In a return to our earlier series, let’s talk about the quarterback of what many consider the greatest team in college football histor, Mike Rae.
I’m spotlighting Rae because this week, USC noted Pat Haden threw seven touchdown passes in 1972, the same number as Cody Kessler threw last Saturday. But Rae was the starting quarterback on that team.
Rae passed for 1,754 yards with 114 completions in 199 attempts. He also rushed for 247 yards. And of course, he had a backfield of Anthony Davis, Rod McNeil and Sam Cunningham with him.
And he was the golf coach at Saddleback JC
I believe USC was a real tailback U in those days, so even though they had good passers they rarely passed.
Correct, we didn’t need to.
Histor …………………
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Rae was a tough, low-key, longshoreman-type guy who was well respected by team-mates because he was pretty damned athletic and a strong leader who never got rattled. He had kind of a cocksure presence about him and he seemed perfectly fine taking a back seat to other more dominant names on that great ’72 team.
What were his NFL stats like?
Look ’em up if you care Weird Spanky.
So Rae’s stats SUCC’d, otherwise you’d compare Rae’s stats to Tobin Rote’s ad infinitum.
You have nobody with a NC AND SB ring. We have a ton, including MIKE RAE
How many per pound?
BTW, you bore me. Bye pecker head
Hey ugly rents the rose bowl, if you knew anything, you would know he won a Super Bowl with the Raiders in1976 and two colliegete national championships with USC. We know for a fact that ugly does not have a qb that has won both, the college national championship and a super bowl.
Ugly= inferiority to USC in acedemics and athletics
They’re loathed to admit it but having an 80 yd. practice field and being >20 miles from your home stadium are not enticements to create champions from – allowing their student body to vote down a stadium in 1966
is the all time mistake of their program.
I just laugh at ucla football. They practice on
a 80 yard field. Then their home stadium is 34 miles from Pasadena. You have ot be desperate to play for a team that has to go over the 405 fwy and then on the 101 and then on the 134 and then onto the 210 fwy. What a joke. It is closer for USC to play an away game at the Rose Bowl compared to the home team traveling 34 miles one way to play.
Ugly = inferior to USC
The Rose Bowl, home to “UCLA owns LA Football,” was voted the best college FB venue in the nation. There’re 24 other FB venue listed, none of them SUCC’s crumbling, rodent filled Mausoleum.
What a confused idiot. USC actually owns the RB and that’s a fact, look it up
and you still LOST….hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
fit Un!
Who asked you!
Another massive crotch kick. Keep’em coming!
Loath or loathe Otis, make up your alcoholic mind.
How did SUCC’s 100 yd practice field help in SUCC’s ugly, humiliating Boston Massacre loss; or the glorious “Unfinished Bidness” season”
SUCCdumb has so little to celebrate that a 100 yd. practice field is a SUCCster reason to stampede to the mausoleum field.
WRONG BLOG!
Dementia is some nasty stuff!
They are still trying to figure out how the UCLA kick returner, Adams, had a 100 yard touchdown….while the BRUINS practice on a 80 yard field.
you great big dummies….
Fit Un!
Actually PSUCC, UCLA came close with Bill Kilmer, who started the 1973 SB against Miami and lost 14 – 7.
Mr. Rae, Raider roadkill, rode the Raider bench during his entire SB game. I guess you could say Rae was a third string, bench warming, B/Up Raider QB that wears the lighter noncombatant, didn’t contribute a thing, Super Bowl ring.
Yeah! for the insecure clowns of SUCCdumb.
D wad. Look it up. He did get in the game, unlike YOU
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Just gimme some proof NO HE DIDN’T.
A hole. Look it up. You are stupid. Ok, follow closely: Google dot come; Mike Rae Super Bowl. Uh…….Dummy
What your point Woodpecker.
This no life likes to ask questions and call people names just to perpetuate any type of communication, no matter dumb it makes him look… he is a lonely old man…..
A hole. Look it up. You are stupid. Ok, follow closely: Google dot come; Mike Rae Super Bowl. Uh…….Dummy
Massive crotch kick…..OUCH!!!!
Actually one SB. But who is counting
He was much taller than Pat
Everyone was much taller than Pat.
Very true Marv, I’ll say this for Pat he had a decent run in the NFL
Maybe in the WFL Otis, because Pat’s career with Rams was injury riddled.
Haden’s best Ram game was a close win vs Steeler’s. Then he got hurt, again, forcing the Rams to start Vince Ferragamo (spelling?) in the SB.
The Rams were still in the game until Ferragamo unloaded in the 4th Qtr. and hit Jack Lambert right in the numbers
I will say this, had Haden been healthy, he might have beat the Steeler’s, because he had a herky, jerky center cadence that confounded the Steeler’s defense.
haden broke his hand against seattle that year. it was lining up to be his best year ever before that injury. vince came in and did his job. he beat dallas on the road with a strike to bill waddy, then beat tampa 9-0 in the nfc title game. haden wasn’t bad, but no way was he better than james harris
Point noted.
A winner
USC band named best in college football
See L.A. Times
Mr. Rae: Super Bowl winner, NEVER lost to Notre Dame, his caddy is now the USC Athletic Director, MVP of the Greatest Team in college football history, should have been 1973 Rose Bowl MVP, one of the few to win the National Championship and the Super Bowl, Best instructor at Long Beach City College
Rae was on a team that won a Super Bowl. Rae didn’t appear in the game.
He did. Look it up a hole
“He did” what? Facts, NO HE DIDN’T, need some facts. Just gimme some proof.
Google Mike Rae Super Bowl Dumb S
2 Rushes for 9 yards. DUH
I guess Rae carried the Raider’s on his back for nine big yards in garbage time. Yeah.
And a RING. F U
Rae got a ring for being in the vicinity of the Raider FB team.
What did YOU get? Same thing ucla gets: NOTHING
What’s your point, Woodpecker?
You’re a f ing loser. As is ucla.
UCLA 35 – SUCC 14. That’s a Fact NO HE DIDN’T.
Easy Nubber…or we will inform the authorities at Lee & Assoc. of your behavior…
One more slip up, and the receptionist’s phones will light up..
fit Un!
hey Thai, my pooch has been dragging it’s butt along the carpet…..that’s can only mean ONE THING…….NUBSIE’S BACK!!!!!!
#OhNoHeDidn’t!
Or you fed your pooch spicy Thai food again……hold the peanut sauce with the chicken satay next time
He’ll keep asking you questions…..and correct your spelling and grammar….he’s an old, withering, attention seeking HORE
NUBSIE ALERT!!!!!!!!
That “F.U.” thing is a dead give away…
Welcome Back Nubber!
fit Un!
Stalking the new guy – How CREEPY!!!
And a RING. F U
I guess? What an idiot
I guess? What an idiot
Well a hole?????? Dummy????
What? Can’t work the computer?
Admit you are WRONG! AGAIN!!
I’ll admit Rae was on a SB winning team as a B/Up, third string, bench warming QB.
I’ll admit Rae was on a SB winning team as a B/Up, third string, bench warming QB.
Ask Marino if he’d like a SB ring. Or Haden. You really are stupid
Woodpecker in disguise. Peck, Peck,Peck.
I’m sure Marino and Hader would love a SB ring, just not a SB ring for sitting on the end of the bench.
You’re an idiot. ANY NFL player would DIE to get a SB ring. Say what you like, but hte dude won a NC AND SB. More than your university ever did. Hahahahahaha. Loser.
Take 3 baby aspirin, drink a glass of warm milk, demand a hug from mommy and sleep it off Woodpecker.
The only pecker around here is you
The only pecker around here is you
Ask Marino if he’d like a SB ring. Or Haden. You really are stupid
Analyzing those stats more closely, I believe there were only 10 games played back then, so on a predominately running team he averaged 170 yards and nearly 17 yards a completion per game. No wonder SC was never challenged that year.
Nope, 11 games in 1972
WHAT??? NO LenDale White update???!!!??? What’s going on with this blog?
Papadakis decided to share that PC is allegedly a ‘truther’ on 9/11. This was this afternoon around 4:00 pm on his show – his sidekick was happy with glee.
It all sounds great when one is on a roll as Petros is – smooth career ride to the top…being more powerful than your own father who comes on to bore every Friday afternoon for 20 minutes – blah blah blah. Problem is the years go by and what all these sports jocks fail to realize is the ones they rip not only don’t they forget neither do an assortment of others.
Waiting to hear about all the ucla info he’s collected but no – today @ 4:15 pm instead we have once again (right or wrong) Petros shivving Troy.
Hey. That’s not the uniform. Tradition tradition tradition… Wah wah wah. You honks are so full of yourselves.
He always got the job done…one of the under appreciated ,but not by me,enjoyed watching him.