A Fan's Heart, Divided Against Itself

[Guiness]

For me, it was Lee Roy Butler and Nick Collins - two guys who played the position I did in college, and I loved watching them both.

John Ryan - token Canuck on the team. It was ridiculous to let him go, moreso since the Pack is on their 4th punter since he left and he's still playing well. And I miss his running skills!

[Cheesehead Craig]

Forgot about Wayne Simmons. He helped give that defense some edge. Still remember him leveling Jerry Rice when he tried a short crossing route and didn't even have the ball. All within 5 yards and legal.

It's not that play, but it's a good one.

[run pMc]

Besides Brett Favre, the first name that came to mind was Eddie Lee Ivery. Sterling Sharpe career was cut too short.

With Favre you never knew what you were gonna get -- it could be a TD to Kitrick Taylor, or a halfassed sack to Strahan.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Sterling's injury was so strange. He was barely hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC0YdP3lW_M

[RashanGary]

Sharpe, Favre, Collins

[Noodle]

Some great names already, but let me add Javon Walker.

I thought he and Favre would be unstoppable, especially given some of his sick catches in the Monday Night game after Big Irv's death. It all ended in such a disappointment: pro bowl year followed by contract holdout, then an ACL blowout in his first game of the season after the holdout, then IR, then gone.

Oh, what might have been.

[LEWCWA]

My guy was John Jefferson, When they got him, I thought GB would be unstoppable......well JJ wasn't very good anymore!

[MadScientist]

Jeff Janis. All kinds of measurables, teases us with over 100 yards on a single drive, then fails to really learn how to run his routes and is relegated to a one handed ST player. Thought he might be the next Driver, but more like the next Jarrett Bush.

[Freak Out]

Damn....some more heartbreaking stuff. Sharpe was such a badass and just getting better...then boom. Rossum....wasn't that a front office fuck up? Didn't they try and get him a matching offer or something but they fucked it up somehow?

[Bub]

How about Chuck Cecil? I was sorry to see his career cut short. He was fun to watch.

This is my once a every-other-year post. I'll go back into my cave now. See you in 2018

[Guiness]

Sterling's injury was so strange. He was barely hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC0YdP3lW_M

I don't think I've ever seen that, how much more innocent could that have looked? I expected a bone crushing helmet to helmet, that was a half-hearted blocking attempt and nothing else.

[Patler]

I don't think I've ever seen that, how much more innocent could that have looked? I expected a bone crushing helmet to helmet, that was a half-hearted blocking attempt and nothing else.

I think Sharpe was found to have an abnormal condition in his neck. He wasn't really injured on the play, it just gave him a scary warning about what could happen. He had excessive looseness between vertebrate, or something like that.

[pbmax]

I think Sharpe was found to have an abnormal condition in his neck. He wasn't really injured on the play, it just gave him a scary warning about what could happen. He had excessive looseness between vertebrate, or something like that.

And it was looseness where they do not like to do fusion. It was one of the top two vertebrae. If something goes wrong, you are in even more trouble than some other cervical injuries.

[Fritz]

Here's an odd one: Mark D'Onofrio, Penn State linebacker, drafted in the 2nd round in '92. I thought he was going to be the next big Green Bay middle linebacker, and a building block for Ron Wolf's first draft. (By the way, Levon Kirkland was taken a few picks later in the same round.) In those days all you could get were a few pre-draft newspaper articles with brief summaries, but I had seen D'Onofrion on television, and he was one of those Penn State linebackers.

Then he got hurt, maybe in training camp, or was it in like his second game, and he never played again.

Others already mentioned: Ted Hendricks, who was truly a one-man wrecking crew. John Brockington, who was Earl Campbell before Earl Campbell (well, not quite a strong, but the same idea), but then got hurt. And Eddie Lee Ivery.

[George Cumby]

It's not that play, but it's a good one.

One of my all time faves.