Kwenguva yakareba sezvatingayeuka, Dallas Cowboys neDetroit Lions vakatamba mitambo paThanksgiving Day. Asi sei?
Ngatitangei neLions. Vatamba mitambo yeThanksgiving yese kubvira muna 1934, kunze kwe1939-44, kunyangwe hazvo vanga vasiri timu yakanaka kwemakore mazhinji iwayo. Lions vakatamba mwaka wavo wekutanga muDetroit muna 1934 (vasati vasvika ipapo, vaive Portsmouth Spartans). Vakatambura mugore ravo rekutanga muDetroit, sezvo vateveri vemitambo vazhinji ikoko vaida Detroit Tigers yebaseball uye vaisauya vakawanda kuzoona Lions. Saka muridzi weLions George A. Richards akafunga zano rekuti: Sei tisingatambe paThanksgiving?
Richards aivawo nenhepfenyuro yeWJR, iyo yaive imwe yenhepfenyuro huru munyika panguva iyoyo. Richards aive nemukurumbira mukuru munyika yezvekutepfenyura, uye akakurudzira NBC kuti iratidze mutambo uyu munyika yese. Chikwata cheNFL cheChicago Bears chakauya muguta, uye maLions akatengesa munda weUniversity of Detroit une vanhu zviuru makumi maviri nezvitanhatu kekutanga. Richards akaramba achiita tsika iyi kwemakore maviri akatevera, uye NFL yakaramba ichironga mitambo yavo paThanksgiving pavakatangazve kutamba musi iwoyo mushure meHondo Yenyika II. Richards akatengesa timu muna 1940 ndokufa muna 1951, asi tsika yaakatanga inoramba iripo nanhasi apo maLions anotamba … neChicago Bears.
Chikwata cheCowboys chakatanga kutamba paThanksgiving muna 1966. Vakapinda muligi muna 1960 uye, kunyangwe zvakaoma kutenda izvozvi, vakatambura kukwezva vateveri nekuti vaive vakaipa mumakore mashoma ekutanga. Maneja mukuru Tex Schramm akakumbira NFL kuti ivarongere mutambo weThanksgiving muna 1966, achifunga kuti zvingavaita kuti vafarirwe muDallas uye munyika yese sezvo mutambo wacho waizoratidzwa paterevhizheni.
Zvakashanda. Matikiti eDallas anosvika 80,259 akatengeswa apo Cowboys yakakunda Cleveland Browns, 26-14. Vamwe vateveri veCowboys vanoti mutambo uyu ndiwo wakatanga Dallas kuva "chikwata cheAmerica." Vakangotadza kutamba paThanksgiving muna 1975 na1977, apo Commissioner weNFL Pete Rozelle akasarudza St. Louis Cardinals panzvimbo pezvo.
Mitambo neCardinals yakaratidza kuti yakarasika muongororo, saka Rozelle akabvunza Cowboys kana vaizotamba zvakare muna 1978.
"Zvaive zvisina kunaka muSt. Louis," Schramm akaudza Chicago Tribune muna 1998. "Pete akabvunza kana taizoidzosa. Ndakati chete kana tikaiwana zvachose. Chinhu chaunofanira kuvaka setsika. Akati, 'Ndechenyu nekusingaperi.'"
Nate Bain akamhanya-mhanya pasi penhandare nguva yapera ndokuwana chibodzwa pamutambo we layup neChipiri manheru zvikaita kuti Stephen F. Austin akunde Duke ne 85-83 overtime, zvichigumisa kukunda kweBlue Devils mumitambo 150 yekumba vachipesana nevaya vaisatamba navo mumutambo.
Bain, mudzidzi wekupedzisira wekuBahamas, akapa hurukuro mudare uye akadzora misodzi paakataura kuti gore raive rakaoma sei. Imba yaigara mhuri yake yakaparadzwa neDutu reDorian gore rino.
"Mhuri yangu yakarasikirwa nezvakawanda gore rino," akadaro Bain achishungurudzika. "Handizochemi paTV."
Vakuru vakuru veStephen F. Austin vakanga vagadzira peji reGoFundMe rakatenderwa neNCAA reBain munaGunyana. Vadzidzi veStephen F. Austin vakatanga kugovera peji iroro pasocial media mushure mekukunda, uye kubva mangwanani eChitatu, rakanga rawana mari inodarika $69,000, zvichipfuura zviri nyore chinangwa che $50,000. Tichitarisa mamwe mashoko, vamwe vevakapa mari iyi vaiva vateveri veDuke.
Nguva yekutumira: Mbudzi-28-2019