The Missing Csonka

[Realgeorge]

Excellent Article! Well Done Again, J.B. Cash


Don Shula was smart enough (or not P.C. enough) to have TWO magnificent white ballcarriers on his championship Dolphins' teams. Csonka and Kiick. Butch and Sundance. Absolutely immortal. They flattened the Redskins in the 1973 Super Bowl and all sixteen other opponents that year.


And I lived through the Riggins era. Riggo was second to none, and the "Bus" and the various arrogant unwhite runners of today can't hold a candle to John Riggins. Joe Gibbs is every bit the ninny that our ANU leader accuses him to be. He is StepandFetchit to an egregious NWO Yiddish owner who enforces CasteSystem uber alles. The Skins can sukk from year to year, but that's OK as long as they are all unwhite.


Kiick and Csonka. Dave Osborn and Bill Brown. Mark van Eeghan. Brian Piccolo. Norm Buliach and Tom Matte. Walt Garrison. Jim Bertelsen. Hokie Gajan. Jim Grbowski. Les Josephson. Craig James (who barely earns a footnote in the N.E. Patriots official website).I may be an old coot, but I can remember some great white NFL runners. They had vastly more character and grace than their unwhite counterparts.


Clinton the Weasel Portis, shortly after yet another pisz-pour performance as Redskin runner, donned a goofy purple-hair and yellow-mustache halloween costume to mug for the camera in front of the fawning DC press. This pud is the all-time worst. Even Deion Sanders had more grace. Joe Gibbs: You are excrement. Please retire again, get outta town!
J.B. Cash, another excellent article!Edited by: Realgeorge

 

[jaxvid]

Marv Hubbard, Dave Hampton and Jim Otis also come to mind.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Don't forget about the great Jim Taylor! Another great article JB!

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[sport historian]

Out of curiosity, am I the only one on this Forum who remembers seeing Jim Taylor play on TV from 1960-64? To know how good a player was, you have to watch him during the course of a game, not just highlights from NFL Films decades later.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

I don't know the answer to that question sport historian, but I can tell you that I was born over a decade after that 5 year span you mentioned. I have seen others write about him on here and I knew leaving him out was a gross oversite.

 

[Don Wassall]

Mark Van Eeghen led the AFC, but Taylor was the last white man to lead the entire NFL in rushing, back in 1963. It's pretty amazing to consider that Steve Nash was the NBA MVP last season, but there's not as much as a single backup white running back out of roughly 100 running backs in the NFL. It's even more amazing that the vast majority of football fans think this is natural andnot manipulated in the leastbecause, let's all say it together now,"on average blacks are faster than whites," therefore none of the millions of whites who play footballwill ever have the capability of playingtailback.

 

[sport historian]

I have an audio tape of the 1965 Green Bay-Cleveland NFL Title Game. I bought it from Danrick Enterprises. During the pre-game show, the announcer said, "This game features two great fullbacks." This would shock fans today, that Taylor was considered in Brown's league.


The Packers won 23-12. Taylor was MVP with 27-96 and 2 pass receptions. He ground out the clock in the second half, keeping the ball away from the Browns. Brown only carried three times in the 2nd half, plus a screen pass for no gain. Brown alsomissed a catchable ball in the end zone in the 3rd quarter. He had 12-50 for the game.


ESPN Classic sometimes shows the highlight film of this game. I'll mention on the Forum if I see it on the schedule.

 

[Realgeorge]

Many Apologies! I left out Jim Taylor. Thanks, guys, for including him back in!


I remember seeing Taylor play -- on the fringes of my memory, way back in beautiful early 1960s. Saw him gain mucho yards against the Deadskins when Bill McPeak was coach. Taylor was a bull, but a fast bull.


We should remember: Some guy named Hornung wasn't bad as a ballcarrier either! Too bad he has gone Caste on us, but he sure could run. Another obscure fellow named "Gifford" wasn't bad either ... was almost killed by the Bednarik monster ... and he married a cutie some years later !! and was a pretty good play-by-play guy next to This-Is-Howard-Cosell


I even like watching old films of some bow-legged dude named "Kilmer" trudging his way through a few old NFL defensesEdited by: Realgeorge

 

[Gary]

I saw Jim Taylor run the ball many times. I grew up in Akron,Ohio as a Cleveland Browns fan. The Packers had an all-White backfield with Bart Starr, Jim Taylor, Paul Hornung. Starr could throw to White Men like Max McGee, Boyd Dowler, Ron Kramer. The great blocking up front by White men like Fuzzy Thurston, Forrest Gregg, Jerry Kramer and later Gale Gillingham[whose 3 sons appear in Strong Men Contests.] After Taylor left they had two more White running backs Donnie Anderson and Jim Grabowski. By the way until Vince Lombardi took over Green Bay they were not very good.

 

[Gary]

Let's not forget a great fullback/tackle named Bronko Nagurski. He is in both the College and Pro football Hall of Fames. All-American at Minnesota and later with the Chicago Bears. He is the forerunner of tough White backs like Riggins, Csonka, Taylor and John David Crow. He was 6'2 228lbs of bone,muscle and blood. He was also a World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion.They don't come any tougher then Bronko Nagurski!!

 

[Realgeorge]

Hello Gary !! Excellent Post !!


Thanks for the reminders of Nagurski and John David Crow. Would that we could get ESPN Classic to run highlight reels of these guys,as an antidote to the Deion Sanders and Priest Holmes film festival !


Vaguely I even remember two more excellent AFL runners who made some glorioushighlight films: Keith Lincoln and Gino Cappelletti

 

[Gary]

I remember Gino Cappelletti and Keith Lincoln. When I was a young kid the AFL had just started. There was two good white running backs for the Houston Oilers named Billy Cannon and Charley Tolar. The Chargers were in Los Angeles, the Dallas Texans later became the Chiefs[Kansas City, The New York Jets were called the Titans. Cappelletti played for the Boston Patriots. I used to have football cards of most of the good players, came with some gum. Have a good day Realgeorge!!