Your First Favorite Player

[greatgig13]

It’s the high school offseason so let’s have some fun. Who’s your first favorite football player?

I’ll start with RB Wendell Tyler of the LA Rams. I was a big Rams fan as a kid. Don’t know why, but I loved their helmets and colors as a kid.

 

[MC63]

Walter

 

[4Afan]

Walter

No offense, but don't you pre date Walter? Was he your first favorite player?

 

[4Afan]

Toss up for me. Popular pick was Neal Anderson or someone not on the Bears, Ronnie Lott. Obscure pick, Dennis Gentry, we were both little guys.

 

[rocketnation]

I was a Baltimore Colts fan as a kid, Bert Jones and Lydell Mitchell were my favorite players.

 

[sporthog9er]

An extremely weird one for me but because of Tecmo Bowl, mine was Haywood Jeffries of the Oilers

 

[forlouann]

I was an early Miami Dolphins fan. #39 Larry Csonka was my hero. Had a poster of him hanging on my wall. ( followed by a Farrah Fawcett )

 

[Oddy]

John Unitas

 

[crusader_of_90]

Since this play …

 

[McCaravan]

Favorite Bear not named Walter Payton- Dan Hampton

Favorite Non Bear- Eric Dickerson

Least Favorite- Joe Montana- Out of pure jealousy that he was always that good.

 

[greatgig13]

Favorite Bear not named Walter Payton- Dan Hampton

Favorite Non Bear- Eric Dickerson

Least Favorite- Joe Montana- Out of pure jealousy that he was always that good.

I was a big fan of Dickerson and Barry Sanders. They came later for me.

 

[corey90]

Eric Dickerson. I was a huge fan growing up in Southern California. The Rams were my team then. Not so much anymore.
Like MC I hated Montana. He killed us every damn year! 😂

 

[greatgig13]

Eric Dickerson. I was a huge fan growing up in Southern California. The Rams were my team then. Not so much anymore.
Like MC I hated Montana. He killed us every damn year! 😂

Yep! Jack Youngblood, Lawrence McCutcheon, Pat Haden, Vince Ferragamo…

 

[PowerI66]

Bears - Curtis Conway and Bryan Cox
Non Bears - Reggie White and Terrell Davis

Guess what year I started watching football...🤣

 

[Gene K.]

Bears- Gale Sayers followed by Dick Butkus

 

[McCaravan]

Bears - Curtis Conway and Bryan Cox
Non Bears - Reggie White and Terrell Davis

Guess what year I started watching football...🤣

Around the same time I was getting ready for my wedding 😀

 

[McCaravan]

Eric Dickerson. I was a huge fan growing up in Southern California. The Rams were my team then. Not so much anymore.
Like MC I hated Montana. He killed us every damn year! 😂

Dickerson said he took a pay cut when he left SMU for the NFL 😀

 

[Secondo1]

Bart Starr to Boyd Dowler for the touchdown as called by the great Ray Scott!!
Go, Pack!

 

[Silver Rain]

Two Jims. Plunkett and McMahon.

 

[Wassup13]

Walter Payton

Dave Casper

Fred Biletnikoff

Billy White Shoes Johnson

 

[lweastdad]

Sayers and Butkus

 

[Snetsrak61]

Bears - Curtis Conway and Bryan Cox
Non Bears - Reggie White and Terrell Davis

Guess what year I started watching football...🤣

Probably around the same time as me! Curtis Conway was my first ever jersey, so hes probably up there for me as well. I remember liking Cox along with Raymont Harris, Mark Carrier, and James Big Cat Williams. But yea, Davis and Elway and those late 90s Broncos including the b2b Super Bowlds were up there for me in my early NFL fandom (and damn what an awful time to become a Bears fan 🥴)

 

[lookoutforliam]

It’s the high school offseason so let’s have some fun. Who’s your first favorite football player?

I’ll start with RB Wendell Tyler of the LA Rams. I was a big Rams fan as a kid. Don’t know why, but I loved their helmets and colors as a kid.

Peter Patton (QB '92 Loyola) and Peter Gorman (DB/Utility '96 Loyola) top the list. Jamie Baisley, Pat Naughton and Adrian Autry round it out.

 

[MC63]

Bart Starr to Boyd Dowler for the touchdown as called by the great Ray Scott!!
Go, Pack!

He'd begin by saying, "Dale to the left, the ever-present Boyd Dowler to the right, Pitts the running back, Starr with the signal..."

"3 ... 88.. hut"

 

[MC63]

No offense, but don't you pre date Walter?

I pre-date Pop Warner

 

[SiuCubFan8]

Deion Sanders

 

[Wassup13]

Deion Sanders

Isn't he the only player in the NFL who never made a tackle.

 

[corey90]

Isn't he the only player in the NFL who never made a tackle.

He definitely avoided any kind of contact. He liked to dance and show boat. Actually tackling was a weak spot in his game. You never worried about about him laying a hit on a player. Speed was his weapon.

 

[Sparty Jones]

Walter. He gave out great Halloween candy in our Arlington Heights neighborhood.

 

[LTHSALUM76]

Len Dawson. I was Chiefs fan before becoming a Bears fan. I blame Walter Payton for the switch. LOL. Deep down I am still a Chiefs fan and if you've never been there you must put a game at Arrowhead on your bucket list.

 

[LTHSALUM76]

He definitely avoided any kind of contact. He liked to dance and show boat. Actually tackling was a weak spot in his game. You never worried about about him laying a hit on a player. Speed was his weapon.

He didn't have to do any tackling because the ball was rarely thrown into his zone. Guys don't make the HOF by accident.

 

[RoaminCatholic]

For football? Sheesh picking one is tough... Toss up between Derrick Thomas, Marcus Allen, Tony Gonzalez, Joe Montana, Andre Rison probably. One of them for sure... Was a Blue Springs, Mo kid in the 90s.

 

[kpjasion]

I was always a lineman, even in grade school, so know the context for my pick.. Wally Chambers

 

[stl705]

I missed Walter, but the player who reeled me in to football at a very young age was pretty good too… Barry Sanders.

 

[greatgig13]

I missed Walter, but the player who reeled me in to football at a very young age was pretty good too… Barry Sanders.

Have you watched Bye Bye Barry on Prime? Pretty interesting.

 

[corey90]

He didn't have to do any tackling because the ball was rarely thrown into his zone. Guys don't make the HOF by accident.

No one talked about HOF. I just made a true statement. He avoided tackling like the plague. The ball was run his way and he never tried to hit. More of a grabber if he had to tackle.

 

[stl705]

Have you watched Bye Bye Barry on Prime? Pretty interesting.

No, I don’t have Prime but I’ll try to check this out sometime! Thanks for the heads up.

 

[guerinfbfan]

Drew Bledsoe

 

[SiuCubFan8]

Isn't he the only player in the NFL who never made a tackle.

🙄
He was elite…

 

[eagles2k3]

No offense, but don't you pre date Walter? Was he your first favorite player?

Figured his was Red Grange or Knute Rockne..