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  • gumby73G gumby73

    Eric Dickerson has to be in that mix..no? Jamal Lewis got 2000 yards in a season..still a crazy number  

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #3

    @gumby73 said:

    Eric Dickerson has to be in that mix..no? Jamal Lewis got 2000 yards in a season..still a crazy number  

    Uhm, hell yes.  In fact, I had Dickerson written down when I made my list....but I forgot to type him in.  For Sure, thanks for catching my oops. 

    Also,   as it should be, and as expected, and as it was...the No 1. guy they identified to be included in the Top 100 in 100:

    Jim Brown.

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  • T TexasAg1969 wrote on
    #4

    Earl will be in the top 5 IMO. Crappy team and everyone keyed into stopping him. Didn't matter. Just look at one play starting at the 0 :43 mark

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  • T TexasAg1969

    Earl will be in the top 5 IMO. Crappy team and everyone keyed into stopping him. Didn't matter. Just look at one play starting at the 0 :43 mark

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #5

    @texasag1969 said:

    Earl will be in the top 5 IMO. Crappy team and everyone keyed into stopping him. Didn't matter. Just look at one play starting at the 0 :43 mark

    Yep....just goes to show what a tough choice whittling this down is.

  • The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #6

    Tonight they revealed who they chose as the Top 12 RBs of all time....and 2 of the Top Ten Coaches.  Here they are, and there are some surprises (again, the numbers are not rankings, just ordinals):

    1. Jim Brown

    2. Earl Campbell

    3. Dutch Clark    (one I did not see coming)

    4. Eric Dickerson

    5. Lenny Moore  (another surprise)

    6. Marion Motley

    7. Barry Sanders

    8. Gale Sayers

    9. OJ Simpson

    10 Emmit Smith

    11. Steve Van Buren ( another surprise)

    12. Walter Payton

    They did NOT select:  LaDanian Tomlinson,   Adrian Peterson, Marshall Faulk, Tony Dorsett, Curtis Martin, Bettis.  Fully half of all these players played  pretty much in the "pre-Super Bowl era"  or right at the very beginning...like Sayers

    Also...the two coaches that they chose were:

    Paul Brown

    Bill Belichick.   BB was on the program...he stated that everything he teaches football wise he learned from Paul Brown. 

    http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001079486/article/nfl-100-alltime-team-running-backs-revealed

    gumby73G 1 Reply
  • T TexasAg1969

    Earl will be in the top 5 IMO. Crappy team and everyone keyed into stopping him. Didn't matter. Just look at one play starting at the 0 :43 mark

    T TexasAg1969 wrote on
    #7

    I think I just gained 20 IQ points with Earl right behind the great Jim Brown.??

    @texasag1969 said:

    Earl will be in the top 5 IMO. Crappy team and everyone keyed into stopping him. Didn't matter.

  • T TexasAg1969

    I think I just gained 20 IQ points with Earl right behind the great Jim Brown.??

    @texasag1969 said:

    Earl will be in the top 5 IMO. Crappy team and everyone keyed into stopping him. Didn't matter.

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #8

    @texasag1969 said:

    I think I just gained 20 IQ points with Earl right behind the great Jim Brown.??

    Again I don’t think these are put in any particular order or rank. 

  • Dutch OvenD Dutch Oven wrote on
    #9

    https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CampEa00.htm

    Earl Campbell had three really good seasons - his first three seasons in the NFL - and a handful of mediocre ones. 

    I'm sorry, but he's a tad overrated and somewhat of an example of "style over substance". 

  • The GipperT The Gipper

    Tonight they revealed who they chose as the Top 12 RBs of all time....and 2 of the Top Ten Coaches.  Here they are, and there are some surprises (again, the numbers are not rankings, just ordinals):

    1. Jim Brown

    2. Earl Campbell

    3. Dutch Clark    (one I did not see coming)

    4. Eric Dickerson

    5. Lenny Moore  (another surprise)

    6. Marion Motley

    7. Barry Sanders

    8. Gale Sayers

    9. OJ Simpson

    10 Emmit Smith

    11. Steve Van Buren ( another surprise)

    12. Walter Payton

    They did NOT select:  LaDanian Tomlinson,   Adrian Peterson, Marshall Faulk, Tony Dorsett, Curtis Martin, Bettis.  Fully half of all these players played  pretty much in the "pre-Super Bowl era"  or right at the very beginning...like Sayers

    Also...the two coaches that they chose were:

    Paul Brown

    Bill Belichick.   BB was on the program...he stated that everything he teaches football wise he learned from Paul Brown. 

    http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001079486/article/nfl-100-alltime-team-running-backs-revealed

    gumby73G gumby73 wrote on
    #10

    @the-gipper said:

    3. Dutch Clark    (one I did not see coming)

    Dutch Oven  Fkqt.gif    do you see it coming now? ? I did not know the player or even such a guy exist   

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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #11

    First you can't have only 12 RBs to fairly cover 100 years without a lot of omissions it just can't be done. That's like 1 RB for each 8.3 years or a RB of each decade.

    But these lists are always quite subjective to begin with.

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  • gumby73G gumby73

    @the-gipper said:

    3. Dutch Clark    (one I did not see coming)

    Dutch Oven  Fkqt.gif    do you see it coming now? ? I did not know the player or even such a guy exist   

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #12

    @gumby73 said:

    Dutch Oven  Fkqt.gif    do you see it coming now? ? I did not know the player or even such a guy exist   

    Dutch Clark:

    I knew about him....

    But as an old timer, in that class,  I did not think he would get the nod over the likes of these RBs:  Ernie Nevers, Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski....or Jim Thorpe.   (I can't help but think that Thorpe will get on this list somewhere. 

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