CFB players that were bigger than the game.

[TDs3nOut]

While they were playing?

Probably not beyond football while they were playing, but, they played before my time.

 

[Hornsstampede2.0]

Rudy was not that big of a deal until the movie came out years later.

I am not sure if it counts....if it happened 20 years later.... but technically it fits the list.

People know Rudy. His name is larger than the game. But, they never heard of the guy from 1975-1993.

He is a weird case for this thread topic.

 

[WhiteMamba]

Rudy was not that big of a deal until the movie came out years later.

I am not sure if it counts....if it happened 20 years later.... but technically it fits the list.

People know Rudy. His name is larger than the game. But, they never heard of the guy from 1975-1993.

He is a weird case for this thread topic.

Ernie Davis and President Ford also are added if that is criteria.

Ernie maybe before movie. But I just don't know enough about him during his playing days.

 

[fredmccallyRTR]

This thread has made me thirsty, I need some OJ.

 

[Hornsstampede2.0]

Does the "HONEY BADGER" count?

That was a crazy worldwide obsession with all things Honey Badger in 2011.

I am not sure it was all due to Tyrann Mathieu (the Youtube videos were first), but he was part of the epicenter of that short lived by big time fad. He got tied into it all.

If you googled "honey badger" in 2011, you would get 1,000,000 pictures of him at LSU.

However, I am not sure it has enough lasting power to count. It might be forgotten altogether in a few years.

 

[fredmccallyRTR]

Does the "HONEY BADGER" count?

That was a crazy worldwide obsession with all things Honey Badger in 2011.

I am not sure it was all due to Tyrann Mathieu (the Youtube videos were first), but he was part of the epicenter of that short lived by big time fad. He got tied into it all.

If you googled "honey badger" in 2011, you would get 1,000,000 pictures of him at LSU.

However, I am not sure it has enough lasting power to count. It might be forgotten altogether in a few years.

I'd throw that into the "The Nickname is Bigger than the Player" category.

 

[theSabanator20]

Joe Namath. I mean, he wasn't Hollywood Joe for nothing.

From Alabama, him, Stabler, Lee Roy Jordan come to mind.

 

[Texas Jefe]

The Four Horsemen were nationally known at the time. But I cant recall all their names now.

 

[theSabanator20]

And Derrick Thomas. Can't forget about him. I know there's others just thinking about the Bama players in particular.

 

[WhiteMamba]

Joe Namath. I mean, he wasn't Hollywood Joe for nothing.

From Alabama, him, Stabler, Lee Roy Jordan come to mind.

Don't know enough about LRJ. That's just me though.

But tough to argue about Joe and Stabler. Bart Star?

 

[7Samurai13]

Rudy was not that big of a deal until the movie came out years later.

I am not sure if it counts....if it happened 20 years later.... but technically it fits the list.

People know Rudy. His name is larger than the game. But, they never heard of the guy from 1975-1993.

He is a weird case for this thread topic.

If we are going to have fictional stories, can I add Paul Blake from Texas State University. Having actually spoken with and working with a member of that Notre Dame team, half the shit from Rudy was fake.

 

[Lance Armstrong]

Ricky Williams, his dreads and later his smoking made him a huge name. Joe Namath wasn't broadway joe until he got to New York, and even after the movie nobody knows who Ernie Davis was.

 

[Wamu]

and even after the movie nobody knows who Ernie Davis was.

DAMN.

 

[WhiteMamba]

Ricky Williams, his dreads and later his smoking made him a huge name. Joe Namath wasn't broadway joe until he got to New York, and even after the movie nobody knows who Ernie Davis was.

Raycess

 

[WhiteMamba]

DAMN.

Subconscious or nah on the racism?

 

[Wamu]

Subconscious or nah on the racism?

I just thought it was a weird comment. I'd say Ernie Davis is pretty well known in CFB history.

 

[WhiteMamba]

We have all read accounts of how Texas football and their fans felt about Ernie Davis.

No need to bring it to a diverse SportsHoopla community @Johndyer210

 

[Lance Armstrong]

Raycess

Yeah, I think it was a little with the dreads. They even sold shirts with the Heisman trophy with dreads.

 

[lilchi721]

Tim Brown,Larry Fitzgerald, RG3

 

[WhiteMamba]

I just thought it was a weird comment. I'd say Ernie Davis is pretty well known in CFB history.

You don't have to dig too deep to find where the hatred come from.