Barry Sanders

Discussion in 'Sports' started by The Dooz, Feb 11, 2015.

  1. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

    You misspelled "Bill Clinton".

    Hey-O!
     
  2. The Dooz

    The Dooz Super Moderator

    I would counter that with his 5.0 ypa.
     
  3. droski

    droski Traffic Criminal

    as I've suggested. if you are an OC do you want the guy who goes:

    4, 6, 3, 7

    or the guy who goes

    -5, 20, -3, 8

    I'm guessing most OCs would pick #1.

    once again when talking about who is the GOAT.
     
  4. The Dooz

    The Dooz Super Moderator

    I think you have to weigh all the criteria when you consider best ever.

    We didn't compare how he stacks up to others, but Barry, over his career, averaged:

    1500 per season
    100 per game
    .75 TDs per game

    He also carried the ball just over 3000 times and fumbled 41 times. Total. Of those 41 fumbles he lost 13. 13 fumbles in ten years. Like I said, I don't where that stacks up, but that pretty [dadgum] impressive.

    That's just a few of things we looked at to draw our conclusion.
     
  5. The Dooz

    The Dooz Super Moderator

    Does it matter if he's posting the stats I mentioned above per season?
     
  6. droski

    droski Traffic Criminal

    jim brown averaged 5.2 yards per carry, 104.3 yards per game, .90 tds a game, and 1400 yards a season despite playing fewer games a season.
     
  7. dknash

    dknash Chieftain

    OJ averages 2.1 Class B felonies per year.

    #GOAT
     
  8. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    Off topic, but did he ever find out who really killed his ex-wife? I know he was searching high and low.
     
  9. The Dooz

    The Dooz Super Moderator

    I'm with Huffman on Jim Brown.

    No doubt Barry faced the stiffer competition. And his team was shit.
     
  10. droski

    droski Traffic Criminal

    his teams made the playoffs 5 times. I don't remember jim brown being surrounded by hall of famers either.
     
  11. zero-sum

    zero-sum New Member

    Yes it is. By any standard.

    He was / is fun to watch. An amazing player. And when finally he grew tired of the culture of losing he ended it on his terms, I respect that.

    SN: Less than 1,500 yds which easily he could have achieved and then some but he declined and I too respect his gesture to Payton.
     
  12. zero-sum

    zero-sum New Member

    Yes, every time he gazes upon his reflection or peers into a mirror
     
  13. kmf600

    kmf600 Energy vampire

    Arian Foster best RB ever.


    VFL
     
  14. NYY

    NYY Super Moderator

    If I need one yard for my life, give the ball to a healthy Earl Campbell.

    And I know that isn't what the OP question is about.
     
  15. MWR

    MWR Contributor

    The "Boz" might agree. I can hear Boz now, "Don't worry guys, I've got this. Bring it, Jackson. You ain't got nothing."

    [video=youtube;lSjllemuOh0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSjllemuOh0[/video]
     
  16. Dick Huffman

    Dick Huffman Guest

    He played on some very good teams. Remember, he joined the Browns at the tail end of their historic run, played the first part of his career for Brown, and was on some strong units his latter years in the League.
     
  17. droski

    droski Traffic Criminal

    Neither of their teams ever won more than one playoff game. Detroit made the playoffs 5 times. They were hardly ojs bills.
     
  18. Low Country Vol

    Low Country Vol Contributor

    No team in the NFL won more than one game pre-Super Bowl era. There was no NFL playoff format when Jim Brown was in the NFL. The NFL prior to the first Super Bowl era was much like MLB of that time. The winner of the west and east conference would play for the championship. The Browns conference 1st place finish in 1964 resulted in an NFL championship against the Colts in 1964. They won the conference title the following year in 1965 but lost to GB in the NFLtitle game.
     
    Last edited: Feb 12, 2015
  19. GahLee

    GahLee Director of Conspiracy Theories, 8th Maxim

    Barry is as good a football player that I've ever seen.
     
  20. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

    I feel like Walter Payton deserves strong consideration, as does Emmitt Smith.

    Maybe Larry Csonka is on the fringe, somewhere, too.

    And, to be clear, I loved Barry Sanders, and believe that a strong case can be made for his being the GOAT. And when you think about his being literally all Detroit had, what he accomplished was even more impressive.

    Weird fact: I can still remember the KNS reprinting an article from Stillwater, right after Sanders won the Heisman, which talked about how a lot of schools passed on him, because they didn't think he was big enough to play. And Tennessee was one of the schools that were mentioned as having told him that.
     

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