[CBFF] Packers week

[Ryan Dietzenbach]

Charles Martin is dead?  What a shame.

RD

On 10/4/07, mom2iancal <senzigx4 at charter.net> wrote:
> Charles "Too Mean" Martin and Jim McMahon
> On November 23 1986, Chicago native Markbreit worked his first game as an
> NFL referee at Soldier Field when the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears
> renewed their ancient rivalry. In the second quarter of the game, Bears
> quarterback Jim McMahon was intercepted, and as he watched the proceedings
> downfield, Packers defensive end Charles "Too Mean" Martin picked up McMahon
> and slammed him shoulder-first into the AstroTurf. Martin remained hovered
> over McMahon on one knee, taunting him, until Bears' offensive tackle Jimbo
> Covert barreled full-speed into Martin. Markbreit ejected Martin from the
> game, despite strenuous protests from Packers coach (and Pro Football Hall
> of Fame offensive tackle) Forrest Gregg. It would be Markbreit's first
> ejection as an NFL official. When describing the penalty, Markbreit stated
> that Martin, number 94 of the Packers, "stuffed" McMahon into the ground.
>
> Martin was suspended for two games by NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, the
> longest suspension for an on-field incident until Tennessee Titans defensive
> tackle Albert Haynesworth was suspended five games by commissioner Roger
> Goodell for stomping on the face of Dallas Cowboys center Andre Gurode
> during an October 1, 2006 game [6].
>
> During the game, Martin wore a "hit list" towel with the numbers of several
> Bears listed, including those of McMahon, running back Walter Payton, wide
> receiver Willie Gault and center Jay Hilgenberg.
>
> The call was largely credited by the media and NFL executives in helping
> Markbreit land the assignment as the referee of Super Bowl XXI two months
> later.
>
>
>
>
> RIP Charles Martin, Who Made The Dirtiest Play Ever In NFL History
> Chicago Tribune reporter David Haugh on the infamous play by Green bay
> packers defensive tackle Charles Martin, who passed away in January:
>
>  Martin took the field that Sunday afternoon on Nov. 23, 1986, wearing a
> towel displaying the numbers of three Bears offensive stars--9, 34,
> 83--McMahon, Walter Payton and Willie Gault, respectively, plus 63 and 29
> for Jay Hilgenberg and Dennis Gentry. In Bears-Packers lore, the numbers
> scrawled on the towel will always be known as "the hit list."
>
>  After Packers safety Mark Lee intercepted a McMahon pass in the second
> quarter of a game eventually won 12-10 by the Bears, Martin grabbed McMahon
> from behind and body-slammed him to the ground.
>
>  "It was at least 20 seconds after the interception," said Jerry Markbreit,
> a retired NFL official who worked the game. "I don't think he had an
> awareness of how late it was, or that the play was over. McMahon was walking
> to the sideline, had relaxed, and he picked him up and smashed him to the
> ground."
>
>  Markbreit worked 461 NFL games over 23 years. He had never been so shocked
> by a player's action. To that point in league history, no player had ever
> been thrown out of a game for anything but a fight.
>
>  But Markbreit, bothered by the severity of the hit and a little concerned
> Bears players "might kill" Martin, ejected the defensive tackle and escorted
> him off the field. Markbreit's decision ultimately cost Martin a two-game
> suspension and $15,000 fine.
>
> ~A Morning  Without Coffee is Sleep~
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Wessman" <dkwess at gmail.com>
> To: "CBFF" <post at chicagobearsfanforum.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:12 AM
> Subject: [CBFF] Packers week
>
>
> >    Since it's Packers week, does anybody have a copy of the Jerry
> > Markbreit
> > story
> > about the "incident" between Martin and McMahon?
> >
> >   DaveW
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