Earl Campbell

I got poked in the eye, and at that time, I was like, you know what? Let me look at what my hero wears.

And my hero was Earl Campbell, right? Earl Campbell.

Tyler Rhodes, University of Texas, right? And if you looked at Earl Campbell's face mask, you know, he had the same thing, you know? And so I started wearing that probably in eighth grade and never switched.

Never switched back and never switched to another face mask or whatever.

And then once I got to college, then I had a partial tear in my ACL.

Number six, Red Grange for Illinois.

Number seven, Earl Campbell.

Texas redesigned pads because of the power of his thighs.

They actually had to put together new high-tech thigh pads for him to basically protect their most valued asset.

Oh my God.

Like, you know, Earl Campbell.

And he had to go back in 84, sadly.

Kurt Debus.

No, he's special.

He's got legs like Earl Campbell.

And, man, you know, can you imagine these secondary guys have to run in there full speed and hit that? Man, it's just not.

He's looking for you.

So it reminds me a lot of the Legion of Boom back when I was playing.

I would watch them, and I would be like, man Earl is just standing in the middle of the field like he's not moving he's not disguising and the play would snap and Cam would come down blow up a play Earl would run full speed to it like you just had so many good players on the field and they're playing to that and Kansas City it looked like they had 14 guys on the field against Kansas City it was it was remarkable

Yeah, it really is.

I mean, they got some guys that, like you said, they're just unblockable up front, awesome secondary players.

How is that a penalty?

I said yesterday, I was like, well, then you might as well take half of Walter Payton and Emmitt Smith's yards away because they didn't count.

Earl Campbell.

Earl Campbell.

And then, you know, he's not running around people.

He runs like Earl Campbell, you know.

He just runs over people.

And so I would have never called that.

And then, you know, he's not running around people.

He runs like Earl Campbell.

You know, he just runs over people.

And so I would have never called that.

Yeah.

no I always liked like Earl Campbell those Earl ones those ones

were great like it had like his I'm assuming it was his college dorm room in the back and it had like you know a board that he would just stick stuff to so you could sort of you can look into their life like before like the huge fame and all that like a little

cork board he had back there yeah yeah Plus, you can kind of see, like, man, these guys were in shape.