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Two LSU Tigers and two Saints on new NFL Hall of Fame ballot.....
Posted on 1/6/17 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 1/6/17 at 3:23 pm
Two former Tigers - Alan Faneca and Kevin Mawae and
two former Saints - Sam Mills and Morten Andersen, are on this year's ballot for the NFL Hall of Fame.
Hopefully one or more of them will join Jim Finks, Rickey Jackson, Doug Atkins, Willie Roaf, and LSU's Jimmy Taylor, Y.A. Tittle, and Steve Van Buren in Canton.
Along with others who were affiliated with the Saints in the Hall: Earl Campbell, ken stabler, Hank Stram,
And future Hall of Famer Drew Brees and maybe one day Patrick Peterson.
two former Saints - Sam Mills and Morten Andersen, are on this year's ballot for the NFL Hall of Fame.
Hopefully one or more of them will join Jim Finks, Rickey Jackson, Doug Atkins, Willie Roaf, and LSU's Jimmy Taylor, Y.A. Tittle, and Steve Van Buren in Canton.
Along with others who were affiliated with the Saints in the Hall: Earl Campbell, ken stabler, Hank Stram,
And future Hall of Famer Drew Brees and maybe one day Patrick Peterson.
Posted on 1/6/17 at 3:49 pm to bama will rise again
SEC has done pretty well in that respect:
Taylor, Tittle, Van Buren, Faneca, Mawae
Starr, Namath, E. Smith, Doug Atkins, Tarkenton?,
Hannah, O Newsome?
Know I am forgetting a lot.......
Taylor, Tittle, Van Buren, Faneca, Mawae
Starr, Namath, E. Smith, Doug Atkins, Tarkenton?,
Hannah, O Newsome?
Know I am forgetting a lot.......
Posted on 1/6/17 at 4:10 pm to MetryTyger
Nice, Metry! I hope all 4 make it in someday.
Posted on 1/6/17 at 4:13 pm to MetryTyger
Don Hutson, Ken Stabler, Dwight Stevenson, Derrick Thomas
Pretty crazy that La Tech has as many as LSU and Southern only trails them by one. The NFL will find your arse if you can play
Pretty crazy that La Tech has as many as LSU and Southern only trails them by one. The NFL will find your arse if you can play
This post was edited on 1/6/17 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 1/6/17 at 4:16 pm to Riseupfromtherubble
Phuck how did I forget Stabler and Thomas!
Hutson was an oldie but a goodie - same era as Van Buren....
Hutson was an oldie but a goodie - same era as Van Buren....
Posted on 1/6/17 at 4:24 pm to MetryTyger
Doug fricking Atkins was the gooniest of goons.
Even Butkus was scared of him
Even Butkus was scared of him
quote:
was not just on the field that Atkins cut a giant swath. He rumbled around training camps--armed and accompanied by his pit bull Rebel--through bars, and over anyone who got in his way.
Atkins would arrive at training camp each summer packing two .44-caliber Magnums, several derringers and a shotgun. Sometimes, when the Saints trained in San Diego, he fired his shotgun at destroyers cruising off the coast, claiming that coach George Allen was spying on the team from the ships.
He once silenced some noisy rookies in the room above him by firing a gun into the overhang outside their window.
"I needed my sleep," Atkins said. "I was old. I came in at curfew and needed to rest up. They wanted to keep that music playing so I just quieted them down."
Atkins was no fan of rock 'n' roll. His first day in the Saints locker room, he turned off a player's radio that was tuned to a top 40 station.
"He said, 'We're going to listen to American music here because we're all Americans,"' Ariail remembered. "Then he put on a Johnny Cash song and everybody listened to country and western the rest of the years. There weren't any complaints."
Rebel was Atkins' constant companion, jogging with him and sleeping in his locker during practice. He even went with Atkins to a little French Quarter bar.
"Doug would sit on one stool and Rebel would sit on another and they would get drunk together," Ariail said.
Even after Atkins decided he was tired of looking at his picture on the wall of the bar and shot it down, he and Rebel were welcome.
"He liked to drink, but I never saw it bother him," said Joe Impastato, who was his regular waiter at a French Quarter restaurant where Atkins dined after Saints games. "I'd ice down a quart of gin for his martinis and about a half-dozen bottles of beer, then he'd have a few Grand Marniers and walk out of there perfectly straight.""
Posted on 1/6/17 at 4:25 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Yep, had Hannah listed. Remember him from '73 Sugar Bowl I think?
was Ozzie Newsome ever inducted ?
was Ozzie Newsome ever inducted ?
Posted on 1/6/17 at 4:26 pm to MetryTyger
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SEC has done pretty well in that respect:
Taylor, Tittle, Van Buren, Faneca, Mawae
Starr, Namath, E. Smith, Doug Atkins, Tarkenton?,
Hannah, O Newsome?
Know I am forgetting a lot.......
Reggie White brah
Posted on 1/6/17 at 4:56 pm to MetryTyger
Nah, Gault didn't make it. But Manning and Witten are gonna be 1st ballot inductees.
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