JOHN RIGGINS (& HOGS) vs. LAWRENCE TAYLOR ( & G-MEN) - NFL CLASSIC MATCHUPS
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VARIOUS CLIPS OF HALL OF FAMERS / DIVISION RIVALS JOHN RIGGINS & LAWRENCE TAYLOR SQUARING OFF. "THE HOGS" AND HARRY CARSON WERE THERE TOO.
Redskins - Giants, Riggo vs. LT - thiose were the days!
Damn right.
@@oldgoat142 L.T. Never Made Riggins go to the Bench but Riggins put L.T. put in this video!!
This wasn’t just some regular offense, they were one year removed from scoring the most points in a season. And it’s not like LT got shut down. 5:22 (great short yardage defense) 1:22 (ditto) 0:35 (which should’ve lead to another teammate making the tackle)
@@thetruth5479 Lawrence Taylor all over the field John riggins can't touch no Lawrence Taylor, Lawrence Taylor the goat of linebackers. John riggins ain't no goat as running back.
And the NFL.. got $100 cams in 1985
2022, slight concussion: 8 weeks bedrest
1984: slight concussion: Here, have some Gatorade.
1984 permanent injuries and dying young.:(
And a Bud
Stuuuuuuupid
1984 Play for it….but in 2000 pick a year PAY FOR IT!
In 84 there were slight concussions. Like slight brain contusion.
I'm a diehard Giants fan but I had a lot of respect for those Redskins teams, they balled.
Thanks Brother
Felt the same way about the Giants.
Diehard Skins fan here. Yes! Those were the days! The NFC East was the epitome of smashmouth football. That Giants D wrecked teams…and careers (sorry Joe T 😢)
As John Madden once said of Riggins "he's a man's man and a football player's football player".
Amen. Thank you for watching & commenting.
Back when football was a man's game. Thank you for posting.
still is
Life Long Redskin fan .. went to many games at RFK .. this brings tears of joy to my eyes
That brought back a boat load of Memories. Warriors
Underrated rivalry 80's Redskins vs 80's Giants. Both teams relied upon Trench Warfare. I lived on the West Coast, but the Networks gave us plenty of those Classic games.
And between them, they won 5 Super Bowls in 10 years.
@@mbd501 Same era with the 49ers and Bears.
@@ningxiawolfberry The NFC really dominated that decade.
@@mbd501 no salary cap. Big cities ruled.
Giant fan yea those were great teams great battles got to add the 49’ers
Love it. I'm a cowboys fan and I still love it. Those were the days....
riggins was at the end of his career and LT was just starting and riggins still put a hurting on the best defensive player in nfl history. you can see LTs body language saying man this guy is tough to deal with.
The best defensive player in NFL history is debatable,as long as Dick Butkus and Deacon Jones are mentioned.How about the best in the era he played? Oh wait,there was Reggie White,Bruce Smith,and Kevin Greene,too.
@@dennisreagin2949 sorry, disagree. LT did everything on defense. he could rush the passer and stop the run and make picks. a complete and dominant defensive player. nope, im not a giants fan.
@@goblinzl1 So could Kevin Greene,who had more career sacks than did Taylor,or any other LB in NFL history,and was equally adept in defending both the pass, and run.Perhaps looking at some Deacon Jones or Dick Butkus videos on You Tube will enlighten you.Nobody struck fear in opposing teams the way that Butkus did,and Jones was one of the greatest pass rushers the NFL has ever witnessed.I come from an era where I saw all of them play,and don’t form my perspective solely on recent history.
@@dennisreagin2949 sorry, i respectfully disagree and so do many others.
@@goblinzl1 The uninformed normally do disagree,without gathering facts.
Back when football was football.
Amen. Thank you for watching & commenting.
I concur, like how the NFL makes rules to help Tom crybaby game managing Brady. I miss this NFL back in the day.
Its getting to be like a fancy pretty dance
@@dr.science9505 I've likened it to basketball mixed with rugby, mostly bbal.
ahhh yes, the.mandantory "back when" comment...
The entire NY team keyed on Riggins and could not stop him. Hog's and Riggins. Wow.
JETS , same thing .
And Riggins was up in his late 30's when he was playing here! Dude got stereotyped in his 20's and didn't get the ball much. He had more yards rushing in his 30's than in his 20's!!
@@BST-lm4poin the bio it said Namath didn’t want to run him much and share the spotlight. After Namath was gone he was a 1000 yard runner with the jets. His first years with Washington he was also not used as a runner and retired at 30. Gibbs became head coach and brought him back and the rest is history.
This was always fun to watch 2x a year. I miss those days.
Amen to that. Thank you for watching & commenting.
Three things I miss that will never come back
1. Running game football for most plays
2. Dirty uniforms, muddy field
3. The nickname Redskins. Hail thee 4vr
Riggings is one of the most underrated players ever in the NFL!
The NFC East Division was one of the most competitive divisions during the 70's, 80's, and 90's.
The NFC East was to the NFL from 1982-95 that the SEC was to NCAA football for the past twenty years. Super Bowl appearances in 1982,83,87,90,91,92,93,95 and winning all but 1983. Dominance in a sport that doesn’t really allow it to happen.
What people forget about Riggins was he also had speed. He was just like Derrick Henry
Notice how there was never just one Giant making the tackle, but always gang tackling.
This just let me know thar Lawrence taylor is the real ultimate warrior not the wrestler john Riggins was ranked the second best power back of all time behind jim brown and in front of earl Campbell if you're a real giants fan I'll take my chances will lt against jim brown, bo jackson, Walter payton, earl cambell,etc
Awesome classic matchup. Also, it’s always great to hear Summerall and Madden on the call. You knew it was a big game when they were in the booth.
Very well stated, my friend. Thank you for watching & commenting. Even more classic matchups soon.
U got that rite'/!!!
This was smash-mouth football at it’s best. So many rule changes protecting QBs has made it much easier to pass, so you don’t see this kind of football anymore.
Back in these days you had guys like John Riggins, Christian Okoye, Earl Campbell, Larry Csonka and at the tail end, Mike Alstott. You don’t really see these hard hitting full backs that took three or four defenders to bring down anymore.
I loved that kind of mud and dirt football and miss it a bit. You can see here that John Riggins had very deceptive speed for a man his size. He was quite explosive coming at the line. It also helps when you have the “Hogs” blocking for you. Doc Walker and later, Don Warren were real beasts as lead blockers, clearing holes even when the line was stacked.
Riggins was the kind of back that the defense knew was coming and still couldn’t stop him. John picked up the tough yards, up the middle, carrying the ball 30 or more times a game and picking up first downs three or four yards at a time. I don’t know how his body took such punishment?
Another secret to his success was pulling tackle Joe Jacoby. At 6’ 7” and nearly 300 lbs., Joe could clear out a hole a semi could drive through. In fact, Jacoby was like a semi coming through that line. Riggins just needed to find number 66 and ride it to the promise land.
The fact that Jacoby is not in the Hall Of Fame shows that linemen get little respect when it comes to HOF inductions. At least Russ Grimm was inducted in 2010, but Jacoby was just as important to the Hogs as Grimm and played in all four Super Bowls Washington made between 1982 and 1992, winning 3 out of 4 during the Joe Gibbs dynasty.
At one time, Riggins held the record in Kansas for the 100 yd dash. Yeah, he was pretty darn fast.
Enjoyable, watching this old-school football where players didn’t jump around and celebrate after every single play of the game
Both were beasts in uniform who gave their all. Riggins did get the edge...mostly. Memorable run in the Super Bowl embodied what Riggins meant to the Skins. What a unique character; showed up for Spring training on a Harley with a mohawk!
The mohawk went back to his days with the Jets.
He was and is an interesting man. Has had quite a life.
@@alwayssomething8572 I met Riggo at a bar in Va. years ago. He was a character, flirting with the waitresses and talking about hunting and his pickup truck. A real down to earth guy. Those were the days.
As a Giants fan I had lot of respect for Diesel. Power and freaky speed for a man his size. But that O line in front was a huge factor to his success.
I was raised in VA, 22 yrs after USAF career relocated to Kansas. Odd that such a small state (population-wise) would give birth to two great running backs. John Riggins and Barry Sanders were two of the best to ever carry a football.
Look at the hits he is taken at age 34 or 35 against Taylor in his 20's ,,insane at his age what he accomplished,
I hated the Redskins back then. I couldn't understand why nobody could stop a slow old white guy 🤣🤣🤣
Respect to Riggins. He's a legend
@@nastypiglosi1788
We called Rigo a brother
@@nastypiglosi1788 Faster than Christian McCaffrey 21.7 220yds which is like 21.5 200meters and challenged anyone to beat him in the 60..also 9.8 100yds as high school junior. Didn't rely on weight training great athlete and running back
Taylor was probably hoped up on coke, while Riggings was likely hung over.
The clash of two addictions!
Damn I miss the Redskins and the classic NFL.
@@ironroad18
Right because only LT did coke.
24th TD of the year. Wow !
Powerful great running back... One of the best of his era..💪👍
Of any era!
3.8 yards per carry during his nine years with Washington. Spectacular!!! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦🏻♂️
Miss the old Cowboys vs Redskins games back in the late 70s into the 80s. Randy White, Ed 'Too Tall' Jones, John Riggins, Darrell Green...etc. Awesome football.
Riggins was an enigma....deceptively fast...and four wheel drive between the tackles...I am lucky too have watched this guy
Read some of the comments and i also agree with ya all ,great memories
missed those great days legends on the field and behind the mikes Summerall Madden. R.I.Please 🙏✌️Legends.🏈👍
Chime in. Riggins, Csonka, Hubbard, Campbell, Brown, who else. Love the 60's, 70's NFL.
Franco harris
Loved watching both Taylor and Riggins play unless it was against my Cowboys. Both legends of what once was a great league. When real men played because they loved their team and the game.
Dallas is trash
We shouldn't belittle the players in today's NFL. Rule changes over health issues have changed the game, but today's players are still the best athletes in pro sports. Yeah, as an NFC East fan in the 70's & 80's, I miss that style of play, but it's still football. So pardon us while we go through NFL withdrawal for a few months.
@@dme1016Intellectually, the players today are like children compared to the men who came before them. You see the immature behavior after almost every single play. It's amazing that a game invented by geniuses at schools like Harvard and Yale, have so many dummies playing the games in this era.
@@usamade5943 But, they could still kick YO' ass.... convincingly.
@@dme1016 I weigh 285 lbs, with years of wrestling, kickboxing and mma training in my background, though I'm currently past my physical prime. The funny thing is, picture these nitwits if they weren't living off other's ingenuity and evolution. Imagine an aircraft carrier filled with US Marines and Navy Seals, with jet fighters, rockets from space and nuclear weapons to back them up while going to fight the primitive tribesman from Africa who are 10,000 years behind in human evolution.
Great video, two of my favorite players from this era.
Love a great rivalry. No quarter given nor expected by either team. Steelers v Ravens from a few years back was also a great watch.
The good old stuff. The 1980s and the NFC East. The All-Madden Team.
Real man football. And ALL of those players are perfectly healthy today.
5 tacklers on him still couldn't get him down
Good clips that really bring you back and remind how good Rigo fit that offense.
Yes those were the days
Riggins to Taylor......" Hold my beer"......... 100 yards rushing. Two touchdowns.
riggins was a horse
Love that stiff arm he gave roid boy it wasepic
My dad was their age.
Those were real men back then.
2 of the best...LT had no peers
old school LBs like Nobis an them
Reggie White gotta be somewhere in LT neighborhood
@@vantablack9535 for sure
Man, John Riggins had that Jim Brown thing going on. It took half the defense to slow him down or stop him altogether!
LT the greatest linebacker ever. Changed the game.
I have Butkus as the goat.
I remember his rookie year with the Jets in 71; he was so fast & powerful
Why in God's name did they not keep him?
@@jamesconnell8372 Free agency.
Joe Namath
Joe Namath
That 3rd play explains LT's CTE
And him with them drugs. Football is no joke back then.
As these games were being played, I hated these teams as I was a COWBOYS fan. Today, I gotta tell you that I respect how the NFC East was always loaded with great teams and talent. I'd love to meet anybody from those teams from back then.
No BULLSHIT CALLS, OH HIS SHOE LACE THE PYLON! THIS FOOTBALL PURE AND SIMPLE! PERIOD.
The 3 Kings of the 80's: 9ers, Redskins and Giants. Cowboys were still healing n mending from 9ers breaking their spirit
If you've ever played contact sports you know that there are some players that seem to be made of steel. Riggo was one of them. Larry Czonka and Earl Campbell too.
It was great watching this. Football was better then, more focus on the battle in the trenches. As a Giants fan I hated Riggins, but respected him tremendously.
Back then, we didn't care what team we played, the Skins would just pound you into the ground w/Riggins, Joe Washington & The HOGS!
John Riggins VS Randy White was another MAN RIVALRY
I miss these days. Rivalries meant more before free agency.
No show boating just doing his business plowing the field ..RIGGENS!!
Just the raw leg power John Riggins had, to duck and hit a 250 lb defender, then carry him a chunk of yards downfield. That was old school even when Riggins played.
Good old NFC EAST Football 💥💥💥
The “DIESEL” carried a lot of Giants with him as cargo
To put this in perspective, in 1984 Riggins is like 35 years old and still put up 1200+ yards and 14 TDs and LT is the baddest man in the NFL
Last of the great white runners
Well BUCS Alstott and now CM ...
Wow I haven’t heard the name Curtis McGriff in years!!! Cottonwood! Redtop here!
Taylor was simply fuckin awesome. Had season ticks at Giants stadium for 20 yrs. The best years by far were the Taylor, Carson, Banks,and the 1980,s defense.
LT used to wip the crowd into frenzy .Man, those were the glory yrs.
Parcels, Belichek,that defense , with simms running an underrated offense.
Great yrs 🏈
In the 80s and early 90s, the NFC East was like the SEC in college. They beat each other up. And more often than not, the champion would go on to make a run in the playoffs and win the Superbowl
Riggins is 10 years older than LT. Let that sink in.
The Giants/Redskins games, going back far away, when the franchises were basically vying for the Super Bowl with every season meeting, shouldn't be forgotten. For those too young to remember, the late 80's, most of the 90's, the NFC was owned, free and clear, by the NFC East. In fact seven out of ten Super Bowls between 1987-1996 were won by teams from the NFC East.
I miss this style of football.
Both Taylor and riggins both great players
Personally I felt that the underrated Harry Carson was who made LT
Harry Carson was not underrated. He's in the HOF. In fact LT made Harry better because teams often ran right and draws to avoid LT. Right in the path of Harry and the underrated Carl Banks
@@mfgreviews5028 Harry Carson was a force on that defense before Taylor was even drafted, Nonsense you make
@@mfgreviews5028 And also, Carson didn't smoke a bunch of crack before games like Taylor did
If this video is all the head to head matchups against each other. The Diesel got the better of the Matchup. And this is John Riggins who went through already battering his body for 8 or 9 years. That tells you how strong this man was. And we are talking Lawrence Taylor here. Riggo was amazing. How did the Jets ever let him go ?
weeb ewbank wouldnt pay riggins what he wanted so as soon as he could he became a free agent.
@@goblinzl1 and that's why the jets are who we thought they were and are 😅🤣😂
I always wondered why Al Davis didn't try to acquire Riggins. I think he would have done a lot better with the Raiders than the Jets.
@@robertbenedict4651 Al Davis didn't particularly like white players of John's background. In general, he took a liking to cocky players with rough upbringings. That didn't fit the humble all-American image of John Riggins.
@@goblinzl1 Riggins was a bit of loose Cannon with the Jets but still had it . He had the Mojo working .
Those were some crazy battles!
56 and 44 the best of the best! Loved those days!
These guys were Warriors, doesn't even look like the same game today
It was unusual for a single defender to tackle Riggins. Typically 2 to 3 and he still got 1st downs. He was like a tank.
Good heavens running backs had to be tough back in the day. This man would take this kind of beating 30+ times per game for a season
The Redskins O Line was really getting it done and that is what enabled Riggins to power forward. LT made some nice tackles around his legs which seems to be a lost art today.
I miss those Wrap up tackles too, seemed to disappear in the 1990's.
Text book tackling is a lost art. This isn't football anymore
The good old days.
When linebackers were a vital part of great defenses....the Giants & Bears especially.
It's kind of hard to argue that Joe Gibbs is the greatest coach in the history of the modern NFL (Post-merger). Up until Brady left New England for Tampa Bay, there was one Hell of a case for Bellicheck--but it looks more and more like he had the benefit of the greatest QB in the history of the sport. Gibbs won three titles with 3 different starting QBs and a trio of different tailbacks. The "Fun bunch" was different from "The Pose" too. But what proves it to me is that he had not one single former assistant have success as a Head Coach at any level.
Its Hard to win an Coach in The NFL Joe Gibbs was an exception..
I always wondered why his assistants flopped in the NFL but Bill Walsh was the grandfather of coaches when I last stopped watching football. I am told that Joe Gibbs is the master of adjustments, I guess thats something that just isn't going to carry on to those who work under you. Thats just a guess though. He had a unique skill somewhere that could not be duplicated or his assistants would have done that.
He's definitely one of the top few of recent decades; never gets much mention
I’ve said the same thing for years. Gibbs carried this team.!!
You know, I knew all those facts but didn't put it together until I read your comment.
Hank Stram knew the deal. Rip
As much as I hated and still hate both teams, I will say the difference between the games they played against each other was like night and day between the earlier game when the Jets played against anyone else. The pace was noticeably faster and the hits were harder, and many of those games were just real classics with legendary coaches on both sidelines. Bill Parcells with Bill Belichick as his defensive coordinator vs Joe Gibbs.
I can not recall a defensive player in the NFL who consistently had as much effect in a game as LT.
I'm sure LT was thankful when riggo retired a blast from the past
This was the time when Pro Ball was truly great. Defense mattered .Real tackling. I enjoyed the G-MEN, and that Big Blue Wrecking Crew.Miss them days so much. Gang at Eastwick's Tavern in Nyack, Jackie sharing his Giants tix. Meeting Coach big Bill at an Army game, and in Elmer's in Upper Saddle River,NJ. Great running backs,tight ends, and linebackers of which L.T. was the best freaking ever.
Power vs Intensity! Loved Rigs! Loved Tay Tay!…….Loved Madden!
I feel for the defenses that had to go toe-to-toe with the Hogs, and John Riggins, back in the early 80's. It's a guarantee they would be spending the following Monday in a cold bath. The NFC East in those days, with Gibb's Redskins' teams, Parcell's Giant's teams, and Landry's Cowboy's teams...true slugfest's of the likes we don't see today. Those were the days.
#44 Riggins and #56 Taylor had battles which made NFL the best in those days. Other NFL greats can also protest their say as well.
2:00 concussion
Old school classic battle Giants and Redskins,and I still call them the Redskins today,and this from a Giants fan.
Either of these two teams could have made the super bowl every year from 82 ish to 1990 if they been in the AFC. Or with the same personnel, for most of the 90s too. Quality of the coaching had a lot to do with it.
Back when the NFC East was brutal.... HTTR !!
Legends 🤘
How did Van Pelt get to wear 10?
Taylor has always said he HATED facing Riggins; he wasn't afraid but he always worked for his pay
Thankyou
My pleasure thank you for watching & commenting
As good as it gets!! LT vs The Diesal!
When football wasn’t fully fixed
Wow what a find!
Lawrence Taylor was the best football player of all time. I bet he could play any position you put him at. We are seeing the old slow Riggins in most of these clips, I like that other video you made about Riggins where we see a lot of his runs back when he was in his 20's. Very fast for his size and compares to Jim Brown. I believe his best skill was his ability to find a hole and minimize contact with he defense when he hits it so when falls down he falls forward. This skill allowed him to be a starting RB on a winning football team until he was 36 years old. Imagine if Riggins wasn't wasted as a blocking back during those George Allen years. He probably would have retired the NFLs all time leading Rusher,
😂.......100 yards. Two touchdowns
@@robertbenedict4651 Earl Campbell was washed up by that point and Jacoby had just made the first of his 4 consecutive pro bowls at Left Tackle. If Campbell was a Redskins he likely would have had as many Carries as Keith Griffin did that year and likely less yards. You may never have heard of Keith Griffin (because he isn't famous) but I would have taken a young Keith Griffin over an old Earl Campbell.
Would love to have seen Campbell in Washington, but he had lost a step by then he knew it. In fact, it's never been cleareto me why New Orleans made that trade without knowing this. Taylor always incredibly hyped; because he rushes the passer which is very showy. His run d never as good as some others including Carson
Here we go with this “greatest football player of all time” crap again.Taylor was great,but he was never that.Let’s just say “he’s your favorite player of all time”,and let it go at that.
@@hardcorehouse I believe Bum Phillips just wanted Earl on his team even if it just benefitted Earl and himself over the team. Bum Phillips was very loyal to players and people over business. Not sure if I would love him if I was a Saints fan but as a man I like Bum Phillips. They had BBQ practices on Friday and the players brought the family.. a players coach. I still believe his teams won more on Earl than on Bum but its nice to see a coach
I was a Jets fan when they traded Riggins. Real smart. Skins made good use of him.
LT was likely the best defender I have ever watched. I missed Butkus by a few years. Lott was really good to. Carl Banks and LT made a nasty pair of 'crazed dogs' to try to fend off.
The 'Skins aka Commanders glory days before pip squeak Dan Snyder bought the team. It's been downhill ever since.
Football was so much better then.
2:00 Out with L Taylor, in with Carl Banks! 2 monsters in Blue!
nobody was better than LT
They didn't call him "The Diesel" for nothin!!!!