OT: Sam Huff passed away.
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Guy dies and you post he wasn't good. What kind of A-hole are you?? What is the point of posting this??
Grew up with a lot of old timer Giants fans (they were a generation before me) that actually watched Huff play. They all were respectful of his play. Don't recall issues about whether he was overrated. Regardless, may he rest in peace.
Damn. RIP.
He was a great broadcaster for the Redskins in the seventies and eighties and into the nineties, during all the glory years of the Hogs. He and Sonny Jurgensen were hilarious; Frank Herzog was there in the booth to settle them down and tell us what was going on.
Rip, Sam...
He was a great broadcaster for the Redskins in the seventies and eighties and into the nineties, during all the glory years of the Hogs. He and Sonny Jurgensen were hilarious; Frank Herzog was there in the booth to settle them down and tell us what was going on.
Rip, Sam...
Jim Brown often said Sam was as tough as he ever played against.
Jim Taylor also made a similar comment
Jim Taylor also made a similar comment
The 1960 TV broadcast "The Violent World of Sam Huff" was one of the milestones in pro football's rise to be America's most popular sport.
I’ve never heard him equated to Lawrence Taylor, other than to acknowledge they’re both Hall Of Fame worthy NY Giant linebackers.
You too are a Jack-*** for your ridiculous observation that never takes place
LT couldn’t play middle linebacker the way SH did.
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Sorry that's my story and I'm sticking.
Huff was equated all the time with Taylor. Tom Landry's 4-3 defense was one of the first more sophisticated defenses that kept blockers off Huff and let him play as a rover - used as a way to stop Jim Brown. LT was used in somewhat similar way. That's where comparisons stopped
I'll still listen to you on baseball
Sam Huff never lined up outside a tackle in his life, SH’s job was run stopper.
LT’s job was not run game stopper, that was the job of Harry, LT’s job was sac the QB.
Not remotely similar in any way
Kinda odd that the guy dies and pretty early in the thread another guy that had nothing to do with huff is brought up.
rip sam
rip sam
NEVER heard that. Closest was someone talking about great NYG linebackers and Huff and LT were included, along with Carson. NEVER a direct comparison. And given that Huff played MLB and LT outside someone would have to be brain dead to make a direct 1 on 1 comparison.
Thank you, E5FDNY! That captured it perfectly, and showed how Sam Huff was beloved in the Washington sports community.
Also, pretty cool that he unretired n 1969 to play for Vince Lombardi's Redskins...
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Many of us watched basically every game LT ever played.
Not once did I hear an analyst or color man equate or compare him to Sam Huff, and somehow ashoken is tired of it…lol
The only comparison is the two are worthy NY Giant hall of famers.
Sam knocked Jim Taylor’s teeth out.
Not once did I hear an analyst or color man equate or compare him to Sam Huff, and somehow ashoken is tired of it…lol
The only comparison is the two are worthy NY Giant hall of famers.
Sam knocked Jim Taylor’s teeth out.
I use to love watching Jim Brown go against Sam Huff. Both were great players.
As I said Huff was good, but thought that contemporary middle LB's Joe Schmidt of the Lions, Chuck Bednerik of the Eagles, & Ray Nitschke of the Packers were better. Obviously matter of opinion.
I think what helped Sam were two things:
- where he played
- along with his skills he was also a personality
The game was different in 80s in that passing rules were changed and QB and passing became more dominant. LT was in a 3-4 and not a 4-3. But the similarity was in that both players had defenses specifically designed around them to increase freedom and mobility. Parcells would give LT freedom to line-up as his instincts allowed (including dropping back in passing defense). Lots of times Carson didn't need to make a tackle in the middle because LT had already crashed around end and tackled RB before he got to Carson. Of course another similarity was that Huff was considered a star of the defense and was on Newsweek cover.. The comparison were begging to be made, and often Huff himself was being interviewed about Taylor. Huff was a great player in his day but to me most LBs from that era look like slow bar bouncers
Lawrence Taylor Highlights - Run Defense
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...and Taylor snapped Theismann's leg in half. Doesn't mean either was great because of that.
As I said earlier nobody put fear in offenses like LT. Belichick mentions that all the time:
“Taylor had the ability, when he stood on the end of the line of scrimmage, which is where he played as an outside linebacker/defensive end, he could just tell, it didn’t matter who the person was, or what the play was, or anything else, he could just tell by the look of the opponent on the other side of the line of scrimmage who was going to block him, and that was by how scared they were.”
Belichick said Taylor knew offensive linemen feared his ability to get past him and could read that as the lineman got into his stance.
“When that tackle was looking at him like, ‘If I’m one split-second late out of my stance, if I am a few inches off on my angle or step, this guy’s going to be behind me.’ They’d have that scared to death look. And Taylor could just tell by looking at the guy whether the guy was blocking him or not,”
I suggest you never post obituaries again if your going to belittle the person's accomplishments as part of the announcement.
Schmidt, Bednarik and Nitschke are all in the Hall with Sam. They're all in pretty good company with each other, at the very least. Wow, showing my age here! Schmidt was actually my favorite, he played for my Lions. Boy, can I pick heartbreak teams, or what lol! RIP Sam. Toughest linebacker I think I ever saw, when I was old enough to know what I as watching to a degree, was Butkus. But, his knees gave out on him pretty early.
minor correction: it was the Time magazine cover. It was 1959, when Time was still the most prestigious newsweekly. http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19591130,00.html
Lion's were no pushovers back then. Schmidt, Alex Karras, Dick "Night Train" Lane, Dick LeBeau, & of course Bobby Lane among others.
Thanks, rudad. Ah, yes, my Lions! Believe it or not, the first "date" I ever went on, I took some unfortunate girl to see "Paper Lion" lol. Needless to say, there was no second date! Alex Karras is perhaps, my favorite player of all time...really a great player. And, he was the author of one of the great lines in the history on MNF..."And, there's Otis Sistrunk from the University of Mars"! Alex finally threw in the towel, I think when the Lions finally made the playoffs one year... and lost to the Cowboys, 5-0 (yes, that's right, 5-0!). Adopted the Lions, the Cubs and Rutgers as my teams as a kid. Not a lot of celebrations there...but I love(d) them all.
You are welcome runru. Karras had a TV career as well, as I'm sure you remember. Night Train Lane was one of the all time greats IMO.