Bears started taking late shots at our QB, Martin decided it was time to even the score and he certainly did that.
Yeah, it was a dirty and dangerous hit, just like when a pitcher throws at a batter in baseball. But it sent a clear message.....stop hitting our QB late. McMahon, if I recall correctly, had missed quite a few games with injury that year and then missed the last four games of the season after Martin tent-pegged him.
If you remember all this, try to pretend that you don't remember that at this time the Bears were the dirtiest team in the league. Try also to pretend that Martin's hit was totally unprovoked.
Wrong.
Where did you get that complete ******** story from?
The Packer's coach Forrest Gregg had a grudge with the Bears coach Mike Ditka going all the way back to their playing days.
Charles Martin had the numbers of all the Bears players that he claimed that he was going to knock out of the game written on a towel that was stuffed into his pants and he said before the game even started that it was his "hit list".
The hit he made on McMahon was not a hit at all let alone a late one.
Martin was ejected from the game and suspended for the next two so let’s not sugar coat it by calling it a late hit.
Many NFL fans view that as the biggest dirt bag act of all time yet Packer fans cheered it and some obviously still find it funny.
Pathetic.
The Packers pulled the same act in the game in Green Bay the year before with Ken Stills making a hit on Matt Suhey long after the whistle was blown and cornerback Mark Lee driving Walter Payton into the bench a good ten yards out of bounds. Lee was ejected.
They could not stop Payton (192 yards on 28 carries) so they tried to hurt him by playing like a bunch of cheap shot a-holes and the 55,343 Packer fans at Lambeau cheered for this crap.
Not exactly your finest moment Packer fans.
This was one year to the month before the McMahon/Martin thing so your story about Martin getting even does not come close to the truth.
Gregg said that he approved of all of this after the game.
He was a ******.
The truth is that the Packers could not compete with the Bears on the field so Gregg let his team become jag offs with his approval.
There was no "the Bears were the dirtiest team in the league" thing going on except in your head.
Learn the history of your own team or stick to soccer.