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Genius level (football)

GoldenageGoldenage Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 22, 2022 5:04AM in Sports Talk

Gene Hickerson was the lead blocker for three HOF running backs.

Tell us of another HOF O lineman who could equal or come close to his accomplishment. (Genius level).

Tell us the three HOF backs he blocked for. ( Not genius level).

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  • MaywoodMaywood Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 22, 2022 4:28AM

    I will answer one of the two and add that it is due to a mere technicality

    Bobby Mitchell, Jim Brown and Leroy Kelly are the three Gene Hickerson blocked for. He's still waiting for his stablemate, Dick Schafrath, to be elected to the HOF. Schafrath blocked for the same three in addition to watching his QB's blind side. It is hard to understand the logic which has him absent from the HOF.

    These two blocked as a tandem in the days when pulling for the sweep was at a premium, few if any did it better.

  • AFLfanAFLfan Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Forrest Gregg, Jim Ringo and Jerry Kramer all blocked for Jim Taylor, Paul Hornung and Bart Starr.

    Three HOF linemen blocking for an entire HOF backfield.

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  • GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 3,203 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bob Kuechenberg...Csonka, Kiick, Morris, Warfield

  • GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 3,203 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gene Upshaw...van Egan, Davis, Hubbard

  • HuggyfaceHuggyface Posts: 304 ✭✭

    My guess is Bob St. Clair blocking for John Henry Johnson, Hugh Mcelhenny, and Joe Perry

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