RIP Lions QB Greg Landry

He's the guy I associate most with those good-but-not-great Detroit Lions teams of the early 1970s. They lost to the Cowboys 5-0 in the first round of the NFC playoffs in 1970, but for the most part, hovered right around .500 the entire time he quarterbacked the team.

RIP.

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My then junior high girlfriend thought he was a hunk. She had a big magazine photo of him taped up inside her locker next to a little bitty picture of me.


He made headlines for a couple seasons as a tough power running QB in the same general mode as Joe Kapp, then tried to become more of a pocket passer.

Somehow I had the impression he was seriously sick the last few years, but I can't find any references.

 

RIP.

 

UMass mourns.

 

I remember that 5-0 game quite vividly; I was at my grandmother's house in Saginaw for a big Christmas party. My dad and two uncles were pissed, as was I.

That game was the last official action for Alex Karras; he was cut the next training camp. But he was still playing well at the time. Landry and the Lions' offense didn't do diddly, as the score indicated.

 

Made the cover of Time Magazine. The other five QBs got to the Hall…gives some perspective on how good/well thought of Landry was for a spell.

 

The differentation was important and appreciated on this thread because my first thought was Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.

 

I was too young to remember his NFL career, but I remember him as a prematurely gray-haired quarterback in the USFL.

Then he got signed late in the ‘84 season by the Bears who needed him as their sixth string quarterback (Walter Payton was the fifth string), started the final game, coincidentally against the Lions, and won.

RIP