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Dick Butkus.
Football player.
By the time my football awareness was full blown (late 60’s when I was 13/14) his knees were shot. He had lost the lateral speed but still owned the middle like no one has before or since. Didn’t get much of the Bears on TV in TX or CA because they just didn’t win (2 damn winning seasons with him is still incomprehensible to me) but when they were on TV I watched. Because he mattered. Only guy I would ever consider rating above him is LT but it’s arguable.Great watch......!
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By the time my football awareness was full blown (late 60’s when I was 13/14) his knees were shot. He had lost the lateral speed but still owned the middle like no one has before or since. Didn’t get much of the Bears on TV in TX or CA because they just didn’t win (2 damn winning seasons with him is still incomprehensible to me) but when they were on TV I watched. Because he mattered. Only guy I would ever consider rating above him is LT but it’s arguable.
I still think of him as the best linebacker ever. A beast among men. The funny thing is that after football he became a truly nice and gentle man. RIPRIP
Maybe the best football player to never make it to the playoffs.
And a moderately successful actorI still think of him as the best linebacker ever. A beast among men. The funny thing is that after football he became a truly nice and gentle man. RIP
He was prolly always a kind and amicable man, aside from when playing football.I still think of him as the best linebacker ever. A beast among men. The funny thing is that after football he became a truly nice and gentle man. RIP
He was prolly always a kind and amicable man, aside from when playing football.
I never got to see him play, but have always had nothing but respect for him.
It’s not like he was Ray Lewis or LT.