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I'm obviously not an old timer but abramowitz stands out like a sore thumb. Is #46 number retired?
Couldn't be because Hokie Gajan wore it.
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I'm obviously not an old timer but abramowitz stands out like a sore thumb. Is #46 number retired?
They both wore #46. Abramowicz was long gone by the time Hokie came.Couldn't be because Hokie Gajan wore it.
Here's a little off season trivia exercise.
I put up a team picture of the 1967 Saints in the image gallery of my website.
Without looking a roster list, how many of the players can you name off the top of you head?
The pic is at The 1967 New Orleans Saints Team Picture
Phil, Abromawitz once he was traded to SF 2 games into 1973 season and several years afterwards, wasn't on good terms with Mecom or Saints FO, once while re-negotiating a contract with GM Richard F. Gordon(a former astronaut Mecom hired as GM after a Apollo 12 WH ceremony) that he'd traveled to the Moon for far less then what Abromawitz wanted, Danny's replied: "That's your problem". Abromawicz has been openly criticized of Mecom and Saints' FO's ineptitude for destroying Manning's huge NFL potential, arguably perhaps rightly, it ruined his career, he even privately told Archie in to "get to hell out of here, go somewhere else where you'd have a chance" in 1977 while Archie was still struggling with his surgically reconstructed throwing arm. And Archie in his autobiography said that despite Mecom's playboy, easy-going, somewhat likable persona he never found a competent, independent-minded GM, a "Tex-Schramm-type", that could make personnel decisions independently, hire a competent scouting dept. that find decent role players, and who wouldn't trade 2nd round picks for draft information like several other Mecom-era GM's.
FWIW, if you were to rate this franchise's history regarding draft selections, it wasn't until early 80's when Bum arrived, that quality of our drafts began to get consistently better. That's not saying we didn't occasionally draft a few enormous busts-Shawn Knight and Alvin Tolles are proof of that--but overall the quality of talent with Rickey Jackson, Frank Warren, Jim Wilks, Morten, George Rogers, Dombroski, Waymer, etc was vastly superior than most of our 70's drafts. All of them eventual Pro-Bowlers and two future HOF's(Morten Andersen is a sure-fire HOF as far as I'm concerned that I won't refrain including him here along with Rickey albeit currently premature).