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Related: About this forumDick Butkus
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OAITW r.2.0
(28,263 posts)Not sure he'd have the skill set to compete today, though.
ProfessorGAC
(69,745 posts)...every season he played (9) and led his team in tackles 8 times!
As you might expect, there has been a lot of Butkus discussion on Chicago sportsradio today.
And then there's this from another famous tough guy:
Diamond_Dog
(34,546 posts)on the NFL broadcast tonight. Or maybe I missed something?
rsdsharp
(10,098 posts)Tom Landry developed the 4-3 defense as defensive coordinator of the New York Giants. Sam Huff was the Giants middle linebacker, and Landry built the defense around him. There is no 4-3 without the middle linebacker.
Bill George was a Hall-of-Famer, and deservedly so, but Huff was the first middle linebacker, in the first 4-3 defense, and his Giants destroyed the Bears in the 1956 championship game. Huff was also the subject of the 1960 documentary The Violent World of Sam Huff.