So coach Joe Paterno said about Dorset how many times can you say great I could say it in one word coach supercalifragilistic greatest College running back hands down that ever played the game and be the best pro football running back ever, you were a highlight reel all in yourself TD thanks for the great memories
Not taking anything from Earl. But Tony set the mark so high it took 2 decades to break. And the fact that he weighed only 185 lbs, and got all those yards with vision and natural ability and one of a kind speed, instead of just running over people..made him that much greater and a beauty to watch. He took Pitt from worst to first. And he did it in a tough conference in those days. ND and Penn State were great teams, and Pitt went on to beat SEC Georgia in the championship. Tony was great.
Tony Dorsett is a football gift from god all he did was make everyone around him better and damn if he didn’t shame my mountaineers on his last game at Pitt with his number being retired at half and what an impression that was on a six year old woe is me lol only to go to his beloved Cowboys the following year and make us better as well, my other everlasting memory of Tony and I’m 12 by now was his 99 yard td run against the Vikings now that memory is a great one for me he may may not be the greatest for the entire football world but he’s the greatest in mine thank you for all the great and one not so and I believe it was a 199 yard day against my eers memories TD you are the best
I entered Pitt as a Freshman in the Fall of 1977. Looking back now, I wish I could have met T.D. He seems like a gentleman's gentleman. Many players were not that well spoken during my years there as Tony was in this video. I miss the old days. Yes, youth is wasted on the young in many ways.
I remember Pitt vs WVU at Pitt Stadium (1975 or 76) when Dorsett ran out of the tunnel and intentionally over to the WVU bench, and shook his index finger at WVU - it seemed to me at the time he was saying we're the best and you're nothing. But that also really fired up WVU, which I think was also intentional. And then, nearly single-handedly, Dorsett ran all over WVU's defense that afternoon like a hot knife through melted butter. That was Dorsett's second greatest college football performance in my opinion. The first was 1975 Pitt vs Notre Dame at Pitt Stadium. Heavily favored Notre Dame was rolled and beaten like a rented mule with Tony rushing for over 300 yds. It was not only one the greatest football upsets, it was one of the greatest humiliations handed out by Pitt in their football history.
The ND was superb. I loathe ND though current college football is such a money grab that I'm prayerful the sports's most valued franchise makes $1,000,000,000,000.
Doing the relative analysis - which football fans never do because they dont think enough - would make the essential consideration that facts that Dorsett was the all time leading rusher in college and the second leading all time in the NFL when he retired. He has championships in college and NFL. He is Hall of Fame in college and NFL. And he has the Heisman. No other player in history has that combination.
With great runners, watch their hips. If they don’t have great hip flexibility and movement they don’t match up. OJ, Jim Brown, Otis Armstrong, Mercury Morris, Franco, Chuck Foreman, Wilbert Montgomery, Gary Anderson, Joe Cribbs, Joe Washington, Billy Sims, Barry Sanders, Todd Gurley, Bettis, Emmitt Smith, LT, Marshall Faulk
You could make an argument that in a span of four years Pitt had possibly the greatest offensive player of all time,Tony Dorsett and the greatest defensive player of all time,High Green
Considering college and pro careers together, Tony Dorsett is the greatest running back of all time.
My favorite RB of all time Tony
1 of the best pure runners the game has ever seen, college or pro
So coach Joe Paterno said about Dorset how many times can you say great I could say it in one word coach supercalifragilistic greatest College running back hands down that ever played the game and be the best pro football running back ever, you were a highlight reel all in yourself TD thanks for the great memories
My favorite football player of all time.
Not taking anything from Earl. But Tony set the mark so high it took 2 decades to break. And the fact that he weighed only 185 lbs, and got all those yards with vision and natural ability and one of a kind speed, instead of just running over people..made him that much greater and a beauty to watch. He took Pitt from worst to first. And he did it in a tough conference in those days. ND and Penn State were great teams, and Pitt went on to beat SEC Georgia in the championship. Tony was great.
Tony Dorsett is a football gift from god all he did was make everyone around him better and damn if he didn’t shame my mountaineers on his last game at Pitt with his number being retired at half and what an impression that was on a six year old woe is me lol only to go to his beloved Cowboys the following year and make us better as well, my other everlasting memory of Tony and I’m 12 by now was his 99 yard td run against the Vikings now that memory is a great one for me he may may not be the greatest for the entire football world but he’s the greatest in mine thank you for all the great and one not so and I believe it was a 199 yard day against my eers memories TD you are the best
I entered Pitt as a Freshman in the Fall of 1977. Looking back now, I wish I could have met T.D. He seems like a gentleman's gentleman. Many players were not that well spoken during my years there as Tony was in this video. I miss the old days. Yes, youth is wasted on the young in many ways.
My favorite football player of all time
Mark Rodgers Mine too..still
I remember Pitt vs WVU at Pitt Stadium (1975 or 76) when Dorsett ran out of the tunnel and intentionally over to the WVU bench, and shook his index finger at WVU - it seemed to me at the time he was saying we're the best and you're nothing. But that also really fired up WVU, which I think was also intentional. And then, nearly single-handedly, Dorsett ran all over WVU's defense that afternoon like a hot knife through melted butter. That was Dorsett's second greatest college football performance in my opinion.
The first was 1975 Pitt vs Notre Dame at Pitt Stadium. Heavily favored Notre Dame was rolled and beaten like a rented mule with Tony rushing for over 300 yds. It was not only one the greatest football upsets, it was one of the greatest humiliations handed out by Pitt in their football history.
The ND was superb. I loathe ND though current college football is such a money grab that I'm prayerful the sports's most valued franchise makes $1,000,000,000,000.
Doing the relative analysis - which football fans never do because they dont think enough - would make the essential consideration that facts that Dorsett was the all time leading rusher in college and the second leading all time in the NFL when he retired. He has championships in college and NFL. He is Hall of Fame in college and NFL. And he has the Heisman. No other player in history has that combination.
Those Pitt uniforms were perfection.
He was great.
Earl and Tony in my book
With great runners, watch their hips. If they don’t have great hip flexibility and movement they don’t match up. OJ, Jim Brown, Otis Armstrong, Mercury Morris, Franco, Chuck Foreman, Wilbert Montgomery, Gary Anderson, Joe Cribbs, Joe Washington, Billy Sims, Barry Sanders, Todd Gurley, Bettis, Emmitt Smith, LT, Marshall Faulk
TD was fluid.
And Sanders could not catch or block
Tony Dorsett was my favorite running back all time. I wish he was on the NFL network.👍
Clemson's Travis Entienne has been compared to Dorsett
Dorsett was better longer
You could make an argument that in a span of four years Pitt had possibly the greatest offensive player of all time,Tony Dorsett and the greatest defensive player of all time,High Green
Earl campbell is the best running back in history
Sorry, but the greatest college running back to ever play was that manchild down in Athens by the name of Herschel
Wrong
Ironic that it was a Pitt team that shut him down in the Sugar Bowl during his heisman trophy winning year and won the game
My favorite RB of all time Tony