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What it is
Diffraction in general is the bending of waves around an obstacle. In photography the light waves are bent around the edges of the aperture, causing f.e. the well known star like pattern around the sun if shot stopped down. Since diffraction affects any point of the image (not only very bright sources) it reduces general sharpness and limits effective resolution. Diffraction blurs any point to a pattern called "w:Airy disk".
Diffraction is one of three factors limiting the image sharpness. Second is aberration (f.e. chromatic aberration) which is determined by lens build quality. Third is de-focus or Depth of Field.
Diffraction depends only on the physical aperture size. Hence it's effect is generally larger the smaller the used sensor is due to the larger magnification of the image. That's the reason why compact cameras can't (or shouldn't) be stopped down further than f/5.6. As a rule of thumb the limit for APS-C sized sensors is f/8 to f/11 and for full frame ones f/16 to f/22.
You can balance Depth of Field against diffraction. An approach is the sharpest aperture. See link at the bottom.
The maximum obtainable resolution is limited by diffraction according to the Rayleigh criterion. Since this criterion defines the angular resolution it can be directly used for zoomable panoramas neglecting sensor sizes etc. By simply dividing the panorama Field of View (FoV) by the angular resolution we get the maximum possible pixel resolution. For an average value we take the wavelength of light λ = 550nm = 5.5*10-4mm. The resulting formula is:
D is the diameter of the lens' aperture, which is the focal length in mm divided by the f-number. The following table shows the maximum angular resolution in pixels/degree which is obtainable by a given focal length (vertical) and f-number (horizontal) without regard to currently available sensors:
2.8 4 5.6 8 11 16 22 32 44 50 464 325 232 163 118 81 59 41 30 100 929 650 464 325 236 163 118 81 59 200 1,858 1,300 929 650 473 325 236 163 118 400 3,715 2,601 1,858 1,300 946 650 473 325 236 800 7,430 5,201 3,715 2,601 1,891 1,300 946 650 473 1200 11,145 7,802 5,573 3,901 2,837 1,950 1,418 975 709
Some usage examples
- You want to shoot a gigapixel panorama of 175° width with a 800mm lens at f/11. You get 175*1,891 = 330,925 pixel maximum horizontal resolution.
- You will use an APS-C format sensor in portrait orientation for this panorama. A 800mm lens has a FoV of 1.1° in that case, which at f/11 gives 2080 pixels or app. 6 megapixels. Applying the 70% rule to compensate for bayer interpolation blur indicates that 12 megapixels per image are enough.
External links
- wikipedia on Diffraction
- wikipedia on Angular resolution
- Ken Rockwell's page on Selecting the Sharpest Aperture


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Most fight fans know the basic narrative of how Ultimate Fighting Championship survived to see its 20th birthday.
In 50 words or less: Royce Gracie introduces his family's jiu jitsu at UFC 1. As popularity grows, Sen. John McCain leads assault on "human cockfighting." Company loses millions while banished from cable. Zuffa swoops in to buy company. The Ultimate Fighter reality-TV show saves company. Mixed martial arts – and UFC – lives happily ever after.
But what about some of the lost or rarely-told stories since opening night in Denver on Nov. 12, 1993? Let's revisit a few …
Campbell McLaren roars in laughter as he answers a tongue-in-cheek query about the earliest days of Ultimate Fighting Championship: what the hell is draka?
"At the beginning stage, we were looking for things that sounded really dangerous. 'There are no rules.' We had this chain-link octagon. And draka to me – I had no idea what draka was – draka sounded dangerous and foreign and something you would want to watch," said McLaren, who along with Rorion Gracie, Art Davie, David Isaacs and Bob Meyrowitz brought UFC to fruition.
Semaphore Entertainment Group (SEG) was trying to promote this wild idea in which fighters from a variety of combat forms would meet on one night, winner-take-all. One of its first ads in Black Belt magazine – huge print overlaid on two anonymous grapplers – touted the various styles that would potentially be competing in this discipline-versus-discipline event. Sumo, everybody knows. Kickboxing was all over ESPN. Karate and tae kwon do were mentioned. And, mysteriously, the Russian combat style of draka.
SEG was selling the sizzle. It was all they had. Nothing like this had been tried before.
"I think Art found draka and sent me a brochure … The name was ominous. Like Drago (from Rocky IV), sounded Russian, dangerous. 'My God. What is that?' " said McLaren.
"It was pure marketing. I didn't even know what draka was. I'm not sure anyone knew what draka was. But, boy, if you hear that, you go, 'WTF, man? I'm going to watch that.' "
That first night would long be remembered for the triumph of Royce Gracie, who introduced his family's jiu jitsu to the masses in North America, needing less than four minutes to beat three opponents and move martial arts into a new era. But that night started in a most inglorious fashion, courtesy commentator Bill Wallace.
"Welcome to the Ultimate Fighting Challenge," he told the pay-per-view audience. Mistake No. 1. He meant Championship, of course.
He burped. Loudly. Mid-sentence. Mistake No. 2.
He threw over to broadcast partner Rod Machado. "Called him Rod Machacho," SEG executive Art Davie recalled with a laugh. Mistake No. 3.
Fellow broadcaster Rich Goins was called Ron Goins. Wallace butchered the names of Teila Tuli, Royce Gracie and others. Mistake No. 4, 5 and … "He was a disaster," says Davie.
"Are you talking about when I sent a bullet to Loeb?"
This would be shocking admission by most people. It's just another casual tale in a seemingly endless line of wild anecdotes from and about David Abbott – introduced to fans at UFC 6 as 'Tank' Abbott.
"It was just a ha-ha thing," said Abbott, the 270-pound California native who, with his goatee, shaved head and pit-fighter persona, fit the bill of what many at the time believed was a true tough guy.
"Tank has a particular style, a sense of humour," said McLaren.
SEG executive David Isaacs remembers the day that envelope arrived, addressed to company accountant Steven Loeb. Abbott was one of the few fighters kept on salary by SEG – and his latest paycheque was late arriving.
Pay him on time, you wouldn't have a problem with Abbott, said Isaacs. But Abbott also displayed a temperamental side, tying him and his entourage to the threatening of female SEG staffer Elaine McCarthy, an elevator beatdown of fellow fighter Patrick Smith, a brawl in a Japanese nightclub and more.
"I don't think he wrote it on the bullet himself. I think it was just a bullet in the envelope," said Isaacs.
Fair to say, the not-so-subtle reminder worked.
"They wired it the next day," said Abbott.
As UFC executive David Isaacs frantically tossed luggage from the cargo hold of the waiting jet onto the frigid tarmac of Niagara Falls' airport, the clock was about to strike midnight – literally – on UFC.
The hundreds of hours in court, the protests at events from Puerto Rico to Detroit and points in between, the verbal battles waged on Larry King Live and Good Morning America, the headlines in the New York Times proclaiming "Outcast Gladiators Find a Home: New York" – they all led to Feb. 6, 1997.
After state politicians reversed an earlier vote and banned no-holds-barred fighting (as it was known then), the promotion had been kicked out of New York barely 24 hours before UFC 12 was supposed to entertain a sold-out arena in Buffalo. The crew was madly scrambling to make it 1,095 miles away to Dothan, Alabama.
"We had leased these jets. We'd only had one at the time. We had another one coming but it wasn't there yet. And we were overweight," said Isaacs.
The fighters, members of their entourages, the octagon, production equipment and more were jammed into the plane and the airport was closing at 12 a.m. They had 10 minutes.
"It's one of these smaller airports. And they won't let us leave because the plane's overweight. So Al Connell and I stood on the tarmac and threw stuff out, randomly, out of the cargo hole. And we left it on the tarmac," said Isaacs.
With only a minute or two to spare, the jet took off.
"By the way, it was all of the fighters' gear. That's what we mostly left. We just threw their suitcases and bags on the tarmac and left," said Isaacs. (He didn't tell them, either. All the equipment arrived in time with the second jet.) Recalled Dan Severn, one of the UFC's biggest stars of the era: "Basically I just laid in the aisleway and took a nap. I'm all too familiar with the phrase hurry up and wait."
The crew arrived in Dothan as the sun was coming up. After giving away free tickets (the company lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in live-gate revenue) and finishing the octagon as the doors opened, the event was one of the best staged by the original owners.
McLaren compared that day and night to the Battle of Dunkirk. Isaacs felt "that was our D-Day." With all the pressure – both monetarily and from outside forces – on UFC at the time, Isaacs believed that cancelling one show "might be the end of the business … From my perspective, it was my proudest moment."
On screen for barely five seconds, James Ladner has lived on in underground fight lore for 15 years.
Not by his real name, though. Ladner is known by fight fans as Just Bleed Guy.
He was captured on-screen during the introduction of the Mark Kerr-Greg Stott match at UFC 15 in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Ladner was shirtless, green UFC painted on his forehead and – in big white letters – JUST BLEED scrawled in paint on his chest. Beer in hand, he flexed, grunted and groaned as the camera zoomed in (with someone one row behind smoking what appears to be a marijuana joint).
Joe Silva watched UFC 1 as a fan before getting hired as consultant before UFC 2 and later being named vice-president of talent relations with the Zuffa ownership. He said Just Bleed Guy was a perfect snapshot of those early days.
"The original UFC guys got a lot of criticism because of the way the sport was sold. 'You can win by death' or whatever. Certainly that caused a lot of problems later," said Silva.
"But I do agree that at the time if they had just tried to sell it as what it is today, probably nobody would have cared … The Just Bleed Guy, he kind of captured the spirit of that moment. Yeah, that's what people wanted to see. Now it's definitely a real sport and it's become much more refined and better athletes. But at the time, it was just this crazy thing and you just had to check it out for yourself."
UFC was about to enter its dark years. Banished from virtually all major cable distributors, its reach on pay-per-view was cut by 80 to 90 per cent. Its events were relegated to dingy buildings, small-town casinos and tent shows in southern U.S. states. Most fighters were paid a few hundred dollars per event. Home video distribution also stopped.
Lost in all of this was UFC's first greatest-fight-ever: Frank Shamrock versus Tito Ortiz at UFC 22.
Shamrock, along with friend and training partner Maurice Smith, were transforming the sport.
"The thing I remember was, 'Wow, this is different,' because Frank Shamrock beat (1992) Olympic (wrestling) gold medallist Kevin Jackson in (16) seconds," recalled commentator Mike Goldberg.
Ortiz was fast becoming a star for UFC – bleach-blond hair, bad-boy persona, vicious ground game.
When Shamrock (in his final UFC bout) and Ortiz hooked up, it was years ahead of its time: two well-rounded fighters giving a glimpse of what the sport would eventually look like.
Shamrock weighed in at 198 pounds – with a thick book stuffed in his pocket. Ortiz was 199.9 pounds but entered the cage 20 to 25 pounds heavier. Ortiz dominated much of the first three rounds, bloodying Shamrock on the mat.
"At the time you were allowed to open the cut worse than it was. I hooked my thumb in the cut in his head and I tried to open it bigger. He screamed and he said, 'That was cheap, Tito,' " said Ortiz.
But after that third round, Ortiz was visibly gasping for air while Shamrock looked like he could keep going all night. The bout quickly turned in Shamrock's favour, and he choked out an exhausted Ortiz with 15 seconds left in the fourth round.
Shamrock – thanks mostly to the disdain he and UFC boss Dana White share for each other – has been largely omitted from UFC's official history books. But his undefeated record, and the Ortiz win in particular, don't lie.
"He's one of the greatest of all-time," said Ortiz.
Said Lorenzo Fertitta: "Anybody who watched that fight I think saw the transformation of the sport being from athletes that maybe had one discipline and were very one-dimensional to full-fledged mixed martial artists."
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It's one of the most famous knockouts in UFC history – and no one has ever seen it.
As Kevin Randleman warmed up for his heavyweight title defence against Pedro Rizzo at UFC 24, he slipped on a pipe and cracked his head on the floor. He threw up on his way to a local hospital and doctors believed he suffered a concussion, so they refused to let him fight. Though the incident happened early in the evening, fans in the arena weren't told until just minutes before the scheduled bout, when the well-dressed ring announcer trekked nervously back into the octagon.
"It was kind of like a wanna-get-away moment," said Bruce Buffer.
"I've got to go out and tell all these people who are just crying for blood and action? All I thought about was, 'There's going to be bottles and cans flying into the octagon. We're all on one big bus. Are we even going to make it out of here?' "
Dana White really didn't want to go Adam Corrigan's wedding. White's future wife had other plans that night and the last thing he wanted to do was sit around a table as the sad-sack single with a bunch of people he didn't know.
"Then I'm like, 'This guy used to drive me to school every day. How am I not going to go to his wedding?'" White said.
That night wasn't long after White had moved back to Vegas from Boston. As White lined up for the buffet, he saw the familiar face of another high school classmate: Lorenzo Fertitta.
Two relationships – the wedding couple, plus White and Fertitta – were cemented that day.
"We've been together since," said White.
Had White decided to skip Corrigan's wedding, maybe he wouldn't have been in the position years later to call up casino owners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta to tell them what he learned in his capacity as manager of champion Tito Ortiz: UFC was for sale. In January 2001, the Fertitta brothers – under the newly-created company Zuffa (it means 'scrap' in Italian) – bought the promotion for $2 million. White was named president.
"There are nights that Lorenzo and I will sit around drinking and just go, 'Holy (expletive),'" said White. "We talk about all the little things that happened and what went on. It's crazy."
As fight night started, everything felt right. It was a drastic change from the month prior to UFC 33.
Everything that could have gone wrong went wrong leading up to UFC's first event in the fight capital of the world, Las Vegas. Coming three weeks after 9/11, would fans feel safe flying again? If they did, what would they watch? Vitor Belfort, scheduled to face Ortiz in the main event, sliced tendons in his arm after crashing through a window and pulled out.
But as the date drew closer, all was well. Tickets sold quickly. Vladimir Matyushenko replaced Belfort. And Vegas returned to normal. On fight night, the atmosphere was amazing. The undercard was entertaining.
"The minute we went on TV, it became an absolute disaster," said Fertitta.
Every single PPV bout went to the judges. This new ownership group had no broadcast experience and tried to pack too much in. Time was rapidly ticking away on UFC's three-hour window. During the co-main event, Fertitta looked over at White. "We're in trouble … We get a call from the truck. Everybody's freaking out."
Ortiz and Matyushenko went to the judges, as well, but few TV viewers saw the finish. When the third round ended, time was up on the broadcast. Television screens went black.
White said it was the most emotional moment he's ever had as UFC boss.
"It was a massive disaster," said Fertitta. "I think we probably got paid on about 20,000, 25,000 buys. I think our break-even was like 120,000. We lost $2 million to $3 million."
"Dana couldn't get out of bed for a week. I've never seen him so depressed."
It was a speech from Dana White that made Craig Piligian, the producer of The Ultimate Fighter, tear up during a documentary on UFC's 20-year history.
The speech was inspired. It was from the heart. It was passionate. And it was nearly ruined by class clown Forrest Griffin.
Word had gotten to White that the contestants on The Ultimate Fighter, the last-ditch reality-TV effort to save UFC, were balking over being told they'd have to fight in the coming days. The contestants didn't think they'd have to fight until the end of the season so many were way above their weight limit. They also weren't getting paid specifically to fight.
These were logical complaints – but that didn't stop White from fuming as he raced to the UFC training centre that morning.
"Let me explain something to everybody," he started. "This is a very, and when I say very, I can't explain to you what a unique opportunity this is … Do you wanna be a f---ing fighter? Do you wanna be a fighter? That's the question.
"It's not about cutting weight. It's not about living in a (expletive) house. It's about, do you wanna be a fighter? It's not all signing autographs and banging broads when you get out of here. It's not. It's no (expletive) fun, man. It's not. It's a job just like any other job. Being a fighter isn't all (expletive) girls and signing autographs. It's (expletive) hard work but you have the opportunity to (expletive) make money, be famous, and do something for the sport here. That's what this is all about. So the question is not, 'Did you think you had to make weight? Did you think you had to do this?' Do you wanna be a f---ing fighter? That is my question."
It was a dramatic twist, a two-minute speech that gave fans insight into the drive possessed by White. It almost gave fans a further glimpse into the bombastic personality of Griffin.
"Here's the thing," said Griffin, one of the most beloved – and quirky – fighters in company history.
"And I should have said it but I didn't know Dana well enough at the time. He said it's not all getting drunk and blowjobs, or it's not broads and getting drunk. Something to that effect. Actually, if you watch it, you'll see I raise my hand but I didn't want to interrupt him. I raised my hand and he didn't call on me," Griffin said as he started to laugh.
"I was going to say, 'But there's some of that, right? There's some getting drunk and broads? That's, like, a part of it, right?' "
Forrest Griffin defeating Stephan Bonnar in an iconic three-round slugfest is arguably the most famous fight in UFC history. It's the moment that saved the company, according to UFC lore. But the live finale wasn't even the highest-rated episode of that first season of The Ultimate Fighter.
That honour is reserved for the climax of the rivalry that made TUF must-see TV: Chris Leben versus Josh Koscheck. If it wasn't for those two hooking so many casual viewers, who knows how many people would have even been around to watch the finale?
"Things that generate interest, fights that generate interest, are typically ones that come with some sort of rivalry," said Fertitta.
Leben was the cocky, often-drunk, rebel-rouser who in the first few episodes of TUF peed on the pillow of a castmate, challenged fellow fighters and told anyone who'd listen that he was the best in the house.
Koscheck and Bobby Southworth quickly became Leben's antagonists.
"It's the same as regular life. You go into a gym you're not used to, some of the guys you meet you click with instantly," said Leben. "Other guys, not so much. Then there's the occasional guy: oil and water."
The hatred peaked when, in a string of events, Koscheck and Southworth sprayed a passed-out Leben with water from a hose, Southworth called Leben a "fatherless bastard" (hitting very close to home) and Leben tore the house apart. It resulted in a pro-wrestling like double-turn, in which Koscheck became the hated heel and Leben the sympathetic babyface.
Fertitta and White had one solution: Leben and Koscheck had to fight, loser-leaves-the-house. That episode, midway through the season, reached an almost-unfathomable 2.2 million viewers.
"That TV show was pretty crazy, that's for sure. There's probably a lot of stuff that they could go back and edit, put in there, and make a whole new TV show," said Koscheck. "When you're young, I guess you're a little bit more crazy. There was a lot of craziness in that house. It made for good TV."
Said Leben: "I guess that's why reality shows still have directors, huh?"
Approximately $34 million in the hole when Zuffa agreed to pay $10 million in production costs for the chance to air it on Spike TV, UFC would be worth an estimated $1 billion within three years of TUF first airing. No wonder White holds a soft spot for each cast member from that season.
"When that thing heated up, when that whole thing blew up with those three, that's when the season peaked," said White. "We had the perfect cast at the perfect time."
Lorenzo Fertitta has been cageside for dozens of UFC events and witnessed hundreds of fights.
At each of those cards, before going live on its broadcasts, UFC plays an in-house video montage set to The Who's Teenage Wasteland. And there's one moment, from one title match, he's seen replayed virtually every fight night – and he never tires of it.
"The one that just blows me away, probably because it was one of the coolest moments that I've experienced in the UFC, is when Matt Hughes picked up Frank Trigg and walked him across the octagon, which was unbelievable," said Fertitta of the UFC 52 title bout between the two bitter rivals.
"The crowd was just electric."
Suffering from an injury few were aware of, Duane 'Bang' Ludwig knew he couldn't last long that night against Jonathan Goulet.
"First week of training, I separate my shoulder. So I got one arm to fight. The way that fight went is the only way it could have went. Nobody knows that, really. My shoulder was jacked. That's why I was so focused," said Ludwig, who took the January 2006 match versus Jonathan Goulet on two weeks' notice.
The time it takes to read this sentence is roughly the amount of time it took Ludwig to knock out Goulet. "After I won, I raise my arms. I'm like, 'Ow. I forgot about something.' "
The record has been a source of debate and discussion for years. UFC lists the bout as six seconds but due to an error, the Nevada Athletic Commission recognizes the match as 11 seconds. Chan Sung Jung beat Mark Hominick in seven seconds. Ryan Jimmo also needed just seven seconds to beat Anthony Perosh. But Ludwig remains the record-holder in UFC's books.
"I don't really care about being the cool guy or whatever," he said with a smile, "but it's a story for the kids."
The night of the first-ever UFC, a cub reporter for Sports Illustrated was at the event but the magazine's editors were so disgusted by the details, the story never went to print.
Perhaps nothing, then, was more indicative of how far the sport had come than when in 2007, UFC – and Roger Huerta, specifically – graced the cover of the iconic magazine.
"That was huge. I mean, it really helped legitimize the sport for us, when we were seriously banging on doors, doing real pitching, having to call and talk to editors," said former PR publicist Rachel Henry.
At the same time Huerta was on the cover of SI, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta were on the cover of Forbes and Octagon Girl Rachelle Leah was on the cover of Playboy.
"At that press conference, I remember we were passing out Playboys, discreetly," Henry said with a laugh. "I got one signed for my brother."
After years of battling each other verbally (and almost fighting in a sanctioned boxing match), it was appropriate perhaps that the feud between Dana White and Tito Ortiz would end – temporarily – at a press conference.
Tito was a coward for avoiding Chuck Liddell, White claimed for years. White wasn't paying fighters what they deserved, retorted Ortiz. On it went, until finally Ortiz's contract was up after UFC 84. All he had to do was pack his bags and leave the building quietly with his adult film star girlfriend.
"I see Jenna Jameson arguing with somebody and I walk over to see what was going on and she was saying they wouldn't let Tito into the press conference," said Yahoo! Sports reporter Kevin Iole. "I was outraged because I felt like, 'Hey, as media, this is a guy's final fight. He was a significant figure. We deserve the chance to talk to him and talk about him.' "
UFC PR director Jen Wenk said she first assumed Ortiz, because he lost to Lyoto Machida that night, would not want to attend, so she planned for a certain number of fighters on the dais. Then she was told Ortiz was already out there. Despite Wenk's quiet plea, he didn't want to leave.
"I'm going to say something to you that I've never said to anybody, definitely never told the media," said Wenk. "I probably made a mistake. What I probably should have done was, excuse myself from the conversation with Tito and gone back and talked, tried to find Dana or Lorenzo, and discuss the situation with them. But I knew how Dana felt about Tito and how Tito felt about Dana. I felt that if I spoke with him candidly that Tito would figure out. At this point, it kind of lingered on. I started to get attention."
Wenk said she eventually convinced Ortiz to leave the press room. Until, that is, Jameson stepped back into the conversation. "Jenna said to him, 'You stay there, Tito.' As soon as I heard that, I knew it was kind of a lost cause," said Wenk.
"They were trying to push him around and make him feel like he didn't have the right to speak," said Jameson. "And to me, them telling him they were going to escort him out, have the cops escort him out, it pissed me off. So I stood my ground and he stood his ground."
Wenk said Ortiz felt like this was his home and he had a right to be there. "He's probably right … I've seen Tito many times since this and I should probably tell him sorry, that I should have given it more thought."
Ortiz stayed. He and White tolerated each other for a few more minutes. And he wasn't seen in UFC for nearly three years, returning after reconciling with White. (The two are on the outs again as this is being written. They perhaps could be friendly again as you are reading this.) "They were both dominant, type-A personalities that refused to basically back down and concede at any point," said Iole. "The UFC wouldn't be the UFC were it not for Dana White. But it also wouldn't be the UFC without Tito Ortiz."
From near-bankruptcy in 2004 to 1.6 million buys, UFC 100 was the most successful pay-per-view not headlined by Mike Tyson, Oscar de la Hoya, Floyd Mayweather, Mike Tyson or Lennox Lewis. Along the way, UFC had gone from being sponsored by Mickey's Malt Liquor to A-list companies like Harley Davidson and Bud Light.
Not, let it be said, by Coors Light, as was so colourfully noted by Brock Lesnar following his demolition of Frank Mir on UFC's historic night in July 2009.
"What did I think? 'Oh, (expletive). Oh, (expletive),' " said former UFC publicist Rachel Henry.
Ex-UFC PR director Jen Wenk laughs about it now. "I remember thinking, 'Did he really just say that?'
"Oh, it registered," said Dana White of the moment Lesnar was cutting his now-famous promo.
"I'm going to drink a Coors Light – that's a Coors Light – because Bud Light won't pay me nothing," Lesnar said in the centre of the cage, where he and interviewer Joe Rogan stood on a Bud Light logo.
White has laid plenty of verbal smackdowns in his years as boss but few match what Lesnar described as the "whip-the-dog session" he received. It didn't matter that Lesnar was the biggest star in the game.
"I flipped out," said White.
Said Nevada Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer: "I did find out from the inspector later who was in the dressing room, two inspectors for the main events … He made Brock go in the bathroom with him. He was not kind to Brock."
Wenk made the trek with White and Lesnar from the locker room to the press conference. Though that stroll only takes a couple minutes, it felt infinitely longer, she said.
"Let's just say it was an interesting walk. It was the most interesting walk I've ever taken with Dana to a post-fight press conference. I just walked. I did not say a word."
Lesnar had a cold brew in his hand as he entered the press conference.
"Bud Light!" he proclaimed, showing off the bottle. "I'm not biased. I drink any beer."
As Tom Wright theorizes it, UFC might have had to wait even longer than it did to make its Ontario debut had it not been for the timing of a provincial election.
Despite being the best per-capita market on the planet – and UFC's strong desire to hold a card in Toronto – the province in the spring of 2010 was not budging from its stance that the sport violated a section of the Criminal Code that declared boxing the only legal combat sport.
"You need to have several champions to make this happen," said Wright, who joined UFC as director of Canadian operations in May 2010. "We clearly did not have a champion in government."
That changed when young Hamilton MP Sophia Aggelontis was promoted, and the MMA file landed on her desk. She wasn't necessarily a fan, said Wright, but "she got it … She became the internal champion."
Around the same time, Wright met with Conservative Opposition Leader Tim Hudak, who was on the record saying the ban of MMA in Ontario was ridiculous. His party wanted to attract young voters for the election the following fall and he knew MMA resonated with that demographic.
"I've not been told this but one of my suppositions is that (the governing Liberal Party) figured that out, too, and the Liberals thought, 'We should do something quickly.' They basically took it away from being an election issue. It took that card out of the hand of the Conservatives."
On Aug. 14, 2010, the Ontario government announced the sanctioning of MMA in the province. On April 30, 2011, nearly 56,000 fans paid a live gate of $12.1 million at UFC 129 in Toronto.
"To me what's really quite remarkable is that we open up the office in May, sanctioned in August, regulations were put in place by Jan. 1, we announced our first event in Ontario and held it in April, and filled the Rogers Centre – all in less than a year. It's pretty crazy."
The red carpet outside the Honda Center in Anaheim was being unrolled right about the time Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos were being taped back together.
It was part of a night UFC had waited years for. Elite XC and Strikeforce beat the company to network television, on CBS, because UFC refused to cede production of its broadcast. Same thing happened to kill a deal with HBO. UFC was close to signing with NBC and taking over the G4 Network. But when FOX offered a seven-year deal, UFC signed up.
For its first-ever broadcast event, UFC was going all out: Heavyweight title on free TV, Velasquez versus dos Santos, celebrities, bright lights, California sun.
The pressure for a big show was on UFC – and, more than anyone, the fighters. They felt it. Which is a big reason why neither of them pulled out, even though they had each suffered injuries that under any other circumstances would have sidelined them.
"Yeah I probably would have. For sure," said Velasquez, who, unknown at the time to all but a few in his inner circle, fought that night with a torn ACL and reinjured rotator cuff.
"I felt that it was big … If I get in a position like that again, I'm not doing it. But, it felt like it was huge."
Junior dos Santos fought that night with a torn meniscus and took an injection of cortisone just to compete.
"My injury was pretty severe," said dos Santos, who had waited a year for his title shot, due to Velasquez being sidelined with his shoulder injury.
"Too much things on (the) line – the title, the deal on FOX, network TV. If it were a normal fight, without the title and not TV, I probably pull out of the fight because it was a serious injury."
There was no real back-up plan for the company if either were sidelined. Said Fertitta, perhaps only half-joking: "Probably Plan B would have been to pour a drink."
Dana White texts. He rarely has time to talk on the phone. So when the UFC president calls, you answer, says Chael Sonnen.
"I grab the call and he just says, 'Hey, what are you doing next Saturday?' I can't remember what I responded. I think I said, 'I'm coming out to watch Dan Henderson fight.' He said, 'Do you want to fight?' At that time, I had a signed contract to fight Forrest Griffin. And I said, 'Forrest?' And he said, 'No.' And I said, 'Who?' And he said, 'Jon Jones.' "
White had learned with barely a week's notice that Henderson injured his knee and had to pull out of the UFC 151 title fight versus Jones on Sept. 1, 2011. He needed a new main event, and fast.
Sonnen was on board. White and Fertitta were on board. Jones, on the other hand … "I got a call that night from an extremely reliable source that's in camp with Jon Jones, and it's a friend of mine. 'Look, Jon's not going to take the fight.' I didn't believe it for a second," said Sonnen. "But my source was unbelievable. I trust this guy with my life, as they say, and he's telling me, 'Look, Jon's not going to take the fight.' I just didn't think it was true."
He texted Dana around midnight. Dana called back. "Yeah, that's where we're at," White conceded.
White and Fertitta went back to Jones the next day, urging him to face Sonnen. But Jones, after consulting with coach Greg Jackson, declined, even though he knew his bosses don't hear that answer very often. That afternoon, UFC hastily arranged a conference call.
About one minute before the call began, Kizer received a schedule of UFC 151 events for the week.
"So the UFC office, and to my understanding later, Joe Silva, had no idea it was cancelled," he said. "Even then, I was expecting the press conference to be about who the replacement was."
Instead, it was Dana White at his most furious. With Jones declining to face Sonnen, and no other suitable main event on the card, he was cancelling UFC 151. He proclaimed it "one of my all-time lows as president of UFC." He called Jackson "a (expletive) sport killer." He said he and Lorenzo "are both disgusted" by Jones's decision.
"It was really tough, man, to have the whole organization turn their back on me temporarily," admits Jones. "I knew I would get some serious backlash but it felt good to stand up for what I felt was right, to show the fans I had backbone."
Jackson and Jones believed Sonnen knew of Henderson's injury and was preparing to fill in. Sonnen admits now that he had no idea.
"You've heard it both ways because I've said it both ways. To have a little bit of fun with them, I've gone both ways on that," said Sonnen.
So was it a mistake for Jones to turn down the fight, considering the backlash he took, plus the fact that he would have been taking on an opponent even less prepared than himself? Sonnen thinks so.
"I don't like to second-guess Jon just because he's done such a great job with his career. But look, the No. 1 rule in show biz – the No. 1 – is the show must go on," he said.
"I was completely ready the night I fought Jon Jones (at UFC 159 in April 2012) and it wasn't ultra competitive, unfortunately. I was not ready the day I got the call (for UFC 151). I wasn't ready in the least. So, yes, in hindsight, Jon I don't think would have had a very hard night that night and that's just the reality. I just simply wasn't adapted to the weight class yet and I bit off a little more than I could chew."
Postmedia MMA reporter Dave Deibert has gone 1-on-1 with a who's who in UFC, from CEO Lorenzo Fertitta and president Dana White to champions like Georges St-Pierre, Randy Couture and Jon Jones, Octagon Girls such as Logan Stanton and Arianny Celeste to stickmen Mike Goldberg and Bruce Buffer.
Here's a sampling from the dozens and dozens of off-beat interviews over the years …
DEIBERT: What did you do with the UFC light heavyweight title belt the night you won it?
RASHAD EVANS: I lost the belt for about a week and a half, two weeks. I was like, 'I'm gonna have to call Dana White and tell him I lost the belt. How irresponsible.' But I put it in my minivan. My wife and everybody was staying in Chicago with her family. We live in Michigan. We loaded up the minivan and then when we came back, we didn't unload it right away. It stayed in my minivan for about two weeks and I didn't know where it was at. I was so happy when I found it.
DEIBERT: You're in the baddest sport on the planet, you're fighting for your livelihood and you drive a minivan?
DEIBERT: Now I ask this one gently. If you were told that you could have the flowing locks that you had back in your younger days but you had to have a mullet for 12 months and then after that you could do whatever you wanted, would you take that deal?
RANDY COUTURE: (Laughs) Oh yeah. I had a mullet for a lot longer than 12 months. I could do that, no problem.
DEIBERT: You were a tremendous soccer player in your younger days, playing Division 1 at Boston College. Now you're in arguably the manliest sport out there. How much does flopping on the soccer field bother you?
KENNY FLORIAN: (Laughs) You know, it's funny. I used to be one of those fellow floppers. You had to do whatever you could to get the foul sometimes. Now I look back and I'm like, 'Oh my God. That is kind of wimpy there.' I've come a long way since those days.
DEIBERT: What guilty pleasure TV show do you never miss that you might not normally tell people you watch?
BRENDAN SCHAUB: I definitely get caught up in Jersey Shore. All the reality stuff. Teen Mom, too.
DEIBERT: So in terms of pure entertainment value, where did the recent fight between J-Woww and Sammi on Jersey Shore rank compared to the best UFC fights this year?
DEIBERT: Oh, man. That's tough (laughs). Sammi threw a heck of a right hand. That was entertaining. I was on the edge of my seat. There was no knockout, though, so it didn't really compare.
DEIBERT: What does your dad think when you're out there in that little spandex outfit in front of 20,000 people?
CHANDELLA POWELL: He's just proud of me. It's more my mom (laughs). 'You're in that skimpy outfit.' But then she's like, 'I love the fights. I love watching it.' As long as somebody draws some blood, then she's good. It kind of keeps her distracted from my outfit.
DEIBERT: It seems like every time you fight, someone makes a crack about you being a young guy. (Mike) Pyle has said about you: "Let's be honest, I was winning fights when (MacDonald was) rushing home from junior high to play with (his) Pokemon." What's the funniest line you've heard from an opponent?
RORY MACDONALD: (Laughs) I can't remember who it was. It was back when I fought in King of the Cage. Someone said I look like I was supposed to be delivering his paper.
DEIBERT: You grew up a pro wrestling fan. If you could have dinner with your four favourites of all-time, who's at the table with you?
QUINTON JACKSON: I would say Ultimate Warrior, Hulk Hogan, Junkyard Dog and Andre the Giant.
DEIBERT: That would be a big tab at the end of the night, all the heavyweights.
JACKSON: Yeah. I didn't say I would be paying for it.
DEIBERT: Have you ever been in the cage and your mind just wanders off ?
GEORGES ST-PIERRE: One time I was fighting against BJ Penn. I had his back against the fence. I'm not kidding you, for a few seconds I look and I was staring at a beautiful woman in the audience. It was ... uh ... (snaps fingers) Cindy Crawford. I stared at her. I'm thinking, 'My God, she's so beautiful. And she's looking at me.' And just next to her, I see her husband looking at me, and I'm like, 'Oh my God. I can't look at her. Her husband's looking at me.' Now I'm thinking, 'Of course they're looking at me. I'm doing the show right now and I'm in the middle of the fight.' So I'm like, 'Go back to your focus.' (laughs)
DEIBERT: How many calls did you get on your old cell-phone before you realized the number used to belong to a prostitute?
RONDA ROUSEY: Actually, it was the first call I got. They were voice mails, like, 'Hello, Laura. I got your number off massagenow.com.' It was actually listed on massagenow.com, under the name Laura, with a picture. I had plenty of people inquiring. The thing that sucked was it was a pay-as-you-go phone, so if I wanted to stop and mess with the pervert that was calling me, it was actually costing me money. I was already broke, so I'd just get pissed off every time I picked up the phone and some pervo was, like, "Hey Laura..." I was like, '(Expletive), I just paid $4. You just cost me money.' I was paying to get harassed by perverts for a while.
DEIBERT: Name the celebrity you've met that left you most in awe.
DANA WHITE: I'm gonna have to say Dr. Phil. I didn't even know who he was. ("I had to talk him into it," said UFC PR director Jennifer Wenk.) We go in, her and I go into this green room, and they come in like, 'Here you go. Here's your Dr. Phil T-shirt and your Dr. Phil mug.' I look at Jen like this (raising eyebrows): 'Oh thank you. That's nice.' I'm polite and whatever. Then I throw the (expletive) thing. Like I want the Dr. Phil mug and T-shirt. Then I go out and we do the show. We meet Dr. Phil. Then we go backstage and we start talking to him and (expletive) – the coolest (expletive) guy you could ever meet. Real guy, down to earth, super cool. The way that they do his show, they film the show and then they get you the hell out of there. They bring in a whole other group and start filming another show. So they're getting us out the door and I'm like, 'Wait a minute. I want my Dr. Phil mug. Where's my Dr. Phil mug?' Before we left, I wanted that Dr. Phil mug (laughs) ...


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Demps is arguably the fastest player in college football and he may very well set the world on fire at the NFL combine. He consistently runs in the 4.2s of the 40-yard dash and he has been clocked as fast as 4.18 from that distance. A track runner in the spring, Demps is the only Florida athlete to win a national championship in two different sports. He stands at just 5'7'' and 191 pounds, so it's clear he is never going to be an every-down back at the next level. Still, his speed is off the charts and he could be a big force on offense and special teams whenever he enters the game. Quite simply, he has game-chancing potential. Look for him to go off the board in the fifth round of April's draft.


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OBETZ, Ohio – A foreign-born coach comes to the United States at an early age, enjoys a successful college coaching career and finally joins MLS.
He's then charged with reviving a sputtering franchise and understandably struggles before putting more wins than losses on the ledger.
For the Crew, that man was German-born Sigi Schmid, who led Columbus to their first MLS Cup win in 2008 after missing the playoffs in his first two seasons.
For FC Dallas – who come calling on Saturday at Crew Stadium – that man is Schellas Hyndman, who has turned his club into one of the surprising powers of the league in 2010.
READ: Columbus - FC Dallas match preview
Born in China, Hyndman's family moved to Springfield, Ohio – 50 miles west of Columbus – to start a path that eventually led him to a 26-year career (466-122-490 record) at Southern Methodist University. He didn't have to travel far for his first pro job, joining up with FC Dallas in June 2008.
FC Dallas went 4-6-8 under Hyndman to finish 2008 and were 11-13-6 last year, just good enough to miss a playoff berth by a single point.
Hyndman's team was winless in the first five games this season in a start similar to the Crew's 0-2-5 mark in 2009. The Crew rebounded to win their second straight Supporters' Shield and are now in the running for an unprecedented third.
[inline_node:315056]But perhaps one of their most unexpected challengers are Hyndman and FCD, who are riding a 7-0-4 streak into Saturday's match.
"There's no doubt about [Dallas'] success," Crew goalkeeper William Hesmer said. "They've had a really good year. They're playing together and they're playing well."
Hunt Sports Group chairman Clark Hunt, who played for Hyndman at SMU, is not surprised that FC Dallas and the Crew – both Hunt clubs – floundered early under new regimes before finding success.
"Patience is something I've learned from being in the sports business a long time," he said. "It takes any coaching staff, I feel, three years to build a program. Sometimes it happens a little quicker, sometimes a little slower.
"I think it's always a mistake to bring in a new coach or a new technical staff and pull the plug on them after a year-and-a-half or two years."
FC Dallas are riding a wave of confidence and could break the Crew's league record of nine straight games unbeaten on the road with a victory or tie.
The Crew are banged up and tired after a tough 1-0 loss to Santos Laguna in Mexico on Tuesday in a CONCACAF Champions League match.
Midfielder Emmanuel Ekpo (groin) is the latest casualty. He joins Robbie Rogers (knee) on the sideline while defender Gino Padula (knee) is questionable. Also, right back Frankie Hejduk serves a one-game suspension.
If it makes the Crew feel any better, Clark Hunt said he will follow a family tradition while watching the Hunt teams battle.
"My father [Lamar] made the suggestion many years ago that when two of our teams are playing in Major League Soccer, we always cheer for the home team," he said. "We'll be cheering for the Crew, but it's an incredibly important game for both teams considering how tight the race is for the Supporters' Shield."


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Footage of a fight between two enraged motorists on the gridlocked streets of North Vancouver went viral on YouTube this past spring.
It showed a white-haired man chasing a younger man around his parked car, punching and kicking him as the younger man screams for mercy, before they both drive off in their respective cars. Another motorist captured the fisticuffs on a smartphone.
The disturbing exchange is an extreme example of a general level of rude behaviour that many British Columbians say is getting worse — particularly on the road, according to an Insights West survey.
Road rage attacks, cutting off other drivers, rude gestures, texting while driving — more than seven in 10 respondents to the survey said they regularly deal with a rude or impolite person while driving.
"If you want to be insulted at least once a month, drive a car or ride a car, and at least someone is going to give it to you," said Mario Canseco, vice-president of public affairs at Insights West.
Seventy-two per cent of respondents said they had to deal with someone being rude or impolite while driving or riding in a car. That compares to just 47 per cent of public transit users who reported uncivil behaviour.
Not surprisingly, smartphones figure prominently. Abbotsford Police Const. Ian MacDonald said people have always changed as soon as they get behind the wheel, but adding smartphones to the mix creates a "strange combination."
"Even before smartphones, I think driving is one of those odd things where people are in a little bit of a bubble: their personalities change, they tend to be more aggressive, they tend to act in ways they certainly wouldn't act if they were face-to-face in most circumstances," he said. "What technology and, particularly, our busy lives, multi-tasking and our dependence on smartphones has done is it's exacerbated that."
MacDonald said it incenses him that people will condemn drunk driving yet a sheepish smirk appears when asked if they text behind the wheel.
Distracted driving kills about 91 people a year in the province, making it the third leading cause of fatal car crashes after speeding and drunk driving, according to figures released last month by ICBC.
Last week MacDonald released statistics showing his department has given 4,025 people $167 tickets since the law changed in 2010 to ban using hand-held devices while driving.
"The most discouraging thing for us is it's not like we're seeing a greater absorption of the message," MacDonald said during a phone interview from his car, where he was using a hands-free device. "We're not writing fewer tickets now in 2013 than we did in 2010, it remains pretty constant."
Surprisingly, he said, more than two thirds of those drivers caught using the device of their choice were older than 30.
Technology and its steady erosion of face-to-face interactions was tipped as the culprit responsible for an increasing lapse in manners by 84 per cent of respondents. Only poor parenting rated higher.
This is understandable considering more than one in four British Columbians between the ages of 18 and 34 consider themselves hooked to their mobile device, according to another Insights West survey released in July. Overall, almost two-thirds of British Columbians own a smartphone — double the smartphone ownerships stats from two years ago. And the proportion of those owning smartphones jumps to 86 per cent among 18 to 34-year-olds.
Technology and people's addiction to it leads to behaviour like smartphone zombies walking into others on the sidewalk or transit users oblivious to their surroundings.
"You're not dealing with those who are around you because you're dealing with something that you have in your hand," Canseco said. "You're essentially talking to your boss, maybe your friend, maybe your wife, whoever it is, but you're not interacting with those around you and that is being seen as something that is rude and impolite."
About half of transit users surveyed said they had encountered a fellow rider being rude or impolite at least a few times each month. A similar number said they had seen someone give up their seat for an elderly, disabled or pregnant person.
Each work day, federal employee Heidi Goodman and her husband drive from north Delta and park their truck at the Scott Road SkyTrain station before riding the train into downtown Vancouver.
Last year, when she was heavily pregnant -- "not just a little pregnant, but like people were scared of looking at me I was so pregnant" -- Goodman noticed a trend.
"The only people that ever did (give up their seat) were women, maybe because they know what it's like to be pregnant," Goodman said. "It's just so incredibly busy, anytime you get packed people like that, people get anxious and miserable and cranky.
"It just made me think society has gone downhill if a pregnant woman can't get a seat."
Goodman's other transit pet peeve is people listening to their music so loud that she can hear it while "sitting on the other side of the SkyTrain."
Talent agent Ari Wise, 46, doesn't think it's necessarily a bad thing that "nobody makes eye contact or talks to anyone anymore" when taking the bus or train.
Wise spends more than half an hour each day checking his work emails while riding the West Coast Express commuter train downtown from Port Moody. He said people are generally courteous but only talk to fellow passengers if the train stops or "something weird happens."
"If I'm going to spend 40 minutes in transit each way, I can make it a productive time," he said. "Also, play words with friends — I'm not all business."
He just wants everybody to make sure their personal hygiene is kept up.
"Some people don't bathe," he said with a chuckle. "If you're going to be in close quarters with people, you should probably take care of yourself."
Over three quarters of respondents to Insights West's new survey said they have witnessed someone texting or checking their phone during a meeting or a social event in the past month.
The addiction has led some younger people to start building "phone trees" while dining out. It involves piling their smartphones on top of each other and forcing the first person who grabs their device from the tree to pay a small fee or even the group bill.
Julie Lee has seen smartphone use ruin more than a few transactions as the owner and operator of the bustling Melriches Coffee Housein Davie village.
When smartphones exploded onto the market about six years ago, one of Lee's exasperated baristas put up a small sign saying "No cellphones in lineup please, thank you so much!"
"People were distracted on their phones, they were holding up the lineup, they wouldn't order properly," Lee recalls. "They would just mumble something, we would give them their drink and they would say 'That's not what I ordered.'
"It's incredibly rude, when you're speaking with someone I think they should have your undivided attention."
Melriches has to offer free Wi-Fi to compete with other coffee shops, but Lee said she also wants to "to encourage face to face conversations with real people."
"People want to come in with their laptops and do some work — that's cool," Lee said. "But I also want a neighbourhood place where people come together."
Customer etiquette has improved since the sign went up and now bashful smartphone users quickly agree to put away their device or step aside and finish their texting or tweeting before ordering.
Lee, a mother of two teens and a twentysomething, said she wishes the world would slow down and embrace the common day-to-day interactions.
Barring that, politely excusing yourself from the front of a lineup while texting or taking a call can make it easier on everyone.
"It's just courtesy," she said.


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Today's post is a collection of photos I took a month or so ago, which I have been waiting for the right time to share. Since we've been out of town, and I'm still working on going through some of the photos from our trip, as well as trying to catch up with a new baking post/photo shoot, today seemed like a good day.
I made oatmeal for breakfast that morning, and as I stirred in brown sugar, cinnamon, protein powder and a little brown sugar, and watched the oatmeal simmer and thicken, I thought of the rare school mornings growing up when my mom would cook breakfast. Usually, we ate cereal, pop tarts, or toast, but once in a while, she would get up early and have oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar, or maybe even pancakes with butter and syrup or jam, waiting for us on the table. A hot breakfast on cold mornings was a welcome thing in that house, since the only heat source came from the wood stove in the living room; the bedrooms were chilly, so we hurried to the front of the house as fast as we could. Oatmeal was one of my favorite hot breakfasts.
A scrap of fabric, some sunny yellow flowers (weeds, actually) that I pulled from the side of the road, and a vintage yellow pitcher made for some interesting shots that morning. One of the things I like about photography is that you can capture just the little snippets that you want people to see. The room may be messy, but you don't have to show that; a backyard may need to be mowed and the patio cleaned up, but zooming in on a pretty flower pot can block out all that other stuff that you don't want to focus on. I find that everyday items always look a little more special through the lens of a camera.
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When Sung Tingpo of Nanyang was a young man, he was walking one night and he came across a ghost. He asked him who he was and he said he was a ghost.
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They walked on as before carrying each other in turn. In the end they came at the outskirts of a town. The ghost turned himself into a goat. Tingpo spat on the goat and it could not change back into a ghost. Tingpo found a piece of rope to tie the goat. He sold it for fifteen hundred cash and went home.
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When Sung Tingpo of Nanyang was a young man, he was walking one night and he came across a ghost. He asked him who he was and he said he was a ghost.


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1976: Packers Obtain Lynn Dickey from Oilers
On April 2, 1976 a long-delayed trade between the Green Bay Packers and Houston Oilers was announced. The Packers sent QB John Hadl, CB Ken Ellis, and two draft choices (fourth round in '76, third round in '77) to Houston for QB Lynn Dickey.
Word of the impending deal had been leaked earlier in the week and it thus came as no surprise. It had been agreed to long before, but an embargo on trades due to litigation involving the allocation of players to the NFL's two new expansion teams forced a delay. It was thus officially announced on the day that the embargo was lifted.
"After a great deal of consideration and thought, we thought the trade for Lynn Dickey would be in the best interests of the Green Bay Packers or we wouldn't have made it," Bart Starr, all-time great quarterback and now general manager and head coach of the Packers, said when questioned about the cost to his team. "Any time you make an investment like this it's expensive, but I think if you break it down and analyze it, I think you can justify it."
There was much critical comment, for the unproven Dickey (pictured above) had been unable to beat out Dan Pastorini in Houston and, considering the Packers had given up a great deal to get Hadl during the 1974 season (five draft choices), this seemed to compound the enormity of that action (that transaction had been swung by Starr's predecessor as head coach/GM, Dan Devine).
The 6'4", 210-pound Dickey threw just four passes in 1975. At Kansas State, he had broken most Big Eight passing and total yardage records. He was selected by the Oilers in the third round of the quarterback-rich 1971 draft while Pastorini was the team's first-round draft choice. Dickey missed all of 1972 due to a broken hip suffered in the preseason and in four years of action had thrown a total of 294 passes, completing 155 of them for 1953 yards with 8 touchdowns and a big 28 interceptions (including 9 of his 57 attempts as a rookie). Dickey lacked mobility but had an outstanding arm and Starr could see his potential.
"I felt all along I could play, but I was told I would probably never get that opportunity," said Dickey, glad to be away from Houston and with an opportunity to start.
Hadl had been an outstanding quarterback for the San Diego Chargers for 11 seasons, leading the AFL twice and NFL once in passing yards and gaining selection to four AFL All-Star Games and one Pro Bowl. He was dealt to the Rams in 1973, where he had an All-Pro year, but was traded to the Packers during the '74 season and, at 36, appeared to be on the downside of his career. Dickey, on the other hand, was 26 and backup quarterbacks Don Milan and Carlos Brown were clearly not ready to move up.
The Packers were coming off a 4-10 record in Starr's first year at the helm. The previously solid running game dropped off badly as star FB John Brockington slumped to just 434 yards on the ground. The team had been in the doldrums since the departure of Vince Lombardi as head coach in 1967, with a division title under Devine in 1972 the only highlight. Even in the division-winning year, quarterback was a problem area for the Packers, and Starr was hired in 1975 to bring the winning habit of the Lombardi era back to Green Bay and, as part of that, to bring improvement behind center. Hadl was hardly someone to rebuild around while Dickey could grow with the offense.
Houston, under Head Coach O.A. "Bum" Phillips, was on the rise and coming off a 10-4 record in 1975. Dan Pastorini was the unquestioned starter at quarterback and swapping Dickey for Hadl brought a savvy veteran who could provide both insurance if Pastorini went down as well as a mentor. Ken Ellis, a two-time Pro Bowl selectee, was 28. He had played out his option and was likely to sign elsewhere. The draft choices were used to take WR Steve Largent of Tulsa in 1976, who was traded in the preseason and went on to a Hall of Fame career with Seattle, and FB Tim Wilson out of Maryland in '77, a capable player who mostly blocked for star RB Earl Campbell until 1982.
Pastorini slumped during an injury-plagued season, along with the rest of the Oilers, in 1976. The team fell to 5-9 after a promising 4-1 beginning. Hadl (pictured below) ended up starting four games, three of which were losses. He was successful on 60 of 113 pass attempts (53.1 %) for 634 yards with seven touchdowns and eight interceptions. He lasted one more year with the Oilers before retiring, seeing less action in '77.
Ellis didn't remain long in Houston, as he was traded to the injury-depleted Miami Dolphins during the season and was converted to safety (the Oilers picked up two 1977 draft choices as part of the transaction).
As for Lynn Dickey in Green Bay, he showed promise – although performed unevenly – until being knocked out by a shoulder injury ten games into the season. Overall, he completed just 47.3 % of his passes for 1465 yards with 7 TDs and 14 interceptions. The running game was still substandard and the receiving corps nothing special, with WR Ken Payne and TE Rich McGeorge the most reliable of the group. Like the Oilers, the Packers ended up at 5-9.
Dickey's road proved to be a difficult one in Green Bay. He came back in 1977 but suffered a badly broken leg in Week 9 that was such a severe injury he missed all of '78 as well. The Packers contended in his absence, going 8-7-1, and a competitor arose in David Whitehurst. When Dickey finally came back in 1979, he was backing up his former backup, but Whitehurst failed to progress, the Packers slipped back into their losing ways, and Dickey outplayed him when he started the final three games.
Dickey finally started a full slate of games in 1980 and set team records in pass attempts (478), completions (278), and yards (3529) although he also was intercepted 25 times while throwing for 15 TDs. WR James Lofton, who arrived in '78, was an outstanding target (71 receptions, 1226 yards) and TE Paul Coffman emerged to catch 42 passes as well. But the team's record was only 5-10-1. Another quarterback, Rich Campbell out of California, was taken in the first round of the '81 draft.
In 1981 the Packers picked up another receiver, WR John Jefferson, spectacular with the Chargers but unhappy with his contract, and paired him with Lofton to allow for a wide-open aerial game (#83 Jefferson & #80 Lofton pictured at left). Dickey finally tossed more touchdown passes (17) than interceptions (15), including five in a game against the Saints. However, he was also sacked 40 times, including nine in one game against the Jets, and missed three contests with a back injury. Still, after starting out a miserable 2-6, Green Bay finished up at 6-2.
In the strike-interrupted '82 season, the Packers made it to the postseason for the first time in ten years with a 5-3-1 record. Lacking a reliable running game, it came down to Dickey throwing the ball to Lofton, Jefferson, and Coffman while trying to avoid being sacked. He threw four TD passes against the Cardinals for Green Bay's first postseason win since the 1967 season and for 332 yards in a loss to Dallas in the next round (along with three interceptions).
It set the stage for high expectations that were not met in an 8-8 campaign in 1983, although Dickey passed for 4458 yards (third-highest in NFL history at the time) and 32 touchdowns, offset by a league-leading 29 interceptions. The explosive offense couldn't overcome the porous defense, however, and it marked the end of Bart Starr's coaching tenure (he was replaced by another Lombardi-era Packer, Forrest Gregg). Dickey lasted for another two years and remained productive, but an injury that prematurely ended his 1985 season ultimately finished off his career.
Overall, Lynn Dickey played 13 seasons in the NFL, appearing in every game just three times (including the 9-game '82 season). With the Packers, he passed for 21,369 yards and 133 touchdowns, averaging 7.5 yards per attempt, with 151 interceptions. While the team had only one winning season, deficiencies in the running game, offensive line, and defense played more of a role in Green Bay's lack of success than Dickey, who when healthy was able to combine with a fine receiving corps in productive fashion. Moreover, despite a string of major injuries that threatened to derail his career at several points, he showed great tenacity and toughness along the way.
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