Reggie

The March-April edition of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine has a revealing look at Reggie Williams '76, all-time great Big Green and Cincinnati Bengals linebacker HERE.

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Reggie Williams is tied for the fourth-longest NFL career by an Ivy League product. Here is the full list of players who have stuck around the NFL for double-figure years:

Yrs	Name	School	Career
18	Nick Lowery	Dartmouth	1978-86
16	Ryan Fitzpatrick	Harvard	2005-
15	Matt Birk	Harvard	1998-2012
14	Chuck Bednarik	Penn	1949-62
14	Reggie Williams	Dartmouth	1976-89
13	Calvin Hill	Yale	1969-81
13	Steve Jordan	Brown	1982-94
13	Zak DeOssie	Brown	2007-19
12	Sid Luckman	Columbia	1939-50
12	George Starke	Columbia	1973-84
12	Gary Fencik	Yale	1976-87
12	Jason Garrett	Princeton	1993-04
11	Frank Wydow	Cornell	1947-57
11	John Spagnola	Yale	1979-89
11	Jeff Kemp	Dartmouth	1981-91
11	Chris Hetherington	Yale	1996-06
10	Pat McInally	Harvard	1976-85
10	Seth Payne	Cornell	1997-06
10	Marcellus Wiley	Columbia	1997-06

 

Closing on on that list are former Harvard H-back Kyle Juszczyk, who just signed a five-year, $27 million contract with the San Francisco 49ers (LINK) and Cornell's JC Tretter, an offensive lineman with the Cleveland Browns and president of the NFL Players Association. Both will be playing in their ninth seasons in 2021.

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Almost overlooked during the Friends of Dartmouth Football Zoom call Friday was Coach Buddy Teevens' answer to a question about whether he's hoping to schedule any more games like the recent contests at Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium. The answer? Yes.

It's just in the exploratory stages, the coach said, but he's hoping with help from Los Angeles Rams COO Kevin Demoff '99/Tuck '06 and former safety Tony Pastoors '10, a team VP, he might be able to set up a game at SoFi Stadium, either against a West Coast team or a team from out of the region. Given Dartmouth's strong presence in Illinois and the Midwest Teevens also has thought about playing in Chicago.

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Sacred Heart, which is slated to open the Dartmouth home season on Sept. 25, pounded FCS newbie Long Island University in yesterday's spring football game, 35-7, behind another big game from the wonderfully named Julius Chestnut. The reigning national offensive player of the week ran for 203 yards and four touchdowns on the way to finishing with 249 all-purpose yards.

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For those keeping score there have been 17 FCS games postponed or canceled already this "spring."

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EXTRA POINT
It was two years ago or so that a group of us who follow Dartmouth football gathered at a restaurant in Hanover and decided to call a friend who had moved to California and have him join the party on speaker phone. Because I had his number, someone handed me their iPhone and asked me to place the call.

I looked at the phone, looked at the friend and then asked for help because I had no idea how to make a call with the thing. (As regular visitors to this electronic precinct know, I don't own a cell phone and have no intention of getting one.)

So why mention that I couldn't figure how how to make a simple phone call? Because it's getting more and more tricky making a call . . . wait for it . . . on our landline.

I don't make many calls in these pandemic times from here in the BGA World Headquarters – maybe just two or three a month at most – but I can't remember the last time I successfully got through on the first attempt. It seems sometimes you need to dial a 1 to start, and other times you don't. Dialing within the state you sometimes need the area code, and sometimes you don't. Dialing across the river to New Hampshire used to be easy but now I might as well have an iPhone in my hand.

What's going on? The Concord Monitor has a story that explains – or tries to explain – why the simple act of dialing a landline has gotten crazy and will get even crazier by June of next year. (LINK)

All I know is it's almost faster to drive into town and order a large cheese pie than it is to try to call the pizza joint.