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Originally Posted by chefsos
I don't recall hearing or reading about Jitter Fields before. At all. You'd think a name like that would be memorable, too.
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1987. He was a replacement player during the strike that year.
Same year that Dino Hackett rode in the back of a pickup with a shotgun, protesting the scabs.
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The National Football League strike got off to a shotgun start Wednesday at Kansas City, Mo.
Linebacker Dino Hackett and tight end Paul Coffman of the Chiefs jokingly waved unloaded shotguns outside Arrowhead Stadium and yelled, "We're looking for scabs," before the substitute players arrived for practice.
"We just wanted to keep this as light-hearted as possible," Hackett said. "But this is serious business. This is our livelihood."
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-09-..._1_picket-line
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