My Grandfather was born in 1914 and was part of this generation he lived to 97 when he passed in 2012…he was the son of Italian immigrants, he served in WWII, he grew up tough but was smart too, he got into Georgetown law but was so poor he couldn’t pay the $400 tuition so he went and sold insurance to get the tuition he ended up selling for over 60 years and was successful…when my mom got divorced in 1974 when I was 4. he and my Grandmother allowed my Mom Brother and I to move in, he paid for my mom to go back to college and we lived their 14 years with no rent my grandparents provided us with a firm but loving upbringing which instilled in me their values and molded me into the man I’ve become…my Grandmother passed in 2018 at 93 I miss them so much they were truly the best and embodied everything that was the Greatest Generation…
Have to appreciate the way bednarik lived his life ...the reality of our world is violent and he lived a violent life but he did it with dignity and respectability
I understand that some will criticize but he was a product of the times. I’ve had people like that in my life and I appreciate it the older I get. His granddaughter did a segment on him for NFL films and you could tell how much she loved and respected him.
What jackals would citizens a 1rst generation kid who's parents worked in the factories and did side jobs to make sure their son was educated. He was educated that a lower class kid was smart enough to be able to go to a ivy league school. Penn. He could have gone but joined the army and not only flew 25 missions as a side gunner. He did another 25 when he could have gone home.
Maybe the toughest player EVER to set foot on an NFL field. Played back in an era when it was a game for REAL MEN, not the disgustingly overpaid crybabies that make up the majority of the NFL today. If Concrete Chuck had the nutrition and the training regimens of today's players, he would eat these players today for breakfast
@@dutdut2.059 Bednarik at 6"3" 235 with little to no weight training, but was very very quick, would be a 6'4" 265 monster linebacker with todays better nutrition and weight training. He would have no problem.
Bednarik was a great man to see all that in war created a monster that just beat the crap outta his opponents on the football field. He had a sheld that he kept up until his death. What a great man & a true Patriot.
@@dutdut2.059 Teams back then....... sure they would lose to teams today, this dude get dominated hell no. He was a 6'3" 240 lb animal of a LB. HE would dominate today. A bit of extra weight work and he would be 250 to 260 today. But, you can't duplicate the toughness of growing up in the depression and then heading out to war like folks back then did.
Chuck is definitely smiling right now that the Eagles are champions 🏆 Great use of the following soundtracks: Rudy Kindergarten Cop Twister The American President U.S. Marshals
Nice piece from one of his grandkids. Can you even imagine what this guy would make today in the NFL? As I have been able to discern, his nickname of 'Concrete Charlie" derived from his working in the off-season as a salesman for concrete company. I might be wrong so no problem if i'm being corrected. Regardless, can you imagine his value in the NFL now?
Bobby Mitchell..."I saw him shatter Jim Brown, he made it his business that anybody that went into his territory, would never forget him. That says it all for me.
I have 2 sports illustrated. One of Butkus. The other is Mr. Berdnerick. His mother and father were this couple who were small folk. Rhey worked just to make sure their son could go to college. ART Donavon was a regular on Letterman tellimg his stories. I think he was why Charley was invited. He was a no nonsense guy. He hated primetime for his lack of being tough. He just avoids blockers lets back go by and jumps on his back for 12 yards.
Hard times create hard men. Hard men create soft times. Soft times create soft men. Soft men create hard times. I can only pray that the coming times will create another generation like Chuck Bednarik’s.
wasnt even a dirty hit. every angle i have ever seen, wasnt a head shot. may have drove him into the ground, via giffords shoulders,, but was legal for 80 years of football
When I first started watch in football, around 1967, the announcers & others were still talking about him. That hit he put on Gifford was a MONSTER. Played all 60 minutes, amazing. I still say those people who lived through the Great Depression & WW2 were tough, strong, fearless. My mom & Dad both born & grew up during that time, I was AFRAID of the old man. They took no crap. Don't get me going about moms Dad. I was 18 strong, just out of boot camp, Granddad asked me to help him build a fence around his front porch, gave me the post hole diggers, I wasn't doing that fast enough, so he dug & I had the steel tube to pound the metal poles into the ground, I wasn't doing THAT fast enough. Finally he walked over took the tube (with 1 arm) & said "Son, just go back inside"(He was 65 then!) LoL Hard people. Me I thought I was.
Also look at all these great sports reporters in this video, they are a dying breed. Could you imagine 30-40 years from now talking about players of today and seeing some kakling broad doing a synopsis on a player..ugh!!
Good lord it's part of that era people were intimidated by family members. What do you think it was like for Dick Butkus among others???? My own mother was afraid of her grandfather cause he had a loud voice as she grew up she figured out he was full of crap in a good way.
Toughness . . . .REAL MEN !!!!!!!!!! TOUGHNESS . . . ." THIS IS HOW YOU SPELL. . . T O U G H N E S S : C H U C K . . . B E D N A R I K , WHEN MEN were MEN , WOMEN were WOMEN , a n d T H E C H R O M E w a z T H I C K .
It seems that the ladies are missing his point,sure there's nothing like when you're at your physical peak. That being said though, I think it's the pampered, primadonna,"I'm special" aspect of many that came after him. There's not a true fan with any knowledge of the game that doesn't know exactly what I'm talking about! The pinnacle to date : Kaepernick
James Milligan ,If you don't know the difference between betrayal & dissent, that's a whole other story&you need more help than I can give you here. However with Kaepernick it's much more of not knowing what the fuck he's talking about & parroting from the indoctrinated like his radical GF as well as other loosers/users profiting from the sick grievance industry.
Sick of these always hard nosed tough love disciplinarians. No matter how great you are on the field, your children and grandchildren are not supposed to be afraid of you
Different world, sorry Steve. Grow up during the great depression and ww2 it is hard to be sympathetic. My father was the same way and he grew up with Chuck's older brother
Served with my grandfather on the same B-24 in World War II. They were best friends.
Great men, from the greatest generation. They are sadly missed in this pathetic age. They had the roaring 20s, we have the boring 20s.
How Awesome is that brother they were a different breed back then God Bless 💪🙏💪
‘WHEN MEN WERE MEN’!!!!!!
Not only did he play both ways, but he played positions that were so physical on every play.
The GOAT of all Eagles. -Words of a Steelers fan.
Chuck Bednarik epitomizes what the greatest generation was all about.
As a lifelong Eagles fan I wanted so much to meet Chuck and shake his hand. I have to settle for seeing him play, in person, three times. What a man.
Great player chuck served in the military.humble hard work gentlemen and family man ❤rip chuck he was kind to sign my card i mailed him.
My Grandfather was born in 1914 and was part of this generation he lived to 97 when he passed in 2012…he was the son of Italian immigrants, he served in WWII, he grew up tough but was smart too, he got into Georgetown law but was so poor he couldn’t pay the $400 tuition so he went and sold insurance to get the tuition he ended up selling for over 60 years and was successful…when my mom got divorced in 1974 when I was 4. he and my Grandmother allowed my Mom Brother and I to move in, he paid for my mom to go back to college and we lived their 14 years with no rent my grandparents provided us with a firm but loving upbringing which instilled in me their values and molded me into the man I’ve become…my Grandmother passed in 2018 at 93 I miss them so much they were truly the best and embodied everything that was the Greatest Generation…
sounds like a great man. sorry about your loss, grandfathers are the best
That's what made America great.
Have to appreciate the way bednarik lived his life ...the reality of our world is violent and he lived a violent life but he did it with dignity and respectability
He kept his promise. Bring back this type of man.
Thanks for the upload Chuck was a legend.
Chucks my great uncle
There will never be another like him.
Or
Last of the 60 minute men
Concrete Charlie, thank you for your service. God bless you.
I understand that some will criticize but he was a product of the times. I’ve had people like that in my life and I appreciate it the older I get. His granddaughter did a segment on him for NFL films and you could tell how much she loved and respected him.
What jackals would citizens a 1rst generation kid who's parents worked in the factories and did side jobs to make sure their son was educated. He was educated that a lower class kid was smart enough to be able to go to a ivy league school. Penn. He could have gone but joined the army and not only flew 25 missions as a side gunner. He did another 25 when he could have gone home.
Maybe the toughest player EVER to set foot on an NFL field. Played back in an era when it was a game for REAL MEN, not the disgustingly overpaid crybabies that make up the majority of the NFL today. If Concrete Chuck had the nutrition and the training regimens of today's players, he would eat these players today for breakfast
Jeremy Thompson When it came to toughness ever heard of Jim Brown.And his name was Concrete Charlie.
this guy would be dominated on a modern NFL field
@@dutdut2.059 Are you talking about Jim Brown?????
Dwight Love no Jim Brown is one of the VERY few players from back then who could play today
@@dutdut2.059 Bednarik at 6"3" 235 with little to no weight training, but was very very quick, would be a 6'4" 265 monster linebacker with todays better nutrition and weight training. He would have no problem.
Bednarik was a great man to see all that in war created a monster that just beat the crap outta his opponents on the football field. He had a sheld that he kept up until his death. What a great man & a true Patriot.
Back when football was a mans game. Real football.
guys from this era would get dominated if they played a team today
Dutdut2.059 no they wouldn’t 😂😂😂 uneducated fake fan at its finest
@@dutdut2.059 Teams back then....... sure they would lose to teams today, this dude get dominated hell no. He was a 6'3" 240 lb animal of a LB. HE would dominate today. A bit of extra weight work and he would be 250 to 260 today. But, you can't duplicate the toughness of growing up in the depression and then heading out to war like folks back then did.
TO pray the Rosary everyday for his life...what a man
Chuck is definitely smiling right now that the Eagles are champions 🏆
Great use of the following soundtracks:
Rudy
Kindergarten Cop
Twister
The American President
U.S. Marshals
Well at the end he claimed he doesn't go to modern day games which gives me the impression he ain't.
Doubt he gives two shits. Probly wondering why the hell they burned down there city like a bunch of shitheads!
Also the great escape
dnasty312 Do you know which tracks were used specifically?
That hit on Gifford was his signature game!!!!!!
Nice piece from one of his grandkids. Can you even imagine what this guy would make today in the NFL? As I have been able to discern, his nickname of 'Concrete Charlie" derived from his working in the off-season as a salesman for concrete company. I might be wrong so no problem if i'm being corrected. Regardless, can you imagine his value in the NFL now?
Bobby Mitchell..."I saw him shatter Jim Brown, he made it his business that anybody that went into his territory, would never forget him. That says it all for me.
I have 2 sports illustrated. One of Butkus. The other is Mr. Berdnerick. His mother and father were this couple who were small folk. Rhey worked just to make sure their son could go to college. ART Donavon was a regular on Letterman tellimg his stories. I think he was why Charley was invited. He was a no nonsense guy. He hated primetime for his lack of being tough. He just avoids blockers lets back go by and jumps on his back for 12 yards.
Hard times create hard men. Hard men create soft times. Soft times create soft men. Soft men create hard times. I can only pray that the coming times will create another generation like Chuck Bednarik’s.
A lot of people in the stadium thought that he may have killed Frank Gifford with that hit, brutal, maybe unecessarily so.
Gifford said the hit was legal and had no grudge against Bednarik.
wasnt even a dirty hit. every angle i have ever seen, wasnt a head shot. may have drove him into the ground, via giffords shoulders,, but was legal for 80 years of football
Bednarik star of the eagles 1960 championship
That’s the Rudy suite theme song
When I first started watch in football, around 1967, the announcers & others were still talking about him. That hit he put on Gifford was a MONSTER. Played all 60 minutes, amazing. I still say those people who lived through the Great Depression & WW2 were tough, strong, fearless. My mom & Dad both born & grew up during that time, I was AFRAID of the old man. They took no crap. Don't get me going about moms Dad. I was 18 strong, just out of boot camp, Granddad asked me to help him build a fence around his front porch, gave me the post hole diggers, I wasn't doing that fast enough, so he dug & I had the steel tube to pound the metal poles into the ground, I wasn't doing THAT fast enough. Finally he walked over took the tube (with 1 arm) & said "Son, just go back inside"(He was 65 then!) LoL Hard people. Me I thought I was.
Sounds like a nice guy
Like butkus great player
8:20 Kde si bol?? Mas krv na pysku!
O tomto sa na Sport.sk nedozvieme.
Bohuzial.
Chlapi, ak chcete, spravil som k tomu slovenské titulky, nahral som to na môj kanál :-)
That's when football was football not like a bunch of millionaires playing today
Also look at all these great sports reporters in this video, they are a dying breed. Could you imagine 30-40 years from now talking about players of today and seeing some kakling broad doing a synopsis on a player..ugh!!
Chuck was last of the Ironman in the NFL
Throw in tough as nails Van Brocklin. Nobody goofed off. Tommy Mac Donald was another remarkable player
Butkis played center at Illinois but not in pros.
Afraid of their Grandfather, how lovely.
Yeah, really. You wonder why. the real story.
Agree completely. If your accomplishments on the field cause your family to fear you, then it isn't success.
Good lord it's part of that era people were intimidated by family members. What do you think it was like for Dick Butkus among others???? My own mother was afraid of her grandfather cause he had a loud voice as she grew up she figured out he was full of crap in a good way.
Millennial whiners complaining about the greatest generation!
Your probably afraid big your shadow.
They beat the Green Bay Packers in 1960. Vince Lombardi's only playoff loss in his career.
Toughness . . . .REAL MEN !!!!!!!!!!
TOUGHNESS . . . ." THIS IS HOW YOU SPELL. . . T O U G H N E S S :
C H U C K . . . B E D N A R I K ,
WHEN MEN were MEN ,
WOMEN were WOMEN ,
a n d
T H E C H R O M E
w a z
T H I C K .
It seems that the ladies are missing his point,sure there's nothing like when you're at your physical peak. That being said though, I think it's the pampered, primadonna,"I'm special" aspect of many that came after him. There's not a true fan with any knowledge of the game that doesn't know exactly what I'm talking about!
The pinnacle to date :
Kaepernick
Discernment Dissent is the greatest form of Patriotism - Thomas Jefferson😎
James Milligan ,If you don't know the difference between betrayal & dissent, that's a whole other story&you need more help than I can give you here. However with Kaepernick it's much more of not knowing what the fuck he's talking about & parroting from the indoctrinated like his radical GF as well as other loosers/users profiting from the sick grievance industry.
A lousy human being. But you have to respect his WWII service.
Remarkable likeness to Mel Gibson. Compare their faces.
Did you go through the terror? Cut him some slack! He saw his mates get blown out of the sky in sub zero Temps
Stfu your such a soft ass
Soft
Very old school. He was what he was RIP
Sick of these always hard nosed tough love disciplinarians. No matter how great you are on the field, your children and grandchildren are not supposed to be afraid of you
Kids have to learn the difference between fear and respect. I doubt he ever gave his grandchildren reason for real fear.
We live in a soft world Bednarik my kinda guy.
Pansie
Different world, sorry Steve. Grow up during the great depression and ww2 it is hard to be sympathetic. My father was the same way and he grew up with Chuck's older brother
Soft ass loser
Concrete Charlie would’ve loved Trump...USA!
Trump is a Bitch, Concerted Charlie wasnt