Like millions of other football fans on Monday night, Tom Flores watched in amazement as the Rams beat the Chiefs in one of the highest-scoring games in NFL history. Unlike the rest of us, Flores knows what it feels like to play in a game just like that.
But he was too caught up in the moment to do much reminiscing.
“Well, I thought about it after, but I was just enjoying the game and all the big plays,” said the 81-year-old Flores, who was the Raiders’ quarterback when they made similar history in 1963. “It was one play after another and you’re saying, ‘My God, this is not possible, it can’t be possible.