RIP **** Butkus (1 Viewer)

[Hot Sauce Guy]

RIP Mr Butkus

Apparently the swear filter prevents me from sharing this sad news, and breaks the link.

 

[Smack Tripper]

Before my time, and as a Giants fan I'm compelled to say LT, but Butkus is the only legitimate name in that discussion of best defensive player of all time. Certainly the best middle linebacker ever, RIP to a guy with a life well lived.

Read his wiki, amazing to see the Bears nickel and dimed him causing a rift.

 

[Chaka]

That's sad. Such a fearsome player.

 

[massraider]

Before Brady, I figured Jim Brown #1, and this guy #2

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

That's sad. Such a fearsome player.

80 seems young-ish.

 

[Smack Tripper]

That's sad. Such a fearsome player.

80 seems young-ish.

Triple bypass 23 yard ago, how many people who had that surgery in 2000 are still kicking around

 

[JohnnyU]

Man among boys. I bet he really hated how they have sissified the game in a lot of ways.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

In addition to being a great player, one of the best names in all sports.

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

Legendary

 

[JohnnyU]

Before Brady, I figured Jim Brown #1, and this guy #2

Brown is still #1.

 

[dickey moe]

A legend. RIP

 

[bro1ncos]

Football Player!!

RIP

 

[CHEF]

RIP Legend

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

Just ferocious. Good compilation here

 

[JohnnyU]

The most fearsome / menacing tackler in history. Also had 22 career interceptions. Only two winning seasons and no playoffs, but came to play every Sunday. I have the privilege to say I got to watch him live on TV in the 60s and 70s. Other than Mike Curtis he was my favorite LB and that’s only because I am a Colts fan.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

Legends must fall at some point
RIP

 

[JetMaxx]

80 and despite a very violent NFL career that resulted in many lower body surgeries, there is no evidence he suffered from CTE. We have no idea how he supplemented his body but he played prior to the steroid and HGH era. Perhaps a correlation.

 

[kwille]

Dude was a tough SOB and a great player.

 

[Rubi]

Somewhere in Heaven there are the heads of running backs rolling down the football fields of eternity.

 

[Godsbrother]

Great player. Glad I was old enough to see him play

 

[BobbyLayne]

this play is hilarious

Honestly I was a little boy when he was on the back half of his career. Have a lot more memories of reading about him than watching him play (I devoured NFL history books in junior high.) Loved his Miller Lite commercials with Bubba Smith.

Ferocious, volent tackler. Played on terrible teams throughout his career but what a great competitor. Such a legend, synonymous with the Monsters of Midway on the same level as Halas-McCaskey family.

 

[Boston]

Legend...icon...larger than life...whatever other word/phrase that describes someone who is truly part of the history/fabric of their sport both on and off the field...you have to be a certain age to truly understand how revered/feared he was...his name is more than a name as it meant something more when you heard it because when you heard the word Butkus you knew it meant tough, mean and intense...I don't think I ever heard anyone say anything bad about him...almost as impressive as his football career was the list of TV shows he appeared in...he was in episodes of Emergency, McMillan and Wife, Police Story, the Six Million Dollar Man, The Rockford Files, Rich Man Poor Man, Wonder Woman, Taxi, Fantasy Island, Vegas, Magnum PI, Matt Houston, The Greatest American Hero, Simon and Simon, The Love Boat. Murder She Wrote, Night Court, Matlock, Growing Pains, Kate & Allie, MacGyver and Coach...not sure anyone will ever come close to that line-up...finally, the fact Rocky Balboa named his dog after him is all you really need to know.

 

[rockaction]

RIP

 

[johnnyboy8102]

RIP

 

[FairWarning]

The Bears won the title in 1963. Two years later, they have the 3rd and 4th picks in the draft. They select Butkus and Sayers. Bears played no postseason games with them.

 

[JohnnyU]

The Bears won the title in 1963. Two years later, they have the 3rd and 4th picks in the draft. They select Butkus and Sayers. Bears played no postseason games with them.

That will happen when you have the likes of Billy Wade, Rudy Bukich, Jack Concannon, and Bobby Douglass as your QB.

 

[SoBeDad]

The Bears won the title in 1963. Two years later, they have the 3rd and 4th picks in the draft. They select Butkus and Sayers. Bears played no postseason games with them.

That will happen when you have the likes of Billy Wade, Rudy Bukich, Jack Concannon, and Bobby Douglass as your QB.

And the other teams have Tarkenton, Unitas, Jurgensen, Starr, and Brodie.

 

[Bankerguy]

THE OG LB.

Thank god for filters, saving us seeing the word Richard.

 

[Boston]

The Bears won the title in 1963. Two years later, they have the 3rd and 4th picks in the draft. They select Butkus and Sayers. Bears played no postseason games with them.

That will happen when you have the likes of Billy Wade, Rudy Bukich, Jack Concannon, and Bobby Douglass as your QB.

Back in the day when you bought a pack of football cards I think 1/2 of every pack was either Bobby Douglass and/or Greg Landry.

 

[Boston]

The Legend of Dick Butkus

**** Butkus was a linebacker for the Chicago Bears from 1965 to 1973. He was drafted by the Bears with the 3rd overall pick in the 1965 NFL Draft. He was ind...

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Heard a clip with Urlacher on the radio yesterday...he said there will never be another **** Butkus because the way he played is now illegal...I had forgotten that he was also part of those classic Miller Lite commercials:

Miller Lite, 1984 09 02, Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus polo

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dick butkus miller lite commercial 1983 with bubba smith

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[FairWarning]

The Bears won the title in 1963. Two years later, they have the 3rd and 4th picks in the draft. They select Butkus and Sayers. Bears played no postseason games with them.

That will happen when you have the likes of Billy Wade, Rudy Bukich, Jack Concannon, and Bobby Douglass as your QB.

Back in the day when you bought a pack of football cards I think 1/2 of every pack was either Bobby Douglass and/or Greg Landry.

Mike Phipps here.

 

[Boston]

The Bears won the title in 1963. Two years later, they have the 3rd and 4th picks in the draft. They select Butkus and Sayers. Bears played no postseason games with them.

That will happen when you have the likes of Billy Wade, Rudy Bukich, Jack Concannon, and Bobby Douglass as your QB.

Back in the day when you bought a pack of football cards I think 1/2 of every pack was either Bobby Douglass and/or Greg Landry.

Mike Phipps here.

100%...I think Landry, Douglass and Phipps are actually the same person.

 

[FairWarning]

The Bears won the title in 1963. Two years later, they have the 3rd and 4th picks in the draft. They select Butkus and Sayers. Bears played no postseason games with them.

That will happen when you have the likes of Billy Wade, Rudy Bukich, Jack Concannon, and Bobby Douglass as your QB.

Back in the day when you bought a pack of football cards I think 1/2 of every pack was either Bobby Douglass and/or Greg Landry.

Mike Phipps here.

100%...I think Landry, Douglass and Phipps are actually the same person.

all three were on the Bears, so you may be on to something.

 

[Boston]

The Bears won the title in 1963. Two years later, they have the 3rd and 4th picks in the draft. They select Butkus and Sayers. Bears played no postseason games with them.

That will happen when you have the likes of Billy Wade, Rudy Bukich, Jack Concannon, and Bobby Douglass as your QB.

Back in the day when you bought a pack of football cards I think 1/2 of every pack was either Bobby Douglass and/or Greg Landry.

Mike Phipps here.

100%...I think Landry, Douglass and Phipps are actually the same person.

all three were on the Bears, so you may be on to something.

I forgot Landry had a season with the Bears (as well as three with the Colts)...always think of him as a Lion...also, for a name everyone remembers from that era his stats are far worse than I thought they were.

 

[FairWarning]

The Bears won the title in 1963. Two years later, they have the 3rd and 4th picks in the draft. They select Butkus and Sayers. Bears played no postseason games with them.

That will happen when you have the likes of Billy Wade, Rudy Bukich, Jack Concannon, and Bobby Douglass as your QB.

Back in the day when you bought a pack of football cards I think 1/2 of every pack was either Bobby Douglass and/or Greg Landry.

Mike Phipps here.

100%...I think Landry, Douglass and Phipps are actually the same person.

all three were on the Bears, so you may be on to something.

I forgot Landry has a season with the Bears (as well as three with the Colts)...always think of him as a Lion...also, for a name everyone remembers from that era his stats are far worse than I thought they were.

Look at the 1971 NFL season page on football reference, it’s amazing how the stats have evolved from then to now.

 

[Craig_MiamiFL]

RIP Deck

Legend

 

[JohnnyU]

The Bears won the title in 1963. Two years later, they have the 3rd and 4th picks in the draft. They select Butkus and Sayers. Bears played no postseason games with them.

That will happen when you have the likes of Billy Wade, Rudy Bukich, Jack Concannon, and Bobby Douglass as your QB.

Back in the day when you bought a pack of football cards I think 1/2 of every pack was either Bobby Douglass and/or Greg Landry.

Hell, I remember that!!! Damn, I'm an old fart to remember that and you are too, LOL.

 

[JohnnyU]

The Bears won the title in 1963. Two years later, they have the 3rd and 4th picks in the draft. They select Butkus and Sayers. Bears played no postseason games with them.

That will happen when you have the likes of Billy Wade, Rudy Bukich, Jack Concannon, and Bobby Douglass as your QB.

Back in the day when you bought a pack of football cards I think 1/2 of every pack was either Bobby Douglass and/or Greg Landry.

Mike Phipps here.

100%...I think Landry, Douglass and Phipps are actually the same person.

Kind of like multiple aliases at FBGs.

 

[JohnnyU]

The Bears won the title in 1963. Two years later, they have the 3rd and 4th picks in the draft. They select Butkus and Sayers. Bears played no postseason games with them.

That will happen when you have the likes of Billy Wade, Rudy Bukich, Jack Concannon, and Bobby Douglass as your QB.

Back in the day when you bought a pack of football cards I think 1/2 of every pack was either Bobby Douglass and/or Greg Landry.

Mike Phipps here.

100%...I think Landry, Douglass and Phipps are actually the same person.

all three were on the Bears, so you may be on to something.

I forgot Landry had a season with the Bears (as well as three with the Colts)...always think of him as a Lion...also, for a name everyone remembers from that era his stats are far worse than I thought they were.

First Colts game I ever attended was in September 1979 in Cleveland. Bert Jones was hurt (as usual) and Landry was the Colts QB. I remember when the Colts blocked a punt for a TD and I was up yelling in glee, but then a whiskey bottle hit me in the head and bounced on the concrete without breaking. I didn't say a word the rest of the game. Colts kicker Toni Linhart missed 3 field goals and the Colts lost 13-10. I remember how excited I was as I entered the stadium. Seeing the Colts in the blue uniforms made it even more vivid. We had 50 yard line seats, but too low IMO, about 3 rows up. I went with a life long buddy and drove my piece of crap Chevy Vega station wagon. I was 20 he was 17. We drove from Lexington Ky to Cleveland. Got a hotel downtown Cleveland. I woke up in the morning and Gary had placed a joint in my mouth while sleeping and took a picture. There is another part of the story but I can't repeat in this forum.

Short video of the game highlights. Glad it is on YouTube. I just watched for the first time.

1979 Colts at Browns Game 3

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[Boston]

The Bears won the title in 1963. Two years later, they have the 3rd and 4th picks in the draft. They select Butkus and Sayers. Bears played no postseason games with them.

That will happen when you have the likes of Billy Wade, Rudy Bukich, Jack Concannon, and Bobby Douglass as your QB.

Back in the day when you bought a pack of football cards I think 1/2 of every pack was either Bobby Douglass and/or Greg Landry.

Mike Phipps here.

100%...I think Landry, Douglass and Phipps are actually the same person.

all three were on the Bears, so you may be on to something.

I forgot Landry had a season with the Bears (as well as three with the Colts)...always think of him as a Lion...also, for a name everyone remembers from that era his stats are far worse than I thought they were.

First Colts game I ever attended was in September 1979 in Cleveland. Bert Jones was hurt (as usual) and Landry was the Colts QB. I remember when the Colts blocked a punt for a TD and I was up yelling in glee, but then a whiskey bottle it me in the head and bounced on the concrete without breaking. I didn't say a word the rest of the game. Colts kicker Toni Linhart missed 3 field goals and the Colts lost 13-10. I remember how excited I was as I entered the stadium. Seeing the Colts in the blue uniforms made it even more vivid. We had 50 yard line seats, but too low IMO, about 3 rows up. I went with a life long buddy and drove my piece of crap Chevy Vega station wagon. I was nineteen, he was sixteen. We drove from Lexington Ky to Cleveland. Got a hotel downtown Cleveland. I woke up in the morning and Gary had placed a joint in my mouth while sleeping and took a picture.

This is one of my all-time favorite posts...could be the plot for Dazed and Confused part 2.

 

[Da Guru]

Just ferocious. Good compilation here

Great player, just as effective as a intimidator.

Would have been suspended multiple times in today's game. When you watch games from the 60s, 70s, and 80s head-to-head, clothesline and horse collar tackles were all legal.