I played high school ball against Dick ! He was just as well know in the city of Chicago back then as he was when he was with the Bears !! BEST FOOTBALL PLAYER I HAVE EVER SEEN !
One of the few players to play high school, college and pro football in the same state. I read his book, "Stop Action", I think it was, around 1971, and he looked like a guy you didn't want to mess with even as a teenager.
Yeah! I was a few generations later...but I had the honor of going to the same HS and University as Dick Butkis and it ALWAYS makes me proud to think about that.
@@jamesgray7064 LT is probably Top 10 in greatest NFL players ever. Maybe even Top 5. In NFL history, there are a few players that have affected the way the game is played. LT is one of them.
Man I sure miss those days of football! Men played hard, often hurt or with broken bones. Played for a heck of a lot less than these guys do today and by the way, they all stood for the National Anthem and would never talk trash about the President or this great Country. Football was not a political statement nor was it a black/white issue. We loved our teams and players and color never entered into the conversation.. Good Grief this crap today is getting old
How many Championships did he win? Just saying because you got to count that if you want to be fair. It is about winning. You can't put that all on Butkus because he doesn't assemble the team either, BUT, give me Ray Nitschke, Jack Lambert, Ray Lewis, Mike Singletary, Chuck Bednick, Nick Buoniconti. Give me the guys who won championships first - Sorry.
@@erichvonmolder9310 don’t know how anyone could agree with your post. Football is the greatest “team” sport. All of those players you mentioned were obviously great but you have to be on a great team to win a championship. Butkus was one of, if not the, best linebackers to ever play the game.
Eric HS College Pro. Award for Best MLB on all levels nation wide named after Dick Butkus. I've researched Nitschke, Lewis, Lambert, Taylor. Butkus' stats very similar to all 4, yet he played fewer years than all 4. And the ones I've mentioned all played on Super Bowl winning teams. The fact that Butkus only played on 2 winning teams in 9 years and accomplished all that he did is even more reason to claim he was the best ever. THE Standard by which ALL other MLBs are measured.
@@carlweaver3243 I read the Schaap/Kramer book 'Instant Replay' many years ago, and even those great Packer players acknowledged that Butkus was a better player than Ray Nitschke. High praise.
@@jamesanthony5681 I've been going back and forth with fans of the other 4 LBs I mentioned from the previous reply and most of them say that because Butkus never won a Championship or Super Bowl that he's overrated or shouldn't be labeled as the Greatest. And I've been saying that what he accomplished in losing season after losing season, playing with lesser talent and playing fewer seasons than those 4, but put up mostly similar stats as them, that he is without question the Greatest of all time. Thank you for your reply.
@@carlweaver3243 What those fans are saying is pure nonsense. You got the same argument in hockey with Ovechkin for all those years until the Capitals won in 2018. What, Butkus is supposed to do all the scoring as well? Play defence AND offence? Their GM didn't surround those 2 great players with a good team. They never had a top quarterback; I can't recall their deep threat; Ditka was good, but he was gone after a few years. If you don't have a top QB, forget it. As I recall, they ran Gale Sayers into the ground, putting him on kickoffs and punt returns, if I'm right. Ridiculous to do that to the greatest open field runner. I read Dick's book, 'Stop Action' in 1971, thereabouts, and you could sense his frustration at not having good players, the apathy on the Bears, not having a Namath, a Jurgenson as QB, or a Lombardi as coach. Butkus was an absolute force and to hear and read what other players (Alex Karras, etc.) said about him was incredible.
There were quite a few spearing tackles in there. The most brutal was the one kinda near end , the pass went up, receiver catches, and Dick lead with head, turned his body, and the receivers helmet snaps backward.. ya that was brutal hit, and there was another there he runs in with helmet smashing into another helmet, snapping their head backward. Dont get me wrong, I miss the hard hits, and the real man play, but at the same time I think of how many necks were saved from being severed :D
@@tombabcock4967 LOL you have to have about 1 brain cell floating around. You act like I am opposed to the hard hitting. Did I say anything about how bad it is people are getting hit? No, I didnt. So learn to comprehend the words you read, instead of just vomiting nonsense from your mouth. Let me refresh that reading comprehension of what I said above, and I quote myself " Dont get me wrong, I miss the hard hits, and the real man play," So obviously you got me wrong, since you think I dont want people to get hit. Have a great day sir.
I'd love to see Butkus, Tatum, Hendricks, The Purple People Eaters, The Steel Curtain, The Doomsday Defense, and The Fearsome Foursome. I'd like to see when players of today make a touchdown and think they won the Super Bowl what these defenses would do. Today's offensive showoffs would be taught a lesson. These guys were awesome and intimidating. They took no shit from nobody.
+Seth Moses you bet...it was a great, great thing just to see these guys go all out for the love of the game...what a bunch of wussies these millionaire whiners are now...retire for fear of concussions, a bad toe, banged up knee, etc. etc. butkus played a whole game wth a broken arm..
That's absolutely correct my friend ! I was born and raised in Texas in the 1950's and grew up on football . every weekend my old man and I would be with the uncles and cousins discussing and cussing the various teams !!!
@@richardwalker663 Not sure what he got paid, but the truth is he probably woulda done it for a lot less. Where else could he have gotten away with physically punishing people the way he did. He sure seemed to enjoy it.
@@richardwalker663 That's about right. Bob Lily retired around the same time. He made $80K his last few seasons. Offensive players made more. Unitas made $100K, but some years $125 with bonuses. Jim Brown, retired in 1965, he was making $60K. He probably made that for 8 weeks work on "The Dirty Dozen." Joe Namath, in 1965, $142K per year, three year contract.
Good old days!100% you could tell what quarter it was by the dirt/mud on them not like these pussies like today. Fake grass fucking Domes. Are you kidding me?
@@51OAKLANDER510 What he meant was, in his day (and mine), players went out there with the purpose to hurt and intimidate... and that was by concentrating on actually taking out your knee!
I'm from Philly so maybe I'm bias, but my God what a set of pipes on Harry Kalas. A world class sports narration guy and the voice of the Philadelphia Phillies for over four decades. I tell ya, he is missed.
He was like a freight train. In today's "two hand touch" league, most of these hits are illegal for being too brutal. I miss the old time football. Hard hits, no nonsense, no dancing.
It was a game of intimidation back then. My intent was to hit them so violently that next time the ran the ball or ran a route they were too busy looking for my # for them to be effective. Didn't always work, but that was my intent on every tackle.
Dick Butkus, a man, a legend, a god. I won't even watch the NFL now. Those anti-American, racist, brain-damaged criminals are not worth my time and money. Same for their sponsors and vendors. But I still have vids and memories of back when people like Dick Butkus played the game.
Oh yeah like your politicians in DC are not criminals. The envy of the checks these players are getting is the reason for all of the venom being spewed by key board patriots who don't know the difference between nationalism and patriotism. It is a shame that we hold athletes to a higher moral standard than elected officials.
That's absolutely right. And you all thought Johnny Morris was kidding in the beginning of this video,when he said,"I was afraid of him and he was on my team".
@@asimhusain8087 straight up..he learned from Bronco. Even if you're a pretty boy like Gifford, you don't get no respect from me...I hit you the same (or harder). The objective being to knock him out of the game, so he can't score on you
He was the greatest player I ever saw. I remember as a kid highlighting the game between Chicago and Cleveland, I loved watching Butkus and Brown go against each other, easily two of the greatest of all time.
Dick Butkus was absolutely one of the greatest. Among the others is Chuck Bednarik aka concrete Charlie . He is also known as the last 60 Minuteman for playing both sides of the ball the entire game. He put a vicious hit on Frank Gifford and put him out of football for almost 2 years. Back then the men were men and not spoiled millionaires.
@@SaucyPelican Slow? Maybe in his last year when his knees were hobbled. Every year before though, he was quite fast. Fast enough for even today’s game. Trevathan is slow now.
I had the pleasure of seeing Butkus play in person -- awesome! And you know what? He's a super nice guy too. I even remember him playing both sides of the ball and punting when he played high school ball at Chicago Vocational.
I couldn't wait back in the day to get home and watch Dick Butkus one of my favorite players and Walter Payton my two favorite football players thanks for the memory guys
No astroturf, no dome stadiums, even the fans were exposed to extreme weather. Men like this made the game and inspired boys to work hard for something. My son is proudly serving in the marines because of role models like this
People refer to LT as the greatest linebacker of all time. But he would play off the edge of the line, and that made it difficult to block him. Butkus, however, had to play in the trenches. A man who was named NFL defensive player of the year , playing on a team that lost 13 of 14 games that year. That's how great he was.
Deacon Jones classic comment on the Mike & Mike Sports Show: "If I hit a quarterback and he gets up....fine. If I hit a quarterback and he DOES NOT get up....fine. That's football"
This is the way football should be played!!!! This man was a beast of beasts from the football Gods and he didn't disappoint the true blue hard nosed football gurus! The greatest LB of all freaking time!!!!!!
It was Dick Butkus who stood over a dying Chuck Hughes at Tiger Stadium calling for medical attention that couldn't save Hughes from a fatal heart attack. We Lions fans hated Butkus, but that is an iconic photo that i will never forget.
Back when you could play defense in the NFL. Nowadays, they want a pretty game where every QB throws for 400 yards a game and LB's can't even look at the QB wrong. And there are female refs now. What a joke the NFL has become.
drakg002 Yep, And they blame the decline in ratings on the take a knee thing because they cannot bring themselves to admit a large number of former fans can’t stand how they have pussy fide the game.
Correct me if I'm wrong , but was it Butkus who once said " if I don't have blood on my jersey by the end of the first quarter , I'm not playing hard enough . " ?
@@howardwayne3974, in an interview ('70 Pro Bowl, I think) he said "...got kind of a charge when that head come rolling down the stairs...", from Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte. Got to watch his whole career; BEAR fan since late '64. He was/still the best. I see a lot of other names mentioned, but I'm always surprised nobody ever mentions Mike Curtis.
In the age of the narcissist, players celebrate every time they do the job they are overpaid for. Not sure, but I don’t believe Butkus wore women’s jewelry either. 🤣
Exactly. I get so tired of the celebrations. I was complaining about it once and my wife was giving me crap and telling me that I didn't understand blah blah blah. She is a midwife so I asked her "when you deliver a baby after a tough shoulder dystocia, do you spike the kid on the floor and start dancing? No. You did your job and you act like a professional." She didn't have much else to say after that imagery.
They just took all the brutality out of the game,hurting people so they cant play is an easy way to beat the other team! I don't like the way the refs pamper the QB,it helps my team just as well! All these fast young QB,s,are gonna start getting hurt from running the ball.i like a pocket passer. Tom Brady,great example! I'm a Minnesota fan,so you know how I am frustrated!
I once watched an interview with Dick Butkus where he basically said "I just wanted to hit a guy so hard, that he never had to turn around to see my jersey number to know who hit him."
Damn I miss the old NFL. Haven't watched a game for 2 years...Too many pink shoes and special ribbons and political BS today...I can't stand the pussification of American men.
I agree with the political bs, but the reason those men wear pink is for breast cancer awareness... sounds like you're the pussy if you aren't man enough to wear pink for a good cause.
Thomas Parker Women broadcasting games that have no experience playing or coaching. Wearing pink. Men cheerleaders. Players now get flags for: Celebrating. Taunting. Removing the helmet. Tackling. But there are no flags for sexual misconduct when men slap each other on the ass. You can keep watching this game for the good cause.
@@theformulated1 Actually Players do not get a flag for celebrating, tacking or removal of the helmet, they do have to sit out a play for the latter. I have no qualms with a woman who knows her shit about football in the booth, do you really think every broadcaster was formally a coach/ player? How can you call yourself even a former football fan? Are you jealous because a woman knows more about football that you? Wearing pink is for breast cancer awareness you ignorant fuck, i'm sorry you're so scared of a color you avoid anything that has it.
Thomas Parker Hitler didn't take over Germany in one day, it was in small increments. You fail to see what's happening in the NFL & to men... Now go and enjoy your male cheerleaders you seem to be comfortable with that shit to.
I feel blessed to be old enough that I can remember football in the 1960s. So many great players who played the game the way it’s supposed to be played: Butkus, Brown; Unitas, and so many more. And played their games in classic stadiums like Wrigley Field, Tiger Stadium, Yankee Stadium. Makes me proud to be old lol.
Even these great clips don’t do him justice. Butkus was one of those rare players that could intimidate an entire offensive team. Lawerence Taylor and Troy Polamalu could also do it!
He was on the Tonight show several times- when he was All-American in college and later when he was All-Pro and he always said "I like to hit" when he was asked why he was outstanding.
Dick Butkus was not a guy you want to celebrate by dancing in his face after you scored a touchdown. He'll take your head off the next down or series of downs. As a matter of fact, it would be a foolish mistake to celebrate in front of any of these hard-nosed players from that time after you scored, such as Ray Nitschke, Deacon Jones, Lawrence Taylor and Ronnie Lott to name some.
I'm so impressed with duck butkus ,I'm Australian and have followed rugby league all my life ,and butkus looks like he could play that game too.brutal .
He was incredible, intimidating, fierce, mean on the field, very loyal to Chicago. Dick is the stuff of true legends. There will never be another Dick Butkus. He changed football and Sam Huff was nothing compared to Dick.
Radioman Butkus could call them snot rags, he earned it ! You however have zero credibility, and I'm thinking all of those "Snot Rags" could easily kick your ass !
Not one helmet to helmet contact tackle in this vdo. A testament to proper form tackling for everyone's safety and of course to further your legendary career.
Mr. Butkus played a little before my time, but as a kid growing up, his legend was well known. All the neighborhood boys playing "football" in the field would love to be Butkus when playing on defense. It is great to see his domination in this video. He played defense the right way :)
And - everyone note - only one of the hits in this video, did Butkus lead and hit with his head first. You can be a tough SOB without spearing the ball carrier every time you try to make a tackle. That's why he can still bring together a coherent sentence. I remember one of my high school football coaches tell us, "never hit what you can't see". Words to live by. Literally.
"Well, on uh, Fake Draw Screen Right I uh, pick up the linebacker if he's comin, 'less of course it's Butkus, then I simply notify the quarterback to send for a preacher." Brian Piccolo, Brian's Song
I went to school with Walt Garrison ( Cowboys) In his book Walt talks about his first run thru the line and Butkus tackled him. Butkus got up and said "If you ever come this way again, I'll BITE your head off!" Garrison replied, "Well, If you do, it'll be the FIRST time you ever had any brains in your head! Butkus burst our laughing, he was so suprised. You had to be tough to play against Butkus.
Sick Butkis played when football was a tough hard nosed game I don't believe he would be as happy in today's watered down game I had the privilege of seeing him play at the University of Illinois we knew her was Great
You had some tough guys since. Brett Favre was as tough and durable as any QB in history, never missing a game. I saw Jim McMahon getting pounded into the frozen turf in Green Bay in the 1990's, head first, and getting up every single time.
@@JARyding happened to many of the greats....Sayers, Orr etc, back in those days, if you were real good, you became a target for the other team and it meant trying to injure. It's different today.
To show how great Butkus was, he was the most outstanding defensive player in a year when the bears only won 1 game.
remember his last 4 seasons he played with messed up knees and he was still getting the job done, he loved the game no doubt
A cheap shot artist
He played with reckless abandon and probably shortened his career as a result.
Yoma Sane Nine years is above average for the NFL.
That would be an even bigger achievement if he had played for the 2017 Cleveland Browns!!!
I played high school ball against Dick ! He was just as well know in the city of Chicago back then as he was when he was with the Bears !! BEST FOOTBALL PLAYER I HAVE EVER SEEN !
One of the few players to play high school, college and pro football in the same state. I read his book, "Stop Action", I think it was, around 1971, and he looked like a guy you didn't want to mess with even as a teenager.
Yeah! I was a few generations later...but I had the honor of going to the same HS and University as Dick Butkis and it ALWAYS makes me proud to think about that.
Awesome
A buddy of mine,now deceased,played against him,when he went to Chicago Vocational Highschool,his name was Jim Frale,he went to Lindblom!
I agree Jim
I remember watching him play. He was always in BEAST MODE the whole game - every game. Back then it was FOOTBALL!
The best linebacker of all time!
I did a book report on him in 1973. Third grade 🏈
@@robsimpson3771 prolly 5th grade for me
With all due respect, Lawrence Taylor is BY FAR the best LB ever.
There's no argument. It's not even close.
@Rose Hawk pleez, you cant compare eras. Totally different game, esp. defences, in the 60s and 70s.
@@jamesgray7064 LT is probably Top 10 in greatest NFL players ever. Maybe even Top 5. In NFL history, there are a few players that have affected the way the game is played. LT is one of them.
Man I sure miss those days of football! Men played hard, often hurt or with broken bones. Played for a heck of a lot less than these guys do today and by the way, they all stood for the National Anthem and would never talk trash about the President or this great Country. Football was not a political statement nor was it a black/white issue. We loved our teams and players and color never entered into the conversation.. Good Grief this crap today is getting old
Fiction.
I still believe that he is the GREATEST Middle Linebacker Of ALL time!!!
Definitely the all time prototype linebacker.
By far the best
How many Championships did he win? Just saying because you got to count that if you want to be fair. It is about winning. You can't put that all on Butkus because he doesn't assemble the team either, BUT, give me Ray Nitschke, Jack Lambert, Ray Lewis, Mike Singletary, Chuck Bednick, Nick Buoniconti. Give me the guys who won championships first - Sorry.
Ray nitschke was as bad boy as butkus
@@erichvonmolder9310 don’t know how anyone could agree with your post. Football is the greatest “team” sport. All of those players you mentioned were obviously great but you have to be on a great team to win a championship. Butkus was one of, if not the, best linebackers to ever play the game.
Back when football was football
Kind of neat when Dick Butkus was asked who the greatest linebacker he would say Ray Nitzske and when Ray was asked Ray would say Dick Butkus
He was such a beast on the field. And from what I have read and heard a gentleman off the field.
Butkus #51 the greatest linebacker of all time! 🏈
He’s a legend. I miss the days when you broke a finger, and taped a popsicle stick on it and went back in the game. A truly tough s.o.b. Great !
Dick Butkus is the reason I became a Chicago Bear fan! Watching him hit people sent chills down my spine as a child! MONSTERS OF THE MIDWAY!
The only NFL linebacker that has an award named after him. That sums up who the greatest is, was.
Eric
HS College Pro. Award for Best MLB on all levels nation wide named after Dick Butkus. I've researched Nitschke, Lewis, Lambert, Taylor. Butkus' stats very similar to all 4, yet he played fewer years than all 4. And the ones I've mentioned all played on Super Bowl winning teams. The fact that Butkus only played on 2 winning teams in 9 years and accomplished all that he did is even more reason to claim he was the best ever. THE Standard by which ALL other MLBs are measured.
Eric
Total agreement.
@@carlweaver3243 I read the Schaap/Kramer book 'Instant Replay' many years ago, and even those great Packer players acknowledged that Butkus was a better player than Ray Nitschke. High praise.
@@jamesanthony5681
I've been going back and forth with fans of the other 4 LBs I mentioned from the previous reply and most of them say that because Butkus never won a Championship or Super Bowl that he's overrated or shouldn't be labeled as the Greatest. And I've been saying that what he accomplished in losing season after losing season, playing with lesser talent and playing fewer seasons than those 4, but put up mostly similar stats as them, that he is without question the Greatest of all time. Thank you for your reply.
@@carlweaver3243 What those fans are saying is pure nonsense. You got the same argument in hockey with Ovechkin for all those years until the Capitals won in 2018.
What, Butkus is supposed to do all the scoring as well? Play defence AND offence? Their GM didn't surround those 2 great players with a good team. They never had a top quarterback; I can't recall their deep threat; Ditka was good, but he was gone after a few years. If you don't have a top QB, forget it. As I recall, they ran Gale Sayers into the ground, putting him on kickoffs and punt returns, if I'm right. Ridiculous to do that to the greatest open field runner.
I read Dick's book, 'Stop Action' in 1971, thereabouts, and you could sense his frustration at not having good players, the apathy on the Bears, not having a Namath, a Jurgenson as QB, or a Lombardi as coach. Butkus was an absolute force and to hear and read what other players (Alex Karras, etc.) said about him was incredible.
Can you imagine Dick Butkus these days? The celebrating and dance routines after each play, would drive him insane.
So would grown men in high heels playing women’s sports.
A clean hitter. Most of his tackles were bear hugs. Great fundamentals.
There were quite a few spearing tackles in there. The most brutal was the one kinda near end , the pass went up, receiver catches, and Dick lead with head, turned his body, and the receivers helmet snaps backward.. ya that was brutal hit, and there was another there he runs in with helmet smashing into another helmet, snapping their head backward. Dont get me wrong, I miss the hard hits, and the real man play, but at the same time I think of how many necks were saved from being severed :D
Lost Art unfortunately
BINGO, as BEAR BRYANT used to say. Good fundamental tackling.
@@ddo8521 if ya don't want to get hit stay home girly boy
@@tombabcock4967 LOL you have to have about 1 brain cell floating around. You act like I am opposed to the hard hitting. Did I say anything about how bad it is people are getting hit? No, I didnt. So learn to comprehend the words you read, instead of just vomiting nonsense from your mouth. Let me refresh that reading comprehension of what I said above, and I quote myself " Dont get me wrong, I miss the hard hits, and the real man play," So obviously you got me wrong, since you think I dont want people to get hit. Have a great day sir.
I'd love to see Butkus, Tatum, Hendricks, The Purple People Eaters, The Steel Curtain, The Doomsday Defense, and The Fearsome Foursome. I'd like to see when players of today make a touchdown and think they won the Super Bowl what these defenses would do. Today's offensive showoffs would be taught a lesson. These guys were awesome and intimidating. They took no shit from nobody.
I wish I was alive to watch this era of football
+Seth Moses you bet...it was a great, great thing just to see these guys go all out for the love of the game...what a bunch of wussies these millionaire whiners are now...retire for fear of concussions, a bad toe, banged up knee, etc. etc. butkus played a whole game wth a broken arm..
Randy Jrny don't forget the 85 bears
Players of today wouldn't hold up because they might break a nail
and the New York Sack Exchange
Those were the days when during the off season these guys had jobs.
That's absolutely correct my friend ! I was born and raised in Texas in the 1950's and grew up on football . every weekend my old man and I would be with the uncles and cousins discussing and cussing the various teams !!!
I think I read once that Dick Butkus made $75,000 the last year he played
@@richardwalker663 Not sure what he got paid, but the truth is he probably woulda done it for a lot less. Where else could he have gotten away with physically punishing people the way he did. He sure seemed to enjoy it.
@@richardwalker663 That's about right. Bob Lily retired around the same time. He made $80K his last few seasons. Offensive players made more. Unitas made $100K, but some years $125 with bonuses. Jim Brown, retired in 1965, he was making $60K. He probably made that for 8 weeks work on "The Dirty Dozen." Joe Namath, in 1965, $142K per year, three year contract.
Loved those days but being a Colt fan we hated the Bears because they were dirty. Johnny Unitas is still the best ever!
I miss the days when they played in the dirt and mud to the point you couldn't read their numbers.
Good old days!100% you could tell what quarter it was by the dirt/mud on them not like these pussies like today. Fake grass fucking Domes. Are you kidding me?
We're back baby
I think in that era "taking a knee" had a totally different definition.
Yeah it meant you were a b'$t$h. It was considered soft. Now being soft and calling the cops for a simple disagreement is the new wave.
@@51OAKLANDER510 What he meant was, in his day (and mine), players went out there with the purpose to hurt and intimidate... and that was by concentrating on actually taking out your knee!
The NFL has just announced that Dick Butkus has been fined $800,000 & suspended for 30 games after reviewing this video.
P Brickley ...
that's a good one...funny!
Just for the shot on Sanders.
:)
its amazing some of those players even go up after those hits
They were real men playing back then , not a bunch of scripted football playing pussy's
I'm from Philly so maybe I'm bias, but my God what a set of pipes on Harry Kalas. A world class sports narration guy and the voice of the Philadelphia Phillies for over four decades. I tell ya, he is missed.
I miss Harry still, swing long drive outta here¡!
I liked John Facenda NFL Films a little Better! He was a Great News Anchor in Philadelphia Too!
He was like a freight train. In today's "two hand touch" league, most of these hits are illegal for being too brutal. I miss the old time football. Hard hits, no nonsense, no dancing.
His best quote. "I never intentionally tried to hurt anyone, unless it was important, like a league game or something".
Butkus didn't just tackle his opponent, he punished them.
He literally played, kill the man with the ball !
It was a game of intimidation back then. My intent was to hit them so violently that next time the ran the ball or ran a route they were too busy looking for my # for them to be effective. Didn't always work, but that was my intent on every tackle.
That's called a personal foul now! 15yards,2 of them,& you are gone for the game. He would of played about 4 games a year.
Intentionally, willfully, and deliberately. FACT...
Classic Butkus and Larry Czonka!Talk about "BEAST MODE!"
I remember him playing very well. That was when FOOTBALL was FOOTBALL. got to love smash mouth hits.
Dick Butkus, a man, a legend, a god.
I won't even watch the NFL now. Those anti-American, racist, brain-damaged criminals are not worth my time and money. Same for their sponsors and vendors.
But I still have vids and memories of back when people like Dick Butkus played the game.
Criminals? Fuck you.
Butkus would have his ass handed to him today with these huge fast, steroid ridden players today....they are big and fast, and they cheat
Total criminals, a lot of them anyway
Oh yeah like your politicians in DC are not criminals. The envy of the checks these players are getting is the reason for all of the venom being spewed by key board patriots who don't know the difference between nationalism and patriotism. It is a shame that we hold athletes to a higher moral standard than elected officials.
@@charleswilliams6758 stick to football dude, stick to football
I remember the magazine cover when I was young. "Dick Butkus, the most feared man in pro football".
That's absolutely right. And you all thought Johnny Morris was kidding in the beginning of this video,when he said,"I was afraid of him and he was on my team".
Ray nitschke punished as much as butkus they both were monsters of the midway
How does he compare to a player named Nagurski, he was one of the toughest.
@@asimhusain8087 straight up..he learned from Bronco. Even if you're a pretty boy like Gifford, you don't get no respect from me...I hit you the same (or harder). The objective being to knock him out of the game, so he can't score on you
He was the greatest player I ever saw. I remember as a kid highlighting the game between Chicago and Cleveland, I loved watching Butkus and Brown go against each other, easily two of the greatest of all time.
The only year they were both in the NFL was 1965 and their teams didn't play each other.
Dick Butkus was absolutely one of the greatest. Among the others is Chuck Bednarik aka concrete Charlie . He is also known as the last 60 Minuteman for playing both sides of the ball the entire game. He put a vicious hit on Frank Gifford and put him out of football for almost 2 years. Back then the men were men and not spoiled millionaires.
Frank never held a grudge against Bednarik, either. He said it was a perfectly legitimate hit.
Watching him play was like watching “The Longest Yard” (the original). Absolutely the best.
Ya wanna dance some more hot dog??? Dick Butkus would SCHOOL most of todays football players humility and TACKLING FUNDAMENTALS.
dfasmilll The current roid backers....
He played before the NFL became the WWE
dfasmilll Troll much? Butkus was a FB at U of I before converting to MLB. He could EASILY play in today's game, and would DOMINATE.
@@Lucille69caddy He is extremely slow, in todays game he would have the option to be manhandled on the DLine. Covering a TE wouldnt even be an option.
@@SaucyPelican Slow? Maybe in his last year when his knees were hobbled. Every year before though, he was quite fast. Fast enough for even today’s game. Trevathan is slow now.
Thank God for NFL Films...Can’t Imagine All this Lost to the Ages....Greatest Era of Football....
Someone once said that Butkus came at you like he hated you from his old neighborhood
He came at you like you were making cheap van seats in Elkhart.
What are the odds
Unreal
@@tonyg.1114 unreal like a trip to Wrigley field in ne of the noisiest VW beatles I've ever been in. Look me up on Facebook man!!
Paul Hornug told that to Steve Sabol on an NFL Films sound bite.
I had the pleasure of seeing Butkus play in person -- awesome! And you know what? He's a super nice guy too. I even remember him playing both sides of the ball and punting when he played high school ball at Chicago Vocational.
Al
He played on all the Special Teams, too until later on when his knees were hurting.
I couldn't wait back in the day to get home and watch Dick Butkus one of my favorite players and Walter Payton my two favorite football players thanks for the memory guys
Me too but I would add Gale Sayers
No astroturf, no dome stadiums, even the fans were exposed to extreme weather. Men like this made the game and inspired boys to work hard for something. My son is proudly serving in the marines because of role models like this
He's serving under the worst president in history. May God have mercy
Yeah a man's game. That's why the Packers and the Bears are the two greatest teams. Records don't mean anything when it comes to that matchup !
@@dennisprah223 the Packers and bears used to be good teams
@@stevenbrown5210 they are still men enough to play outside, and so are the fans !
Greatest tackle that ever lived in my opinion. No player wanted Butkus across the line from him ! Back when football was football !!
People refer to LT as the greatest linebacker of all time. But he would play off the edge of the line, and that made it difficult to block him. Butkus, however, had to play in the trenches. A man who was named NFL defensive player of the year , playing on a team that lost 13 of 14 games that year. That's how great he was.
Today’s NFL, with all its Divas, doesn’t even come close to the game it was back then.
The greatest ever at his position. Only knee injuries kept him from further greatness.
Thats when Football was Football NOW ITS JUST A FLAG FEST DONT TOUCH ME I GOT A HEADACHE
True for so many professional sports. You’d think they were playing soccer in the NBA today.
Deacon Jones classic comment on the Mike & Mike Sports Show: "If I hit a quarterback and he gets up....fine. If I hit a quarterback and he DOES NOT get up....fine. That's football"
And his signature move (the head slap) has been outlawed.
This is the way football should be played!!!! This man was a beast of beasts from the football Gods and he didn't disappoint the true blue hard nosed football gurus! The greatest LB of all freaking time!!!!!!
It was Dick Butkus who stood over a dying Chuck Hughes at Tiger Stadium calling for medical attention that couldn't save Hughes from a fatal heart attack. We Lions fans hated Butkus, but that is an iconic photo that i will never forget.
Back when you could play defense in the NFL. Nowadays, they want a pretty game where every QB throws for 400 yards a game and LB's can't even look at the QB wrong. And there are female refs now. What a joke the NFL has become.
drakg002 Yep, And they blame the decline in ratings on the take a knee thing because they cannot bring themselves to admit a large number of former fans can’t stand how they have pussy fide the game.
And they are wanting to have a female head coaches
We all miss real football. I dont even bother with the NO FUN NO FOOTBALL LEAGUE now
What a joke Western culture has become for that matter- a matriarchal pc dump.
I don't have a problem with female refs. I do have a problem with them demasculatng the game.
"Football is hitting.Butkus was the ultimate hitter"-Jim Brown
Correct me if I'm wrong , but was it Butkus who once said " if I don't have blood on my jersey by the end of the first quarter , I'm not playing hard enough . " ?
@@howardwayne3974 I never heard that.....but it sounds like Butkus.
@@howardwayne3974, in an interview ('70 Pro Bowl, I think) he said "...got kind of a charge when that head come rolling down the stairs...", from Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte. Got to watch his whole career; BEAR fan since late '64. He was/still the best. I see a lot of other names mentioned, but I'm always surprised nobody ever mentions Mike Curtis.
@@billj8148 Mad dog, he was like Butkus in a way, tuff as nails !
Spoken by a man who would have firsthand knowledge of such a thing... lol
when football was a mans game..Ahh, the good ole days
In the age of the narcissist, players celebrate every time they do the job they are overpaid for. Not sure, but I don’t believe Butkus wore women’s jewelry either. 🤣
Exactly. I get so tired of the celebrations. I was complaining about it once and my wife was giving me crap and telling me that I didn't understand blah blah blah. She is a midwife so I asked her "when you deliver a baby after a tough shoulder dystocia, do you spike the kid on the floor and start dancing? No. You did your job and you act like a professional." She didn't have much else to say after that imagery.
Hell. Dick was a real man, not like the sissy players today.
And he didn’t dress like a Pimp at his press conferences either. Players today are sissys
Oh god... the "Get off My Lawn" old man has spoken.
@@garynelson9538 haha! That’s right you young whippersnapper.
Damn, can you imagine if the NFL decides to let them.play like this again next season? 95% of the players today wouldn't make it to week 3.
Remember his rookie year along with Gale Sayers, 1965, both were fantastic!
This day and age he would be branded a "Dirty Player". Football just ain't football anymore
Maybe not. When you look at his tackles he uses his shoulder.
Disagree. He would be known as the toughest fair player. Suh, formerly of the Lions, cleating downed people, is a dirty player.
They just took all the brutality out of the game,hurting people so they cant play is an easy way to beat the other team! I don't like the way the refs pamper the QB,it helps my team just as well! All these fast young QB,s,are gonna start getting hurt from running the ball.i like a pocket passer. Tom Brady,great example! I'm a Minnesota fan,so you know how I am frustrated!
He wasn't dirty, but damn effective!!!
@@garypaterson5878 not in today's game!
Dick Butkus and Ray Nitschke that was real football played in mud and snow. I'm glad I got to see it in person.
Good to see football again the way it should be played before skirts came out
Miss that voice of Harry Kalas..thnx for the memories.
Greatest defensive player ever!!!!!!
I once watched an interview with Dick Butkus where he basically said "I just wanted to hit a guy so hard, that he never had to turn around to see my jersey number to know who hit him."
Loved watching him in the game. He defined football
When the NFL was a man's game . I miss those old days as a kid watching the great that made the NFL fun to watch.
Damn I miss the old NFL. Haven't watched a game for 2 years...Too many pink shoes and special ribbons and political BS today...I can't stand the pussification of American men.
I agree with the political bs, but the reason those men wear pink is for breast cancer awareness... sounds like you're the pussy if you aren't man enough to wear pink for a good cause.
Thomas Parker
Women broadcasting games that have no experience playing or coaching.
Wearing pink.
Men cheerleaders.
Players now get flags for:
Celebrating.
Taunting.
Removing the helmet.
Tackling.
But there are no flags for sexual misconduct when men slap each other on the ass.
You can keep watching this game for the good cause.
@@theformulated1 Actually Players do not get a flag for celebrating, tacking or removal of the helmet, they do have to sit out a play for the latter. I have no qualms with a woman who knows her shit about football in the booth, do you really think every broadcaster was formally a coach/ player? How can you call yourself even a former football fan?
Are you jealous because a woman knows more about football that you? Wearing pink is for breast cancer awareness you ignorant fuck, i'm sorry you're so scared of a color you avoid anything that has it.
Thomas Parker Hitler didn't take over Germany in one day, it was in small increments. You fail to see what's happening in the NFL & to men... Now go and enjoy your male cheerleaders you seem to be comfortable with that shit to.
@@theformulated1 Damn it, i fell for your bait. good troll dude.
I feel blessed to be old enough that I can remember football in the 1960s. So many great players who played the game the way it’s supposed to be played: Butkus, Brown; Unitas, and so many more. And played their games in classic stadiums like Wrigley Field, Tiger Stadium, Yankee Stadium. Makes me proud to be old lol.
Even these great clips don’t do him justice. Butkus was one of those rare players that could intimidate an entire offensive team. Lawerence Taylor and Troy Polamalu could also do it!
Butkus was one in a million. Was an inspiration to me to be a competitor and unapologetically so. Thanks to you sir.
"Man on the maul." He was truly one of the "Monsters of the Midway."
A man amongst men, pure and simple!
Still gets me fired up!
He was on the Tonight show several times- when he was All-American in college and later when he was All-Pro and he always said "I like to hit" when he was asked why he was outstanding.
Dick Butkus was not a guy you want to celebrate by dancing in his face after you scored a touchdown. He'll take your head off the next down or series of downs. As a matter of fact, it would be a foolish mistake to celebrate in front of any of these hard-nosed players from that time after you scored, such as Ray Nitschke, Deacon Jones, Lawrence Taylor and Ronnie Lott to name some.
Jack Lambert, Lyle Alzado... all of these guys would keep QB's, coaches and especially offensive linemen up at night.
PJ your right....deacon Jones in his prime was a rough customer.....I loved him....live in peace with the Lord deacon.
astrelinski1603 :- Bo Jackson
PJ damn right!!back when it was FOOTBALL!!
Dick Butt Kiss, what did you expect ? a boy named sue ?
This man was my hero when I was a kid playing HS football. Made a couple of Butkus tackles myself.
None of the crybabies playing any position today could and would Not be able to Take a hit from Butkus !!!!
At least not twice
They wouldn't let him play because they would be calling him a 'bully'. In today's PC world.....Dick would not fit in.
Lol dude theres dozens of guys on active rosters that hit way harder. They now how to do it. He just threw his body around
Kevin Bem Ya right Kevin
@@KBem93 thank you
I'm so impressed with duck butkus ,I'm Australian and have followed rugby league all my life ,and butkus looks like he could play that game too.brutal .
Oh yeah i remember football wish that was still a sport that men played, you wana dance again hotdog hahaa you dont hear people saying that anymore
john smith hbyn
When you played against Butkus you took your life in your hands 🙌
Another great linebacker in that era was Sam Huff who played for the NY Giants 🏈
Always nice to remember when men played the game, instead of thugs dressed in pink.
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@Snakes Grier maybe he could... given enough steroids.
Racist prick
@@michaelgorogianis8571 They wear gold chains and bob around in headphones pre snap, what do you expect them to be called?
Racist asshole
I love the narrator's voice! He really made those stories great! 👍👍💕💕💕😎
He was incredible, intimidating, fierce, mean on the field, very loyal to Chicago.
Dick is the stuff of true legends. There will never be another Dick Butkus. He changed football and Sam Huff was nothing compared to Dick.
The greatest middle linebacker to ever play the game.
Back when real men played for the love of the game and not these crybaby overpaid snot rags of today....
You can say that for all of society these days.
I'd like to see butkus lining up across from kaepernick
Radioman Butkus could call them snot rags, he earned it ! You however have zero credibility, and I'm thinking all of those "Snot Rags" could easily kick your ass !
@@augiedoggie8814 say no to fake patriotism. P.s. hail Kaepernick
Radioman please. He couldn’t even play college football today...you seriously think that slow bitch could play for Alabama.
Most feared man to walk the field
JImmy Watts Night Train Lane
Ray Lewis?
@charles cap Agent 0?
Not one helmet to helmet contact tackle in this vdo. A testament to proper form tackling for everyone's safety and of course to further your legendary career.
As F. Scott Fitzgerald might have said, "He had a body capable of enormous leverage, a cruel body."
Butkus was an animal in a time when football was worth watching.
"That was a seriously intimidating Man on the field"
Mike Singletary on Dick Butkus
Mr. Butkus played a little before my time, but as a kid growing up, his legend was well known. All the neighborhood boys playing "football" in the field would love to be Butkus when playing on defense. It is great to see his domination in this video. He played defense the right way :)
I'm old enough to remember watching him play. It wasn't the national felons league back then.
No punk ass kneelers either.
@@kennyc388 I agree, and they never stormed the US Capital Building also. Kneeling isnt a crime but insurrection is.......
@@cornfilledscreamer614 Yep, just like any other Trumpeteer...🤣
blm yall
Butkus... the One-Man Demolition Squad!”👍🏻😀
"To talk about him is drain the vocabulary of superlatives." I loved the old Inside The NFL voiceovers. That show used to be awesome!
That was a different kind of football game back then. Can't play that ball today. Thx for the memories
The way he prowls up and down the line of scrimmage is like a bear stalking his prey.
And - everyone note - only one of the hits in this video, did Butkus lead and hit with his head first. You can be a tough SOB without spearing the ball carrier every time you try to make a tackle. That's why he can still bring together a coherent sentence. I remember one of my high school football coaches tell us, "never hit what you can't see". Words to live by. Literally.
Good thing Butkus never faced Ditka that collision might cause a super nova.
I think they faced each other in a game on 10/31/1971, Ditka was on the Cowboys that year and he got a Super Bowl ring.
They faced each other in 1968. Ditka had 4 receptions for 28 yards and a TD.
They did face each other in practice!
@@rodhalliday6613 In his book, Butkus talked about joining the Bears and the tough guys who impressed him: Mike Ditka, Doug Atkins and Earl Leggett.
This man was my hero growing up. I had the chance to meet him in person and was so terrified I could barley speak.
"Well, on uh, Fake Draw Screen Right I uh, pick up the linebacker if he's comin, 'less of course it's Butkus, then I simply notify the quarterback to send for a preacher."
Brian Piccolo, Brian's Song
I went to school with Walt Garrison ( Cowboys) In his book
Walt talks about his first run thru the line and Butkus tackled him. Butkus got up and said "If you ever come this way again, I'll BITE your head off!" Garrison replied, "Well, If you do, it'll be the FIRST time you ever had any brains in your head!
Butkus burst our laughing, he was so suprised.
You had to be tough to play against Butkus.
An awesome athlete - middle linebacker - a man's man - the GOAT of Middle Linebackers❤❤❤ - RIP Mr. Dick Butkus 🙏🙏🙏
Yes he was tough, But still, what I remember of him he was a decent human being!!
Yep!
Decent My ass he supported loser trump
@@MrScubacat Why bring politics into this?
@@MrScubacat oh wow he supported Trump. Let me guess, he’s a nazi? A klansman? Get lost hack!
Sick Butkis played when football was a tough hard nosed game I don't believe he would be as happy in today's watered down game I had the privilege of seeing him play at the University of Illinois we knew her was Great
He had an internal drive, energy and killer instinct coupled with size and skill that is in a rare few.
What a bad ass! Most of today's players could not take that kind of punishment!
You had some tough guys since. Brett Favre was as tough and durable as any QB in history, never missing a game. I saw Jim McMahon getting pounded into the frozen turf in Green Bay in the 1990's, head first, and getting up every single time.
His upper body looks absolutely massive. Like a real bear.
That's why he only played 9 years; you couldn't block him high because he'd just throw you off So they attacked his knees.
@@JARyding happened to many of the greats....Sayers, Orr etc, back in those days, if you were real good, you became a target for the other team and it meant trying to injure. It's different today.
Well, why not? He played for the Chicago Bears.
his upperbody looks like an oke from miscoki
I grew up watching Butkus and he had more passion playing football hands down- Then any other professional Athlete EVER!!! EVER!!!!