Worst Sports Break-ups

Bud Adams and Houston. The end of the Luv Ya Blue Oilers era was a complete debacle with the firing of Bum Phillips and the trade of Pastorini for Stabler. It took a decade and a half, but Oilers fans stayed away in droves and resulted in the move to Tennessee (Memphis at first).

Didn’t help either that the Astrodome was a shithole.

 

Hey, Dinn Mann's grandpa built that shithole. Did you know that? If not, Dinn will tell you.

 

Tom Landry and the Cowboys. Landry actually cried, as I recall, when Jerry Jones sent someone to his home to sack him.

EDIT: I see old reports that Jones and Schramm flew out and fired Landry on a golf course.

 

I’ll defend Jerry a little on that one. I believe Bum Bright offered to fire the bullet before the sale cleared, but Jerry thought he should do it. He hurst should have done it before Jimmy came to town for enchiladas.

Also as a Dallas fan then and now, it was time for Landry to go.

 

Gee, who is the common denominator among these scenarios?

 

Yes, all true. Still a tough breakup, of course. Mostly for Landry, though, since the Cowboys rebuilt with JJ.

 

He technically was HC of the NYJ twice.

The first time was when the Jets were trying to get Parcells, who was still under contract as head coach with the Pats. So the Jets hired Belichick head coach and Parcells was going to be a “consultant”. Pats screamed foul, and the Jets gave them some draft picks.

Second time was when he was hired and quit at the press conference.

 

Tyson and Jacobs didn’t break up as they were close friends. Jacobs died.

Cayton was more of a business partner and not as close personally with Tyson. Don King took advantage of Jacobs’ death and swooped in, with predictable results. Cayton faded into Bolivian.

Now, if you want to talk about bad breakups, there’s Tyson and Robin Givens. What always bugged me about that time was how Givens’ mother was always crashing the party. I mean, couldn’t the Baddest Man On The Planet tell his mother in law to take a hike?

 

Tyson vs. Givens and her mother must have been truly poisonous to live through. I'm still a little surprised he didn't go to prison for beating the both of them to death with a chair leg.

 

My main recollection of Givens the elder is that she and Dave Winfield litigated a case of the clap.

 

LOL! Amazing what we remember and what we don't, isn't it?

 

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