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Which football players from before your era do you look up to?

Cat'sGrowl

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By your era, i mean, either before you started watching the game, before your were born, of that nature. Which players do you have insane amounts of respect for? Which players do you get a chill run up your spine when you step into the bust room at the HoF and look at their bust? They can be from any time period, from the 20's until now, which players do you truly view as just the greatest of the great? You can only put one!

I have many of course, being a guy who just loves the game so much, there are so many players who I really look up to. I wanted to put Jim Thorpe on this list, but in the end, i went with another one of the men who I looked up to growing up (just for the sake of being different.) My guy:

Fred Biletnikoff

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As a white dude growing up playing WR (which is pretty much out of position in today's world..), this was the man I looked up to. He wasn't big. He wasn't blazing fast. He wasn't tall. He wasn't strong. But man, he could ball. I used to love watching highlights videos of this guy. The guy could catch anything. He could run great routes. He had a cool name. He was just everything I wanted to mold myself after. Awesome player. I'm nowhere near old enough to remember him when he actually played, and maybe that helps add to the mystique for me.

A "highlight" video on nfl.com of Biletnikoff's career.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/auto/09000d5d80130c26/Fred-Biletnikoff-Feature

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