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Dick Butkus has passed away at the age of 80
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<blockquote data-quote="john1952" data-source="post: 1947648" data-attributes="member: 749056"><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Jenkins" target="_blank">Dan Jenkins</a> remarked, "If every college football team had a linebacker like Dick Butkus of Illinois, all fullbacks soon would be three feet tall and sing soprano."</p><p></p><p>Dick was an animal. I called him a maniac. A stone maniac. He was a well-conditioned animal, and every time he hit you, he tried to put you in the cemetery, not the hospital.— <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacon_Jones" target="_blank">Deacon Jones</a>, Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end</p><p></p><p> He once intercepted a pass from Vikings quarterback <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Tarkenton" target="_blank">Fran Tarkenton</a> near the goal line, and instead of taking the ball into the end zone for an easy touchdown, he took aim at Tarkenton to run him over. When asked by a reporter if he was as mean as the rumors suggested, Butkus replied, "I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately. Unless it was, you know, important—like a league game or something."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="john1952, post: 1947648, member: 749056"] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Jenkins']Dan Jenkins[/URL] remarked, "If every college football team had a linebacker like Dick Butkus of Illinois, all fullbacks soon would be three feet tall and sing soprano." Dick was an animal. I called him a maniac. A stone maniac. He was a well-conditioned animal, and every time he hit you, he tried to put you in the cemetery, not the hospital.— [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacon_Jones']Deacon Jones[/URL], Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end He once intercepted a pass from Vikings quarterback [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Tarkenton']Fran Tarkenton[/URL] near the goal line, and instead of taking the ball into the end zone for an easy touchdown, he took aim at Tarkenton to run him over. When asked by a reporter if he was as mean as the rumors suggested, Butkus replied, "I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately. Unless it was, you know, important—like a league game or something." [/QUOTE]
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