Deacon Jones
The South Main Street Blues Band will be one of the opening acts of the Blythe River Blues Festival. Left to right: John Boyd, Gary Mays, Tom Farrage and Joe Sundies.
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In today's game, these defensive ends come around, if they've got a blind shot at you, they're not going to try to hit you in the back and try to take you out of the game, they're going to slap the ball out of your hand ... Back then, Deacon Jones was coming, Ben Davidson was coming, all those guys. They were saying 'I got (Joe) Namath last week, I got Griese this week.
Do you want to know what would happen if you introduced a social media strategist to Lawrence Taylor? Or Deacon Jones? Or Jack Lambert? We'll tell you what would happen: They'd ask what the hell social media was (understandable), then clothesline said strategist into Concussionland.
I was so fortunate to have people like Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones and Roman Gabriel when I broke into the league with the Rams 40 years agoMore quotes »
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Hundreds turn out for Blythe River Blues Festival
- Blythe guitarist Tom Farrage was able to join blues organist Deacon Jones on stage at the first ever Blythe River Blues Festival, held last Saturday at Quechan Park. The event also featured Fran Banish, 7th Sons, Bernie Pearl, Farrage's own South Main Street from Palo Verde Valley Times Read more »
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Bluesman Deacon Jones added to 1st Blythe River Blues Festival lineup
Jones said. "By then the dressing room was beginning to fill up and I said it don't matter. He said, 'I better watch Deacon Jones when my bottle's open.'" Jones stayed with King until his death, three days after Christmas in 1976. King, at the time, was about from Palo Verde Valley Times Read more »
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Griese: No bounties back in the '70s
try to take you out of the game, they're going to slap the ball out of your hand,” the Hall of Famer said. “Back then, Deacon Jones was coming, Ben Davidson was coming, all those guys. They were saying ‘I got (Joe) Namath last week, I got Griese this week.“’ from Globe and Mail Read more »
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Injury is part of mind-set
or hitting his knees or taking him out on an interception, well, that was just part of the game — a little like the Deacon Jones head slap. Now it's illegal, and you shouldn't teach that." The techniques "were not nice, but far from illegal as they are now. from Columbia Tribune Read more »
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Skeeters Launch Deacon's Dugout
I was eight years old, I went to my first big league game, and it sparked something within me," said Deacon Jones, the long-time Sugar Land resident. "Every youngster should endeavor to be the best that they can be, despite the privileges they may or may not from Our Sports Central Read more »
