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Most "badass" RBs of all time
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 5:09 pm
by racepug
My nominees: Bronko Nagurski, Earl Campbell, Walter Payton, Marion Motley, Jim Brown, Cookie Gilchrist, John Henry Johnson, Larry Csonka, Marshawn Lynch, Derrick Henry. By "badass" I guess I mean runners that you REALLY don't/didn't want to tangle with, unless you were a "badass" in your own right (such as a Dick Butkus or a Ray Lewis). Any other "nominees"? (I can think of a few others who are perhaps less well-known than those others: Boobie Clark, Pete Johnson, Jim Nance)
Re: Most "badass" RBs of all time
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 5:15 pm
by Brian wolf
Matt Snell, Billy Joe, Don Perkins, JIM TAYLOR, Eddie George, Corey Dillon, Jamal Lewis, Craig Heyward, Jerome Bettis, Hewritt Dixon, Jim Nance, Pete Johnson and more
Re: Most "badass" RBs of all time
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 5:35 pm
by RichardBak
Pound for pound, Bob "Hunchy" Hoernschemeyer was as tough as they came.
Re: Most "badass" RBs of all time
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 5:49 pm
by Brian wolf
Tony Latone, Steve Van Buren, Clarke Hinkle, Tom Rathman, Lorenzo Neal, Darryl Johnston ...
Re: Most "badass" RBs of all time
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 5:51 pm
by Brian wolf
Sam Cunningham, Brandon Jacobs, Jerry Hill ...
Re: Most "badass" RBs of all time
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:15 pm
by RichardBak
Pat Harder. He was a punishing blocker and did a number on Len Ford's face in a 1950 game. Ford missed the next nine weeks of the season while he got his jaw, nose, etc. put back together.
Re: Most "badass" RBs of all time
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:38 pm
by 74_75_78_79_
RichardBak wrote:Pound for pound, Bob "Hunchy" Hoernschemeyer was as tough as they came.
I need more (very much more) education on him! Sure-enough he
is the most "badass" pound-for-pound! But how about I offer up...
Danny Woodhead??
A "little" guy
breaking tackles as he did...
JIM TAYLOR, however, may end up the winner in the end with me! He just may.
Re: Most "badass" RBs of all time
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:48 pm
by Brian wolf
A big fan of Danny Woodhead, who could run between the tackles better than LaDanian Tomlinson.
I think Jim Taylor or Walter Payton were the baddest of RBs, though Gilchrist is up there as well ...
Re: Most "badass" RBs of all time
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:23 pm
by ChrisBabcock
To add to the above nominees, John Riggins.
Re: Most "badass" RBs of all time
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:46 pm
by JuggernautJ
I think I would go with Nagurski and Taylor as the baddest of the bad in this context.
(and, of course, Jim Brown)
Someone I don't really think of as a "badass" but who I definitely wouldn't want to try and tackle head-on is Roger Craig.
No way I would want any of that "high knee action" anywhere near my noggin.