This is SO Excellent:
"Let me tell you something. The only thing I miss about football, is about 5 seconds. 5 seconds in the huddle, right before you break and go up to the line of scrimmage. When you have five of the best offensive linemen who are in tune with you: Wayne Moore, Bob Keuchenberg, Jim Langer, Larry Little, and Norm Evans. And I'm looking across at them - this is the game where we are going 17-0, we are putting the final emphasis on a perfect season - and each one of them is looking at me going, 'run behind me', their mouthing the words - they can't talk because Griese's calling the play - and their all pointing to themselves goin' 'anything happens, drift to me.' And Bob Keuchenberg grabs me by the face mask and says, 'You better stick your helmet up my *** on this play 'cause we're going to the end zone.'
When you have people that intent on victory, you gotta just marvel. If I could go back for anything, I'd like to go back in a time machine just to live those five seconds and look in the eyes of those men, because that is the most confidence I've ever felt in my life about anything."
- Larry Csonka, from America's Game - talking about the Super Bowl game against the Redskins.
(if that doesn't get you fired up for some football, I don't know what will). That's one reason I love that era of the game (60's & 70's) over all others.
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Back when the men were men.
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Great quote man, thanks!
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Awesome!
When I was a kid, in Pop Warner or Little League football, I wore number 39.
I made sure my helmet had the bullhorn that Csonka wore.
I always wanted to play fullback or the one-back tailback.
And we named our first little puppy, a beagle, Zonky.
One of my favorite books was Always on the Run, by Csonka and Kiick.
Larry Csonka was who I wanted to be. He was the roughest, toughest, meanest, forearm-shiver man-in-the-world, and I LOVED him. The Golden Years!!!
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Man, that gave me a few goosebumps. Have to love Zonk. I remember Baumhauer saying that after practicing all week againsnt 3 All Pro's that games were a piece of cake. And Jack Tatum said Csonka was one of the few guys that he could never get a clean hit on; all knees and elbows.
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I knew exactly what it was going to be before I read it. That show is about 6 years old, and that always stuck with me.
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No flaming, though. I get the sentiment.Fin D likes this. -
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But, I don't completely agree. Remember, that was also an era when most players had to work part-time jobs in the off-season; and life-expectancy for football was pretty bad (as it is today). Most of the players of that era have had to work hard to make ends meet since then (that's fine as far as society goes - but given what popular stars in other venues or what owners were raking in at the time, well...). A player today of Zonk's calibre could potentially earn enough in 10 years to retire 10x over.
And, I like Finrunner's analogy. Sometimes we don't know the greatness of a moment until it is over for years. Then we realize, "that was the best moment right there."Fin D likes this. -
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Watch that elbow. Classic Zonk.
Trying to find a gif or vid of the run he had against the Cardinals where he lifted the defender off his feet on contact.Tone_E likes this. -
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Yeah, it was.. Here's the Youtube...
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39 is my all time fav dolphin for the same reason. After contact the other guy was getting up after being dusted. That's what happened when we were boys and you stuffed somebody into the ground and a cloud of dust puffed up like a bomb went off.
Tuck Roger goodell.Da 'Fins likes this.