R.I.P. Deacon Jones

[iowajerms]

 

[Yankee Traveler]

Wow, no shit....RIP Deacon.

 

[BritishDolfan]

*head slap*

RIP.

 

[Retroram52]

Thanks Hammer for the info update.

 

[Golden Spur]

NFL will present Deacon Jones Award to sacks leader | ProFootballTalk

 

[Thruthefog]

Can't forget 'the fearsome foursome'. David Jones, Merlin Olsen, Rosy Grier, and Lamar Lundy.

God I'm getting old.

 

[Vitamike]

NFL will present Deacon Jones Award to sacks leader | ProFootballTalk

I started to make a thread about this however that it is here seems appropriate.

As a life long Rams fan and old enough (barely) to remember the fearsome foursome I think it would be really cool if Chris Long were to run away with the inaugural award!

How about targeting 26 C.Long!

Deac is said to have done that in 14 games!

 

[Jims_Doors]

Here's a cool article about how the term "sack" came about. It's Marv Levy's story when he was an assistant under George Allen.


When Hall of Fame defensive lineman Deacon Jones passed, the tributes and memories included most prominently that he used the head slap and that he coined the term “sack.”

Leo Roth of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle explains that Jones locked on to the term after legendary head coach George Allen used it as a pun in a motivational speech.Here’s the story, as told by former NFL coach Marv Levy, as assistant under Allen with the Redskins:

“George was talking the night before in the team meeting about playing the Dallas Cowboys and their quarterback, Craig Morton. The term [sack] had never been used. It was always, ‘Tackle the QB for a loss.’ But the night before the game, George goes, ‘Before we play those Dallas Cowboys, we’re going to take that Morton salt and pour him into a sack.’ That was the inspiration for it.’’

Still, it was Jones who ran with it as a word to generally describe tackling the quarterback for a loss. So while Allen gets the assist, Jones saw that the word had far broader appeal than linking a quarterback named Morton to the Morton salt brand and putting the salt in a proverbial sack

Levy explains how Deacon Jones came up with ?sack? | ProFootballTalk