Miami's first QB dies at 79
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Well played, Grote!
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Closer to home, he was actually the first starting QB of the New York Jets in 1963, the first year that the team was named the New York Jets and wore Kelly Green and White.
Way more important IMO than playing for the stinking sardines
Way more important IMO than playing for the stinking sardines
Wood was the QB when I first became a Jets fan. He started two years for us but only started couple of games for the Broncos before the he came here and only a couple with the Raiders and Dolphins at the end of his career. As a player he was more Jets than anything else.
He was the starter the last year of the Polo Grounds and the first at Shea. These were the Jets years when many home games were played on Saturday night and such luminaries as Wahoo McDaniel (Guess who? Wahoo!), Dainard Paulson and LaVerne Torczon (silly trivia: what significance did Torczon have to Mets fans in '64?) graced our field.
Wood threw two straight 300 yd games in '64 at home (which meant radio only for us back then). I remember that Bake Turner had great games in both.
For Miami, he started the first game but replaced by Coach George Wilson with George Wilson, Jr. for the second game which was against the Jets. He did play in the Shea game later that year in the game that rookie Emerson Boozer had his only KOR TD (again radio only for home games). The Dolphins most successful player that year was Flipper, the dolphin of TV fame who hung out in a pool in the end zone and flipped EXP's and FG's that landed in his pool back onto the field
Dick Wood went to the Raiders in '65. To replace him, the Jets drafted QB's John Huart, Bob Schweickert (sp?), Archie Roberts of Columbia and one other guy in case Pete Liske wasn't going to be the answer.
He was the starter the last year of the Polo Grounds and the first at Shea. These were the Jets years when many home games were played on Saturday night and such luminaries as Wahoo McDaniel (Guess who? Wahoo!), Dainard Paulson and LaVerne Torczon (silly trivia: what significance did Torczon have to Mets fans in '64?) graced our field.
Wood threw two straight 300 yd games in '64 at home (which meant radio only for us back then). I remember that Bake Turner had great games in both.
For Miami, he started the first game but replaced by Coach George Wilson with George Wilson, Jr. for the second game which was against the Jets. He did play in the Shea game later that year in the game that rookie Emerson Boozer had his only KOR TD (again radio only for home games). The Dolphins most successful player that year was Flipper, the dolphin of TV fame who hung out in a pool in the end zone and flipped EXP's and FG's that landed in his pool back onto the field
Dick Wood went to the Raiders in '65. To replace him, the Jets drafted QB's John Huart, Bob Schweickert (sp?), Archie Roberts of Columbia and one other guy in case Pete Liske wasn't going to be the answer.
Great info Fud. A little before my time as a Jet fan, as I jumped on the Joe Willie bandwagon in late 60's.
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Great info Fud. I never knew this about Wood
