He was just on the Pat Mcafee show and if you were alive and lucky enough to witness this incredible year it was something special. Look at those numbers!! He was a generational type of player.
Barry Sanders 1988 season at Okie State
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The good old Big 8 days when a guy can score 4 TDs against you and still win 63-42!! Ken Clark went off that day as well. 6:35 N
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He must have sucked vs. Nebraska and Oklahoma because winners win
By the time the Huskers played OSU in '88, Barry had made a name for himself. But it was actually the '87 game where I'm sure he caught a lot of Husker fan's attention for the first time. All the talk coming into the game was about Thurman Thomas who was in his senior year and a consensus All American. The Blackshirts completely shut Thomas down, but this back-up comes in and averages about 10 yards per carry, and everyone is thinking "who's this guy". We all found out.
Imagine having Thurman Thomas and Barry Sanders in your backfield? We were close when we had LP and Ahman Green. Incredible talent back then.
My favorite NFL player ever.
And this is coming from a Dolphins fan.
And this is coming from a Dolphins fan.
Dude was a human pinball. He was just a quiet no nonsense player. Never showboated. Just tossed the ball to the Refs after his touchdowns.
One of my favorite players.
I swear, and you guys can LOL me all day long, but Mike Alstott before the injuries had some Barry Sanders in him. Loved me some Alstott and Warrick Dunn.
I swear, and you guys can LOL me all day long, but Mike Alstott before the injuries had some Barry Sanders in him. Loved me some Alstott and Warrick Dunn.
It was a thing of beauty. Oklahoma used to do that to us as well to perfection. Frustrating and pure awesomeness all in one.
I remember when Barry Sanders and Thurman Thomas were tearing up the NFL and a reporter asked thurman thomas who the best running back in the NFL was and he said "I don't know, but he went to oklahoma state"
Barry was absolutely awesome and my favorite running back of all time. Classy dude who was so much fun to watch. I haven’t seen a back before or since who was as exciting to watch as him. I think there is a film coming out on Prime Video about him and his early retirement.
Lotta guys would be ejected today if they continued to tackle like they did back then.
Truth. Imagine the Steel Curtain D today? Niner Ronnie Lott taking guys heads off when guys went over the middle. Mike Singletary and the Monsters of the Midway. Ray Nitchke, Jack Tatum, etc. They would all be broke from being fined weekly. The pussification of America continues. Sad.
If only Okie State had a man at QB that year, not some scrub who didn't even have a mullet.
Yes - Rathman didn't see the field much with Rozier and Craig. In his upper classman years, the IB was Doug DuBose. In '85, they combined for over 2K in rushing yards. Before his injury, DuBose was a very talented IB. Arguing that the DuBose/Rathman backfield was one of the best in NU history wouldn't be far fetched.
I believe there were some on TO's staff who wanted to offer him as a recruit. However, there were others who felt he was too small for an I back in the Big 8. Unfortunately, they won out.
Barry wanted to come to Nebraska. His high school counselor was Jeff Smith, former I-Back.
But they used their designated scholarship for small running back on Terry Rodgers and did not have room for Barry. It was Johnny's son, and he was highly rated too I believe. McBride told this story. Man what could have been, with Barry running the option in Lincoln.
I was at that game in 1987 where we smoked Okie State 35-0. Completely shut down Thurman Thomas and the game was out of hand when Sanders came in. But he made a heckuva impression.
Stillwater, at the time, was a great place to travel for an away game.
I know we also could have had Marshall Faulk but we offered him as a DB.
I remember all the talk coming out of the Okie State camp, just a landfill full of trash talk, and Nebraska beat them like a rented mule. Didn't take long to figure out the way that game was going to turn out.
My favorite player after Marino. Might have been my favorite to watch. And I'm also a Dolphins fan.
sanders would run into a sure tackle(s) and come out sideways without losing momentum and then do it again 7 yards down field. dont know how many times i would turn away thinking they had him and miss the best part of the play.
Barry Sanders is the best running back I've ever seen.
I mean the stats were posted, 404 and 6 TDs. Looks like he did pretty well. But I can’t expect someone like you to be able to do Math. you definitely can’t compute a 45% winning percentage
Are you not able to see what he was doing? That was a direct shot at King Kong, calling Chubba a loser because he lost to Wisconsin. I for one was expecting to see Kong say he was unfairly harsh to Chubba, but instead, he doubled down and called him a loser.
That was a crazy late pitch. Straight up disrespectful. I am still holding out hope that someday we get Jamey Chadwell's offense and find out.
