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Milestones for Marcus
Even Marcus Allen never believed he could accomplish this much in the NFL.
Allen reached several career milestones Sunday during the Kansas City Chiefs’ 21-6 win over the Minnesota Vikings. He scored his 110th rushing touchdown to match Walter Payton, caught his 566th pass to tie Roger Craig’s mark for running backs and played in his 199th game to equal the standard for runners set by Mosi Tatupu.
The 15-year veteran also passed O.J. Simpson to move into seventh place on the career yardage list. He gained 89 yards on 18 carries, increasing his career yardage total to 11,321.
“I had envisioned a lot of things when I came into this league,” Allen said. “But some of these things that are occurring now, I never thought would happen.”
Who says we can’t lick him?
The toothy grin of legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi graced the sideline at Lambeau Field again Sunday on a gigantic new postage stamp.
In a ceremony before the Packers game against Detroit, an enlargement of the stamp’s artwork was unveiled by Lombardi’s daughter, Susan Lombardi, as general manager Ron Wolf and other Packers executives looked on.
The stamp, to be issued next year by the U.S. Postal Service, depicts a jubilant Lombardi being carried on the shoulders of his players in a victory celebration.
Other coaches honored by the Postal Service in its “legendary coaches” series available for sale in 1997 are George Halas of the Chicago Bears, University of Alabama’s Paul “Bear” Bryant and college coaching icon Glenn “Pop” Warner.
Bengal seriously hurt
Cincinnati Bengals guard Scott Brumfield was in serious but stable condition at a Baltimore hospital after injuring his spinal cord in the game with the Ravens.
Dr. Andy Pollak, one of the Ravens’ team physicians attending Brumfield at the Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center, released a statement regarding Brumfield about 9 p.m.
“Scott is in serious but stable condition with a cervical spinal cord concussion injury,” Pollak said. “All tests so far suggest that there is no injury which would require surgery. He’s receiving medical therapy and we hope to have further information in the morning.”
Brumfield, 26, is in his fourth year after playing college football at Brigham Young University.
It’s a fact
Since Dec. 6, 1981, Philadelphia is 29-0-1 in games when one of its runners tops 100 yards… . Tampa Bay, scoreless in the opening quarter in its loss to Chicago, has only nine first-quarter points this season… . San Diego has gone 28 quarters without a rushing touchdown… . The Redskins lost two fumbles after losing only one during their first eight games of the season.
By the numbers
Philadelphia kicker Gary Anderson became the fourth player in NFL history to crack the 1,500-point mark with his first-quarter extra-point kick against Dallas… . With 159 kickoff return yards, Herschel Walker of Dallas moved past Tony Dorsett for fourth all-time on the NFL’s career net yardage list with 16,461. He has 8,134 yards rushing, 4,690 receiving and 3,637 in return yards.