How much would you need to go Oklahoma drill with Earl Campbell

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The DB getting thrown in that clip I posted is Michael Downs, he went on to be a pretty good player in the NFL

Neumann: Orange crushed by Earl Campbell

The Rams player who got headbutted was Isiah Robertson, and he was a very good player. 6 time Pro Bowler, 2 time all Pro

Isiah Robertson may be the most overlooked great linebacker of the 1970s

 

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[OGBobbyJohnson]

Look like some shyt from The Waterboy

 

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That hit is crazy because Jack Tatum actually rocked Earl but he hit him so damn high and didn't wrap all Earl had to do was slightly turn his hips and keep his legs moving to score lol.

Campbell was woozy (probably concussed) after the hit too

 

[BucciMane]

Most underrated player in NFL history.

For a three time OPOTY, he absolutely does not get mentioned enough with other greats.

I just love the way this man ran the ball..

 

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This is what I do to @Derek Lee on a weekly basis..

 

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He is doing pretty good thanks to those sausages.

Was moving alright tio last time i saw him on dinersa drives and dives.

His selection sell very well in HEB, I have a signed autographed jersey hanging in my office. He does a lot here for the local Houston community and shows up to every event he is physically able to attend if it relates to football. He’s really good with the kids too during youth football programs I always see him on fb love at some random kids school helping at practices

 

[Treblemaka]

He carried a grown man 12 ft against his will and dropped him off in the end zone like a father dropping off a child at school

 

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Campbell was woozy (probably concussed) after the hit too

Had to be Tatum's helmet slammed right up in his chin

 

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[FaTaL]

I would dab but seeing his current situation makes me

 

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I would dab but seeing his current situation makes me

Earl Campbell looks like the scariest running back of all time.

 

[Erratic415]

I would dab but seeing his current situation makes me

It could have been worse too. He probably wouldn’t be cleared to play today because he had spinal stenosis, but didn’t find out until later.

After his abrupt retirement from the NFL in 1986 at age 31, Campbell spent years of trying to unravel what he thought was damage inflicted by football, mostly to address severe back pain. What he found, starting with several tests by a spinal surgeon in 1999, went much deeper.

"I know you were this great athlete that everybody knows -- Heisman Trophy winner, all this stuff -- but you probably should've never played football," Campbell said the doctor told him. "The amazing thing to me about Earl Campbell, this exceptional athlete I'm looking at, is that you weren't paralyzed."

Campbell learned he had played with spinal stenosis all his life.

It's a narrowing of the space inside the spine, leading to pressure on nerves, and causes pain, weakness or numbness. It's the same diagnosis that caused Michael Irvin to retire midseason and caused Cooper Manning to give up football at Ole Miss before his brothers went on to the NFL. Obviously, it would be a red flag for a football player like Campbell who ran with such brute force that he's celebrated in YouTube videos titled "The Human Wrecking Ball."

"Earl has been very lucky that he didn't have any catastrophes when he was playing," said Dr. Stan Jones, a spinal surgeon in Houston who performed Campbell's fifth, and he hopes, final, back procedure in 2008. "I think if people had known -- the doctors he was seeing at the time and the team doctors -- that he was really significantly stenotic, they wouldn't have let him play. He escaped a horrible possible situation."

Earl got up: Inside the second act of a Texas legend

Earl Campbell is a Texas legend who just had the Longhorns' field named after him. But if he played today, his career might not have even happened.

www.espn.com

 

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It could have been worse too. He probably wouldn’t be cleared to play today because he had spinal stenosis, but didn’t find out until later.

Earl got up: Inside the second act of a Texas legend

Earl Campbell is a Texas legend who just had the Longhorns' field named after him. But if he played today, his career might not have even happened.

www.espn.com

that's fukkin crazy.

Earl was def different.