As you know I don't really watch football, but I'm curious about this. Has there ever been a player who can just run over defenders instead of out-run or out-manuever them? I'm talking about like 2-3 guys coming at him and he simply knocks them down and keeps going.

Why of course, his name was Bruce Banner.

He played for the Milwaukee Marvels.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3e/Incredible-hulk-20060221015639117.jpg/400px-Incredible-hulk-20060221015639117.jpg
Hulk smash!

There was a running back .. Earl Campbell ... Heisman Trophy winner out of the University of Texas (Austin) and later of the Houston Oilers who often carried opposing team members into the end zone.

Jim Brown of the Browns--almost unstoppable.

As for finesse and the moves of a jungle cat, Gale Sayers.
Lord, that guy was good and beautiful to watch.

Jerome Bettis and Mike Alstott are two who come to mind.

Refrigerator Perry in 1985 LOL

no, but for real i would say Jamal Lewis back in the early 2000's... Eric Dickerson, Jerome Bettis, Earl Campbell definitely.. "Touchdown Tommy" Vardell never "shaked and baked" much either LOL...

Bronco Nagurski and maybe John Riggins.

Campbell, yes. Brown, no, not because he couldn't but because he broke more tackles than he dragged tacklers.

Pele and Maradona are the best ever in the whole history of Football (of course of the real Football, that there is):

Find Pele here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pel%C3%A9
and here http://www.ifhof.com/hof/pele.asp

Find Maradona here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maradona

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/8788/pele01rj6.jpg

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/1051/maradona08oo2.jpg

That's soccer!

That's soccer!
NO!, it's FOOTBALL..... It is Football for some Five Thousand Seven Hundred And Fifty Million (5,750,000,000) people around the Globe, if we are around Six Thousand Millions in this Earth of ours...
So, it is FOOTBALL then!. It may have a different name for just a very few people in just one country... But just one country doesn't count, when all the others call it FOOTBALL.

But just one country doesn't count, when all the others call it FOOTBALL.
What an silly argument. The population of the US recently surpassed 300 million, it far from being "few people" and since we have our own distinct culture, where another sport uses the tag of "football", the fact that the rest of the world calls it that means nothing. We shall call it what we like.

However, the fact the US doesn't use the metric system scares me.

NO!, it's FOOTBALL..... It is Football for some Five Thousand Seven Hundred And Fifty Million (5,750,000,000) people around the Globe, if we are around Six Thousand Millions in this Earth of ours...
So, it is FOOTBALL then!. It may have a different name for just a very few people in just one country... But just one country doesn't count, when all the others call it FOOTBALL.

Yes, yes, you're the exact opposite of everyone on this board. WE KNOW!

The population of the US recently surpassed 300 million, it is far from being "few people" and since we have our own distinct culture..

Still just 5%... And, really you don't have a culture, you are trying to invent one, but Mac Donald's or Coca Cola are not a culture.

Yes, yes, you're the exact opposite of everyone on this board. WE KNOW!

It is good to do the opposite in the Forum, gives some flavor to almost everything... Singing the same song, gets to be really boring...

who cares what its called... i know the difference when i talk to europeans and they say "football".. i KNOW they mean soccer. While americans can just say "football".. most people call it "american football" around the world.

So quit the "football pride" BS argument.. I know that SOCCER is the most popular sport around the world, hell i played it growing up and still do play... i just got done with an indoor soccer league. Its a great game... it just doesn't happen to be quite as popular in the states.

Its the same deal with Tennis, which is my personal favorite sport... a few years ago my dad and I nearly had a heart-attack because the local station which was to air the US Open Final chose to instead show a Cleveland Browns wrap-up show called "The Fifth Quarter"...

Riddle me this.. what is more watchable and important???

The Cleveland Browns.. a football team who sucks and just lost, and now having idiot cleveland reporters go back and review EVERY play saying the same old jibberish they say after every game...

OR

The US Open Men's Final.. i believe the matchup was Lleyton Hewitt vs. Marat Safin...

I couldnt believe they did that.. the coverage of the US Open final picked up after the first set... and my dad was livid.

Just goes to show that in America there isn't much love for the more european sports.. sadly

It is good to do the opposite in the Forum, gives some flavor to almost everything... Singing the same song, gets to be really boring...

Indeed it does, but when you're not actually adding anything to the conversation, and in fact hindering it just to make some sort of point, you're not flavoring anything.

Still just 5%... And, really you don't have a culture, you are trying to invent one, but Mac Donald's or Coca Cola are not a culture.
A) 5% of 6.5 billion is huge.
B) America has its own distinct culture, say otherwise and you're an idiot. Even if that culture includes fast-food, it is still a culture.
C) Where are you from that makes you so pompous? "America has no culture and is trying to invent one?" We've had one for two hundred years. Tell me some the characteristics of your culture so I can bash them with the lame argument "That's not a culture (trait)!"

All of this culture war stuff was stemmed from a discussion about if there was ever an NFL player that plowed over people? My oh my how topics change around here.

Seems that many threads starting out with NFL football as the topic get sidelined by somebody with the opinion that what's being discussed as football is not in fact football as they know it. For my own part, I've never wandered into a thread discussing what I know to be soccer and told the participants they were using the wrong term by calling that game football. I've more common courtesy than that.

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.....

All references to soccer (the favored sport of Brazilians, Euro-trash, and American soccer moms who are afraid that their little Jason’s and Jennifer’s will get hurt playing a real contact sport) aside, only two genuine power-runners come to mind;

Larry Czonka of the Miami Dolphins (early '70's)
and
John Riggins of the Washington Redskins (late '70's through the mid-'80's).

These guys would knock your dick in the dirt if you got in their way.
They exemplified hard-nosed American football, and were revered, feared, and reviled throughout the league for their work ethic, their single-minded dedication, and their uncanny ability to run thru the opposition, not around it.

My hat is off to them.
:thumbs:

Frank Gore ran over 3 or 4 guys on his way to a 60+ yard TD run against Detroit on sunday