The greatest?
Chuck Muncie passed today. (link)
I talked once with a guy who played against him in both college and the pros. He said: reputation and numbers aside, Muncie was the best back he ever played against.
posted by The Other Front at 4:03 PM
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There was a pretty good RB that played during the same years as Muncie: Walter Payton. Heard of him?
Other: Yeti - Subgenius hybrid.
I'm sorely tempted to put this when I'm allowed to "self identify"
This guy didn't mention Payton, so I assume he was pretty easy to tackle.
In all seriousness, Muncie was a freak by the standards of the time. Payton was listed at 5-10 / 200...Muncie was 6-3 / 225 and probably as fast as Walter. He had one game in college (Cal-Stanford '75) where he scored five touchdowns: three rushing, one receiving, and one throwing.
He developed a knees-high running style so that if you wanted to tackle him head-on you would basically get several hard knees to the face in the process.
In the pros, well...Archie Manning on his time with the Saints:
He could have been one of the all-time greats. He was that big and that fast... [But] he basically slept through every meeting. We’d break the huddle and I would just time it where I walked by him and told him exactly what he was going to do. I don’t know what he was doing during the week, but he wasn’t thinking about football.
Our loss.
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