In 1965 I graduated from Cal Poly and went to work as a salesman for Simpson-Lee Paper Company. We had a Paper Mill in Ripon, California and HARDY BROWN worked there in the Finishing Dept. He played on the softball team and used his NFL technique of Flicking his shoulder on contact to knock people out. Once he knocked the entire Backfield of the Los Angeles Rams out of the ball game. He is Legendary and is sometimes included on the list of ALL TIME Hardest Hitters of the NFL. He died at age 67 in 1991 in Stockton, California. RIP HARDY.
This is end of February 2024 I'm Old School, 65 yrs old and I remember these days!!! Pro Football is a Joke in 2024 These old timers would have mopped the field with all these steroid, take a knee candy butts of today!!! Thank you for the opportunity to post!
Thank god the NFL is not so SOFT that females can play in the NFL.Maybe in the future with the NFL Soft landing rules the NFL will allow women to play the sport.
@@loganstolberg2743 Good morning, Imagine this... how great an opening film of 1950s NFL would it be if it were put to the MUSIC of youtube video that lasts just one minute and fifty-two seconds titled "WrestleMania 26- Sycho Sid Returns Promo" or even do the four minute twenty six second video version of that same AUDIO as it is heard on youtube video titled "TV Series "Dallas": The Ultimate Music Video!!', and then put all the wicked shots from Hall of Famer CB#81 Night Train Lane and 49er LB#33 Hardy Brown (wore #73 for most of this 1951 season, his first as a 49er) to the tune of that music, and put the entire video of all those wicked shots in color! That would be way too good to be true:)
My high school coach rip played in the 50s. He would always tell is in 73-75 we had it made rules wise. Now it's even more tame. Still violent but tame. Rules change made it easier for the offense.
Young fans have no idea how the game used to be played. Well into the 1970s, you'd have guys like Wally Hilgenberg and Paul Krause of the Vikings clotheslining anything that moved. Ball carriers running out of bounds would get tackled in front of their own bench, no flag. Yet it was an unspoken rule that "real" running backs didn't go out of bounds except to stop the clock.
Paul Krause! Now there was a football player! Remains one of the most under-rated players in the game. But, if you watched #22 play there was no doubt you were watching greatness!! That was a time of great safeties with Larry Wilson of St Louis Cardinals, Johnny Robinson of the Chiefs, Willie Wood of Packers and Mel Renfro of Cowboys. All were contemporaries and all are enshrined in Canton!
It's easy to say the game was so much tougher back then--and I believe overall the quality of toughness has continued to drop generation to generation. But that is true in all parts of life, not just the NFL. However, in fairness, players back then were not 250-pound guided missiles of weapons grade muscle like they are now. Players would double as refrigerator salesmen in the off-season, and getting in shape meant you only drank beer and swore off ass for a month. Nutrition was something "only a homo" would worry about, and weight training meant you might do some of that crap Charles Atlas did. Overall I think the toughest era was the early 1990s because the salaries were just high enough guys could work out year round, advances in training meant some guys were screwing around with steroids, and the rules hadn't caught up to the game. Players like John Elway tried to never slide because they wanted a few more yards diving head first, and you could still blindside a QB or peel back or hammer a receiver over the middle without any penalties.
could you imagine a player like cryBrady playing in the fifties? or any era before this century when quarterbacks were treated as players and were allowed to be hit? so just stop with any greatest of all time talk, there are great quarterbacks today but none of them have to face defenses that were allowed to defend, as well as having to worry about getting hit.
In 1965 I graduated from Cal Poly and went to work as a salesman for Simpson-Lee Paper Company. We had a Paper Mill in Ripon, California and HARDY BROWN worked there in the Finishing Dept. He played on the softball team and used his NFL technique of Flicking his shoulder on contact to knock people out.
Once he knocked the entire Backfield of the Los Angeles Rams out of the ball game. He is Legendary and is sometimes included on the list of ALL TIME Hardest Hitters of the NFL. He died at age 67 in 1991 in Stockton, California. RIP HARDY.
Arthur Ray Gross one of the most underrated Linebackers of all time
Hardy Brown is legend in Texas. Raised in orphanage.
Saw many film highlights of Hardy Brown and his R shoulder HITS. The man was AWESOME!!!
R.I.P . MR. HARDY BROWN.
This is end of February 2024
I'm Old School, 65 yrs old and I remember these days!!!
Pro Football is a Joke in 2024
These old timers would have mopped the field with all these steroid, take a knee candy butts of today!!! Thank you for the opportunity to post!
Hardy Brown what a head-hunter! Almost every tackle would be a penalty today.
I love how these old schools guys just got back up after getting their bell rung
Back then you could tackle someone however you wanted face mask horse collar and all, as long as you got him down that’s all that mattered.
Thank god the NFL is not so SOFT that females can play in the NFL.Maybe in the future with the NFL Soft landing rules the NFL will allow women to play the sport.
@@prettysteeve47 Only if they identify as a man first
As is should be
I think he still holds the record for most knockouts in the NFL.
Who does Hardy Brown or Night Train Lane?
@@loganstolberg2743 Good morning, Imagine this... how great an opening film of 1950s NFL would it be if it were put to the MUSIC of youtube video that lasts just one minute and fifty-two seconds titled "WrestleMania 26- Sycho Sid Returns Promo" or even do the four minute twenty six second video version of that same AUDIO as it is heard on youtube video titled "TV Series "Dallas": The Ultimate Music Video!!', and then put all the wicked shots from Hall of Famer CB#81 Night Train Lane and 49er LB#33 Hardy Brown (wore #73 for most of this 1951 season, his first as a 49er) to the tune of that music, and put the entire video of all those wicked shots in color! That would be way too good to be true:)
80 KOs.
my coaches showed us this video in high school and it brought back some good memories lol
My high school coach rip played in the 50s. He would always tell is in 73-75 we had it made rules wise. Now it's even more tame. Still violent but tame. Rules change made it easier for the offense.
This was Football at it's best!
@Gravivector a lot of people were probably watching the news to see what was going on with their sons in Vietnam. Fact. Fucking idiot.
It was just the primitive camera distorts it.
Bednariks hit to start the video. I'm an instant fan.
imagine quarterbacks of todays era back then
They’d all be pussies against these guys
Brady would be crying all day
About 7 of those hits were Night Train Lane
Professional football is my favorite sport and I plan on becoming an NFL analyst for Fox Sports.
I thought you would say I wanna play professionally.
Bro look at Leo Nomelini #73’s hit. That was brutal
A night train lane highlight reel 😂
The whole entire video is either Hardy Brown, Night Train, and Doug Atkins
@@loganstolberg2743 Who is the guy hitting and being hit at 0:36?
Who played the hit on the Eagles back at .44 seconds? As a that Jimmy Patton of the Giants?
I love this! 0:36 is similar to Creation smashing bacteria to blue whale evolution!
RIP running back at 0:36
Who was that was it hardy brown?
@@spflaherty8559 That would be my guess.
@@Alan_Page @0:36, surprising to find out that it was Hall of Fame WR Tommy McDonald being delivered a shot by Washington's Punter Sam Baker...
No stupid dances on the field after crushing the enemy.
When were these clips from? Was it legal to down other players by any means necessary besides dropkicking?
Well there were really no rules back then. You take the guys head off you were applauded. Refs didn't give a shit back then
These c lios are from the 1950's and before.
The Night Train Necktie
85% of this video is Dick "Night Train" Lane.
#81
(Although a couple of those #81 clips are Doug Atkins)
NIGHT TRAIN LANE!
+NIGHTxCHILL Yep...#81 was Dr. Death...look at that forearm clothesline!
NIGHTxCHILL NIGHT TRANE LANE!!!
What’s the name of this track?
Number 81 was damn near the whole video
Young fans have no idea how the game used to be played. Well into the 1970s, you'd have guys like Wally Hilgenberg and Paul Krause of the Vikings clotheslining anything that moved. Ball carriers running out of bounds would get tackled in front of their own bench, no flag. Yet it was an unspoken rule that "real" running backs didn't go out of bounds except to stop the clock.
Paul Krause! Now there was a football player! Remains one of the most under-rated players in the game. But, if you watched #22 play there was no doubt you were watching greatness!! That was a time of great safeties with Larry Wilson of St Louis Cardinals, Johnny Robinson of the Chiefs, Willie Wood of Packers and Mel Renfro of Cowboys. All were contemporaries and all are enshrined in Canton!
Concrete Charlie and his forearm shiver
Wonder how many heads were torn off haha
All of them. . .
what if today?
It's easy to say the game was so much tougher back then--and I believe overall the quality of toughness has continued to drop generation to generation. But that is true in all parts of life, not just the NFL. However, in fairness, players back then were not 250-pound guided missiles of weapons grade muscle like they are now. Players would double as refrigerator salesmen in the off-season, and getting in shape meant you only drank beer and swore off ass for a month. Nutrition was something "only a homo" would worry about, and weight training meant you might do some of that crap Charles Atlas did. Overall I think the toughest era was the early 1990s because the salaries were just high enough guys could work out year round, advances in training meant some guys were screwing around with steroids, and the rules hadn't caught up to the game. Players like John Elway tried to never slide because they wanted a few more yards diving head first, and you could still blindside a QB or peel back or hammer a receiver over the middle without any penalties.
:30 damn
could you imagine a player like cryBrady playing in the fifties? or any era before this century when quarterbacks were treated as players and were allowed to be hit?
so just stop with any greatest of all time talk, there are great quarterbacks today but none of them have to face defenses that were allowed to defend, as well as having to worry about getting hit.
Back when men were men and football was a man's game...
Knowing what we know about concussions and brain damage, thee are really hard to watch.
A lot of these players had life changing injuries. And the comments are talking about grown men football. Disgusting