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Ben Coates caught 96 passes as a tight end my first year of watching football, I thought he could do no wrong. He and Barry Sanders made me love football. Barry is what football should be.
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Ed Reed made me love the Ravens, even through their dark ages before Saint Harbaugh.
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Todd Pinkston made me the man I am today.
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Not sure I have one (maybe Devin Hester?), but my brother's is Randall Cunningham.
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Fran Tarkenton The Russell Wilson of the 70’s
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Healthy Brian Westbrook for me. I was devasted when concussions got the better of him. Or watching Dawkins merk people
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Hot Diggity! posted:Here's a good topic, who's a player that made you love football? Robert Brooks was one of mine along with Antonio Freeman and Sterling Sharpe. Thurman Thomas
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Sunday Morning posted:Thurman Thomas Still can't believe he Barry played a little while Thurman was there, but man imagine all the things you could do with both of those guys. e: gently caress a simple fake to Barry and then Thurman is gone to the house on a wheel route every damned time. If the defense adjusts just hand it off instead. Grittybeard fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Jul 18, 2020 |
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Dan Marino
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ASAPRockySituation posted:Todd Pinkston made me the man I am today. Do you often bail on plans?
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Believe it or not it was Sam Bradford that got me into the nfl. Before him I only watched CFB and only Oklahoma at that. His Heisman year is what really made me into the football maniac I am today. Bradfords rookie season gave me so much hope for his future. Unfortunately that hope didn't last long.
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Some combination of Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas for me
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Hot Diggity! posted:Here's a good topic, who's a player that made you love football? Robert Brooks was one of mine along with Antonio Freeman and Sterling Sharpe. Marino. I watched every Dolphins game on TV from like 1990 until his retirement. 1995 was the first time I realized the super bowl was probably never gonna happen. Dolphins blew a 21-6 halftime lead. Pete Stoyanovich (who ironically did the kicking scenes as Ray Finkle in Ace Ventura one year prior) missed a game winning FG with 1 second to go. It’s been all downhill ever since.
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Derrick Thomas is my answer by the way. We've been kinda making GBS threads on him as a person a little in the AFC West thread but my god the man was transcendent on the field.
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When I was little, it was highlights of Lawrence Taylor almost killing people. When I was older, it was Peyton Manning going through a billion crazy audibles and signals before finding Marvin Harrison somehow wide open somewhere along the sidelines.
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For me it was Ed Reed. What more can I say?!Grittybeard posted:Still can't believe he There's this video where the reporter says "Tomorrow night Oklahoma State kicks off the 1988 football season. The big question is still -- can kick returning wizard Barry Sanders replace All-American Thurman Thomas in the backfield?" which was obviously pertinent back in the day but it's funny as hell nowadays From all the players I never got to see playing Barry is my favorite and it's not even close
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torgeaux posted:Jim Jensen. What position was he playing at the time?
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nerve posted:Brett Favre  Concurrently, the Steelers were in the Blitzburgh Cowher era, which was a fun time, but no one played football with Favre's level joy. Watching #4 play really made me love football
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Prob Takeo Spikes. I really liked Corey Dillon as well of course but I remember Takeo as my fav. Spikes being around for the early Palmer era is one of my favorite what ifs.
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Def. Everyone in this subforum should read "Slow Getting Up"
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some combination of patrick peterson/kerry rhodes/daryl washington (big oof at that last one). warner was good and i was vaguely aware of the jake plummer years as a kid but that defensive core really got me paying attention to football
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Eifert Posting posted:Def. Everyone in this subforum should read "Slow Getting Up" Seconding this. It’s a fairly short and an easy read, but a great look into the life of practice squad and depth type players.
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I just assume every team doctor is James Woods in Any Given Sunday?
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Eifert Posting posted:Def. Everyone in this subforum should read "Slow Getting Up" fartknocker posted:Seconding this. It’s a fairly short and an easy read, but a great look into the life of practice squad and depth type players. Thirded. It's a little meandering but you get a lot of interesting tidbits that you just don't hear anywhere else.
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Ray Lewis when he took his first victim, Eddie George
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Marion Barber, of all people? Dude was insane to watch in his prime.
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Shinjobi posted:Marion Barber, of all people? Dude was insane to watch in his prime. Obligatory greatest 2 yard run in the history of football https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaWbkIeG7qs
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Ths sheer brilliance of DeMarcus Ware was a sight to behold. He had a knack for making huge plays on third downs and late in games that I'm not sure I've seen from many other pass rushers. Shame those teams never accomplished much. Yes I was very happy for him when the Broncos won it all Tom Sellout fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jul 18, 2020 |
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Hot Diggity! posted:Here's a good topic, who's a player that made you love football? Robert Brooks was one of mine along with Antonio Freeman and Sterling Sharpe. Moss in ‘98. I was like 13 and even tho my dads side are all huge Vikings fans he’s the reason I started sitting down to actually watch games. TASTE THE PAIN!! posted:Randy Moss and the rest of the 98 Vikings Shibby a sexual elk fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Jul 18, 2020 |
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