I'm a Steelers Fan but Jack Lambert certainly was one of the most if not the absolute BEST and scariest players in NFL's History after all he won 4 Super Bowl's in the 1970's and he'd didn't disappoint at all no matter what! 8:44
Jack Lambert also made some very funny commercials with Pittsburgh Steelers sportscaster Myron Cope for Kennywood amusement park in Pittsburgh. The famous quote about Lambert was "He is so mean that he doesn't even like himself". He retired from football, married a local girl, and became a family man. James Harrison was also a Pittsburgh Steelers. He made the most famous play in Superbowl history by intercepting a pass in the end zone and running 102 yards for a touchdown. During the run he broke over 10 tackles. It was amazing.
Lambert was one tough S.O.B., he could blitz, cover sideline to sideline, and drop back in to pass coverage. If get a chance to ever watch Super Bowl X highlights Steelers vs Cowboys , you'll be amazed by it, it's also narrated by the great John Facenda.
I agree about Lyle. I remember watching a documentary about him, in it Howie Long explains how he gave him the nickname "3 mile Lyle"...wow, to be named after a nuclear reactor accident (3 mile island nuclear reactor incident). Lol.
The difference with almost all of these guys is that they played in a different era. The current era is that you can't do 90% of what these guys did or you'd be fined or penalized out of the league. They just don't allow this type of hitting anymore.
LOL, the thing about Taylor and why he didn't feel any pain was he was high on coke half the time. But what was different about Taylor was, he was extremely likable as well. He was funny and personable. But high at the same time. He never went out to hurt anyone. It was just that he was so much bigger, stronger and faster than most others, accidents happened.
17:57 LINEBACKER?? Nah, that's how I know they didn't even think of Mean Joe Greene, let alone do the research on him for this video. He should be on this list.
Rey Lewis was truly the Heart and Soul of the Baltimore Ravens a 2X Super Bowl Champion 1st Round 26th overall in the 1996 NFL Draft Super Bowl MVP and 2X NFL's Defensive player of the year now a Pro Football Hall Of Famer! 0:42
Taylor was the most feared player in NFL history. Ray Nitschke was up there and definitely belongs on the list as does Sam Huff and they also left off Ronnie Lott, Steve Atwater, Erik Williams and Larry Allen
Ray Nitschke was the type of player who was all rage, all the time! With him, he wasn't Jekyll and Hyde. He was jyst Hyde! He played with absolutely no concern or regard for another human being. He played in a bloody rage!
@@greer2402 You are apparently a young person. No one under 50 would have ever seen this unbelievably violent linebacker. Check him out on the internet.
I grew up roughly 25 miles outside of Chicago and loved watching Dick Butkus. I know a video can only give so much time to each player but the maker could have found much more punishing hits and tackles from Dick Butkus than were used. There's a short NFL video about Dick Butkus with many clips of him playing and a number of former players and coaches talking about him. On the field the man was a pure beast. The video ends with the great Deacon Jones in the video reacted to saying “Roses are red Violets are blue If you have any sense, You'll keep Butkus away from you.” - Deacon Jones
At 3:09 it’s more then career over he’s paralyzed from the chest down. Many players have been paralyzed in football. The most recent notable paralyzed player would be Ryan Shazier. He was paralyzed for about 17 months then was able to walk again. Sometimes players/people can’t overcome being paralyzed some never recover.
I remember the 1970s Raiders. It was a brutal war on the field. If the other teams best players got hurt but it only cost them 15 yards? Easy decision!
"Scariest" is subjective. Ask players who they didn't want to play against and you'll hear the names on this list, but you will probably have more players mentioning guys like Lyle Alzado, Bill Romanowski, Ndamukong Suh, and Conrad Dobler. They were more "scary" because they didn't care about rules. These guys intentionally tried to injure their opponents by any means imaginable. Even if was well after the whistle. For them it wasn't about just being tough, it was also about being dirty.
Im surprised Mean Joe Greene didnt make the cut. Loved seeing old footage of the Denver game I think it was in the playoffs where hes tired of getting held by the Olineman so he just punches him the stomach. No penalty cuz the ref didnt see it but clear as day on the screen. Then the next play the center starts talking s*** and he punches him in the stomach too. Got a 15 yard penalty. And the play after that... Mean Joe picks up a fumble to give the ball back to the offense. Dude was scary on the field.
As a Tar-Heels fan the Lawrence Taylor was a force to be reckoned on the field because quite frankly he put FEAR OF GOD into anyone who get's in his way but he didn't disappoint when in 1981 NFL Draft the Giants took Lawrence Taylor 1st Round 2nd overall pick out of the University of the North Carolina Tar-Heels in Chapel Hill,NC he was 3X NFL's Defensive player of the year 1986 NFL's MVP and he's a 2X Super Bowl Champ and a member of the Hall Of Fame because there's only one LT LT LT LT LT LT LT LT LT LT and he still remains to this very day! 5:07
There are several that should have been at least honorable mentions, 2 or which are Raiders. Lyle Alzado, Bill Romanowski and Los Angeles Rams' Jack Youngblood so played 1/2 a Pro Bowl game with a broken leg.
That injury to Darryl Stingley - that left him paralyzed - that's the worst injury an NFL player has every suffered. I personally think it was worse than what happened to Damar Hamlin - and every time i saw a video on Hamlin's cardiac arrest - i kept hoping that they would acknowledge the terrible injury that Stingley suffered. Again - the worse injury in NFL history.
I am 66 years old and have watched the NFL since 1962. I am telling you that Dick Butkus was the greatest hitter in NFL history!... Period! And I'm a Packers fan.
My parents were huge Chicago Bears fans, and my father use to say that one year Dick Butkus broke his arm. He wore the cast in his games and used it as a weapon. After one such hit, during a timeout a Referee told Butkus to go in and take a break and not come back out with the cast on his arm lol
Earl Campbell comes from the area I'm from. He has since gone into the food industry. Downside is that he now requires a cane or walker for walking short distances, and a wheelchair for longer.
6:40 Deacon Jones actually shattered helmets with his "head slap" technique. He would hit you in the head with a palm strike and try to knock you out. He was very good at it. lol
Ok, I'm old... I had the privilege of watching Mr. Lambert play... He was awesome. When he dumped the cowboy, Harris, on his nogging during the Superbowl because he was mocking our kicker... Priceless! There are some retirements that you never forget! Jack Lambert, Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, Rod Woodson, Troy Polamalu, Jerome Bettis, John Stalworth, Lynn Swann... Yes, it's a long list.
No Chuck Bednarik? Look at his hit on Frank Gifford for a scary hit. Concrete Charlie as he was called was also a 2 way player, playing on both the offense and the defense.
How ?? I was watching that NY washington game on tv and the replay showed Joe Thiesmans leg break and it was very unpleasant. It was the only time I ever saw it unedited , they stopped showing the actual break because its soo creepy. There might be an unedited clip somewhere on the internet.
I watched the Redskins game when Joe Theisman's ankle was broken. That hit also changed the way replays were shown. Theisman's foot flopping and dangling at the end of his leg was shown countless times and from every angle possible. It was too much even for die hard football fans.
Lambert was as big a cheapshot artist as they come. They say he's tough, well Jack Youngblood, who hit harder, played the Super Bowl AND the PRO Bowl with a broken leg. Lambert retired because of a turf toe. You tell me who was tougher.
Dunno if I'd put Ray Lewis on this list. He was incredible, but not top ten scary when we consider others, especially from the forgotten era. Speaking of that era, I was very happy to see Night Train Lane make the list. Even as the rules (rightfully) took away some of his more dangerous tackling styles, he was still incredibly effective and scary.
Great list my honorable mention would be ed reed he made quarterbacks afraid to throw to his side of the field and receivers terrified to try and catch a ball im pretty shur offensive coordinators had nightmares game planning for him and Ray Lewis
Dick Butkis holy smokes I used to watch him and he played back in the 60's and early 70's. He was 6'4" and 260.......people just werent that big back then. There was one play he tackled a guy out of bounds and the fans threw things at him and he tried to get up into the stands. The fans scrambled ha!!
When the season was over Jack Lambert would go to his cabin in the mountains. It had no phone. Lambert was a big Second Amendment practitioner. In the spring someone had to go tell Lambert when training camp was to start. No one wanted to do it. So the Steelers made the team draw lots. Shortest lost had to go tell Dracula In Cleats.😜 I think that was told in one of the old NFL Films Presents.
Ray Lewis and friends were in a limo to take in Super Bowl week right out of college. This was in Atlanta in Jan 2000 that happened to be the greatest superbowl of all times where the Rams beat the Titans on the last play. Ray and friends decided to kill two people. Ray was the only one convicted. Albeit it wasn’t a murder conviction, but this should have been the end of his career and can’t respect him or espn promoting him.
I like how they casually drop his name, Chad Ochocinco, without mentioning that he legally changed his name to match his jersey number/nickname, which itself isn't scary, but a little crazy.
I have respect for the old school tacklers who used to hurt people. You cant blame them for breaking modern rules, because not only did those rules not exist then, coaches told players to hit like that. When I played football only 20 years ago in high school, we were told to "raise hell". Our best defensive players did the most damage, we didn't injure anyone, but pain was part of the defense's mindset.
Speaking Of Earl Campbell Have you reacted to the 10 most feared running backs of all time? Also Waterboy is a darn good movie with me being from Louisiana I highly recomend it.
In American football, only the person with the ball is allowed to be tackled. All the other hits are called blocks. Blocking helps save the ball carrier or quarterback from being tackled.
Understand Dick Lane played in an era of football where they passed the ball 5 to 15 a game and still holds 5he interception record. LT,is a game changer. LT MADE OFFENSIVE LINEMEN MONEY AND BY DEFAULT MADE THE NFL LINEMEN ON BOTH SIDES GET BIGGER, FASTER,STRONGER,he is on the Mount Rushmore of Football Players. Ray was a good linebacker even coming into the league from Miami University, but he achieved greatness when he watched film like Tom Brady did,when that happened, the Ravens were always a contender and gave Brady some of his toughest competition
There is a football movie called the program. Best football movie imo. You can see a defensive player psyching himself up making up scenarios . Trust me, worth the watch.
In 1984 Walter Payton surpassed Brown on the all-time rushing list. In 2002 Emmitt Smith surpassed Payton for the all-time lead and holds it to this day. Brown is currently number 11 on the NFL all time rushing list. Jim Brown held the record for 19 years prior to Payton in 1984. Payton held the record for 18 years prior to Smith. Smith still holds the record 22 years later since he surpassed Payton in 2002. The way defense is played today and the athleticism of defenses today may never allow for anyone to surpass Smith.
Shame they did not show monster offensive players, as I would have loved for you two to see Jerom Bettis, also known as THE BUSS. Off topic here but would you please do a reaction video to these two videos? The first is, British guy in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. It is known as the city of bridges 446 to be exact. The second is, Man attacks woman at ATM unaware that her dog is a trained police officer. Thankyou.
Joe Theisman's leg bones were sticking out of his sock after LT hit him. Saw it all live and it was gruesome. You knew his career was over right there.
