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On This Date: Rocky Marciano's Last Fight — and the Two Seconds Archie Moore Argued About Forever (Sept. 21, 1955)

On This Date: Rocky Marciano's Last Fight — and the Two Seconds Archie Moore Argued About Forever (Sept. 21, 1955)

Sept. 21, 1955: Marciano knocked out Archie Moore in the 9th at Yankee Stadium for his 49th and final win. Moore had dropped him in the 2nd — and believed for the rest of his life that the referee gave Rocky the seconds he needed.

On This Date: Walter Payton Broke the All-Time Touchdown Record, and the Front Page Led With the Strike (Sept. 20, 1987)

On This Date: Walter Payton Broke the All-Time Touchdown Record, and the Front Page Led With the Strike (Sept. 20, 1987)

Sept. 20, 1987: Walter Payton scored his 107th rushing touchdown and passed Jim Brown. He gained 24 yards that day, his replacement gained 117, and the Chicago Tribune led with the coming players' strike.

On This Date: Denny McLain Wins No. 31 — and Grooves One to Mickey Mantle (Sept. 19, 1968)

On This Date: Denny McLain Wins No. 31 — and Grooves One to Mickey Mantle (Sept. 19, 1968)

Sept. 19, 1968: McLain beat the Yankees for his 31st win, the last 30-win season in baseball, in front of 9,063 people — and deliberately grooved a pitch to Mickey Mantle for career home run No. 535.

On This Date: The Last Game at the Polo Grounds — and the 1,752 People Who Showed Up (Sept. 18, 1963)

On This Date: The Last Game at the Polo Grounds — and the 1,752 People Who Showed Up (Sept. 18, 1963)

Sept. 18, 1963: the Phillies beat the Mets 5-1 in the last major league game at the Polo Grounds, in front of 1,752 people. The Daily News called it a wake. New York had already held the funeral once.

On This Date: The Seoul Olympics Open — Sept. 17, 1988 — and the 5 Moments Nobody Has Stopped Arguing About

On This Date: The Seoul Olympics Open — Sept. 17, 1988 — and the 5 Moments Nobody Has Stopped Arguing About

Thirty-eight years ago today the Seoul Olympics opened, and the doves landed on the cauldron before it was lit. The five moments from the next sixteen days that people are still arguing about.

The 5 Greatest Donruss Rated Rookie Classes, Ranked — and the Hall of Famers They Somehow Missed

The 5 Greatest Donruss Rated Rookie Classes, Ranked — and the Hall of Famers They Somehow Missed

Donruss hired a newspaper writer to pick twenty rookies a year and printed his guesses on cards. Forty years of that record, ranked — plus five things about Rated Rookies the hobby has wrong.

The 10 Biggest Heisman Flops: Preseason Favorites Whose Seasons Fell Apart

The 10 Biggest Heisman Flops: Preseason Favorites Whose Seasons Fell Apart

Since 2009 the preseason Heisman betting favorite has won exactly once. These are the ten who showed up in August as the guy and weren't in the conversation by December.