Jim in Anchorage Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Got a chuckle over this- Dolphins' offensive line coach Monte Clark was asked about Csonka's bruising running style, and he responded, "When Csonka goes on safari, the lions roll up their windows." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob in STL Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 (edited) Got a chuckle over this- He was a monster. He wore the old style two-bar face mask with the U bar over his nose ... which looked like he broke about five times over. Big bad dude that Csonka. Edited March 29, 2011 by Bob in STL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddenboy Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 I wish you had substituted a non-Dolfag into the story. Like Jim Brown or Mike Alstott or Earl Campbell some other famous bruiser. I might have actually been able to chuckle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 I wish you had substituted a non-Dolfag into the story. Like Jim Brown or Mike Alstott or Earl Campbell some other famous bruiser. I might have actually been able to chuckle. I don't think he loved the Dolflops all that much. He bailed to the WFL first chance he got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racecitybills Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 once walked by csonka in an airport n the 90's- I was stunned how big the guy was - I could not imagine trying to tackle him - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler#81 Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 I wish you had substituted a non-Dolfag into the story. Like Jim Brown or Mike Alstott or Earl Campbell some other famous bruiser. I might have actually been able to chuckle. He was an all-time punishing runner as well -not just against our Bills- against the entire NFL. Funny, though, that virtually no one can recite a couple of Campbell's, Alstott's or Brown's OL. Unlike 'Zonk' with Little, Kuchenberg, Langer.. Well, maybe KRC.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 He was an all-time punishing runner as well -not just against our Bills- against the entire NFL. Funny, though, that virtually no one can recite a couple of Campbell's, Alstott's or Brown's OL. Unlike 'Zonk' with Little, Kuchenberg, Langer.. Well, maybe KRC.. Undefeated season with a SB win gets everybody in the lime light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tennesseeboy Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 He was an all-time punishing runner as well -not just against our Bills- against the entire NFL. Funny, though, that virtually no one can recite a couple of Campbell's, Alstott's or Brown's OL. Unlike 'Zonk' with Little, Kuchenberg, Langer.. Well, maybe KRC.. KRV might just remind us of Cookie Gilchrist and Billy Shaw,Tom Keating and others from one of the Bills all time great teams. Actually Gilchrist had a good running mate in Wray Carlton. Cookie could eat defensive up and spit them out with the best of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Jose Bills Fan Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 He was an all-time punishing runner as well -not just against our Bills- against the entire NFL. Funny, though, that virtually no one can recite a couple of Campbell's, Alstott's or Brown's OL. Unlike 'Zonk' with Little, Kuchenberg, Langer.. Well, maybe KRC.. Those guys were bruisers for sure…along with Riggins, Jim Taylor, Cookie, Jim Nance, Jim Braxton, Boobie Clark, and a group of others (Hewritt Dixon, there was a time when fullback was actually an important position). But Csonka was nearly unique…he may have been a prototype fullback but he was the only prototype ever made. The one thing about Csonka which set him apart from almost all of the others was that he was bigger than most of the other players on the field including his blockers. Probably the only other fullback who can make this claim was Bronko Nagurski who had a size 19 ring and a size 8 hat size. Nagurski played during the 1930s and was listed at 235 pounds. Bronk physically dominated the players around him. Csonk played during the 1970s and was listed at around 240 pounds but especially later in his career he weighed in the 260s. He weighed 10 pounds at birth and weighed 150 pounds by age twelve (this was in 1958). Just a massive Hungarian plow horse. Csonka lumbered. He was an easy target and he doled out as much punishment as he received. He was like a tank moving downfield dragging some tacklers while others bounced off of him. Not saying he was the best, but there's no one who's played since who played like Larry Csonka. Alstott (one of my faves) was like a flea compared to Csonka. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Linen Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Got a chuckle over this- But they don't know how to drive vehicles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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