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Last seasons of great players
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00:00At the number 10 career finale of all time, Barry Sanders in 1998.
00:05This should be way higher because when Barry walks away, you know he's got more football left in the tank.
00:12You are dying to see more Barry Sanders highlights.
00:16That was unbelievable.
00:19Here's how good Barry Sanders was in his last season.
00:21He had over 1,400 yards, seven touchdowns, and it was considered a down season for him.
00:26How about that? 73 yards!
00:30Barry Sanders!
00:32His last season, to me, it doesn't matter what the yardage was.
00:36It was no different than any previous season.
00:38He was as good as there was and always had highlight runs more so than probably any back in the
00:44league.
00:45Barry again off the right side, bites three! He's on his way!
00:49It was so cool to see the things that he could do, and it was a bummer to see him
00:55go.
00:56Yeah, it sucked, man.
01:00He was one of those special players that just...
01:02Nearly 1,500 yards.
01:04You couldn't not love twice.
01:06He got three or four...
01:08We don't have footage of his decline, you know?
01:10We don't have those games where he lost a step and wasn't the great Barry Sanders.
01:16He leaves behind just the highlight reel.
01:20When God created Barry Sanders, even he didn't know what he made.
01:27For me as a football fan, I was disappointed because I was like, man, this is going to be a
01:31Barry Sanders.
01:32I'm not going to get to watch this anymore.
01:33We've never seen anybody like Barry Sanders this day and age.
01:35Because watching him run, whether you're a Lions fan or not, it was like a symphony orchestra on a football
01:42field.
01:42The way he could break you down.
01:44It was like poetry in motion.
01:46Like the way he was able to move, it was just superhuman.
01:50Like nobody else could shift like that.
01:52If you could take one of the best defenders in the league and make them look silly, he deserves to
01:57be on this list.
01:58Folks, he's the best in the business.
02:01Someday you'll be able to say, I saw the best running back in football.
02:06Ever.
02:09He's good at 10.
02:11Because of that, oh, well, we didn't know this was going to happen.
02:15Barry Sanders was the only player in NFL history to Irish goodbye in his career.
02:20I mean, he just left.
02:22Barry Sanders is less of a farewell season and more of a, wait, wait, you're not really, no, come back.
02:28Season.
02:28One of the more disappointing exits.
02:34The number nine career finale of all time, Tiki Barber in 2006.
02:40It's that simple.
02:41I mean, Tiki Barber's 2006 season is ridiculous.
02:46That's just a bigger, better athlete.
02:48What a run by Tiki.
02:50He's having an all-pro day.
02:53What Tiki Barber did on the back end of his career is almost Hall of Fame stuff.
02:58When you take a look at the numbers, he was breaking every giant rushing record.
03:02And he was doing stuff that no one in the league was doing.
03:06All the one they got is Tiki.
03:08We got to stop Tiki up front.
03:09You see they trying to give the ball every place.
03:11You look at the last, like, four years of his career, you could put him up against any
03:15four years of any running back, period.
03:18When you talk about yards from scrimmage, overall productivity, it's insane.
03:22I think he absolutely deserves to be on the list.
03:27Keep an eye out.
03:28We're going to have heavy doses of running the ball, so keep an eye out.
03:32In his final season, our number nine player gained over 2,100 yards from scrimmage.
03:38Holy cow.
03:39Are you kidding me?
03:40He went for 2,100 yards?
03:42That's right, Chris.
03:442,127 yards, to be exact.
03:47A stat that makes you wonder.
03:49What if Tiki waited a few more years to say farewell?
03:53It felt like when he left, he still had his best years ahead of him.
03:58What could have 07 been if he did play?
04:01You know, like, he still had some juice.
04:03He had rushed for five straight 1,000-yard seasons and was great out of the backfield
04:08as well, catching passes.
04:09So to retire then was so weird.
04:12You always wonder if he did stay for another year or two and kept up with those numbers
04:17and won a championship, if we'd be talking about Tiki Barber for the Hall of Fame right
04:21now.
04:21And he won.
04:24In his last regular season game, he rides on one more crack at the playoffs.
04:30So he puts the other 21 Giants on his back.
04:34Tiki runs out of a tackle.
04:36Tiki across midfield.
04:38And runs for 230-plus yards and scores three touchdowns.
04:43Touchdown, Tiki Barber!
04:45I mean, you could just look and see every single Giant, all 52 other players and coaches,
04:51on this guy's back as he's carrying the ball and dragging Redskins tacklers along with
04:57him.
04:58He dominated that game and he single-handedly, from an offensive standpoint, put the team
05:02in the playoffs.
05:08Tiki and the Giants seem like a match made in heaven, but a brutal breakup kept Barber from
05:14being higher on our list.
05:16I think it's because of the way his relationship with Tom Coughlin kind of ended.
05:23The contention that wasn't really hidden very well, it came out into the media.
05:29You could start to feel the separation from Tiki Barber and his teammates and the organization.
05:38Making matters worse, Tiki's mouth turned him into public enemy number one in the Big Apple.
05:44NBC, Dick Ebersole, hired me to give my true opinions about what I believe is happening
05:49in the locker room.
05:50I've told this to Eli himself.
05:51You need to be a strong leader.
05:52So you don't think you were ratting out a former teammate?
05:54And the intent of that comment was not to harm.
05:57You kind of distanced yourself from the team the last half of the season, yet you feel
06:03like you can speak freely about this locker room and how it was.
06:07Every person in New York was like, get lost, give us Rondé.
06:11Get the f*** out of here, Tiki.
06:16Whether you love him or hate him, Tiki Barber had one of the most productive final seasons
06:24in NFL history.
06:25He was phenomenal.
06:26I don't know if people really realize how good he was in the prime of his career.
06:30He's definitely one of the best backs in football.
06:32Tiki was a great player.
06:34You can't even throw the word transcendent for that little period.
06:37Greatness.
06:38He was special.
06:46I feel like it can't be on the list because no matter how good he was, he didn't retire.
06:56He didn't choose to retire.
06:58It's never easy to talk of the air that tragically ended too soon.
07:02Jerome Brown passed away in 1992, leaving behind a legacy of a big personality and a fearsome
07:08defender.
07:09Jerome Brown is one of the best offensive linemen we...
07:12Jerome Brown making the start.
07:14I mean, it was impossible to block him with one person.
07:18Tremendous to Jerome Brown.
07:19And Jerome Brown, despite his unbelievable quickness and athleticism...
07:24Jerome just beat the center and got straight through the field.
07:28We were taking whooping.
07:30And I remember looking in the eyes of some of the guys that were responsible for blocking
07:34Jerome Brown.
07:35Jerome Brown put fear in football.
08:01He had nine sacks, which for a defensive tackle is a lot.
08:07Beckman steps up, and then he takes a hit, and down he goes...
08:10That was his best season.
08:13He's an all-around player.
08:15You saw a higher level of maturity, a greater level of commitment.
08:19And who said I don't work in the offseason?
08:21It took me four years, but I learned.
08:25And you combine that with the physical talent that he had, and you have a guy that was as
08:29good a defensive tackle as there was in football.
08:34Brown's nine sacks in his final season put him among the NFL's best defensive tackles.
08:39But why is he only ranked at number eight on our list?
08:43When I think of that team, I think of Reggie White, though.
08:46I actually don't think of Jerome Brown.
08:48Reggie White was a defensive end.
08:50He was pretty good.
08:51Reggie White is arguably the best defensive end to ever play.
08:55But some believe that Jerome Brown was on his way to being a Hall of Fame type player
08:59if he was able to play ten years in the league.
09:04The best way I could describe it is Jerome Brown as a South magnet,
09:11and Reggie White as a North magnet.
09:14And they just attracted themselves to quarterbacks.
09:20The one thing we will always have here is our memories of Jerome Brown.
09:24It was almost like a loss of innocence for a lot of us.
09:27Because we had a young ball player that we thought was going to be with us for years,
09:32and just like that, he was gone.
09:34You could tell what tragedy and devastation it was to that team emotionally the entire year.
09:40And I don't think they ever recovered.
09:42His memories will be here forever.
09:44And let's make sure that throughout this season,
09:46that this whole stadium rocks loud enough for Jerome Brown can hear us.
09:53I think that the history of the Eagles in the 90s is different had Jerome Brown survived.
09:58Number seven, career finale of all time.
10:01Don Hudson in 1945.
10:04He's one of the great players of all time.
10:06I mean, if younger fans don't know who he is, they should.
10:09Don Hudson, one of the fastest men in pro football.
10:12And I don't know that the NFL has seen a guy that has been as dominant in his era at
10:17his position as Don Hudson was.
10:18I don't think there's any way to really understand how good Don Hudson was.
10:23Whenever you see Don Hudson footage, it's him on a practice field in super slow-mo.
10:30So he's just...
10:37He should be on this list because NFL receivers have him to thank for paving the way for all of
10:44them.
10:44And by paving the way, we make roads in this country.
10:47He made routes.
10:48The idea of the term yards after the catch, which we use today all the time.
10:53Don Hudson was the first guy that really kind of gave you real yards after the catch.
10:59Don's blazing speed made him hard to cover.
11:02He had tremendous hands and a great sense of the passing game.
11:06Watch him take a long throw.
11:08Good for six points.
11:09He had 488 career catches, 99 touchdowns.
11:14You're talking about Babe Ruth, Dwayne Gretzky kind of domination.
11:20His 10th season, his final season, was one of his best.
11:24Don Hudson had 47 catches for 834 yards and 9 touchdowns in 1945.
11:30And led the league in receptions for the 8th time in 10 seasons.
11:35He ends up retiring as the all-touchdown receiver in NFL history.
11:40He was second in yards in receiving touchdowns.
11:44New.
11:45Number 100.
11:47And the new to Bob Hudson's career touchdown reception is over.
11:53I would not be surprised if he had something to do with being a groundskeeper because the
11:58guy did everything.
12:00There's a reason.
12:02In Green Bay, because I think he was practicing five hours a day.
12:05He led the NFL in receptions.
12:08And he also had four interceptions.
12:10His ability to excel in all three phases of the game is really unprecedented.
12:15He was a kicker as well.
12:17How is it possible?
12:19Nobody even remembers this dude.
12:23In the game of our number 7 career finale, Hudson set a record that will likely never
12:29be broken by any other receiver.
12:31Don Hudson shown a 5x.
12:34So he's touchdowns and that's your points after that.
12:37And that all comes in the second quarter.
12:39Name me a receiver that's doing that today.
12:43Hudson was going to come back for one more season.
12:46He demanded $15,000.
12:48Don Hudson wanted Sammy Boas to have a back.
12:50Hudson, that's the end of those great Packers teams of that era.
12:53That might be the first example in history of a position player demanding quarterback money.
12:57It's one more way that Don Hudson was a pioneer.
13:00It's ridiculous.
13:01He deserves Sammy Boas money.
13:05$2009.
13:06Nowadays in this era, we have all sorts of great late 30s quarterbacks.
13:12Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning was good in his late 30s.
13:16But to see what Kurt Warner was doing in 2009, he was really the first one in this era.
13:26He was not the first one.
13:28There was Rich Gannon, Wyatt Tittle, Steve Young, Warren Moon.
13:33To start being that good that late in his career.
13:36That guy could still be playing, I think.
13:38Look at the numbers in the final season.
13:41Kurt Warner's final season was specialing the first player to ever throw for over 14,000 yards for two teams.
13:48Oh, what a throw.
13:49A great big Kurt Warner.
13:51He also threw his 200th touchdown pass.
13:54Touchdown, Cardinals!
13:56And anchored one of the most memorable playoff wins in NFL history.
14:01A game where he had more touchdowns than incompletions.
14:06That performance in that game against the Packers.
14:09To go out there and do that, at that stage of his career.
14:21Here is a champion, a high-caliber player, and he proves that he still belongs in that conversation.
14:29Kurt is unbelievable.
14:31It's like watching magic.
14:33I mean, it's unbelievable.
14:34If he's on, he's on.
14:37But if he's on?
14:37If you don't press him, he's on.
14:42You would not have thought, in 2009, Kurt Warner is going to be walking away at the top of the
14:46game after having one of his best seasons.
14:50He was knocked out of the playoff.
14:51Great job.
14:52It's the way to operate.
14:55During our sixth-best career finale, Warner left the goal of their first 10-win season in 30 years, placing
15:02a rightful cap on his Hall of Fame career.
15:05Warner looks deep, far side.
15:07Fitz is there!
15:08He has been absolutely on fire.
15:12Three years.
15:13I've never seen him on fire.
15:15Even though he was 38, even though he didn't win a Super Bowl with the Cardinals, I mean, he was
15:19going out on top.
15:20He was amazing, there's no doubt.
15:22Kurt Warner is definitely an NFL legend.
15:24Number five career finale of all time, John Elway in 1998.
15:31Oh, only number five?
15:33Who the hell did you have ahead of him?
15:34He's got to be higher up on the list.
15:36I don't even know what the rest of your list is, but why is he not number one?
15:41Because he didn't play the first season.
15:43Elway deserves to be number one.
15:46You guys have done criminality.
15:48Oh, no.
15:49It's completely unfair.
15:51If you told me somebody else was number one on the list, I would probably get physical.
15:57Let's go, we've got a chance for a big one.
15:59I think you're a little low.
16:01I mean, but I'm really biased.
16:02He is the statue of David at quarterbacks.
16:05What a glorious sight to behold!
16:07You design what a quarterback's supposed to look like.
16:10It's supposed to have the legs and arm and mind of John Elway.
16:15He was perfect in every way.
16:17Well, maybe not perfect.
16:19At least in his final season, age and injury took their toll as John Elway missed four starts
16:25in 1998.
16:26Here's why I think he's good at number five.
16:29Elway didn't do it by himself.
16:31He had a lot of help.
16:32Terrell Davis is there, and he is very strong and doing things very dope.
16:36Terrell breaks.
16:38There he is!
16:39Terrell Davis!
16:402,000 yards in a single season.
16:46Ran to the end tonight!
16:50In his last season, our number five player had a 93.0 passer rating, the highest of his
16:56career, to go along with 2,806 passing yards and 22 touchdowns.
17:01But the only number that mattered was the one that put Elway on this list, 33, as in Super
17:08Bowl 33, although everyone...
17:11You walk away as a Super Bowl MVP.
17:14...remembers the previous championship.
17:16He's nice!
17:17That's not the five-yard line!
17:19Elway was MVP of Super Bowl 33.
17:22The climax of his whole career...
17:24He had a much better statistical game in the 1998 Super Bowl.
17:28His last game ever, he's thrown a deep-bomb to Rod Smith for a 70-something-yard touchdown
17:33down the middle on a post.
17:35Wright stops, loads it up, throws down deep in the middle of the field.
17:39He threw for 336 yards and a score to win his second straight championship.
17:45Denver touchdown!
17:46They had that slow-motion touchdown run that probably is still running on a loop in the
17:52lobby in Canton.
17:53Elway with a big smile on his face, and why not?
17:57That's a pretty good exclamation point.
18:03The MVP of Super Bowl 33 is John Elway.
18:07He hadn't announced it.
18:09We all kind of had a sense, but it was pretty clear that he was saying goodbye.
18:18It was never an issue that he wanted to keep playing.
18:21I think what happened was, and he knew it, that his body could not keep playing.
18:26I'll never be able to fill the void of playing a football game on Sunday afternoon.
18:31We all graduated from high school.
18:32We graduated from college.
18:35I'm just graduating from pro football.
18:40Elway's last season wasn't the only iconic finale in 1998.
18:45We're going to talk Elway versus Seinfeld now.
18:50How about nothing should never end?
18:52It should be like the never-ending story.
18:54Have you seen this with Atreyu and the big puppy is flying around?
18:58Jonathan Elway, he was so cool.
18:59And hey guys, sling, sling, toss, toss.
19:01And then I win, and then he leaves as he wins.
19:03He had to tie up two sassy things.
19:04I like the last episode.
19:06I don't think you could argue that it's the greatest episode.
19:09Did Seinfeld win the Emmy that year?
19:12No.
19:13Elway is the only one that went out on top.
19:15That's the clear winner to me.
19:17At number four, third finale of all time, Norm Van Brocklin in 1960.
19:23That's good.
19:24That's a good spot.
19:26He deserves to be in the top five.
19:27The Eagles' fearless pigskin pitcher is red hot, and so are the rest of the Eagles.
19:31I like Van Brocklin's story, but he can't be ahead of Elway.
19:35I might have actually put it higher.
19:37As much as I like Norm Van Brocklin, the passing numbers back then are not nearly the same.
19:42That season, Van Brocklin was so much greater than the numbers.
19:47If you look at his stats, 24 touchdown passes, you say, well, that's pretty good.
19:51But that doesn't even begin to tell the story.
19:57I mean, that team would not have been anywhere near a championship without Norm Van Brocklin.
20:03I believe he was MVP of the league in 1960.
20:07Fabulous Dutchman Norm Van Brocklin earned the league's most valuable player award.
20:12Norm Van Brocklin should be considered one of Philadelphia's greats.
20:16The Eagles were 10-2 in 1960.
20:19Career-high 24 touchdowns, and the fact that he was able to go out on top is really incredible.
20:25The great Eagle passer, Norm Van Brocklin, has something cooking.
20:29It's a gone goose to Tommy McDonald for 33 yards and the touchdown.
20:35Eagles receivers, Tommy McDonald, Pete Redslaff, they average over 18 yards per reception.
20:41The Dutchman is throwing the ball downfield.
20:44It's one of the most explosive offenses of that era.
20:46Norm Van Brocklin hits Pete Redslaff with a quick pass.
20:49Norm's precise pitch is an early indication of what's to follow.
20:52Van Brocklin told you before the year began that this was going to be my last year.
20:58The whole team played with that awareness during the season that this is it for Dutch.
21:04They knew how much he wanted to go out a champion.
21:07When he got to that game that day, the opponent almost didn't matter.
21:13You win the title, and I always say this, but who did you have to beat to do it?
21:19This is a team that beats the Vince Lombardi Packers.
21:22It was the only playoff game that Vince Lombardi Packers lost.
21:27Oh, John Elway this, John Elway that.
21:30They beat a team with one Hall of Famer, and that one Hall of Famer was a kicker.
21:36Try beating a real, legitimate team.
21:43What the hell's going on out here?
21:45No one beats the Vince Lombardi Packers in championship games.
21:49This is the team that does it in 1960.
21:52They were behind in the fourth quarter.
21:55They got down inside the 10-yard line.
21:57They called one play in the huddle, and they were walking up the line of scrimmage,
22:01and Van Brocklin changes the play.
22:04To this day, none of the players know exactly what he saw,
22:07but there was something that Van Brocklin felt that the play right now is a sweep to Ted Dean,
22:10who was a rookie halfback, who hadn't scored a rushing touchdown all year,
22:15and that's the play that won the game.
22:17The Philadelphia Eagles have won the World Championship of Professional Football.
22:21They are the only squad to beat a Vince Lombardi team in the playoffs,
22:28and they have still yet to hoist the Vince Lombardi trophy.
22:34Illuminati, I'm just saying.
22:37Well, not anymore.
22:38The game's Outstanding Player Award goes to Norm Van Brocklin,
22:41who is retiring as an active player after today's game.
22:45Norm Van Brocklin wants to get into coaching.
22:49The Eagles wanted him to be a player coach.
22:51He was a cantankerous SOB.
22:53You come to him and say,
22:54we want you to be a player coach,
22:56he's going to laugh in your face and move on.
22:58Norm Van Brocklin spent 13 years as head coach of the Vikings and the Falcons.
23:03Damn it, Anner, wake up!
23:05Like a f***ing zombie out there.
23:07But his impact as a player in Philadelphia can't be overstated.
23:11The Eagles had been a doormat for many years before that,
23:13and they would be a doormat for many years after that.
23:16Norm Van Brocklin's departure means the end of an era of number three.
23:19Let's talk about Ted Dean.
23:21He's from the Philadelphia area.
23:26He's still alive.
23:27He's 88.
23:31Score the game and touchdown.
23:34Let's give him some credit.
23:38Career finale of all time, Sterling Sharp in 1994.
23:44Hi there.
23:44Come on, Kyle.
23:46See if we can get you guys excited to go.
23:48Sterling Sharp was a good watch
23:50when there wasn't a reason to watch the Packers.
23:53Touchdown, Sterling Sharp!
23:54Sterling Sharp!
23:55What a catch!
23:56Touchdown, guess who?
23:58He was unguardable.
23:59He was just so big and physical,
24:01but yet he could go up and get it.
24:03He was a good athlete as well.
24:04Freak show.
24:05I think you talk about some of the NFL legends,
24:07like he's a guy that I look at and go,
24:08he's like 10 years before his time.
24:11Sterling Sharp!
24:12My goodness!
24:13He was a transcendent player,
24:15obscured by Jerry Rice,
24:17who's the greatest of all time,
24:18but he was so good with the ball in the air.
24:21Fearless.
24:21You have to admire the guts there.
24:24Fast.
24:25He busts out there.
24:26He shows that burst.
24:27Tough.
24:29And believed he could not be stopped.
24:32And was often right.
24:34Now another Sterling performance.
24:39That is big time!
24:41Let's go, baby.
24:42That's just big time!
24:44Our number three selection had a big-time career finale,
24:48catching 94 passes for more than 1,100 yards
24:52and 18 touchdowns.
24:54Touchdown!
24:55Sterling Sharp!
24:56But in 1994,
24:59a neck injury ended his promising career.
25:02When he stepped away,
25:03I remember it hurt us.
25:04It hurt all Packer fans.
25:06We were like,
25:06no, not Sterling.
25:08To go out,
25:08and even with the neck injury,
25:11have over 1,000 yards,
25:12it really speaks to his greatness.
25:17Could you imagine
25:19that Packers offense
25:20with Brett Favre
25:21and the other receivers
25:22and then add Sterling Sharp
25:24in those years
25:25where they went back-to-back Super Bowls
25:27and were deep into the playoffs every year?
25:29The Packers would have won more Super Bowls.
25:31If he continued to be the force he was
25:34as Brett Favre got better,
25:37I think you're looking at
25:38something that
25:40and Rice.
25:41Back to throw is Favre.
25:43To the corner!
25:44Touchdown!
25:45Sterling Sharp!
25:46If Sterling Sharp had stayed healthy,
25:48he and Brett Favre
25:50would have been the rolling stones.
25:58Back for you.
25:59Special sir,
25:59when you're getting through.
26:00There you go.
26:01It stinks on ice
26:03that it was his farewell season
26:05because this is another guy
26:06who had so much talent
26:09and so much promise.
26:12You only think
26:13what could have been.
26:15The number two career finale
26:16of all time.
26:18Roger Staubach
26:19in 1979.
26:22If the bitter will to win
26:24was rolled into one bundle
26:26and set on legs,
26:27it would look like
26:28Roger Staubach.
26:32This season,
26:33Roger won a fourth NFL
26:34passing championship,
26:36making him the all-time
26:38quarterback leader.
26:41Staubach,
26:41he was always so good at timing
26:43and now he knew exactly
26:44when to go out
26:45because he really went out on top.
26:46Cowboys 11-5,
26:48he made the Pro Bowl
26:48in his last season,
26:4927 touchdowns.
26:53How many guys
26:54have their career high
26:56in touchdowns
26:56and yards
26:58in their last season
26:59when they're 37?
27:03Roger Staubach's final season
27:05was a phenomenal season
27:06because that was an in-hero
27:07when 27 touchdowns
27:09and 3,500 passing yards
27:10were high,
27:11high numbers.
27:12Roger going deep
27:13for Drew
27:13down the sideline.
27:15Touchdown,
27:16Dallas Cowboys!
27:17He led the league
27:19in passer rating,
27:20had an emotional career.
27:22He was only 37 years old,
27:23so you go,
27:24why didn't he play another year
27:26based on what he did
27:27in his final season
27:28of 1979?
27:33The final regular season game
27:35of our number two player's career
27:36was one for the ages.
27:38Everything about that final game
27:40was just sort of
27:42vintage Roger Staubach.
27:43How can you live like this
27:45doing this every year?
27:46This is what it's all about.
27:47It was against
27:47the Washington Redskins
27:49and they trailed
27:49late in the fourth quarter.
27:5042 seconds left in the game.
27:53Redskins lead by six.
27:55He directed a comeback
27:56that kind of defined his career.
27:59Staubach throwing
28:00in the end zone.
28:00Tony Hill!
28:02Touchdown!
28:02Tony Hill!
28:04It was a great way
28:05to go out.
28:05One of the greatest comebacks
28:06in team history.
28:07Oh!
28:08The stadium goes wild!
28:12This was definitely
28:13one of the guys
28:14that left you wanting more
28:15when he retired.
28:16To have that kind of season
28:18at the end
28:20after all the beatings
28:21he took.
28:22Nowadays,
28:23oh, there's a flag.
28:24That would have been a flag.
28:26That's definitely a flag.
28:28How long can you take that
28:29until it starts
28:30to pay a price on you?
28:31He was only 37,
28:32but in that day and age,
28:3337 was ancient.
28:35Today, not so much.
28:39When he had that
28:41final press conference
28:42at Texas Stadium,
28:43he looks like he can
28:46absolutely still play.
28:47He still looks the part
28:49of Captain America.
28:51Holy cow,
28:52I can't believe this.
28:55Roger Staubach's
28:56farewell press conference
28:57was televised
28:58on three TV networks,
28:59was broadcast live
29:01on three radio stations,
29:02and was attended
29:03by 200 newspapers.
29:04I thank the Cowboys.
29:07I'm retired.
29:10That's a farewell.
29:11Good luck to you all.
29:13Thank you, man.
29:15Sometimes you look
29:16at the greatness
29:17of the player,
29:17the impact of the player,
29:19and the circumstances
29:20by which they decided
29:22to say goodbye
29:23to the game.
29:24He was Roger Staubach,
29:26and he was an
29:26influential individual,
29:27and he was a symbol
29:29of the sport
29:29and the nation
29:30in that time.
29:31I think this absolutely belongs.
29:32The number one
29:33career finale of all time,
29:35Jim Brown,
29:36in 1965.
29:38You guys nailed this,
29:39because Jim Brown
29:40walking off into the sunset
29:41after rushing
29:43for 1,500 yards,
29:45a year plus removed
29:47from winning
29:47an NFL championship
29:48for Cleveland,
29:50is the ultimate
29:51leave you wanting more.
29:53I mean,
29:53you're at the top
29:54of your game.
29:55You lead the National
29:56Football League
29:56in rushing again.
29:58That's just got to be
29:59the greatest final season
30:01of all time.
30:02Greatest football player
30:04ever,
30:04who had had no drop-off
30:06in his game.
30:07You look at his 1965 season,
30:09it's right up there
30:10with his best years.
30:12Who's got a better
30:13walk-off season than that?
30:14That champion of the world
30:15quitting after he's 50-0,
30:16or if he's a fighter,
30:17that's what that is.
30:18He was the greatest
30:19quit on top.
30:20But clearly,
30:21he left a lot on the table
30:22in the National Football League,
30:24but yet,
30:25in the less than a decade
30:26that he was there,
30:27I think people can still say,
30:28and rightfully so,
30:29he was the greatest
30:30running back
30:31to ever play
30:31in the history
30:32of the National Football League.
30:351,200 yards
30:37and 17 touchdowns
30:38when they played
30:3914 games a season
30:41back then.
30:43It's insane.
30:45Name is of the men.
30:46Men like Jim Brown,
30:48the greatest running back
30:49of all time.
30:50I do think he's
30:51the greatest player
30:52that's ever played,
30:53regardless of position.
30:54He was just better
30:56than the guys
30:57he was playing against.
30:58Jim Brown could have been
30:59great for four or five
31:01more years.
31:02I mean,
31:02he dominated.
31:03The way he was running,
31:04the way he was beating,
31:05he was running them over
31:06or running around them.
31:07Whatever he wanted to do,
31:08he could do.
31:09He was still at his
31:10physical peak in 1965.
31:12In 1965,
31:14Brown led the NFL
31:15in rushing for the eighth time.
31:17Here is Brown
31:18at his battering best,
31:20driving headlong
31:21into a knot of tacklers.
31:22I mean,
31:23MVP of the league,
31:24best player in the league,
31:26greatest player ever,
31:27playing in a championship game
31:28his last game.
31:30Come on.
31:30Awesome stuff.
31:36Nine years young,
31:37Jim Brown led the NFL
31:39in rushing yards
31:40and touchdowns,
31:41finishing with more than
31:421,500 yards on the ground
31:44and 17 scores.
31:46But the greatest player
31:48to ever play the game
31:49left us surprised
31:50and wanted
31:51just a little more.
31:54The freaking Cleveland Browns,
31:56freaking Hollywood,
31:57freaking everybody
31:58robbed us
32:00of five more great seasons
32:02and highlights
32:03of Jim Brown.
32:04I mean,
32:04it was shocking
32:05when we got the news
32:06that he was
32:07walking away from football.
32:09I mean,
32:10nobody saw that coming.
32:11My original intention
32:13was to try and participate
32:14in the 1966
32:15National Football League season.
32:18But due to some
32:19circumstances,
32:20this is impossible.
32:21He simply got into
32:22a financial dispute
32:23with ownership
32:24and decided,
32:25I can go do other things.
32:26I'm done playing football.
32:28But it's a great
32:30farewell season,
32:30but it probably shouldn't
32:32have been a farewell season.
32:35With no football
32:37encore in sight,
32:38Brown took his talents
32:40to Hollywood,
32:41becoming a rising star
32:42in the movie industry,
32:43which lasted
32:44for four decades.
32:46I don't think
32:46there's going to be
32:47a Jim Brown film festival
32:48called Khan anytime soon.
32:50But I thought
32:51he was a pretty good actor.
32:53I'd like to report
32:53a murder.
32:55Highland View Apartments,
32:58433 West 3rd Street.
33:02Me?
33:07Just a friend.
33:11That is a killer
33:12afternoon.
33:13Whether being the leading
33:14man on the big screen
33:15or starring on the football field,
33:18there is no doubt
33:19that Jim Brown
33:20left a profound legacy
33:21as the very best
33:23at everything he did.
33:25Jim Brown walked off the field
33:26in his last game in 1965
33:29as the best athlete
33:30on the field.
33:31Not that many people
33:32can walk away
33:33at the very top.
33:34Jim Brown walked away
33:35at the very top.
33:37But on that football field,
33:38he was a force
33:39to be reckoned with
33:40and to play the game
33:43like the game
33:44should have been played.
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