No. 19 not often favorite digits

onsider one of the finest No. 19s to play major league baseball was Milwauee Brewers great Robin Yount.

Robin? Come on, a real diamond legend would surely be named Batman.

Yount never won a World Series during his 20-year MLB career, just as Cleveland Browns’ most famous No. 19 quarterback Bernie Kosar went 0-3 in AFC title games.

The Browns still haven’t been close to Super Bowl since Kosar’s last shot in 1989.

Joe Montana donned No. 19 when he became a Kansas City Chief, then got blasted in Buffalo for his grand finale.

College teams have always pursued Top 20 or Top 25 rankings — nobody really cares who reached No. 19.

The awesome Jack Bauer-led ‘24’ TV show wasn’t called ‘19’ because Jack needed five hours to get some sleep during national catastrophes.

Baseball’s biggest scandalous black eye were the World Series-tanking Chicago “Black Sox” in 1919.

We all know ’19 will never rank among Nebraska’s finest football seasons or really in any sport for that matter.

Sure, there are ‘19’ exceptions like NFL legend Johnny Unitas and current Minnesota Yike!-ings receiver Adam Thielen.

Yet the Yikes! often only bring pain for your Gazette sports scribbler, considering Brett Favre’s infamous NFC title game interception capped 19 playoff trips without another Super Bowl.

R.B.’s Yikes! have added four more fruitless post-seasons to that list since Favre.

Plus consider what happened to Rumblin’ Bumblin’ Headley at age 19:

— Accepted summer job door-to-door selling books in eastern Tennessee.

While approaching first doorbell, a bird flew over R.B.’s head and dropped one bomb directly down across his eyewear as if to say “silly 19-year-old!”

R.B. still couldn’t see the obvious future. Instead, being 19 meant:

— Drinking warm Meisterbrau in back of Volkswagen with co-workers he barely knew. Not only unpleasant but illegal.

— Spent one evening in Memphis, Tenn., Waffle House parking lot followed by another of walking St. Louis streets. Was offered narcotics but only had one quarter remaining for collect phone calls so no deal occurred.

— Later saw Okalahoma beat No. 1 Nebraska, Miami Hurricanes win another national championship and Yike-ings lose the NFC title game. This current disaster deserves 19.