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Herschel Walker

DialjDialj Posts: 1,636 ✭✭
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I am sure his name has been the subject of many conversations in the past, but i recently read a bio about his entire football career. The figures he put up in both college and pro are staggering. Even today he still holds several records in the NFL and is in the top 10 in many catagories. Since I am more of a baseball fan than football, I still have to ask ... how is he not in the NFL HOF????
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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,616 ✭✭✭✭
    Great college runner, great in the USFL, but far from legendary in the NFL. In 13 years in the NFL he had only two 1,000-yard seasons and only one where he cracked 1,100 yards. I'm not aware of any significant NFL records that he holds or ever held. Now all of that said, the Cowboys may want to see him in the HOF. The insane return they got from Minny in their infamous trade catapulted Dallas toward its dynasty in the mid 90's.
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  • DialjDialj Posts: 1,636 ✭✭
    Here are some of the statements about Walker.

    Walker rushed for 5,562 yards in his USFL career. His combined rushing numbers for the USFL and the NFL (13,787 yards) would place him 5th All-Time on the NFL's career rushing list. In 12 NFL seasons, Walker gained 8,225 rushing yards, 4,859 receiving yards, and 5,084 kickoff-return yards. This gave him 18,168 total combined net yards, ranking him second among the NFL's all-time leaders in total yardage at the time of his retirement; as of the start of the 2007 NFL season, ten years after his retirement, he still ranks eighth. He also scored 84 touchdowns: 61 rushing, 21 receiving and two kick off returns for touchdowns. Walker is the only other player besides Derrick Mason to have 10,000+ yards from scrimmage and 5,000+ return yards (all of which were on kickoff returns).

    He is the only player to gain 4,000 yards three different ways: rushing, receiving and kickoff returns. He is one of six players (Jim Brown, Lenny Moore, Marcus Allen, Marshall Faulk, and Thurman Thomas) to exceed 60 touchdowns rushing and 20 touchdowns receiving. Another NFL record is that he is the only player with a 90+ yard reception, 90+ yard run and a 90+ yard kickoff return all in the same season (1994). He is the only player to record an 84+ yard touchdown run and an 84+ yard touchdown reception, in the same game (December 14, 1986). That same day, he had 100 yards rushing and 100 yards receiving. Walker is currently ranked eighth all time in all-purpose yards with 18,168, despite spending his first three seasons in the USFL.

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  • rexvosrexvos Posts: 3,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    it is the Pro Football HOF. He should be in. No doubt. No question. Especially if you consider what he did in the USFL.

    Love that guy.
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  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Plus he won 3 Super bowls for the Cowboys.
  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Plus he won 3 Super bowls for the Cowboys. >>



    I hope they sent him the rings. image

    As rexvos pointed out, it is a Pro Football HOF and, as such, he is deserving for all the points mentioned by James IMHO. Some interesting facts by the way that I didn't know. Thanks!!!
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  • fur72fur72 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭
    One of my favorite football quotes is from Ronnie Lott. Someone asked him what was his biggest hit in his NFL career. He respond "The hit I took from Herschel Walker". HOFer no doubt.
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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,616 ✭✭✭✭
    I suppose you all want to put Doug Flutie in the Hall of Fame too then? image
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • DialjDialj Posts: 1,636 ✭✭
    My only point of asking why he is not in the HOF is to see what is keeping him out of the HOF. There are other RB in the HOF who do not have his numbers. He is probably the the most gifted athelete in my lifetime.
    "A full mind is an empty bat." Ty Cobb

    Currently collecting 1934 Butterfinger, 1969 Nabisco, 1991 Topps Desert Shield (in PSA 9 or 10), and 1990 Donruss Learning Series (in PSA 10).
  • eagles33eagles33 Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭
    I agree that he should be in the HOF. It would be cool to see him inducted as a general rather than a cowboy... I think that was his usfl team anyways... I went the pro football hof a couple of years ago and have to say that it really sucks. I think there are some people on this board that could put together a better collection of memorabilia. I don't think flutie would make it based on his usfl and nfl stats. I could be wrong... But think its the american football hof so cfl stats are not considered.
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  • rexvosrexvos Posts: 3,313 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My only point of asking why he is not in the HOF is to see what is keeping him out of the HOF. There are other RB in the HOF who do not have his numbers. He is probably the the most gifted athelete in my lifetime. >>



    if Floyd Little is in the HOF, it is a crime that Walker is not.
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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,616 ✭✭✭✭
    Ughhh. Floyd Little so does not belong in the HOF. I was disgusted by that selection.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • rexvosrexvos Posts: 3,313 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Ughhh. Floyd Little so does not belong in the HOF. I was disgusted by that selection. >>



    could not agree more. He was Freeman McNeil nice, not a HOFer. George Rogers did more in his career than Little.
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