🏈 Favorite players of the past

[TidertillIdie]

With the season soon to start I am getting excited for some Football. I've been watching old games (late 60'-early 80's). I have noticed something, some of the best plays were done by "no names' during some of the biggest games or situations in games. So that got me to thinking, what are your favorite players, not the big names...Namath, Stabler, EJ, Marty, Bennett, etc. but the guys that were just the role player that did their job and didn't grab the headlines. I have a few but I would like to see your list first.

 

[JoshB]

Julio and Shaun Alexander are my favorite players of all time.

 

[jdpas29]

Derrick thomas, Shaun alexander,

 

[TidertillIdie]

Those are good names, but I am talking about the guys that played a role and did there job...Billy Jackson on the '78 team, Steve Busky on the '92 team, or a Calvin Culliver from the '73 team. These are not household names but did their job for The Team to win.

 

[RollTideRandy]

Busky is good one and I was going to mention him. Also from 1992, don't forget Jeremy Nunley, who played two seasons in the NFL but I wouldn't consider him a "Big" name. He stepped in for James Gregory (who Coach Stallings says was our only *major* injury for that season) for the SEC championship and Sugar Bowl at Nose Tackle and got the job done. Nunley basically was listed as back-up for all four starting defensive linemen that year. Last year we won a national title with about ten really good defensive linemen. In 1992, we won then title with only five (Curry, Copeland, Gregory, Damien Jefferies, and Nunley).

 

[rammerjammer]

Clay Whitehurst, Chad Key, Will Oakley, Sam Collins.

 

[PCRammer]

Im 43 so I really don't remember any players until the early 80's. From then I'd say Walter Lewis is the earliest name I remember really liking as a kid. From that point of course DT is my all time fav. Since then other notables to me have been Marvin Constant, Freddie Roach, Julio and Fluke (I too am a Foley Alum), TRich, Ragland.

And of course the baddest MF-in kicker in the history of football Lane Bearden. Anyone remember him always trying to lay guys out during kick-offs?

 

[rammerjammer]

And of course the baddest MF-in kicker in the history of football Lane Bearden. Anyone remember him always trying to lay guys out during kick-offs?

I remember that joker punting with a torn ACL.......props to a sho nuff bad ass.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Those are good names, but I am talking about the guys that played a role and did there job...Billy Jackson on the '78 team, Steve Busky on the '92 team, or a Calvin Culliver from the '73 team. These are not household names but did their job for The Team to win.

I'm feeling it. Willie Shelby, 1974 at RB, Terry Davis, first wishbone QB and played incredibly against mighty USC in his first start. Wilbur Jackson, 1973 era. Great spin move long before Eddie Lacy

 

[bamachine]

Got beat to the Bearden pick. Walter Lewis and Joey Jones are two I recall from my earlier days of listening to Forney call games on the radio. Neither were huge names nationally but both put it all out there on the line.