RIP GOAT. Made me a Bears fan and play linebacker. “ I wanna just let them know they’ve been hit. And when they get up they don’t have to look to see who it was that hit them”. Assassin. Still gives me chills.
Butkus was the only guy I saw who would stop a 240 pound running back in his tracks, pick him up, and slam him to the ground. It is nearly unimaginable what sort of force it takes to do this.
Jack Lambert was overrated, a Butkus wannabe, a media creation. He lucked out by playing on a team with about 9 HOF players around him on defense. Butkus on those 70's Steelers teams, they would have forfeited games!. Lambert was imitation mean, Butkus was the real deal, no comparison.
I read a story once that the Baltimore Colts were on their bus heading to Wrigley Field to play the Bears. A car rear-ended the bus. The members of the Colts supposedly looked at each other and said "Butkus".
They missed the best quote by Deacon Jones on Dick Butkus, "He was a well conditioned animal and every time he hit you, he tried to put you in the cemetery, not the hospital.". Absolutely classic!
And that is no lie. I wish I could've just lined up two blocking dummies 3 feet apart and run right at him, perhaps once But then I would mostly likely be dead. The man actually tried to break people's Necks!! If he played in today's NFL he would get kicked out before the damn coin toss. And that is sad.
Before steroids, before strength programs, before amino acids, before pass runners were protected from getting hit coming out of the backfield, before players were down when they were merely grabbed, Butkus, Nitschke, and Lambert prevailed by making textbook yet vicious tackles on players that could take a hit. They were the greatest in a time when the game was the greatest! And they did it by being smart and without tattoos, fishing tackle in their noses, and hooks in their mouths and ears.
my father grew up in Chicago during the Depression. All of us kids Grew up Cornhuskers in NE, but we were raised Bears Fans. First Bears game i remember watching with dad was in '66, I was 6 y.o. and he said, "Keep an eye on #40 our running back Sayers, he's gonna be the best ever and keep an eye on #51 our Middle Linebacker Butkus, he's gonna hurt someone." It sucks that neither got to a playoff game.
Can you imagine the Bears taking Joe Namath 2 Picks after Sayers in '65. They had the 3rd Overall, the 4th Overall and the 6th Overall. They took Steve DeLong at #6. A D- Lineman, who signed with the AFL Chargers. Namath was Drafted at #12 by the Cardinals but signed with the Jets.
Theres no question Dick Butkus was the Best Linebacker of all time, the meanest hard hitting doomsday machine whose only goal was to annhilate and hit you as hard as could inflict. If he played in todays game I'm sure he would make the adjustments easily enough, he was one fast tough mean beast ...could you imagine a waterboy like in todays game rushing up to Butkus with his bottle and bib, I'm a Vikings fan but Butkus was a one off, he even wore a helmet to small for him just to make him angrier, or so ive heard, I wouldn't doubt it though. He lived for the Crunch!!! such a travesty the guy never got play in one f*cking plaoff game...That just isn't right.
there is a reason why the best linebacker in college football gets an award named after this man. he is the benchmark for those who play this position. no others come close.......
Comments from Gale Sayers probably count more than others in my book. Can you imagine practice with those two. I have read and heard extremely well spoken compliments of Sayers by Butkus. Mutual respect and then some. If the ability to repair knees today, was available back then, both would still be playing.
Best, by consensus. Not even close to being the inventor of the position. In fact, Bill George played middle linebacker for the Bears for eleven years before Butkus replaced him.
lmao you sure about that? lewis was everything that butkus wasn't hecan actually lead a team to a superbowl and win he laid out some of the baddest runningbacks in his time playing when butkus played running backs were hardly what they were until earl Campbell changed that
Mooncut Jerome Betti's 255 lets see ray laid him out Eddie George 230ish ray also chewed him up Barry sanders....had his worst game against him and the ravens what real hall of fame running backs did butkus play against? I will wait
Dick Butkus was great some players were afraid playing against him, so he was and will be remembered in the past and in the future as a well oiled player It is a pleasure seeing him in high lights from the past because I was just too young to meet him in person what a treat to seeing him again.
RELENTLESS...UNEQUALED.. UNSTOPPABLE...MANIAC....MADMAN...LEGEND...HERO....there's almost not enough words to describe this destructive force of nature on any football field anywhere. Rest in peace GOAT. The true definition and example of where football BEGAN.
+Mike Pelletier you forget that LT has nothing on butkus, he's 3 on this list LT was also a bit smaller and a outside LB and Butkus played half of his career with bad knees yea no comparison
+Mike Pelletier this literally means to as the best defense player.. The only reason you don't see it is because stats weren't recorded back then.. But pro players and knowledge educated commenters have acknowledged this also.. Read see for yourself
I loved what Tbe Golden Boy, Paul Hornung #5 Packers HOF half back said: "Dick Butkus went after you like he HATED you frommhis Old Neighborhood....!" My father raised us to play Football and the Game if Life like Butkus...We did...we excelled at both. I love 💘 the man RIP. King 🤴...matt nyc
@charles sutton You knew Exactly where Taylor was 75% to 80% of the time. On the Outside Rushing the QB. Very rarely dropped in Pass Coverage, which explains his NINE CAREER INTs.in 13 Seasons. They call his position OLB. but, in a 3/4 D, he's an Edge Rusher, or Glorified DE.
His technique was great when he sacked a quarterback. He would rap up their arms so they couldn't get rid of the ball and then drive them into the turf. lethal.
Unfortunately I grew up outside of Chicago after Butkus played in the late 70's when the Bears couldn't beat a good highschool team. Never got to watch him play.
Derrick Thomas and LT were the precursors to the speed edge rushers of today. Butkus was a middle linebacker. Two very separate positions. Old school football was Qb's playing Mike's. I grew up as a QB running the triple option. I loved telling the defense where we were going. If I did my job correctly, no stopping it. Yeah, I got popped ALOT. But that was the best. You go back to the line and say "That was nothing" we are going for 60 yards now!
@@robertmurray9415 Yeah LT was lightning and broke knees (I.E. The Thiesman sack) but Butkus actually tried to rip your head off. I respect his (mean) would actually love to play QB across from that man! After every HS season I would challenge the best players from the other teams we played, to meet up at any park they want in the summer and get after it...Playing pickup games in the parks in Gary and East Chicago Indiana I respect that. I am glad I initiated it because without playing the best of your peers I would have had zero chance of becoming an All-State WR. All the bone crushers that hit me while crossing the middle deserve half of my accolades. I had the opportunity too share a playing field across from 5 guys that went to the NFL. Never lost to any of their teams. Went on to get drafted by the Texas Rangers as a pitcher in the 22nd round. Lol they made a horrible choice as I tore my UCL in A ball in San Antonio. There was no more 5 inch two seamers running back into righties, or sliders starting out in the top right battersbox to lefties. Just a 4 seamer with no velocity and a fork ball that ended up being more of a serving spoon. Lol...but this 5"11 160 lb. White kid from Griffith IN wouldn't change his sports experience for anything.
The ONLY reason the NFL no longer permits these kind of hits is the recent understanding about the damaging effects of multiple concussions and the LAWSUITS that are coming. Lovers of gore and mayhem will just have to satiate themselves with phony movies and video games.
Nobody looked more like a football playing monster in that black uniform and those big shoulder pads, and with that mustached face grimacing than Dick Butkus. Todays players just don't have that vibe about them.
With the new rules in football, Butkus probably couldn't play and I was a tremendous fan of the old central division teams (Minnesota, Green Bay and Chicago). None better. Still a Green Bay Packers fan this day!
Watched him coming up in my youth, and was the sole influence on my desire for defense. Sunday backyards, most of my friends wanted the glory positions, I just wanted to cream someone with the ball, or right when they where catching it. For ME that was a touchdown feeling...the entire game.
@@colmhain Yup, never though about offense, as a kid. I think my older brothers forced me into an aggressive mindset at a young age, no sweat, I applied it.
+seattwa Yup, on the same page as you are. And boy, did they take some shots back in the day. People always say things like "Their number don't compare to today's QB's". No kidding. DB's could basically maul receivers all the way down the field, they was no "in the grasp" rule, no sliding to avoid a hit and back then the name of the game was kill the QB...............They did...... I saw a highlight film of Johnny Unitas. Jesus Christ, did that poor SOB take some helmet to helmet shots. Surprised he lived as long as he did. Everyone wanted to kill Johnny U.
+phil lamonica Yeah Phil. There were a lot of players back then that were driven by pure violence and just plain mean! When you watch films of players like Deacon Jones, Ben Davidson, and many others it makes you wince! And in those days if you slid, you would probably get knocked unconscious.
As big as a Lawrence Taylor fan as I am, Butkus was the most feared tackler in the game. Give me those two, and 9 average players for defense, I'd still keep you under 17 points a game
That was Mike North. He is a Chicago sports talk host, & I think he might be syndicated nationally too. I heard him on both Seattle & Portland sports talk stations.
Saw Butkus play. Guy never missed a tackle. Fuck with him Okay. Just don't come his way the next play. Believe me players got a wake up call when they did.
If you wanna discuss the difference between Dick Butkus and LT. Both were great. Dick Butkus beat up and entire offensive squad weekly, LT beat up Quarterbacks weekly. That's the difference and that is why Dick Butkus is the G.O.A.T.
he was like a Giant Tow Motor and finding its mark Every Time .. after the Game the other team in the locker room were out of commission for a week or two
It’s unfortunate that as sports fans, we know little about sports history. Dick Butkus was a vastly superior football player and one of the all time greats.
Nobody better than Butkus...ever. And that's coming from a lifelong Packers fan. I think Ray Nitschke was just as mean and probably number two on my biased list. That's when the Packers Bears rivalry really meant something!Have to mention though...man, is that Mike North guy annoying to listen to or what?
RIP GOAT. Made me a Bears fan and play linebacker. “ I wanna just let them know they’ve been hit. And when they get up they don’t have to look to see who it was that hit them”. Assassin. Still gives me chills.
There was NOBODY better than Dick Butkus ... Can I have an AMEN
Amen...and 🐻⬇️
Gotta go with Nitschke...
LT Lawrence Taylor
Amen
Amen...
When Dick and Bubba Smith did comedy together they were hilarious! Best beer commercials ever!!!!
Butkus was the only guy I saw who would stop a 240 pound running back in his tracks, pick him up, and slam him to the ground. It is nearly unimaginable what sort of force it takes to do this.
When I was a kid my dad named our two dobermans Butkus and Nitschke.
Perfect names for Dobermans
Two of the baddest ever!
The league could not withstand Butkus today.
All that come after have measured themselves by him. The GOAT no debate.
WT Hendrix Same with Jack Lambert.
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No argument with me. He was a stud in every way.
Yes!!
Yeah he would get thrown out of alot of games.He once started chewing lions tight end charlie sanders fingers because they were in his facemask.
Jack Lambert was overrated, a Butkus wannabe, a media creation. He lucked out by playing on a team with about 9 HOF players around him on defense. Butkus on those 70's Steelers teams, they would have forfeited games!. Lambert was imitation mean, Butkus was the real deal, no comparison.
Can you imagine butkus playing today ? Hed scare the hell out of everyone.
I read a story once that the Baltimore Colts were on their bus heading to Wrigley Field to play the Bears. A car rear-ended the bus. The members of the Colts supposedly looked at each other and said "Butkus".
I thought it was their arch rival packers but it might have been colts. Either way great story
They missed the best quote by Deacon Jones on Dick Butkus, "He was a well conditioned animal and every time he hit you, he tried to put you in the cemetery, not the hospital.". Absolutely classic!
And that is no lie. I wish I could've just lined up two blocking dummies 3 feet apart and run right at him, perhaps once But then I would mostly likely be dead. The man actually tried to break people's Necks!! If he played in today's NFL he would get kicked out before the damn coin toss. And that is sad.
His own men feared him
Yup..
Your right...and coming from Decon Jones ya know it's the truth. Both great players.
Butkus was the closest football player there ever was to a Bear because he didn't just tackle people, he mauled them like a Bear would!
Before steroids, before strength programs, before amino acids, before pass runners were protected from getting hit coming out of the backfield, before players were down when they were merely grabbed, Butkus, Nitschke, and Lambert prevailed by making textbook yet vicious tackles on players that could take a hit. They were the greatest in a time when the game was the greatest! And they did it by being smart and without tattoos, fishing tackle in their noses, and hooks in their mouths and ears.
Steroids were around long before this
@@HermannTheGreat yeha but they weren’t popular and wasn’t in the nfl until the mid 80’s
Lilly, one the greatest comments I've ever read
Thank you very much, Scott. And the best to you. I suppose you saw that one of our greatest went Home a few days ago?
Butkus back then would scare the shit out of most UFC fighters today. The guy was freight train in the form of an ogre.
He was one of a kind. Anyone who played with him, especially those who played against him will all tell you this. He was Great!
Scariest man to ever walk on the football field, modern day players dodged a huge bullet
A 6'3" 245# bullet. Or maybe more like a slug......
Alot of guys in the nfl who had to play against him jumped for joy when Butkus retired.
my father grew up in Chicago during the Depression. All of us kids Grew up Cornhuskers in NE, but we were raised Bears Fans. First Bears game i remember watching with dad was in '66, I was 6 y.o. and he said, "Keep an eye on #40 our running back Sayers, he's gonna be the best ever and keep an eye on #51 our Middle Linebacker Butkus, he's gonna hurt someone." It sucks that neither got to a playoff game.
Can you imagine the Bears taking Joe Namath 2 Picks after Sayers in '65. They had the 3rd Overall, the 4th Overall and the 6th Overall. They took Steve DeLong at #6. A D- Lineman, who signed with the AFL Chargers. Namath was Drafted at #12 by the Cardinals but signed with the Jets.
""why'd we rank up number one?... Because we couldn't rank him any higher!""
Theres no question Dick Butkus was the Best Linebacker of all time, the meanest hard hitting doomsday machine whose only goal was to annhilate and hit you as hard as could inflict. If he played in todays game I'm sure he would make the adjustments easily enough, he was one fast tough mean beast ...could you imagine a waterboy like in todays game rushing up to Butkus with his bottle and bib, I'm a Vikings fan but Butkus was a one off, he even wore a helmet to small for him just to make him angrier, or so ive heard, I wouldn't doubt it though. He lived for the Crunch!!! such a travesty the guy never got play in one f*cking plaoff game...That just isn't right.
And yet went on to be a TV 'children's sitcom star!!! Great man
What sitcom? Alex Karras was on Webster
there is a reason why the best linebacker in college football gets an award named after this man. he is the benchmark for those who play this position. no others come close.......
Comments from Gale Sayers probably count more than others in my book. Can you imagine practice with those two. I have read and heard extremely well spoken compliments of Sayers by Butkus. Mutual respect and then some. If the ability to repair knees today, was available back then, both would still be playing.
Never a Chicago fan,but Butkus and Sayers were two of the most watchable players ever
Has anyone seen Csonka run at Butkus. Love to see that! Never found any clip of this.
Old School Football at its BESTEST!! WOW! AWESOME!
I'm glad to be a Bears fan
Me, too. Arrow is Pointing Up. Playoffs in '23.
Butkus hit a guy so hard his entire family got concussions.
If an award was named after him (Butkus Award), he obviously was an amazing player.
R.I.P. to the best Middle linebacker that's ever graced god's green earth. The inventer of the position
Best, by consensus. Not even close to being the inventor of the position. In fact, Bill George played middle linebacker for the Bears for eleven years before Butkus replaced him.
@@roberthudson1959Sure did. Papa BEARS' den was loaded. BULL DOG TURNER!
Being called an animal by Deacon Jones is high praise indeed.
Best to ever play the position!! Ray Lewis?...Don't make me laugh!!! Butkus stands alone!!
Jim Cushman Butkus would eat Ray Lewis for breakfast and pick the Ravens jersey out of his teeth with Lewis' bones.
lmao you sure about that? lewis was everything that butkus wasn't hecan actually lead a team to a superbowl and win he laid out some of the baddest runningbacks in his time playing when butkus played running backs were hardly what they were until earl Campbell changed that
Jim Brown 232 lbs. Go away, fool.
Mooncut Jerome Betti's 255 lets see ray laid him out Eddie George 230ish ray also chewed him up Barry sanders....had his worst game against him and the ravens what real hall of fame running backs did butkus play against? I will wait
Paul C lmao that still doesn't answer my question sweetheart;)
1000%!!!!! The BEST Ever!!!
Dick Butkis was the best defensive player ever to play
I got a picture of Butkus when I was a kid. A Polaroid!
Dick Butkus was great some players were afraid playing against him, so he was and will be remembered in the past and in the future as a well oiled player It is a pleasure seeing him in high lights from the past because I was just too young to meet him in person what a treat to seeing him again.
RELENTLESS...UNEQUALED.. UNSTOPPABLE...MANIAC....MADMAN...LEGEND...HERO....there's almost not enough words to describe this destructive force of nature on any football field anywhere. Rest in peace GOAT. The true definition and example of where football BEGAN.
He is the best linebacker to ever play the game hands down
you forget that lawrence taylor exists?
+Mike Pelletier you forget that LT has nothing on butkus, he's 3 on this list LT was also a bit smaller and a outside LB and Butkus played half of his career with bad knees yea no comparison
Alberto Luna this list is most feared... butkus may have been more feared, but he is nowhere near LTs skill set.
+Mike Pelletier this literally means to as the best defense player.. The only reason you don't see it is because stats weren't recorded back then.. But pro players and knowledge educated commenters have acknowledged this also.. Read see for yourself
Karl Nordquist FASTER than LT??? Hahaha i really hope your kidding.
Butkus played back in the day when you could rip a quarterback's helmet violently off his head, and not be penalized.
if gazelle sayers and deacon Jones say u bad, then u bad. end of story.
Can't argue with that.
I loved what Tbe Golden Boy, Paul Hornung #5 Packers HOF half back said: "Dick Butkus went after you like he HATED you frommhis Old Neighborhood....!" My father raised us to play Football and the Game if Life like Butkus...We did...we excelled at both. I love 💘 the man RIP.
King 🤴...matt nyc
This guy was BAD! One of those rare players that you really NEEDED to know where he was on the field... every play!
@charles sutton
You knew Exactly where Taylor was 75% to 80% of the time. On the Outside Rushing the QB. Very rarely dropped in Pass Coverage, which explains his NINE CAREER INTs.in 13 Seasons. They call his position OLB. but, in a 3/4 D, he's an Edge Rusher, or Glorified DE.
@charles sutton
Covert didn't have any problems with Taylor.
His technique was great when he sacked a quarterback. He would rap up their arms so they couldn't get rid of the ball and then drive them into the turf. lethal.
Unfortunately I grew up outside of Chicago after Butkus played in the late 70's when the Bears couldn't beat a good highschool team. Never got to watch him play.
With all due respect to lawrence taylor,he was not as feared or as effective as butkus. Butkus was the best,its just that simple.
Dick Butkus was the greatest player ever to step on a field and I'll stand on Taylor's coffee table and say it to him.
Derrick Thomas and LT were the precursors to the speed edge rushers of today. Butkus was a middle linebacker. Two very separate positions. Old school football was Qb's playing Mike's. I grew up as a QB running the triple option. I loved telling the defense where we were going. If I did my job correctly, no stopping it. Yeah, I got popped ALOT. But that was the best. You go back to the line and say "That was nothing" we are going for 60 yards now!
LT was a great athlete. A linebacker with the skill of a running back. Butkus was an animal that played football.
@@robertmurray9415 Yeah LT was lightning and broke knees (I.E. The Thiesman sack) but Butkus actually tried to rip your head off. I respect his (mean) would actually love to play QB across from that man! After every HS season I would challenge the best players from the other teams we played, to meet up at any park they want in the summer and get after it...Playing pickup games in the parks in Gary and East Chicago Indiana I respect that. I am glad I initiated it because without playing the best of your peers I would have had zero chance of becoming an All-State WR. All the bone crushers that hit me while crossing the middle deserve half of my accolades. I had the opportunity too share a playing field across from 5 guys that went to the NFL. Never lost to any of their teams. Went on to get drafted by the Texas Rangers as a pitcher in the 22nd round. Lol they made a horrible choice as I tore my UCL in A ball in San Antonio. There was no more 5 inch two seamers running back into righties, or sliders starting out in the top right battersbox to lefties. Just a 4 seamer with no velocity and a fork ball that ended up being more of a serving spoon. Lol...but this 5"11 160 lb. White kid from Griffith IN wouldn't change his sports experience for anything.
I think Taylor is ranked higher than him as best ever defensive players.
The best football player I ever saw.
Great guy great player, i used to make believe i was him when playing sand lot football, RIP Mr. Butkus
the bears these days need to watch those old films and maybe they'll go out there and try to win one
IKR! JESUS Bring back the Butkus days show young bucks how properly be a line backer!
The Butkus Years (9 seasons): 48 wins and 74 losses (Courtesy of Cheapo George Halas)
Back then that was real football
great player
I agree
1:12. What a beautiful hit! Definite targeting in today's pansy NFL game. Automatic ejection and a one game suspension!
The ONLY reason the NFL no longer permits these kind of hits is the recent understanding about the damaging effects of multiple concussions and the LAWSUITS that are coming. Lovers of gore and mayhem will just have to satiate themselves with phony movies and video games.
just play blitz the league
Could you imagine him playing on that 85 Bears team...Lets just say that the opposing team would refuse to take the field
Ah but Mike Singletary is as close as we will ever see. 85 BEARS👍
Now that you only get two personal fouls before getting ejected, I doubt Butkus would make it out of the first quarter lol
Man when I used to play football Dick Butkus was my role model I want soccer get a guy so hard it's split his helmet wow R.I.P
Show this video to the 2021 Bears. Every day of the season.
RIP Dick Butkus
Nobody looked more like a football playing monster in that black uniform and those big shoulder pads, and with that mustached face grimacing than Dick Butkus. Todays players just don't have that vibe about them.
With the new rules in football, Butkus probably couldn't play and I was a tremendous fan of the old central division teams (Minnesota, Green Bay and Chicago). None better. Still a Green Bay Packers fan this day!
#1 enough said.
OUTSTANDING....WHY WAS HE RATED #1 ? Cause there was no higher rating.
Dick Butkus was the man.
They dont make players like this anymore
Watched him coming up in my youth, and was the sole influence on my desire for defense. Sunday backyards, most of my friends wanted the glory positions, I just wanted to cream someone with the ball, or right when they where catching it. For ME that was a touchdown feeling...the entire game.
Fuckin A, me too! I LOVED playing linebacker!
@@colmhain Yup, never though about offense, as a kid. I think my older brothers forced me into an aggressive mindset at a young age, no sweat, I applied it.
Not better sound in athletics than crunching a fullback.
@@brianjames7588 Hahaha, yup but that crunch is good with who ever holds the goose.
Hope you're feeling better now...
"it wasn't just a game" Jerry Springer. No kidding sports are war but you are not allowed to kill. That is the proper attitude.
if butkus played today hed be 6-4 270 lbs benching well over 500 lbs and running 4.5 40
Butkus would hold his socks up with staples and thumb tacks.
You have an iconic football last name.
+seattwa Yup, Daryl is my uncle !!! But Joe Namath was still my favorite old time AFL QB.
+phil lamonica Yep, lots of great QBs back in those days.
+seattwa Yup, on the same page as you are. And boy, did they take some shots back in the day. People always say things like "Their number don't compare to today's QB's". No kidding. DB's could basically maul receivers all the way down the field, they was no "in the grasp" rule, no sliding to avoid a hit and back then the name of the game was kill the QB...............They did...... I saw a highlight film of Johnny Unitas. Jesus Christ, did that poor SOB take some helmet to helmet shots. Surprised he lived as long as he did. Everyone wanted to kill Johnny U.
+phil lamonica Yeah Phil. There were a lot of players back then that were driven by pure violence and just plain mean! When you watch films of players like Deacon Jones, Ben Davidson, and many others it makes you wince! And in those days if you slid, you would probably get knocked unconscious.
As big as a Lawrence Taylor fan as I am, Butkus was the most feared tackler in the game. Give me those two, and 9 average players for defense, I'd still keep you under 17 points a game
To the fool who said "I would go caca in my pants"😂🙏 thanks for being real even though I didn't want to know dat lol
That was Mike North. He is a Chicago sports talk host, & I think he might be syndicated nationally too. I heard him on both Seattle & Portland sports talk stations.
That was Mike North , ex chicago sports radio host , moved to the s.w. recently
Saw Butkus play. Guy never missed a tackle. Fuck with him Okay. Just don't come his way the next play. Believe me players got a wake up call when they did.
"When God created the Bears, he created human beings who looked like bears" .....huh?? Thanks Jerry
Captain H confusing
We're gonna miss you, Dick.
No one even close to meaner than Dick, even ask all those guys, they agree....
If you wanna discuss the difference between Dick Butkus and LT. Both were great. Dick Butkus beat up and entire offensive squad weekly, LT beat up Quarterbacks weekly. That's the difference and that is why Dick Butkus is the G.O.A.T.
Butkus was a players player he was a true bear.
THAT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IS FOOTBALL
As a Packer fan, I always got nervous when I saw the Bears on the schedule. I had nightmares about Butkus ripping the head off of Bart Starr.
he was like a Giant Tow Motor and finding its mark Every Time .. after the Game the other team in the locker room were out of commission for a week or two
It’s unfortunate that as sports fans, we know little about sports history.
Dick Butkus was a vastly superior football player and one of the all time greats.
they hated playing against butkus a very bad day was ahead i feel sorry for those guys ... the nock out artist #51
RIP Legend
It is great to hear the voice of the great John Facenda!
WTF does Jerry Springer know about Dick Butkus..its like asking Liberace about a womans beauty.
i was wondering the same thing. kind of an insult to the game.
undoutedly made during the apex of The Jerry Springer Show, a cultural phenomenon, and jerry's a famous Chicagoan
Butkus is like a grizzly bear in pads
Nobody better than Butkus...ever. And that's coming from a lifelong Packers fan. I think Ray Nitschke was just as mean and probably number two on my biased list. That's when the Packers Bears rivalry really meant something!Have to mention though...man, is that Mike North guy annoying to listen to or what?
2:26-2:32...That's some funny shit!
Rip legend !!
He didn't want to hurt you, he wanted to end you.. r.i.p dude
I'd like to shake his lady friend's hand. What a trooper she must've been.
Badddd man
RIP Goat
the word FEARED is a subjective term and how one views that would determine that as well like beauty in the eyes of the beholder
Shut up and go back to your dictionary, you nose-picking twerp.
don't make the same mistakes that vual grimoire parents did - use birth control
RIP Butkus
It was almost a straight min of all the players butkus hurt
1:06 so true
very fast 40 yard speed time 4,37 to later 4, 64 he was very fast
LOL! '65-'74, the only period in NFL history you'd DREAD a game thats virtually a guaranteed win!
Roses are red and violets are blue. And if you've got any sense, you'll keep Butkus away from you!
Amen to that brother.
Dck Butkus played football? I thought he was an actor.
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All football players pass and present are a breed of their own 💪🏽🏈
Almost every one of these plays here would be illegal in todays game lol
Not safe even if you were on his team. Hit at 1:22. Not only does he take out the Lions Charlie Sanders, but DB Rosie Taylor to.
Yeah you saw that too--- boom- boom--- out go the lights👍♥️