The Big Blue Wrecking Crew was the NY Giants’ defense anchored by the greatest defensive player ever, Lawrence Taylor. This 1980s unit also had Harry Carson, Jim Burt and Leonard Marshall.
Just ask Redskins QB Joe Theisman. They wrecked his leg, and his career.
The Gold Dust Twins - Fred Lynn and Jim Rice for the Boston Red Sox in the mid 70’s.
The bullpen in Fenway during the 2007 season was The Black Pearl, but that was mainly used by the players and not the media.
pseudotriton ruber ruber:
You just reminded me of “Generation K” - Mets pitchers Jason Isringhausen, Bill Pulsipher and Paul Wilson, from around the same era.
The Islanders front line of Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier, and Clark Gillies were, in the late 70s through mid 80s, known variously as the “Trio Grande”, “Best Thing Going”, or just “BTG” line.
GAG Line (short for Goal-a-Game line) - Jean Ratelle, Vic Hadfield and Rod Gilbert of the New York rangers
The Three Amigos - Broncos receivers, in the early Elway days.
Long before this, Connie mack’s Philadelphia A’s had the Million Dollar Infield, which included Hall of Famers Eddie Collins at 2nd base and Frank “Home Run” Baker at 3rd base.
How about The Bash Brothers, Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire?
Back in the Seventies, the first line of the Buffalo Sabres were called The French Connection, as they were all French Canadians (led by Gilbert Perrault).
The 1985 Bears O-line were known as the Black-and-Blues Brothers.
See post #34 where **Reality Chuck **gets the amount right: $100,000 for four star players was an incredible sum in those days. A million was unthinkable.
It was originally the nickname of the University of Chicago Maroons. And U of C alums, students, and faculty defend that nickname to this day.
I appreciate you not piling on… because it appears Chuck had a FEW of mine before I did.
The Soviet Red Army hockey team back in the 80s had the KLM line: Krutov, Larionov, and Makarov.
Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell, mainly, with other players whose last name started with “B” added as auxiliaries (Derek Bell to begin with, Lance Berkman later).
The Big Three - Tim Hudson, Barry Zito and Mark Mulder of the Oakland A’s from 2000 through 2004.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the Montreal Canadiens had The Punch Line, formed by Maurice Richard, Toe Blake and Elmer Lach.
From the Detroit Red Wings:
Russian Five: Vladimir Konstantinov, Slava Fetisov, Igor Larionov, Sergei Federov, Slava Koslov.
The Grind Line: Kirk Maltby, Kris Draper, Darren McCarty.
Two kids and a goat: Boyd Devereaux and Pavel Datsyuk were the kids. Brett Hull was the goat.
Also, the Rams offense in the 80’s was known as Ground Chuck–after coach Knox. I think that the late Jim Murray coined the name.
Eric Dickerson helped a little with that.
Speaking of Eric Dickerson, in the 80s, the backfield of SMU’s football team (which then included future NFL stars Dickerso nand Craig James) was called the Pony Express (appropriate, since SMU’s team is called the Mustangs, a type of pony).
