Isikhathi eside njengoba iningi lethu lingakhumbula, i-Dallas Cowboys neDetroit Lions badlale imidlalo ngoSuku Lokubonga.Kodwa kungani?
Ake siqale ngamaBhubesi.Badlale yonke i-Thanksgiving kusukela ngo-1934, ngaphandle kuka-1939-44, naphezu kokuthi bebengelona iqembu elihle kakhulu kuleyo minyaka.AmaLions adlale isizini yawo yokuqala eDetroit ngo-1934 (ngaphambi kwalokho, ayengamaPortsmouth Spartans).Bazabalaza unyaka wabo wokuqala eDetroit, njengoba iningi labalandeli bezemidlalo lapho belithanda iDetroit Tigers ye-baseball futhi bebengaphumeli ngobuningi ukuzobuka amaLions.Ngakho umnikazi wamaBhubesi uGeorge A. Richards wayenombono: Kungani ungadlali ku-Thanksgiving?
URichards wayebuye abe nomsakazo i-WJR, okwakungesinye seziteshi ezinkulu kuleli ngaleso sikhathi.U-Richards ubenamandla amaningi emhlabeni wezokusakaza, futhi waqinisekisa i-NBC ukuthi ibonise umdlalo ezweni lonke.Umpetha we-NFL uChicago Bears ufike edolobheni, kwathi amaLions athengisa insimu ye-University of Detroit enezihlalo ezingu-26,000 okokuqala ngqa.URichards ugcine isiko liqhubeka eminyakeni emibili eyalandela, futhi i-NFL yaqhubeka ihlela ngo-Thanksgiving lapho iqala ukudlala ngalolo suku ngemva kokuphela kweMpi Yezwe II.URichards wathengisa iqembu ngo-1940 futhi washona ngo-1951, kodwa isiko aliqala lisaqhubeka nanamuhla lapho amaLions edlala ... iChicago Bears.
I-Cowboys yaqala ukudlala ku-Thanksgiving ngo-1966. Bangena kwiligi ngo-1960 futhi, njengoba kunzima ukukholelwa manje, badonsa kanzima ukudweba abalandeli ngoba babebabi kakhulu kuleyo minyaka embalwa yokuqala.Umphathi jikelele u-Tex Schramm wancenga i-NFL ukuthi ibahlelele umdlalo we-Thanksgiving ngo-1966, ecabanga ukuthi ingase ibenze badume e-Dallas nakuzwelonke njengoba umdlalo uzovezwa kumabonakude.
Kwasebenza.Amathikithi erekhodi laseDallas angu-80,259 athengisiwe njengoba amaCowboys ehlula iCleveland Browns, 26-14.Abanye abalandeli beCowboys bakhomba lowo mdlalo njengesiqalo sokuthi iDallas ibe “iqembu laseMelika.”Baphuthelwe kuphela ukudlala ku-Thanksgiving ngo-1975 no-1977, lapho uKhomishana we-NFL u-Pete Rozelle ekhethela iSt. Louis Cardinals esikhundleni salokho.
Imidlalo nama-Cardinals ibonakale ingaphumelelanga ezilinganisweni, ngakho u-Rozelle wabuza ama-Cowboys ukuthi azodlala futhi ngo-1978.
"Kwakuyi-dod e-St. Louis," uSchramm etshela i-Chicago Tribune ngo-1998. "UPete wabuza ukuthi sizoyibuyisela yini.Ngathi kuphela uma siyithola unomphela.Yinto okumele uyakhe njengesiko.Wathi, 'Ngeyakho kuze kube phakade.'”
U-Nate Bain ugijimele inkundla ngesikhathi sihamba isikhathi futhi washaya igoli ngokulingana ngoLwesibili ebusuku ukuze anikeze u-Stephen F. Austin ukunqoba okumangalisayo kwe-85-83 ngesikhathi esengeziwe ehlula u-Duke, eqeda i-Blue Devils' yemidlalo engu-150 yokuwina ekhaya ngokumelene nabaphikisi abangeyona ingqungquthela.
U-Bain, isikhulu sase-Bahamas, wenze inhlolokhono enkantolo futhi wabamba izinyembezi lapho esho ukuthi bekuwunyaka onzima kangakanani.Umuzi obehlala kuwo umndeni wakhe wacekelwa phansi yiSiphepho uDorian kulo nyaka.
"Umndeni wami ulahlekelwe kakhulu kulo nyaka," kusho uBain odangele.“Ngeke ngikhale kumabonakude.”
Izikhulu kwa-Stephen F. Austin zase zisungule ikhasi le-GoFundMe eligunyazwe yi-NCAA le-Bain emuva ngoSepthemba.Abafundi baseStephen F. Austin baqala ukwabelana ngalelo khasi ezinkundleni zokuxhumana ngemva kokuwina, futhi kusukela ekuqaleni kukaLwesithathu ntambama, lase likhuphule imali engaphezudlwana kuka-$69,000, lidlula kalula umgomo wama-$50,000.Ngokubheka okunye ukuphawula, abambalwa babaxhasi bekungabalandeli bakaDuke.
Isikhathi sokuthumela: Nov-28-2019