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Posted by MATHA531 on Sat Oct 20 17:01:15 2012, in response to Re: What if the Dodgers had never moved?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Oct 20 16:55:13 2012. It sure was but until that time, the Giants were hardly the story they were to become (also spurred on by a great episode on the 20th Century called the Violent World of Sam Huff).....again what is hard for a lot of people to understand is the resentment not only in Brooklyn but throughout the country except for the left coast about what had happened to the Dodgers and their fans. And while I am not for one suecond suggesting the rise of the NFL was a direct result of this contempt, the timeline strongly suggests it played a role as the rise of the Giants as an influence in the NY sports scene, the fact that so many of my neighbors turned to the Giants and began the obligatory treks to nearby Connecticut for Su7nday afternoon home games which were blacked out in NYC until well into the early 1970's (the Jets victory over the Oakland Raiders in the 1969 AFL championship game at Shea Stadium was also bnlacked out in NY)lends a small degree of credibility to my contention about the NFL. |
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