Danlaw24!

@BigBlueVCR Six weeks after he played his last game against the Packers at the old Polo Grounds, he was killed on one of the bloodiest battlegrounds of the European theater.

@BigBlueVCR He was a terror on Sundays. But the because he so desperately believed in is country and its role in World War II, he spent the rest of the week hassling Army recruiters until they took him.

A reminder of what Memorial Day is about. A NJ native, Al Blozis was #NYGiants 5th round pick in 1942. But he left NYG to join the Army & fight in WWII. He didn't have to go overseas but he wanted to for his country & was KIA at age 26. His #32 was retired by the NYG

@BigBlueVCR their teams' immediate futures a matter of conjecture, were gathered to conduct the annual draft for the following season - assuming the government would let them have a following season during wartime.

@BigBlueVCR His story with the Giants begins in a downtown Chicago hotel ballroom just three days before Christmas of 1941. In those days, the league draft was always conducted the day after its title game.