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Nov 18, 2015 · In 2004, when ESPN commemorated the 25th anniversary of the company's founding with a list of the 100 most memorable moments of the era, Theismann's injury came in at No. 75.
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Joseph Robert Theismann was born to parents Joseph and Olga in New Brunswick, NJ on September 9, 1949. Theismann has a mixed European heritage. His father Joseph is Austrian while his mother Olga is Hungarian. The elder Joseph Theismann ran an Esso gas station seven days a week. He also helped run his brother’s liquor store. On the other hand, Olga...
Joe Theismann attended the University of Notre Dame from 1968 to 1970. He majored in sociology and eventually graduated with a B average. Ironically, Theismann is a slow reader who detests reading, per Kennedy. Theismann suited up for Ara Parseghian’s Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team for three seasons. As soon as Theismann set foot on South ...
The Miami Dolphins selected Joe Theismann as the 99th overall selection of the 1971 NFL Draft. Major League Baseball’s (MLB) Minnesota Twins drafted Theismann in the 39th round that year. By the time Theismann was about to enter the pro football ranks, he was 21 years old and weighed 177 pounds. He told Sports Illustratednine years later many teams...
Joe Theismann has two sons, Joey and Patrick, and a daughter, Amy, with his first wife Shari. They divorced in 1985. He is currently married to his third wife, Robin Smith. When Theismann abruptly retired from the National Football League in 1985, he embarked on a sports broadcasting career that lasted nearly three decades. Theismann became a footb...
Sep 29, 2015 · This is the story behind the most horrific professional sports injury of all time and the athletes, movie stars, and media celebrities who turned it into an unlikely cultural touchstone. Theismann just before and after the moment the New York Giants' Lawrence Taylor sacked him and broke his leg.
May 27, 2020 · It was a leg bending the way it’s not supposed to and it was shown in front of a national audience Nov. 18, 1985. It was a Monday Night Football game between the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants. When Lawrence Taylor sacked Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann and broke his fibula and tibia, it not only marked the end of Theismann ...
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Nov 18, 2016 · Thirty-one years after Joe Theismann suffered a career-ending leg injury, Lawrence Taylor, the man who delivered the blow, recalls the hit -- and the aftermath.
Nov 18, 2015 · While the injury has become an iconic moment in sports and television history, some of the circumstances of the play and its aftermath have faded from memory after three decades. With that in mind, here are 10 things you might not know -- or might not remember -- about the play that ended Theismann's playing career 30 years ago. 1.
A very similar injury occurred exactly 33 years later to another Redskins quarterback, Alex Smith, on November 18, 2018, in a game against the Houston Texans when cornerback Kareem Jackson and defensive end J. J. Watt sacked Smith, a game that Theismann himself was attending.
