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For the 1964 season, rule changes allowed schools to return to two platoon football. When Coach Bob Devaney broke out his offensive and defensive squads, he wanted a way to tell them apart.  As the legend goes, assistant coach Mike Corgan was sent out to a local sporting goods store to get some new practice jerseys.  The store owner had some black jerseys that weren’t selling.  He cut Corgan a deal and the new jerseys were issued to the first string defenders.

Mike Kennedy was one of the very first Blackshirts, starting the first game after the practice jerseys debuted.  He went on to earn All-Big 8 honors as a linebacker the following year.


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Tom Brady was the best QB ever, but I think he'd obviously be a net negative at safety or LB. 
Come to think of it, if football remained 1-platoon, it would have hastened the athletic (largely black) QB becoming the norm.  Not necessarily with Warren Moon, but Randall Cunningham (plus he punted!) and maybe a Rodney Peete would have been serviceable on D.  McNair, Culpepper.....idk, imagine Montana or Marino trying to play defense, even f they grew up doing it.  Once you get to Vick, he'd be a plus on both sides of the ball (I assume).

It would have been interesting.

A couple of thoughts:
First, there has been a massive revolution in the athletic quality of big-time college football players. Back in 1964 I would guess that you'd be able to find random non-athlete guys on campus who could compete reasonably well with the football players. Today that is not the case AT ALL.

Specialization starts at a VERY young age and the workout programs are extreme.

The position most impacted by the above is obviously QB. The rest all have rough Offensive/Defensive equivalents:

• O-line / D-line
• Linebackers / O-line,  TE's, Backs (that is basically biggest/strongest to smallest/fastest
• WR's / DB's

The biggest problem with the above is that the numbers don't quite work out but you could make it work, for example, by having your biggest linebacker play O-line and your biggest DB play linebacker or some such.

QB's are a different thing altogether. Brains, accuracy, and arm strength are the chief requirements for the position with athletic ability completely secondary in most cases.

I have no idea where a Brady/Montana/Marino would fit on an NFL defense. It seems like they'd be more likely to get in the way than to contribute meaningfully.

I think the suggestion above that you would see a lot more athletic QB's and option-type offenses is correct.

I think you'd HAVE to have an athletic QB because wasting 1/11 of your D would be too big of a liability. But that would mean that QB quality would decline so you would see teams run more and throw less.

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The gallows humor of those guys always amazes me. In that article one of the Escort Carrier crewmen stated that their CVE moniker stood for Combustible, Vulnerable, and Expendable. 

I used to work with a WWII Vet who drove an LST. LST stood for Landing Ship Tank and they were so named because they delivered tanks to the beach. He said, however, that it "really" stood for Large Stationary Target.