Dick Butkus (Gladiator Mentality) Career Highlights
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Dick Butkus The most destructive force the NFL had ever seen...He's not a man who walks like a bear...He's a Bear who walks like a man!
Twice named All-American during his football-playing days at the University of Illinois, Dick Butkus went on to spend eight years (1965-1973) as linebacker for the Chicago Bears. Chosen best NFL defensive player on two separate occasions He was appointed to the Football Hall of Fame in 1979, and an award for outstanding college linebacker has been named in his honor...Butkus is only surpassed by L.T by a hair in terms of defensive dominance in my eyes
He wouldn't be allowed to play in today's safety-conscious NFL. He played with unbridled rage and hate for his opponent. Loved it!
RIP Mr Butkus. You were a TITAN of a player on the field, and a Gentleman off. And lo we may never know his like again.
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tHE BEST MIDDLE LINE-BACKER TO EVER play the game.Period.
@Jim Hamre DB inflicted the most damage/devastation to opponents then anyone who ever laced them up,. LT was an outside backer, Carson played the middle, the positions are quite different so thankfully we can delineate here; DB best middle backer and LT the greatest outside backer. Now we will have a few who will put Ray lewis ahead of DB - also the great junior Seau would have honorable mention. IMO, LT is the greatest defensive player to have ever the game. (and he was a drug addict while doing it!!!)
Dick Butkus doesn't scare me... Long as I'm here, behind my keyboard, telling everyone how great he was.... I feel comparatively safe...
His own teammates were afraid of being in the pile with Mr. Butkus !! What a true LEGEND of the game !! I would watch Dick Butkus replays any day of the week !!
Wow, Just like I remember . Watching NFL since 1962, No one matches his straight up toughness. Very little words, just crunch sounds when he hits. Nice tribute to him. Thanks for sharing
His like will never be seen again!
Rest in peace Dick Butkus!
RIP. All time great player and person. 🐻 ⬇️
His attention to proper tackling methods was unmatched. Look at how many one arm tackles he made. Don’t see much of that today.
Most feared linebacker in NFL history!!! Case closed
And his name is Dick Butkus 🤣🤣🤣 Given how they like to slap each other on the ass and tackle each other it’s kind of fitting. 🤔
Idk L.T was dangerous
1000% agree the BEST middle backer of all time,tall rangy,ferocious,sideline to sideline,smart knew where the ball was, honorable mentions to nietske spelling butchered,ray lewis willie lanier,mike singletary,and a few others in that class but Butkus was the BEST BEAST of all time,he didn't want to tackle you he wanted to kill you...when Butkus hit you the forward momentum just stopped
I could survive a Butkus tackle. Not Ray Lewis tho.
Dick Butkus always played every single play with such secondary brillance with absolute gestalt force; Dick is the legend amongst amazing linebackers in NFL history playing hard as hell for the thrill of each hit of every game regardless of any playoff possibility as no game was ever through the motions with Butkus......Intense respect for that mindset and gameplay.
Nine seasons of pure terror for every team that played against him.
Peace and love to the Butkus family! Growing up in the 60s and 70s playing backyard football, we ALL wanted to be #51 Dick Butkus❤
Boy I miss True Football!!!
I get the love for the good ole' days of Football. But players left the game crippled and disabled. Torn hamstrings back then meant; shoot em' up and numb the injury and play on.
I appreciate the violence of the game but not as the only part of the game. I like it when you can win under a format that can benefit both running and passing teams. Some of the ole' skool stuff is too barbaric for me now at age 50 but I loved it back in the day. That said, I also despise the game today when DBs can't lay a hand on WRs or hit them with any intent to separate the man from the ball. That is WAY too soft. How do you even coach the secondary anymore? You almost have to concede the catch and wrap up like a rodeo.
It's no wonder passing stats are so HIGH nowadays. The game needs balance and defense. In college, I find it ridiculous seeing 56-49 scores like in the BIG 12. Is this Football or basketball?
That's History, Now you have a Bunch of Snow flakes playing Football.
@@peternavarro3499 Mr. Navarro your on point sir!!
@@gdog3finally I played HS and college in the 80's. Football should be barbaric and violent. I wouldn't have it any other way. Football today gets on my damn nerves.
I’m with you brother. They’ve over corrected. Can still knock the piss out of a player occasionally 😏… they sure don’t make it easy tho
Watching Butkus knock the piss out of some guy never gets old.
Dick Butkus! Just Dick Butkus that's all you have to say it speaks for itself
Best there ever was or will be..... Monster of the Midway
Dick Butkus is the best football player in the history of the game, period.
*RIP TO THE LEGEND*
Mr. Butkus, he deserves to be called that, put the A in animal. He wasn’t looking to just tackle you but to take you out of the game. What a beast.
You have the Grizzly bear, the Kodiak, the black bear, then you have the worst of them all! The Chicago bear, Dick Butkus! The most serious carnivore to walk!
Loved that bear growling in the second half. Nice emphasis on the true savagery of the maniacal monster himself.
Go Bears 🐻
We just watched "Brians Song," about Brian Piccolo, and Gale Sayers, starring James Cahn, and Billy Dee Williams. I got a DVD from a second hand store. Perfect condition, cover and all.
Based on the book written by Gale Sayers, called, " I Am Third." I'd like a copy of THAT book. The movie is a REAL tear jerker. GREAT true story.
Best highlight reel of him I’ve seen
My dude appreciate you
I loved to watch him play.
6'3 245 in the 1970s A Monster, physically and mentally.
... He looks like a man amongst high schoolers
before he blew his knee he had sub 4.6 speed
He was much bigger than that… his official measurements in his prime was 6’5 270 of pure man muscle.
Wasnt fair almost
More than a warrior... Much MORE
..a GLADIATOR. 🏈 👍
Perfect music for this.
The word BEAST is an understatement!
I get goose bumps watching his highlight reels. This guy was quite simply the greatest linebacker, and defensive player regardless of position, to ever play the game.
The great TE Charlie Sanders of the Detroit Lions in an interview after taking that incredible hit from Butkus said it was the hardest hit he ever took in football.
As he laid on the turf, taking inventory of his body parts, he was thinking he had to will himself to get up. He didn't want Butkus to know he was hurt.
Sanders was a GREAT tight end
@thomasespositio3139 Yes, he was!! Sadly, he died of cancer. I think he had a tumor behind his knee.
Dick Butkus also could catch a football better than 95% of the receivers in the NFL today.
May god bless Dick Butkus
Intense,during the game even during time out.
Great highlight video and music fitting for a true warrior.
Just so thankful I got to watch him play.
You start with #2 when rating LBs, after Butkus. No mystery why the award for top LB at all three levels is the "Dick Butkus Award"!
You start rating LBs at #2, after Dick Butkus, by a country mile! A neighbor kid of ours is a safety on the local high school team, and he said they've been shown Butkus highlights each of his 3 years so far! That's almost 50 years since he last played!
I remember reading a paper back book in the 1970's on NFL players. It showed how Dick Butkis used to do 450 pound barbell shoulder shruges . The He stated that the exercise built up his shoulders and hand grip to handle running backs like a rag doll when he got a hand grip on them.
how great was butkis? he won nfl defensive player of the year on a 1-13 team.
That speaks volumes of his greatness! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bears were 1-13 in 1969 and 6-8 in 1970 and Butkus was D P of the Y both seasons. Anyone can win the award on a 14-2 team (Taylor) or a 12-4 team (Lewis) but to win it on a team with back to back losing seasons, remarkable. Another reason Butkus is The Greatest.
Best linebacker ever
Another thing about DB that is rarely mentioned is something my husband pointed out to me many years ago-his speed. You will see him catching backs from behind like no other MB ever did until many years later when speed became a facet of the game that was highly emphasized on defense. On top of that, notice his passion! You've never sees passion as consistent as DB's.
His speed is interesting. His coach said it would take Butkus a month to run a hundred yard dash, but twenty-five yards from the middle of the field in any direction, no one who played was faster.
There's a lot of truth in this. All the really good middle linebackers were like this. The difference with Butkus is that other middle linebackers linebackers, even the really good ones, would frequently get blocked. Butkus went though blocks like he was the only player on the field.
There is one other difference, of course. Butkus didn't just tackle whoever had the ball, he PUNISHED them. He took the heart out of them, and by the end of the game they were useless.
There's a story that comes from the Baltimore Colts I like. They played the Bears and lost. They left the stadium on the team bus, and along the journey the bus was rear ended by a drunk driver. The back of the bus jumped about two feet, and most of the players were knocked out of their seats, or hit the roof with their heads.
As they were trying to get back on the feet, one of them said, "Damn, Butkus followed us."
@@jamesaritchie1 Ha! Ha! I gave that one to my husband, and he loved it. Thank you! He's going to pass it on to his old teammates that he still talks to.
Something my husband did copying DB was to swat at the ball when he tackled runners. He set a record as a player from an Independent school recovering fumbles. (Some he knocked loose others recovered.) I don't think there's much about DB and RN's techniques that he can't tell you about. His freshman coach got him all the films he could of those four, and he watched them over and over for four years. Made him AA, too!
The Greatest Linebacker of all time, he had Guts he was a real warrior.
He simply was the greatest!!!!!
I was a Baltimore Colts season ticket holder, and had the opportunity to see Dick play, I wish we had him as he was the best, ever. No disrespect to Mike Curtis, LT, Jack Lambert, Ray Nitchke or Ray Lewis.....DB was a force no one could handle.....
Curtis was a very good player a hitter not as physical or physically nor mentally talented as Butkus but he was the real deal
I never ever get tired of watching "the Man in the Middle."
The GOAT
Butkus was an animal on the field but a cool guy off the field
HIS SPEED WAS AWESOME !!!
He was killer fast also. Great talent!
There is a reason that every year they give a trophy out to an LB named the Dick Butkus award
Simply the best
Bills Sawshop was great but never better than LT ( Lawrence Taylor )
@@cariocabassa Oh yes he was better. Put LT at middle linebacker and there is no way he would be as good as Butkus. But LT was a great outside linebacker. Two different positions so how can you compare them. But if I was to have a team and had to pick between the two to be on my defense, I'm taking Butkus without hesitation. He was a wrecking machine that LT could not match.
Butkus could not be contained for long, he tried to destroy anything and anyone in his way.
LT was great, but Butkus was a Defensive God
He continued to always do his very best, sad that they never made a trip to the Super Bowl.
@@cariocabassa
How was Taylor better than Butkus?
Butkus 9 years
Taylor 13 years
Butkus 49 Takeaways
Taylor 20 Takeaways
Butkus 8 Pro Bowls
Taylor 10 Pro Bowls
Butkus 6 time All Pro
Taylor 8 time All Pro
Butkus averaged 113 Solo Tackles per 14 game season
Taylor averaged 82 Solo Tackles per 16 game season
Butkus had 18 Sacks in '67
Taylor had 20 Sacks in '86
Butkus was D P of the Y 2 times; Bears record during those seasons 1-13 in '69 and 6-8 in '70.
Taylor was D P of the Y 3 times; Giants record during those seasons 9-7 in '81, 4-5 in '82 and 14 -2 in '86.
Butkus was a MLB with many responsibilities
Taylor was an OLB whose main job was to rush the QB
Again Butkus played 4 fewer years than Taylor, the last couple basically on 1 leg.
Who else has been on a team with only 2 wins for the season and STILL got named defensive player of the year? Pretty damn impressive people.
Love true man best real man period
RIP, my idol an the greatest linebacker to ever play the game
Could you imagine Dick Butkus and Lawrence Taylor on the same team. The offense might just refuse to go on the field.
QB will be shitting his pants just by looking at those two.. Imagining the amount of punishment he will get if they get to him
Best ever 8 pro bowls in 9 years and 5 all pros
He is my favorite football player ever
Dick Butkus was my favorite player His violence and tenacity was superb Players today look like pansies compared to the real football days Touch a quarterback and you out Really That is why I have lost my passion for football
I wouldn't want to get tackled by that beast of a man.
I always wanted #51 when I was a kid playing football!
I'm 58 years old. Grew up in Pittsburgh. Was Franco Harris paper boy. Loved the Steelers. But I don't think there was a more dominate defensive player ever. And that says alot being in the same company as Jack Lambert
We appreciate that sentiment here in chicago. Game recognizes game. Yours was top to bottom the best dynasty the nfl will ever see. Appreciate the comment. RIP Dick Butkus.
Funny, even #51, Dick Buckus hit folks head up looking at them.
Love the sound effects!
He played just like me, amazing 🥲
@ 5:15- The Browns player #35, was going to throw a punch, then saw who he was going to punch, & thought again ! LOL !
I read a story about how the Baltimore Colts' team bus was rear-ended at an intersection in a collision that most everyone on the bus felt. Many of the players immediately turned to each other and said in unison: "Butkus".
Dr.jeckle, Mr. Hyde of the NFL. Nicest person off the field, meanest, most dangerous on the field. Monster of the midway.
How scary was he? He scared opponents who were watching him on tv!
1:59 everything is moving so fast to the left and the all of a sudden Butkus puts a stop to it hahahaha!!!
At 3:29 he makes that well read interception, then proceeds to run it back like a seasoned fullback plowing through his opponents until he's knocked out of bounds, but on his feet; By 3:33 I started LAUGHING out LOUD. He was a monster before L.T. was around.
L.T. played during a new era of passing the ball, fewer running plays. He was a great pass rushing LB, but overall play cannot compare to Butkus, even the great Nitschke falls short.
Annihilation and devastation from the most intelligent monster ever to play on the defensive side of the ball.
Best player in nfl history. I would give anything to see this guy get one good clean shot at Marino, farve, Manning, or poopy pants Brady.
From Darryl(drivs)Rivers of Moorestown NJ. I just simply thank my white Fairview Camden folks that really taught me as child #5 of Mary C. Rivers that made me face life in the way it truly is.
I'm thinking if both a bus and Butkis were heading right for me, I might take my chances with the bus.
@ 2:57- I saw this extra point conversion live on TV. Bad snap extra point try, & Jack Concannon(?) the holder, passed to Butkus for the conversion.
Bobby Douglass
He was like a real bear
The Monster of The Midway! Moby Dick in a Goldfish Bowl 😁😂😭
Playin for a sorry franchise at the time made a monster out of him
These were the days when defensive players could hit with their face masks, and DB was one of the first to perfect that method of tackling. He hit runners and kept grinding them right down into the ground. The only way they could stop his was to chop block his knees from the blindside, and that's what they did. One player would distract him to the left and another would come in from the blindside and whack him on his knees. No matter how tough a man is, one little blow to those knees will put them down. And it finally put him out of the game.
9 seasons and 8 of those were without knees to speak of because of the tricks to stop him. It was the only way to stop him. Otherwise, he would dominate...
I love dick and but... kis :)
It's not a stretch to assume the new chop blocking rules were instituted because of careers like Butkus'
Bears only won 38% of their games during Butkus' career. No one played with more passion on Every snap of Every game of Every season than Butkus. NO ONE!
BUTKUS was great no doubt,Bill George be4 Dick was too. Don"t foget another tuff one Ray Nitschke,Dick in some interviews mentions them and others.
Only a handful of other defensive players I can think of who were as intimidating and brutal: Jack Tatum, George Atkinson, Joe Green, and Jack Lambert.
I agree
LT 56 Giants
Mike curtis 'the mad dog' is one of those players as well
Willie Lanier 63 KC Chiefs was another middle linebacker I would add to your “roster” of intimidators.
The ball carrier was a like a Volkswagen or Toyota and Butkus was a locomotive. No match if he got a hold of the guy.
I met him a few times in the 80s at the games when he was doing radio right by the south gate.. every time he shook my hand it was like holding a package of sausages!!!
Not only the best MLB to ever play by a mile, but also the most dominant defensive player ever!
I read that his net worth is about $8M, a lot of that coming from acting and commercials. Today, there are guys making that much a year who would be backing up Butkus if he was playing now. He'd probably be making a million a ~game~!
DETERMINED TO HAMMER TIME
I heard he was also drafted by the NY JETS….but he chose Chicago because of his roots there. However, could you image that Jets team……Namath in his prime on offense…..Butkus in his prime on defense….whoa
Great video!
Brutal
Can you imagine how the poor bastard that had to line up with him all game? I bet they had a horrible WEEK and Week after
Dick Butkus was the best middle linebacker in football. And to think most of these guys had second jobs in the offseason.
Always wondered why Jim brown retired the year Butkus came into the league.
bears baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know the crazy thing is how Butkus don't really have any heath issues later in life,, concussion?? What concussion?? You would think he had thousands
My dream team would be
Dick Butkus
Reggie white Dan Hampton
Michael Williams
On offense
Gale Sayers
Throw in Joe Ferguson QB
BARRY SANDERS
O j Simpson
It was impossible to block Dick Butkus
my favorite linebacker is Dick Butkus
DB was The original ODB!!!!
The Chicago Bears Should show this footage to the overpaid slackers on their current defensive team before every game...
You hit the Nail right on the Head. The missed Tackles Every Single Game. It's utterly sickening. Linebackers, with the exception of Sanborn, waiving at RBs and Receivers as they run by. Why? Because Today's Football Players DON'T PRACTICE TACKLING. Give Me Butkus, Buffone, O'B, Hampton, McMichael, Fencik and Plank every Sunday and The Bears go 17-0. Today's Offensive Players wouldn't know WTF hit Them. Oh, BTW, I'll take Sayers and Payton, too.
@@carlweaver3243
Might I also add endurance training for the WHOLE TEAM !!!
See alot of guys huffin' & puffin', hands on hips or down on one knee by the middle of the second quarter.
Might be why they can't finish...
@@nsidor1234
Yep
he sits there and he licks his lips and then he does that crazy stomping thing that looks like a wild bull....pretty frigging scary
I’m done mans but Skyrim Dove king them song I love it
Jack Tatum of the Raiders said Dick Butkus didnt hit hard, Tatum must have been smoking crack😂
Great video
It looks like he had to cover that helmet with KY to get it on.
EVER!