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&#;Big Daddy&#; Gene Lipscomb was a larger-than-life football player, a unique physical specimen, colorful and memorable, and completely suitable for a side career in pro wrestling. Yet, before he hardly got started, he was done wrestling, and then dead at the age of
Born in Uniontown, Alabama on August 9, , Lipscomb never knew his father, and moved to Detroit with his mother at the age of three. When he was 11, his mother was murdered in the ghetto where they lived and he moved in with his maternal grandparents, where things weren&#;t much better. He worked from a young age, paying room and board to live with his grandparents.
Big Daddy Lipscomb. Photo courtesy The SPORT Collection
A star football player at Miller High School in Detroit, Lipscomb didn&#;t go to college. Instead, he was discovered by the Los Angeles Rams while in a Marine Corps camp in California. At 6-foot-6, pounds, he was a monster for his day, suiting up as a defensive tackle for the Rams (), Baltimore Col
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In 49ers coach Red Hickey introduced his "shotgun" formation in late November against the Baltimore Colts in Memorial Stadium.
Interestingly the TV announcers called it the "double wing" and one paper called it a "Freakish Spread" but Hickey called it the shotgun.
Hickey's reasoning was that his steam could not match the strength of the Colts, "Standing out there on a straight T, charging toe-to-toe with the Colts can be suicide. So I gambled that the formation - I call it 'the shotgun' - would go, figuring we had the right people to operate it."
John Brodie was the "right person" and then Bob Watters who finished the game was a "right person", too as the 49ers won
The shotgun had been around a long time, but teams didn't use it much through the s and s. However you can see examples of it, but the 49ers made it work in beating the World Champion Colts.
What was interesting is the counter the Colts used to defend it.
They'd s
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Gene Lipscomb | |
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| Born | ()August 9, Uniontown, Alabama |
| Died | May 10, () (aged&#;31) Baltimore, Maryland |
Eugene Allen "Gene" Lipscomb (August 9, – May 10, ) was an American football defensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) and a professional wrestler. He was known by the nickname "Big Daddy".
Early life[]
Born in Uniontown, Alabama, Lipscomb never knew his father, and moved to Detroit, Michigan with his mother at the age of three. When he was 11, his mother was murdered in the neighborhood where they lived, and he moved in with his maternal grandparents.
Professional career[]
After graduating from Miller High School, Lipscomb did not attend college and instead served in the United States Marine Corps, where he was stationed at Camp Pendleton and played on the camp's football team. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Los Angeles Rams. He played for the Rams for three seasons, from to , before being traded to t