So long Gif...rip

[SpursforSix]

broadcasting legend

[Avante]

Actually he's known more for his NFL exploits. He is a Hall of Famer.

He grew up in Bakersfield and was one of the first great multi purpose running backs.

He scored...

Rushing
Receiving
Passing
INT
PAT
FG

And returned punts and kickoffs. The guy could do it all. Scored 484 points!

Funny thing is just a week ago I was in a restaurant in Oildale (across a bridge from Bakersfield) and there was a picture of Gifford (USC) and the old guy who owned the restaurant.

[JoeChalupa]

Not to mention he scored with Kathy Lee. RIP

[UZER]

Soooo, where's the So long gif?

[Re-Animator]

[SpursforSix]

Soooo, where's the So long gif?

here's a whole video

[ChumpDumper]

Actually he's known more for his NFL exploits.

Actually he's known more for his braodcasting career.

[Avante]

Actually he's known more for his braodcasting career.

When we see a thread about someone who died ya don't play that, ok? Not the time, alright? Shame you have to be told this.

[ChumpDumper]

When we see a thread about someone who died ya don't play that, ok? Not the time, alright? Shame you have to be told this.

You played it first.

Shame on you, fatty.

Gifford is better known for his broadcasting and there's no list that will change that.

[Pauly D]

When we see a thread about someone who died ya don't play that, ok? Not the time, alright? Shame you have to be told this.

Take it easy, alright? Try not being such a got, got it? He was known for his broadcasting career, ok?

[Thread]

He forsaked Cosell during the "little monkey" episode and for that I had nary use for him again.

[SpursforSix]

You played it first.

Shame on you, fatty.

Gifford is better known for his broadcasting and there's no list that will change that.

List Alert...

Top ten gots who think or pretend to think that Frank Gifford is best known as a football player:

1) Avante

[Thread]

An interesting note= Keith Jackson did the first year of MNF as Gifford exhausted his CBS contract.

[Thread]

MNF also broke the news that Lennon had been murdered.

[Avante]

The only comment I'll make, is this...

Frank Gifford

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Gifford in 2009
No. 16
Position:	Halfback, wide receiver
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1930-08-16)August 16, 1930
Place of birth:	Santa Monica, California
Date of death:	August 9, 2015(2015-08-09) (aged 84)
Place of death:	Greenwich, Connecticut
Height:	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:	197 lb (89 kg)
Career information
High school:	Bakersfield (CA)
College:	Southern California
NFL draft:	1952 / Round: 1 / Pick: 11
Career history
New York Giants (1952–1964)
Career highlights and awards
8× Pro Bowl selection (1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1963) 6× All-Pro selection (1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959) NFL champion (1956) UPI NFL MVP (1956) Pro Bowl MVP (1958) UPI Comeback Player of the Year (1962) NFL 1950s All-Decade Team New York Giants #16 retired Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee College Football Hall of Fame inductee
Career NFL statistics
Rushing yards:	3,609
Rushing average:	4.3
Rushing TDs:	34
Receptions:	367
Receiving yards:	5,434
Receiving TDs:	43
Stats at NFL.com
Pro Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame

Francis Newton "Frank" Gifford (August 16, 1930 – August 9, 2015) was an American football player and television sportscaster widely known for his 13-year National Football League (NFL) career with the New York Giants, playing both offense and defense. Gifford participated in five NFL Championship games and eight Pro Bowls, and won the league's Most Valuable Player Award in 1956, the same season he won his only NFL Championship.

If ya can't figure that out people why am I not surprised?

[ChumpDumper]

The only comment I'll make, is this...

Frank Gifford

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Gifford in 2009
No. 16
Position:	Halfback, wide receiver
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1930-08-16)August 16, 1930
Place of birth:	Santa Monica, California
Date of death:	August 9, 2015(2015-08-09) (aged 84)
Place of death:	Greenwich, Connecticut
Height:	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:	197 lb (89 kg)
Career information
High school:	Bakersfield (CA)
College:	Southern California
NFL draft:	1952 / Round: 1 / Pick: 11
Career history
New York Giants (1952–1964)
Career highlights and awards
8× Pro Bowl selection (1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1963) 6× All-Pro selection (1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959) NFL champion (1956) UPI NFL MVP (1956) Pro Bowl MVP (1958) UPI Comeback Player of the Year (1962) NFL 1950s All-Decade Team New York Giants #16 retired Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee College Football Hall of Fame inductee
Career NFL statistics
Rushing yards:	3,609
Rushing average:	4.3
Rushing TDs:	34
Receptions:	367
Receiving yards:	5,434
Receiving TDs:	43
Stats at NFL.com
Pro Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame

Francis Newton "Frank" Gifford (August 16, 1930 – August 9, 2015) was an American football player and television sportscaster widely known for his 13-year National Football League (NFL) career with the New York Giants, playing both offense and defense. Gifford participated in five NFL Championship games and eight Pro Bowls, and won the league's Most Valuable Player Award in 1956, the same season he won his only NFL Championship.

If ya can't figure that out people why am I not surprised?

Oh look, wikipedia.

Gifford played for 13 years.

Gifford was a broadcaster for over twice that long.

More people watched him and knew him as a sportscaster than ever saw him play. This takes nothing away from his achievements as a player.

If ya can't figure that out Tubby why am I not surprised?

[Smart Ass]

The only comment I'll make, is this...

Frank Gifford

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Gifford in 2009
No. 16
Position:	Halfback, wide receiver
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1930-08-16)August 16, 1930
Place of birth:	Santa Monica, California
Date of death:	August 9, 2015(2015-08-09) (aged 84)
Place of death:	Greenwich, Connecticut
Height:	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:	197 lb (89 kg)
Career information
High school:	Bakersfield (CA)
College:	Southern California
NFL draft:	1952 / Round: 1 / Pick: 11
Career history
New York Giants (1952–1964)
Career highlights and awards
8× Pro Bowl selection (1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1963) 6× All-Pro selection (1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959) NFL champion (1956) UPI NFL MVP (1956) Pro Bowl MVP (1958) UPI Comeback Player of the Year (1962) NFL 1950s All-Decade Team New York Giants #16 retired Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee College Football Hall of Fame inductee
Career NFL statistics
Rushing yards:	3,609
Rushing average:	4.3
Rushing TDs:	34
Receptions:	367
Receiving yards:	5,434
Receiving TDs:	43
Stats at NFL.com
Pro Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame

Francis Newton "Frank" Gifford (August 16, 1930 – August 9, 2015) was an American football player and television sportscaster widely known for his 13-year National Football League (NFL) career with the New York Giants, playing both offense and defense. Gifford participated in five NFL Championship games and eight Pro Bowls, and won the league's Most Valuable Player Award in 1956, the same season he won his only NFL Championship.

If ya can't figure that out people why am I not surprised?

One thing I've figured out is you are a dumbass.

[Avante]

You will not read or hear anything that starts out talking about Gifford as a broadcaster who just happened to play football. It will be the great footballer who went into broadcasting. Ok stupid?

[SpursforSix]

I just Googled, Frank Gifford and on the right, the people that were also searched for:

Kathie Lee Gifford
Dabney Coleman
Lauren Hutton
Kris Jennery
Dolly Parton

I don't get the connections to most of those.

[Pauly D]

You will not read or hear anything that starts out talking about Gifford as a broadcaster who just happened to play football. It will be the great footballer who went into broadcasting. Ok stupid?

And Ronald Reagan was an actor that jumped into politics. How'd everyone remember him again? You're an idiot, ok?

[ChumpDumper]

You will not read or hear anything that starts out talking about Gifford as a broadcaster who just happened to play football. It will be the great footballer who went into broadcasting. Ok stupid?

"Wow, the Monday Night Football guy died."

"Kathie Lee Gifford's husband died."

Such was the reaction by many on Sunday when news started spreading about the death of Frank Gifford. The response is understandable. An entire generation grew up with Frank Gifford's voice coming out of their television sets and his wife doing a talk show with Regis Philbin. Frank Gifford, at least to most of the world not yet 50 years old, was a broadcaster with a famous wife. Period.

http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/08/09/fra...-player-giants

[ChumpDumper]

Legendary Monday Night Football broadcaster Frank Gifford, the husband of Today co-host Kathie Lee Gifford, died Sunday of natural causes. He was 84.

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/frank-gif...185311584.html

[Aztecfan03]

Actually he's known more for his NFL exploits.

When we see a thread about someone who died ya don't play that, ok? Not the time, alright? Shame you have to be told this.

[sandman]

Gifford retired from football 5 years before I was born, and I'm turning 46 with grown ass kids. You've got to be at least 60 to have any personal recollection of watching him play. The vast majority of people with any personal remembrance of Frank Gifford will be as a broadcaster.

This is like Lenny Wilkins, the Hall of Fame basketball coach. He had players on his own team that didn't know he was also inducted into the HoF as a player.