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Bednarik â a fellow future Hall of Famer whose nickname was "Concrete Charlie" â crushed Gifford with the pro wrestling equivalent of a flying clothesline.
Chuck Bednarik’s hit on Frank Gifford in 1960 was vicious and the picture of Bednarik standing over a knocked out Gifford is iconic.
When Hall-of-Fame football player and former NFL broadcaster Frank Gifford died last Sunday at the age of 84, many of the obituaries mentioned "the Hit," an infamous tackle that gave Gifford a ...
Gifford was a former New York Giants running back who was knocked out in a 1960 football game by Concrete Charlie. Now that is a class act.
A look at Frank Gifford’s stats as a running back from 1952 until the devastating hit by Chuck Bednarik on Nov. 20, 1960, and the numbers he compiled as a flanker from 1962-64 BEFORE AFTER ...
Chuck Bednarik's nickname was "Concrete Charlie," but it wasn't for the ferocious hits he would level onto opposing running backs like the New York Giants' Frank Gifford.
Gary Myers of the New York Daily News caught up with Frank Gifford: George Shaw, the Giants quarterback. stepped up in the pocket and found Gifford over the middle.
For nearly 60 years, there hasn’t been anyone in your Eagles program with the No. 60. Chuck Bednarik made it obsolete. Concrete Charlie, as he was known, is arguably one of the top five players ...
Chuck Bednarik, a Pro Football Hall of Famer and one of the last great two-way NFL players, died early Saturday, the Eagles said. He was 89.Bednarik, known as â Concrete Charlie,â epitomized the ...
Frank Gifford had a colorful life and career in both football and broadcasting. When he died last week at 84, I was surprised at how friends of mine remembered him for wildly different reasons.
Bednarik -- a fellow future Hall of Famer whose nickname was "Concrete Charlie" -- crushed Gifford with the pro wrestling equivalent of a flying clothesline.