Earl Campbell: A Football Life - The Ultimate Back
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- Опубліковано 9 бер 2015
- "A Football Life: Earl Campbell" takes a look at how Campbell's combination of size, speed, power and skill made him one of the greatest running backs of all time.
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I watched Earl Campbell play football from high school to New Orleans Saints. I can honestly say I have seen the best running back ever to play football. Thank you Lord!
Amen. When I see modern running backs like Marshawn Lynch and Derrick Henry get talked about as being great, I always think back to watching Earl Campbell play and laugh. These other guys are good, no disrespect to them, but Earl Campbell was on a different level. I was lucky enough to be able to see some games in the Astrodome as a kid. His runs, every single one, was like these modern guys highlights. Every run had him breaking multiple tackles and making defenses look silly. Earl is, was, and will forever be the best running back to play the game.
Earl ran over you or around with equal ease
He was just a horse in cleats. I never saw him get caught from behind. To have that power and speed, very very rare indeed
When you get hit by Jack Tatum at the goal line and still get in you are a legend.
@Mdmchannel Jack Tatum ... O-State, baby!
I love Earl Campbell. My brother in law(6"4" 240 - linebacker) played him in a HS playoff game(from north Texas) and said he ran over me twice and I didn't even slow him down. He also makes a pretty decent sausage.
Really, earl Campbell my hero too, he was so fast and powerful running back
Earl did not play the second half of any game his senior year, imagine what his yardage would be if he had.
Tyler, Tx
❤️ earl cambell
I grew up in Pittsburgh and a life long Steelers fan ... nothing but respect for Earl Campbell, he gave 100% every game.
That was nice of you to say that I'm an oilers fan always have been and the days of the football games when I watched with my father your team was always our Nemesis your team seem to give my team more trouble than anybody else did including the cowboys you had an excellent team Terry Bradshaw one of the best be safe have a good day
Earl was a home grown hero. He was country all the way and a true gentleman.i was lucky enough to have drinks with him once. He would not let us pay for a round. He threw down a hundred and went and gave a speech to graduating high schoolers . He came back continued to chat.He never shyed away from the public. Him and Bum lived and played golf only a few miles from were I grew up. He was down to earth but played like a god.
southcity34 nicest guy you could ever meet.
Ranking Runningbacks: Earl Campbell first...put the rest of 'em in line any way you want to.
My only critique is Barry belongs in that conversation. I can never choose which I think is best because their styles were so different. In my dream world, I have both on my team in a rotation and defenses are not just brutalized and beaten, but exhausted and embarrassed. Can you imagine being able to run an offense with both at you disposal?
Imagine if Earl Campbell played with Warren Moon and a slightly better defense...
+XFactoration101 Well he did play with Warren Moon, but got traded halfway through the season.
Moon and the coach who came with him were not at all a good fit; both were about throwing the ball 40 times. The coach lasted maybe 1 year. Moon was decent, nowhere near great.
Will D moon is in the HOF in CFL and NFL lol I’m not gonna say he’s the GOAT, but he’s way above decent
@@raitaylor Yep - 6 games in 84, all losses.
Imagine if Earl Cambell played with Roger Staubach
The Oilers practiced off-season in San Angelo where I lived at the time.
I went to watch them a few times and after practice, there would be a line of kids wanting his autograph.
No matter how tired he was or how long it took he signed for every one of those young fans.
They didn't call them the Houston Earlers for nothing.
Class
Humble
Controlled power
Makes terrific sausage
Earl is my favorite back!!
God Bless you Earl!
Earl breaks my Heart. He really took a major beating on his body playing the game he loves. 😞
Toughest Back Ever ! I was a kid. 10 years old in 1977. And I used to love to watch Earl Run !! He was great !!
if Earl Campbell played in Jim Brown's day, he would never have been tackled.
True
Will very ture
Earl Campbell was AWESOME!
He has never been tackled
Maybe I’m wrong
luv ya blue..
At 2:57 in this video, Campbell hits a great LB named Isaiah Robertson “the black Butkus” and after this hit his career went down and never recover, he just have some flashes of his greatness when he join Coach Chuck Knox in the Buffalo Bills.
RIP Isiah Robertson
I wondered if anyone else remember those things.
My favorite Earl Campbell plays is the goal line play vs the Raiders. The Assassin Jack Tatum hits Campbell and he still scored. My other favorite play was the run vs the Rams. He f***ing head butted a guy. His jersey tore and he was still going. God damn beast.
#Redskinsman10
Yeah man. And if you watch that play against the rams, Earl uses that dude to take out two other players. One perfectly placed hit, three defenders taken out of the play.
Getting hit by Earl Campbell was probably like being hit by a car.
The best running back ever to come out of UT. And will always be the best in the NFL also !!
I watched him play college football and pro....didnt really understand how good he was in college but when he got to the pros.....man what a sight to watch him run.
Imagine what he would have done with Emmit Smiths offensive line.
Jesus. That’d be ridiculous. I wanna say the entire time Campbell was on the Oilers he had a single O-linemen who made the pro bowl and he only made it once. Yet Earl still played like that.
Three of Emmitt's offensive linemen were starters on the 3-13 and 1-15 teams in 1988 and 1989. Smith was drafted in 1990 and won rookie of the year.
8 years..9'407 yards pretty awesome.
Its sad the Oilers didn't do better than they did during Campbell's career. It was like OJ Simpson with the Bills or Gale Sayers with the Bears. These guys deserved to be on a Super Bowl caliber team
+Mark Muffs If they just could've gotten past the Steelers, we would have had a couple of Texas Super Bowls maybe.
+thegorn68 I can believe that. I thought in the Bum Phillips era that was a very likely scenario.
Mark Muffs he was he played on two back to back AFC Championship games but both were in 78-79 against the 11 hall of fame Pittsburgh teams
The Oilers were most definitely a super bowl caliber team. At one point they were like the 2nd best team in the NFL behind the Steelers. The Steelers were the only thing that kept them from the Super Bowl in the 78 and 79 seasons.
Earl Campbell Hot Links are the best!
1:58 the guy that rams Earl Campell falls back down, and looks like he died o.o
+C&S Trolling It looks that way,his arm is all stiff when he hits the ground ....
C&S Trolling I think he was either concussed or broke his neck😬
Dude looks like williy coyote fallling
Was that jack Youngblood?
Hahsha
The Tyler Rose 🌹 is the best power running back all time. 🏈
OMG, I love this video. Earl Campbell is the reason I attended the University of Texas. I had junior college offers to play football but wasn't going to make a UT roster. But UT was there for me, and I never looked back. God bless Earl Campbell. He is not a man. He is THE man.
I saw Earl Campbell brand brats and sausages in the deli section the other day. Not made by oscar meyer, made by The Earl Campbell Meat Processing Company
It's the ground up bodies of the defenders he ran over
Love you blue Grew up in Houston in the heyday of bum Phillips and Earl Campbell good times
one of my fondest memories is in Earl's first season Howard Cossel was saying Earl was too slow to be a pro, and the next play Earl broke off tackle and ran over 80 yards for a touchdown.
One of Cossell's most idiotic statements ever
EARL WAS THE REAL DEAL FROM THE WORD "GO"
wow
EXCELLENT video! At 2:58 is the play I remember most...that’s badass! Thank you for posting. Everyone knows who earl campbell is. What a great man
I’m 59 soon and came up with this LEGENDARY RB🌟⚡️💪 All time Top 10 for sure!
I have followed Big Earl for years and met him one Spring Break at Louies Back Yard on S Padre Island, Tx while on promo for Skoal Tobacco along with Dallas Cowboy Randy White. Served Earl a cold beer and shook his bear paw of a hand and told him he was my favorite running back of all time and he laughed and said in country drawl. "Thanks a lot man. " Pure power. The entire country knew he was getting ball and could not tackle him. He punished defensive linemen which was normally unheard of until EARL. The best !
dude, i remember Louies backyard from SP in the 80's! literally every part of ur story rings true..
Back when we loved the game.
Thank you
I'm 49 years old.
#34 Earl Cambell was my 1st
Childhood Super Hero.
...and I grew up a Redskin, lol.
1:57 ... Bronco dies trying to tackle Campbell.
DOA!
Steve Foley, a very good player too.
Earl was the man
There will never come another. simply the best.
This man is an unorthodox and brute like player on my perspective. The oilers would have been my favorite team if they weren't disbanded in 1996..Too me the oilers where like an all-star team.
HyperionWhats so Unorthodox? Earl was Strong and had Big Powerful legs, Balance, Endless Stamina also if you Noticed he had a Very Good Stiff Arm.
In his prime, which was a fairly short period of time, he was one of the greatest athletes I ever saw. In his prime he was up there with Michael Jordan and Barry Bonds.
Earl Campbell is my favorite running back of all time. Skoal Brother
Campbell was a runaway steer in a stampede. Unstoppable
That hit on Isiah Robertson at 2:57 sounded like a rifle shot inside the Dome that day. I was there and at the end of the play, the stadium announcer (Jim Corolla of KILT radio) said "Mr. Robertson...meet Mr. Campbell." The crowd went nuts.
A steelers fan,,, who loved watching Earl Campbell one my favorite running backs ...
I lived in this time to watch this tremendous force of nature.! this guy was fun to watch !!!!!!
Yeah the day Earl ran over Youngblood in the rams game and kept running was beyond what anyone had ever saw before.. Or when Earl went to the outside and ran thru and past anyone was amazing and fun to watch.. Watching Earl run over and over on some plays was beyond what we had never seen before.. Great man Earl Campbell is even today ..grounded, god fearing and everyone still loves this man.. He in many ways is like no one ever.. Earl was a thrill to me every time he ran the ball. God bless Earl.
Earl Camphell..THE INSPIRATION!
Back in these days, teams had so much character and personality. Watching the Oilers was fun, but not the way you might think. You had to love 3 yards and a cloud of dust (not in the Astrodome of course, the dust part lol) because when they had the game wrapped up, needed to eat up the clock, or even just to tire out the defense and get something going, that's what you got with Earl diving to the middle over and over. Of course, there were the big moments, but that's what you got mostly. And yeah, Bum and his cowboy hat.
This is beast mode
No Tyler your dad was incredible your dad was 1st and you can line the rest of them up anyway you like but your dad was a FUCKING BEAST
As child of the 1970s growing up a Patriots fan I WANTED Earl so bad on the Pats. My favorite NFL player all time.
2:48 Tatum delivers a death blow and Campbell is definitely seeing stars but still manages to stumble sideways into the end zone.
Best back to ever play the game. Period
I have never seen a running back to this day, run like Earl Campbell
hes was one of my favrite players
A beast absolutely beast mode
One of the most underrated players ever St Louis in the house
I got to see Campbell play for two years in the Astrodome.
He was a beast
Besides Marshall Faulk, as a St Louis Rams fan, Earl Campbell is probably my favorite running back of all time
Watching highlights of him is AMAAAAAAAZING
IT TOOK ARMIES OF PLAYERS TO TACKLE HIM!!!
The second beast mode!
This game and the playoff win vs the Chargers are perhaps the greatest victories the Oilers ever had.
He was Jim Brown Favorite RB, May He R.I.P.
Love his sausage from atl buy them a lot
A powerful powerful man.
Mi gran Amigo
Beast mode.
2:57 R.I.P. Isiah Robertson
Godzilla Mode
i was at the Astrodome for that 'welcome home'. and i still have my Earl Campbell jersey. for me personally, the greatest running back ever. LUV YA BLUE
He was great at running the ball.
1:32 He brushed off two guys like nothing damn!!
Hands down. The greatest power back of all time. And that is in some very strong company. Don't bother getting out of the way. You will go as far as he decides to drag you. The game is missing the true fullback.
Big Earl Campbell..!! Only knew one way to run: straight ahead, no matter who was in the way. That's why he can barely walk today.
Had a friend who was a redshirt linebacker on the Texas Longhorn team back in the 70's. In a scrimmage, Earl shattered his facemask when he tried to tackle Earl; still had the facial scars...
That Earl Campbell was some football player.
I always called Earl “ THE SLITZ MALT LIQUOR BULL. HIS COMMERCIAL HE DID.
I remember the years of big Earl . Mr e
BRING BACK THE HOUSTON OILERS!! THE TEXANS NAME DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT, NEVER DID.
One word-stud
That is exactly why I am going to the University of Texas
The G.O.A.T.
Fun Fact: Earl Campbell wasn’t the one that was supposed to go pro in the family he actually had a older brother that was twice as faster and twice as stronger but had to quit football and school in order to help his family out in the fields. Crazy he would’ve been a legend too.
Wow, what a beast. He was like Lynch and Lacy power wise with about a half second-second better 40 speed.
Those are two power rb earl Campbell is 10x the rb those two are he is fast and he is a bowling ball marshawn and lacy are big dudes but neither are very fast
Half a second? so 4.46 - .5 = 3.94? ok
Lynch is compared to Campbell, but is neither as big or as physical. Lynch bounces off guys, Campbell went through them. Lacy is decent but hasn't had the discipline to be a consistently good back, now somewhere around 20-30 lbs. overweight. The closest I've seen to Campbell was Gary Brown, who played with Moon for Houston in the early 90s.
The man known as Beast Mode is great......But he' no Skoal Brotha!!!!!!
The Tyler Rose!
EARL CAMPBELL, The Running Back When His Offensive Line Didn't Make Holes For him to Run Through, Earl Made His Own Holes, Running Through Every One and Anyone who Stood in his Way.
Imagine how Earl would have run over people in Jim Brown's era - wow!
Never boasting achievements from his game with his own family speaks volumes about him…..a rare warrior!
2:57 That Rams LB developed drinking problems after that play. RIP
Greatness. What bothered me were the last few years; still not exactly sure what injuries he had if any to lead him to retire when he did. Would've been nice to see him have a second act, on a stable team like Washington for example, that got Rodgers instead of Campbell. I know that Campbell said that when he couldn't outrun the defense anymore, it was time to go but still..
+Will D He had mental problems that needed urgent attention. Plus they ran him to death. "Earl are you tired?" "yes", ok we'll pass
There's absolutely nothin to substantiate either claim.
My dad was a sales director for a major bread distributor in Texas. They used to hold charity golf tournaments and Earl was always invited and he would always oblige. After the tourney was finished they would have like a banquet style dinner and Earl would come to the banquet and hang out and then give a speech or at least make the rounds. Mind you, this was 10 to 15 years after his career was over and I'll never forget the way he walked. He was this big, hulking man but he walked like he was damn near crippled. Also, any time he went from sitting to standing he would struggle like he was a 65 year old man and he was only in his mid 40s at the time. He was definitely overworked but I don't think he would've had it any other way. Not to mention, he was so classy and gracious to everyone at the events. I even played against his son in middle school and high school and he was no slouch either. Sorry for the long-winded reply but I've never spoken about this until now. In my opinion him and OJ Simpson were the two greatest runners I've ever seen at the RB position, Earl being the greatest. Just watch both of their old highlights and you'll know what I mean...unless you already have.
I agree with you; I spoke with OJ one on one at Studio 54 in NYC just before his last year in San Fran, and to this day thats the best halfback ever-very fast, excellent moves. He doesn;t get the credit because many didnt see him on TV, and the stuff that happened later. Earl had that limp and heart condition, after retirement, but I dont think that was the case when he played with NO, because they wouldn;t have traded for him had he had issues then. The only thing he said then was that he realized during that time that he'd lost speed; nothing else has ever been mentioned. I hated what happened to him and team after Phillips left. The only other back Id include with them is Bo, who had attributes of both of them, and unfortunately while he was healthy he always put baseball first so we'll never know. OJ was the only one of the three that had a full career, so we were cheated.
Spot on man, spot on. OJ was UNBELIEVABLE. Anytime I show someone his highlights they are blown away at his power and his INHUMAN speed. He was amazing and it's unfortunate how things turned out.
When he trucked that rams linebacker, it was said that man had emotional issues with living afterwards. That's how much manhood meant then.
Wow WOW houston oilers legendary
Walter Payton was my hero but EC was a beast his three year stretch 78, 79 and 80 is in unmatched in my eyes. It’s a shame after 81 he was basically done
He would beat the crap out of anybody who tried to tackle him. Look at him, he was a beast.
Top five in run back in nfl
what happened to coaches like a Bum Phillips I would love to play for a coach like that old school smash mouth
Joshua Avery a really coach that was true old school and wore a cowboy hat...which he never wore indoors. There's a reason the bum Phillips era is so memorable
BadMoonRising92 Plus Bum was a joy to be around. Definitely somebody you would want to sit down and have a beer with.
Joshua Avery - We have a pretty good version today in Rex Ryan. Imagine if Rex could've coached during Bum 's era with less all encompassing media. I think both their careers are very similar.
the original beast mode
What an insult to Earl Campbell! He wasn't "the original beast mode" - He was Earl Fckin Campbell! To even utter Marshawn Lynch's name in a sentence with Mr. Campbell, as if he was even remotely close to being anywhere near as good a running back as Earl, is a complete insult and you're an imbecile!
+Chris Edmondson the way they play*
2:17 his blocker his is like "slow up man" Earl's like "I got it, I dont need a blocker escort".
2:04 HD PVR back then? :D
2:41 "And I never saw him get caught from behind (2:14)" Except for this!
The original beast mode. Made the dude from the seahawks of today look like a punk.
Earl Campbell is the GOAT of RBs
He ran into the STEEL CURTAIN.
Jim Brown gets a lot of praise for being dominant in his day, but the reality is Earl and Barry Sanders were the two best running backs of all time (Walter and Emmitt Smith were good, but are revered for stats in long careers). What's even better is they're both supremely humble guys who loved playing the game. No showing off, no dancing, no mouthing to opponents, just embarrassing defenses with a polite smile after handing the ball to the ref. These are the athletes to emulate.
If you were a defensive player asked, "who would you be most afraid to line up against?" and your answer is anything but Earl and Barry, you're lying or stupid.
I Respectfully disagree my fellow sports fan ,Jim Brown possessed every distinctive attribute a great RB is supposed to have,speed agility,power ,quickness,vision ,toughness, intestinal fortitude ,and he played in 12 and 14 game seasons in a era in which flags weren't routinely thrown for acts upon which a offensive player was bought to the ground . The playing field ,science, diet, equipment, first class travel , hotel accomodations, weren't as advanced as the generations proceeding Jim Browns era . He gets nonobjectively ostricized because of the false perception he competed exsclusively against inferior sized and athletic deficient defenders when in actuality most defensive lineman and linebackers outweighed Jim Brown who was a respectable 6'3 225 lbs , studies have also shown that while athletes in generations overlapping Browns were better,it's not by the vast degree many would percieved when considerations i previously mentioned weren't available for baby boomer NFL players ,when the technology, diet, training , equipment ,advantages aligned with Browns generation narrative applied the margin of athletes from proceeding eras of Brien's would be nearly equal . Percieving Jim Brown not bring dominant in any era is akin to stating Sugar Ray Robertson, Muhammad Ali, John Unitas ,Joe Montana ,Jerry Rice ,wouldn't transition successfully into previous eras . Wilt Chamberlain was theist imposing physical and athletic specimen during his prime inthe NBA SI was Shaquille Oneal ,by the idealogy that athletes who were bigger couldn't transition into another timeframe is lacking in context .Great players will always be capable of taking their skills towards other generations ,greatness defines greatness . If Earl Campbell can dominate ,why wouldn't a more durable , more agile ,superior vision Jim Brown ,who's actually bigger then Walter Payton and OJ Simpson ,yet had various ingredients that all three Hof gentlemen had , yet Jim possess elements they didn't . OJ Anderson of the St Louis Cardinals in 1979 during his rookie season rushed for over 1600 yds ,a big 228 ilb RB ,your telling me the great Jim Brown couldn't at minimal duplicate that ,when Jim Brown was better in terms of agility,vision, durability, speed ? Eliminate the generational biased based upon percieved beliefs rather then objective analogy ,no I'm not old enough to have witnessed Jim Brown perform live ,born 1965 ,but I've been a staunch advocate and practitioner of historical research with emotions removed , Don.Hutson ,Deacon Jones, Lawrence Taylor could have played in any era , again,great is great , and Jim Brown defined greatness as a football player .
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The pride of Tyler Texas the Tyler Rose the one and only Earl Campbell
League mvp in first 2 seasons? Not bad