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Bye Bye Barry (1 Viewer)

Was fun watching him put a bunch of all pros & future hall of famers in the spin cycle once again.

They did a good job of capturing the essence of Barry Sanders. He is the most reluctant superstar. Earlier this year they put a statue of Barry in front of Ford Field. He asked the unveiling ceremony be private & closed to the public.
 
Great documentary. So many fun memories watching those Barry highlights. Best shake-and-baker that ever lived.

Sanders was my first ever fantasy football pick in '97, he went for 2000 yards that season. Good times.
 
Was fun watching him put a bunch of all pros & future hall of famers in the spin cycle once again.

They did a good job of capturing the essence of Barry Sanders. He is the most reluctant superstar. Earlier this year they put a statue of Barry in front of Ford Field. He asked the unveiling ceremony be private & closed to the public.
Four Hall of Fame Bucs on several of those highlight reels.
 
Was fun watching him put a bunch of all pros & future hall of famers in the spin cycle once again.

They did a good job of capturing the essence of Barry Sanders. He is the most reluctant superstar. Earlier this year they put a statue of Barry in front of Ford Field. He asked the unveiling ceremony be private & closed to the public.
Four Hall of Fame Bucs on several of those highlight reels.

And Barry makes them all look silly. I am pretty sure who they think the best back was.
 
Great documentary. So many fun memories watching those Barry highlights. Best shake-and-baker that ever lived.

Sanders was my first ever fantasy football pick in '97, he went for 2000 yards that season. Good times.
I could be remembering incorrectly but it was about 2050 yards total, and he only got 50 through the first two games. So 2000 yards through 14 games. Insanity.
 
Great documentary. So many fun memories watching those Barry highlights. Best shake-and-baker that ever lived.

Sanders was my first ever fantasy football pick in '97, he went for 2000 yards that season. Good times.
I could be remembering incorrectly but it was about 2050 yards total, and he only got 50 through the first two games. So 2000 yards through 14 games. Insanity.

Pretty much, 15-33 and 10-20. Sanders had played his entire career under Fontes in the run n shoot so there were a lot of questions about the wisdom of the Bobby Ross hire.
 
**Incoming Spoilers**

Its by far my longest post and I apologize for the length. Its Barry fricking Sanders though.

Just finished. I'm old so this is my era. How do you describe Barry Sanders football ability to someone without showing them film? You say he was poetic. The one pro athlete where u play classical music to his highlight real and it just works. He is the reason for the Madden video game juke. His footwork is phenomenal, almost unbelievable and 2nd to non. Although his top speed wasn't all time great his quickness and change of direction will never be seen again. His character was remarkable. I don't know him personally to know if he is a good man, but how he handled being a pro athlete was amazing.

Listening to the commentators for his final game in his rookie year not understanding why he isnt going for rushing title was hilarious. They didnt get it. That title was important to everyone but him. Christian Okoye reference was awesome. Dude was a monster. Good to see the name Chris Spielman again. His emotion to this day talking about the crowd of the 91 playoff game against Cowboys was nice. That td run in that game? Tony Casillas? Bwahahaha. I can remember that Sterling Sharpe playoff game like it was this past Sunday. Ugh.

For me, the biggest takeaway from this documentary was the conversation between him and Fontes. He told him Joe Montana called him and wanted to play with Barry. Management told him pass because Joe was too old. Uh. He was old but Joe would have been perfect for two years. He was old but Joe went 17-8 for chiefs and won games. Smh. Brutal to hear this could have happened. Brutal. Barrys expression during that conversation was like WTF.

I think witnessing the Mike Utley and Reggie Brown was a huge factor in Barry hanging it up. Also watching players who were close friends leave hurt. He lost his faith in the teams decisions. In the en, the decisions the Lions made took away his passion to play the game.

Charlie Batch!!!!

Luv u Barry. Thanks for the memories.
My only issue with Barry after watching the documentary is that while I understand that the various rushing titles didn't mean much to HIM, I think he failed to see how much they meant to his offensive linemen.
 
**Incoming Spoilers**

Its by far my longest post and I apologize for the length. Its Barry fricking Sanders though.

Just finished. I'm old so this is my era. How do you describe Barry Sanders football ability to someone without showing them film? You say he was poetic. The one pro athlete where u play classical music to his highlight real and it just works. He is the reason for the Madden video game juke. His footwork is phenomenal, almost unbelievable and 2nd to non. Although his top speed wasn't all time great his quickness and change of direction will never be seen again. His character was remarkable. I don't know him personally to know if he is a good man, but how he handled being a pro athlete was amazing.

Listening to the commentators for his final game in his rookie year not understanding why he isnt going for rushing title was hilarious. They didnt get it. That title was important to everyone but him. Christian Okoye reference was awesome. Dude was a monster. Good to see the name Chris Spielman again. His emotion to this day talking about the crowd of the 91 playoff game against Cowboys was nice. That td run in that game? Tony Casillas? Bwahahaha. I can remember that Sterling Sharpe playoff game like it was this past Sunday. Ugh.

For me, the biggest takeaway from this documentary was the conversation between him and Fontes. He told him Joe Montana called him and wanted to play with Barry. Management told him pass because Joe was too old. Uh. He was old but Joe would have been perfect for two years. He was old but Joe went 17-8 for chiefs and won games. Smh. Brutal to hear this could have happened. Brutal. Barrys expression during that conversation was like WTF.

I think witnessing the Mike Utley and Reggie Brown was a huge factor in Barry hanging it up. Also watching players who were close friends leave hurt. He lost his faith in the teams decisions. In the en, the decisions the Lions made took away his passion to play the game.

Charlie Batch!!!!

Luv u Barry. Thanks for the memories.
My only issue with Barry after watching the documentary is that while I understand that the various rushing titles didn't mean much to HIM, I think he failed to see how much they meant to his offensive linemen.
Yep. And the fans.
 
**Incoming Spoilers**

Its by far my longest post and I apologize for the length. Its Barry fricking Sanders though.

Just finished. I'm old so this is my era. How do you describe Barry Sanders football ability to someone without showing them film? You say he was poetic. The one pro athlete where u play classical music to his highlight real and it just works. He is the reason for the Madden video game juke. His footwork is phenomenal, almost unbelievable and 2nd to non. Although his top speed wasn't all time great his quickness and change of direction will never be seen again. His character was remarkable. I don't know him personally to know if he is a good man, but how he handled being a pro athlete was amazing.

Listening to the commentators for his final game in his rookie year not understanding why he isnt going for rushing title was hilarious. They didnt get it. That title was important to everyone but him. Christian Okoye reference was awesome. Dude was a monster. Good to see the name Chris Spielman again. His emotion to this day talking about the crowd of the 91 playoff game against Cowboys was nice. That td run in that game? Tony Casillas? Bwahahaha. I can remember that Sterling Sharpe playoff game like it was this past Sunday. Ugh.

For me, the biggest takeaway from this documentary was the conversation between him and Fontes. He told him Joe Montana called him and wanted to play with Barry. Management told him pass because Joe was too old. Uh. He was old but Joe would have been perfect for two years. He was old but Joe went 17-8 for chiefs and won games. Smh. Brutal to hear this could have happened. Brutal. Barrys expression during that conversation was like WTF.

I think witnessing the Mike Utley and Reggie Brown was a huge factor in Barry hanging it up. Also watching players who were close friends leave hurt. He lost his faith in the teams decisions. In the en, the decisions the Lions made took away his passion to play the game.

Charlie Batch!!!!

Luv u Barry. Thanks for the memories.
My only issue with Barry after watching the documentary is that while I understand that the various rushing titles didn't mean much to HIM, I think he failed to see how much they meant to his offensive linemen.

Later on he realized that. At the time he was 21 and just being himself.

I remember one year, around year 4, he came to TC and one of his teammates was quizzing him on what he did over the summer. Barry finally said he "oh, I bought a car." Whoa, this was big news. Barry lived in a plain ranch house in a middle class suburb (Rochester Hills), dude never spent much of his money. A BMW? Seriously, bro we gotta see this. So they all go out to the parking lot to get a look.

He bought a 2 year old preowned. Typical Barry.
 
Was fun watching him put a bunch of all pros & future hall of famers in the spin cycle once again.

They did a good job of capturing the essence of Barry Sanders. He is the most reluctant superstar. Earlier this year they put a statue of Barry in front of Ford Field. He asked the unveiling ceremony be private & closed to the public.
I had no idea he was like this. Watched the doc last night and really enjoyed it.
 
It's been said before but it bears repeating. Would pull off the most amazing run for a TD and then just calmly hand the ball to the ref. "Act like you've been there before". Which he had, many many times.
 
Fun article to mull over and remember the greats just by seeing their names and time periods played.

 
Emmitt 4.2 yards per carry
Emmitt 6.3 yards per catch

Barry 5.0 yards per carry
Barry 8.3 yards per catch


Get out of here with Emmitt did everything better than Barry nonsense. All that Emmitt did better was play longer and get more carries. As far as Barry always getting caught from behind....have you ever watched???? Barry 40 time was 4.37....Emmitt was 4.55. Not even in the same ballpark.


Reggie White said that Barry Sanders was the only player he ever feared. “There was one guy since I’ve been playing that I was afraid of because he could beat us at any moment. That was Barry”

Mike Singletary said “if you were able to get him running east to west, you had a chance. If he was moving north-south, forget about it. He was going to get you”.

Thurmond Thomas: "I always bring up the fact that he (Barry Sanders) is the greatest running back to ever play the game. "

I can list a whole lot more numbers without context, 18,355, 196, 3 rings....

Tell me all about Barry's playoff success!

All that means is he played longer (15 years vs. 10) and he played for a better Team. While Barry was playing with low-rung QB's like Rodney Peete, Scott Mitchell and Andre Ware, Emmitt had first ballot hall of famer Troy Aikman slinging the ball keeping the defenses honest. Barry was constantly playing with 8 in the box and defenses focused purely on Barry. Despite that, Barry killed Emmitt in every efficiency statistical category there is. Barry was hands down a better back and it is not even close. Emmitt a great back who cracks tbe top 10, but there are easily 5 or 6 who are better.
This argument is really flawed because although the entire Dallas team was great, they never get the accolades they deserve.


Emmitt had the offensive line and couldn't produce without it.


Michael Irvin never put up crazy receiving stats.


Troy Aikman was a game manager.

Yet, all 3 combined to be one of the best dynasties in football and to say without each other they wouldn't have been Pro Bowl/HOF talents is pretty ridiculous speculation without any backing. Do I think Barry was great? Absolutely. However, that shouldn't diminish Emmitt Smith's accomplishments. Dude was a class act, tough as nails runner and finished his runs very well. I never looked at the Dallas Cowboys in the 90s and thought, "I wish we had Barry instead of Emmitt". You cannot negate the player because of the situation he was in. Both players are pretty damn good and when you get into the Top 10 of All-Time players at your position, talking order is just splitting atoms at that point.
 
Fun article to mull over and remember the greats just by seeing their names and time periods played.

Stupid article. There's no way that Emmitt Smith should be ahead of either Faulk or Sanders but whatever
 
Was fun watching him put a bunch of all pros & future hall of famers in the spin cycle once again.

They did a good job of capturing the essence of Barry Sanders. He is the most reluctant superstar. Earlier this year they put a statue of Barry in front of Ford Field. He asked the unveiling ceremony be private & closed to the public.
Four Hall of Fame Bucs on several of those highlight reels.

And Barry makes them all look silly. I am pretty sure who they think the best back was.
No doubt. They all saw him front and center. Then tackled air. And when you consider how good they were that’s saying something.
 
It's been said before but it bears repeating. Would pull off the most amazing run for a TD and then just calmly hand the ball to the ref. "Act like you've been there before". Which he had, many many times.
Don’t know if it’s a coincidence but I’ve noticed this more often after recent touchdowns.
 
Handing the ball to ref was the cool Barry thing. Then Ocho and Owens made it cool because we didnt know what they were gonna do. Then the Gronk smash thing happened. Prolly cause he was my favorite player at the time, but i loved me some Gronk smash spike. Now. Everyone does something theatrical so it's kinda diluted. Now handing the ball to ref is cool again. Ha ha
 
Handing the ball to ref was the cool Barry thing. Then Ocho and Owens made it cool because we didnt know what they were gonna do. Then the Gronk smash thing happened. Prolly cause he was my favorite player at the time, but i loved me some Gronk smash spike. Now. Everyone does something theatrical so it's kinda diluted. Now handing the ball to ref is cool again. Ha ha
Billy "White Shoes" Johnson still has the best TD celebration ever. All of this group thing running down the field to the end zone to do a stupid celebration when no TD was made is ridiculous.
 

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