The homer in me has to go with Tom Landry as coach.
didnt even notice that
The homer in me has to go with Tom Landry as coach.
There was never a cooler coach than Tom Landry.
You missed placekicker. I know they're not real football players and you included punter so I forgive your mistake.
Well Lou Groza and Jan Stenaru (?) are in the Hall of Fame.
It was like a movie.
Miami was the only team to ever go undefeated*** in the NFL and here come the 85 Bears looking like the team to tie them, so what team knocks them off.....Miami...on a Monday night. The Bears oly lost that one game that season.
*** there were a few oldies but goodies that never lost but were tied.
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He'd be the second player from just a junior college, he was out of Scottsbluff.
How about....
"The Galloping Ghost" Red Grange
Elbert "Golden Wheels" Dubenion
The Assassin, The Minister of Defense, The Fridge, Snake Stabler, The Mad Stork![]()
Well if we're into football nicknames now...
Rufus "The Roadrunner" Ferguson
Fred "The Hammer" Williamson
Paul "Tank" Younger
Eugene "Mercury" Morris
"Ironhead" Heyward
Christian "The Nigerian Nightmare" Okoye
Ed "Too Tall" Jones
Gary "Big Hands" Johnson
"Mini" Mac Herron
Nolan "Super Gnat" Smith
Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch
"Slingin' " Sammy Baugh
Darly "The Mad Bomber" Lamonica
Lionel "Little Train" James
Bill "Thunder" Thornton
Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson
Mack "The Truck" Lee Hill
Leslie "Speedy" Duncan
"Squirmin" Sherman Lewis
Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb
L.G. "Long Gone" Dupree
Hugh "The King" McElhenny
Joe "The Jet" Perry
Jim "Cannonball" Butler
John "The Deisel" Riggins
"The Kansas Comet" Gale Sayers
"Touchdown" Tommy Wison
"Jaquar" Jon Arnett
"Fast" Willie Parker
My favorite real name...Fair Hooker...he was a hurdler at ASU and a wide receiver for the Browns.
Army once had Doc"Mr.Inside" Blanchard (a power back) and Glenn "Mr.Outside" Davis (a 9.6 sprinter) both would win the Heisman, only time in history two backs on the same team pulled that off, obviously in different seasons.
Then there's Notre Dames legendary....The Four Horseman.
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Mad bomber is far and away the best nickname a qb could ask for
also I don't think you mentioned sweetness. There's also the white shoes guy
Yep, it gets no better than "The Mad Bomber". But, without the great Warren Wells a sprinter out of Texas Southern Lamonica wouldn't have had that moniker. Wells was the ultimate long ball receiver.
Billy "White Shoes" Johnson was ridiculous in college, he played for some tiny little school, set all kinds of records.
While Payton was often called "Sweetness" it never really took as a legit nickname, sorta like Lance Alworth and "Bambi".
While here...
Just a couple nuggets to widen your football horizons.
The first player to ever e the ball was Homer Jones a wide receiver for the Giants/Browns. Jones was a national caliber sprinter while at Texas Southern and one of the few to ever beat Bob Hayes, he did it in asn NAIA 200m.
Chiefs receiver Elmo Wright (out of Houston) was the first to do a little td dance.
Lamar Lundy
Rosie Grier
Merlin Olsen
Deacon Jones
The Fearsome Foursome
Now which one left and was replaced by an equally elite D lineman?
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