Your favorite retired Packer?

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Some of my favorites would have to be (in no particular order)

Max Mcgee
Carroll Dale
Boyd Dowler
Dave Robinson
Ted "the Mad Stork" Hendricks (even though he only played for the Pack for one year)
 

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I appreciate your added notes on Lombardi. He's somewhat before my time so I've always been curious about his mystique (s/p) and what makes him so famous and well known than other coaches. Like why is the trophy named after him and not another coach? What did he do that stands out?
Does it have to do with going to and winning the first two SBs?
If anyone wants to help me understand, feel free to add. Or else I'll google to see what I can find.


Even though I am biased with the Pack, (And who isn't with their favorite team. LOL) I did ask for different opinions. So I see that you took me up on my offer by showing us what the Steelers have accomplished.
Well done buddy. It's never a bad thing to be reminded to be humbled.

Read the book When Pride Still Mattered. It's the best Lombardi book out there. it will greatly ehnance your understanding of the man.
 

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I used to like the productive Mark Murphy, also. Not the stooge that currently is making too much money to do absolutely nothing, but the bald-headed safety back in the day. I like Johnny Gray and Mark Lee and Mike Butler and Tony Bennett and who could forget Sanjay Beach - the receiver that started the hype. :)
 

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I used to like the productive Mark Murphy, also. Not the stooge that currently is making too much money to do absolutely nothing, but the bald-headed safety back in the day. I like Johnny Gray and Mark Lee and Mike Butler and Tony Bennett and who could forget Sanjay Beach - the receiver that started the hype. :)
Did Murphy play for the Packers? I was pretty sure he was a Redskin only...
 

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Did Murphy play for the Packers? I was pretty sure he was a Redskin only...

there was another Mark M

As he said the guy was bald

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Murphy_(safety_b._1958)


Mark Steven Murphy (born April 22, 1958 in Canton, [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio"]Ohio[/ame]) is a former [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football"]American football[/ame] safety in the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League"]National Football League[/ame]. He was signed by the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers"]Green Bay Packers[/ame] as an [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undrafted_free_agent"]undrafted free agent[/ame] in 1980. He played [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_football"]college football[/ame] at [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Liberty_State_College"]West Liberty State College[/ame].
Murphy was inducted into the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers_Hall_of_Fame"]Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame[/ame] in 1998.[1]
 

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1 ) Reggie White - I believe he was the best Defensive Player of all time and a top notch man.
2 ) LeRoy Butler - Dude was a great player but he has a very good personality too. A true Packer great.
3 ) Holmgren/Wolf - Putting them both in here for turning our franchise around (along with #92 and a certain #4 that remains nameless)
4 ) Sterling Sharpe - He was the man... Too bad he got hurt probably would have been a HoFer if not for that.
5 ) Vince Lombardi - Wasn't alive when he was but the lore is enough for this guy.
6 ) Donald Driver - Great Wide receiver and a tough sob.
7 ) Tim Harris - 6 guns a blazing after a sack.
8 ) Edgar Bennett - He was a mudder had a lot of heart.
9 ) Charles Woodson - Can we get a couple more of him????
10 ) Robert Brooks (remember that cheesy cd he made, ya i bought a copy of it):crazy:

So I have a GM, two coaches, 4 defensive players and 5 offensive guys not a bad mix ;)
 

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On offense I have to say Sterling Sharpe is my all-time favorite retired Packer. He destroyed DBs & he was all we ever had during those lean years. They couldn't stop him. I liked his media blackout policy too. He got bad press as a result but it only served to proved his point.

On defense I liked Mike Douglass. The teams he played for weren't going to be competitive but he played like a man possessed. I think one year he had 180 tackles. Cool story - my sister worked at the Orange Julius in Port Plaza Mall & one day James Lofton & Mike Douglass patronized the place & she got them to sign autographs for me. I still have them.
 

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Remember Dave Roller? He played for the Pack from '75-'78 as a defensive lineman. The guy might have been 6'+ on paper, but I swear he was about 5'10 and about 280 max-- a freaking human bowling ball at nose tackle. He was awesome on a team that really sucked. And he might be one of the few pros who played in all the leagues, WFL, Canadian, USFL and the NFL. He probably would have been in the XFL had he been young enough. He was a great character.
 
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As far as Offense goes Sterling Sharpe and Bart Starr get my nod. For D I love Reggie White and Ray Nitschke. Random Pick LeRoy "its pronounce L'roy not LEE-roy" Butler. He was a beast and was the god father of the leap.
 

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I would have to go with Paul Coffman. You throw the ball in his direction and he was coming down with it, then running over a couple of guys to make some more yardage! That tough-nosed, never complain, give it all you got attitude is what I really liked in players. Lynn ****ey also, he gave all of us Packer fans hope. We felt we had a chance to score a touchdown every time he threw the ball.

I forgot Chuck Cecil, he was the original Hard Hitter on defense. Nobody wanted to catch a pass in his direction!
 

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