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Best defensive nicknames from the 60/70s. Extra points by naming the players.
You have:
1. Doomsday I. from 69-73
1a. Doomsday II, from 75 on
2. The Purple People Eaters
3. The Fearsome Foursome/
4. The Steel Curtain.
Mine is Doomsday 1. What they did to Bob Griese in the Super Bowl should be illegal. Bo Lilly, Jethro Pugh, George Andre and Larry Cole. If they would've had an Offense in 1970 they would've beaten the Colts also. Dam you Craig Morton
Dallas, Dallas, Minnesota, La Rams, PITTSBURG.
I'll give you the Fearsome foursome
Roses Grier. Lamar Lundy, Merlin Olson and Deacon Jones.
1a. ed too tall jones, randy white, harvey martin, Golden richards??/ JUST KIDDING ON GR.Quote:
Originally Posted by parabrave
2 alan pgage Carl eller?
3 merlin olsen deacon jones
4 mean joe lc greenwood. loved jack lambert and mel blount. of course donnie shell.although none of them played DL. othger than mean joe and lc. John Mitchell?
No cheating here.
Don't forget Wrongway Jim Marshall dor the Vikes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Noxdog
I hated the Steelers back then. No body could beat them. Today those 70's Steeler teams are my favorite. I miss those days when they played because they just played football. You didn't have all these drama queens.
Although I hated the Steelers back then I always liked the steel curtain. LC Greenwood was a steel curtain member and he was from Canton Miss.
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The Dome Patrol
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The Killer Bees
white guy. #77
Steel Curtain Joe Greene, Ernie Holmes, LC Greenwood (from Canton), Dwight White were the front four
Best nickname, hands down, is the Chinese Bandits at LSU in the 50's. The band still plays their fanfare on every LSU defensive stop. So it still lives today. Great traditionQuote:
Originally Posted by parabrave
Bulldog Blitz
As a GA kid, I was a fan of the Gritz Blitz Falcons of ?77 - Jerry Glanville was DC. Claude Humphrey was the big man on that one. Typical Falcons - gave up only 9.2 points a game and went 7-7.
Shout out to the Junkyard Dawgs under Erk Russell and the Black Watch at GT with Pat Swilling and Ted Roof
Fun Bunch were redskins receiving corpsQuote:
Originally Posted by Indndawg
And Tommy Nobis just died a few weeks ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg
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and my personal fave, "The Doomsday Defense". Don't forget "The Monsters of the Midway" and "11 Angry Men".......
That deserves a reputation point, WHO DAT! +1Quote:
Originally Posted by Schultzy
17 the Dirty Birds! WHO DAT! +1 You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to BrunswickDawg againQuote:
Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg
I don't know how old you are, but Eddie Ray fullback for the Falcons 72-74 is a friend of mine. He's from my hometown. Vicksburg, Ms.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg
Pro I loved “The MAD STORK”...aka Ted Hendricks / Baltimore Colts
Best trash statement never verified but had to be incredible was Johnnie Cooks walking up and whispering a sweet nothing in the ear of the Miami Hurricane long snapper.....then watch it sail over the north end zone fence IF I remember correctly.....been a long time but still one of the GREATEST DOG game ever played......
I'm sure that would offend some today. The Bandits and the Chinese/Quote:
Originally Posted by Spiderman
It was actually just a couple of days ago. I can?t speak highly enough of Nobis. Selfless man who used his connection with the Falcons to enhance 1000s of lives thru the Tommy Nobis Center in Marietta doing job training and job placement for people with disabilities. Started it back in the mid 70s, and is still doing great things.Quote:
Originally Posted by parabrave
Don't know his nickname but Dick Butkus was as tough as they have ever come.Quote:
Originally Posted by parabrave
Monsters of the MidwayQuote:
Originally Posted by the59dawg