Emmitt’s Place Among the Greats
My favorite team come NFL Sundays is “whoever is playing Dallas”. That said, a class act is a class act, and Emmitt Smith is a class act. Today, Emmitt hung ‘em up after becoming the all-time leading ground gainer and touchdown maker in NFL history as a running back.
I find it fun to rassle over questions like “who’s the best all-time”? One man’s short list of the top five RB’s in NFL history:
1. Jim Brown – Easy call. Look at what the man did. A beast.
2. Barry Sanders – A style altogether different than Brown’s; he made would-be tacklers just look stupid.
3. Walter Payton – Sweetness. This boy in full gallop was a thing to behold.
4. Emmitt Smith – Gutty. Got the yards that had to be gotten. A gamer who gave it all.
5. Gale Sayers – More of a legend than a reality; would have been nice to see what a healthy Sayers could do.
Honorable Mention: The Wife-Stabber; Marshall Faulk; Earl Campbell; Tony Dorsett
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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